CONCLUSION
To sum up, Aldaris and Cēsu alus are working with great brands, both company offers the same category drinks – Beer, beer mixes, water , soft drink, cocktails and energy drinks. The only difference in product portfolio is that Cēsu alus is producing much more cocktail drinks than Aldaris, also if we compare assortment, you can see that Aldaris works more with import brands while Cēsu alus works with their own local brand.
If we compare last year’s turnover, the turnover of AS Aldaris reached EUR 27.1 million euro, with l,2 million euro profit losses. While Cēsu alus turnover is two times higher – 54.2 million euro, and was working with 4.2 million profit.
So we can conclude, that in last year Cēsu Alus were working more successfull than Aldaris.
In authors opinion, if Aldaris want to improve their standings and work with profit, they should work more with local brand “Aldaris” because people in Latvia is more patriotic to local production than import, which is also proven by “Nielsen” data.
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