Economic contribution
- Exports of €1.095 billion in 2013 based on CSO data.
- Trade surplus in beverages of €370 million in 2013.
- Beverages exports are 1.5 times imports.
- High domestic content in alcohol exports.
- Alcohol export performance high by international standards
- Substantial potential to increase alcohol exports and to diversify markets.
- Global growth of Irish whiskey sales has been excellent in recent years.
- 67 % of Irish beer market supplied domestically.
- 42 % of Irish spirits market supplied domestically.
- 86 % of Irish cider market supplied domestically.
- The drinks industry is committed to realising the targets of Harvest 2020.
Exchequer contribution:
- €2.142 billion in excise and VAT in 2013.
- €1002 million excise receipts in 2013.
- €1,140 million estimated alcohol VAT receipts in 2013.
- Income and profits tax revenues.
- PRSI receipts.
Drinks Manufacturers:
- Pay €217 million annually in wages and salaries according to latest CSO data.
- Pays €311 million in total labour costs.
- Buys €901 million worth of materials for processing annually.
- Buys €33 million of industrial services.
- Buys €587 million of non-industrial services such as, information technology and telecommunications, security, advertising, cleaning, maintenance, accounting and insurance and other services.
- Excluding goods bought for resale without processing, has a total of €1.558 billion in purchases.
- Has invested over €80 million in 2010 and will invest over €450 million over the next few years.
- Uses 46,000 tonnes of apples in production, 160,000 tonnes of barley and malted barley and over 300 million litres of milk.
- Has a high domestic sourced content in purchases of 62% in services and 42% in materials leading to a combined almost €800 million in domestic service and materials purchases.
- This domestic content greatly exceeds the domestic content levels of the high technology sectors, e.g., domestic services purchased by the chemicals sector are only 8% of their total purchases.
The retail /wholesale/on/off sectors
- Pay a wage and salaries bill of €626 million and a total personnel cost of €690 million based on latest CSO data for retail sector.
- Buy food inputs valued at €243 million.
- Spend €583 million on other services and materials apart from food and drink.
- Invested €67 million in 2010.
- Have retail sales of about €7 billion including food.