The specialist off-licence sector will “die a death within five years” unless the Government “urgently” implements key Department of Health recommendations to address alcohol abuse, its representative group has claimed.
The National Off-Licence Association says its members are going out of business at “an alarming rate” as aggressive alcohol marketing campaigns by the large multiples undercut their livelihoods.
Although the received wisdom is that the off-licence sector is thriving, as alcohol consumption moves out of pubs and into the home, the association says about 8 per cent of its members have been forced out of business in the past four years.
Source: Kitty Holland, Irish Times, 10/04/2012
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