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    Molson Coors pledges to increase marketing spend

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    Carling owner Molson Coors has pledged to increase marketing investment in 2023 after reporting a 6.9per cent decline in global sales volume for its fourth quarter.

    The decline came as the brewer introduced a 10.7 per cent increase in price across its portfolio.

    “We continued to put strong commercial pressure behind our core brands and innovations and the year-over-year comparisons simply reflect the significantly higher spend in the prior year period, when investments exceeded fourth quarter 2019 levels,” reports quoted CFO Tracey Joubert as saying.

    CEO Gavin Hattersley also defended the “strength” and “effectiveness” of the company’s marketing investment. Molson Coors continues to invest more than 50 per cent of its media spend in digital channels, a shift first hailed by the company two years ago. The business has also “overhauled” its approach to performance marketing to secure the best return on ad spend, he added.

    “We think our marketing is working,” Hattersley said. “We’re making every single dollar work as hard for us as possible.”

    “I like where our brands are relative to our competitors. I like where they are from a health point of view, I like where they are from a share point of view… As Tracey [Joubert] said, we’re going to continue to invest heavily behind our brands and we are planning to increase our ad spend in 2023.”

    The business expects sales to grow in the “low single-digit” percentage range this year, driven by rate rather than volume as it benefits from its higher pricing and premiumisation.

    Demand for Molson Coors’ above premium brands, including the rapidly growing Madri Execpcional, has been particularly “resilient” in the UK to date, Hattersley said. However, Q4 fell short of expectations, as rail strikes and the unusual timing of the World Cup muted predicted demand, reports stated.

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