As pioneering spirits we are passionate about sharing our insight and expertise with entrepreneurs, retailers and brands who are keen to innovate and develop exciting new drinks. We source and develop spirits and liqueurs for many international customers and brand owners. We work with our global partners to source the best quality ingredients and liquids to suit your needs and from there, our award-winning liquid development team do their magic, creating spirits and liqueurs that consumers will love.
View our full range of capabilities below.
LIQUID INNOVATION
The Quintessential Brand Groups’ state-of-the-art lab and customer suite, known as The Spirit Centre, is located at our UK production site, G&J Distillers, in the North West of England.
It’s here that our liquid development team work their magic, developing category-leading innovation for our strategic brands portfolio, as well as creating bespoke commercial brands and private label with first class liquids for importers, retailers, global travel retail and other trade partners such as hospitality groups and cruise lines. The customer suite is where our commercial and innovation teams collaborate with our customers, adding real value to their businesses and showing them why we are their spirits partner of choice.
INSIGHT-DRIVEN EXPERTISE
We embrace collaborative ways of working to help our customers identify growth solutions that can develop their categories.
We put consumer insight combined with UK and global category data at the heart of our planning and we undertake consumer and category ‘deep dives’ to research and understand specific market gaps and opportunities for our customers.
CONTRACT MANUFACTURE
We are trusted by a wide range of customers – from leading international drinks companies to challenger brands – to provide packing, bottling and canning solutions for their spirits, liqueurs and RTD brands.
OUR SERVICE INCLUDES:
– Bottle sizes from 5cl miniatures to 1.75l, from standard to bespoke
– PET and Glass 5cl miniatures
– A wide range of packaging options available
– All spirit types from standard recipes and classic ingredients to flavoured and coloured liquids and ultra-premium brands.
– Labelled or printed cans, minimum order 7,000 bulk litres per production run (29,000 x 250ml cans)
– Cans in a range of sizes, in either standard or slim format, including multipacks
– Outer packaging in a range of case formats and tray-and-shrink.
– Flexibility to add bottle neck tags, gift boxes, accessories and much more
– International transport network.
OWN AND PRIVATE LABEL
We believe that retailers’ own label products should complement their brand offerings, not battle against them.
Over the years, we have worked with many of the leading grocery retailers to provide private and own label products that do just that.
PRIVATE LABEL – EXCLUSIVE BRANDS
When our partners need personalised solutions, we offer collaborative ways of working to create and build strong bespoke retailer brands that are proven to grow our customers’ spirit categories.
BULK SPIRIT SUPPLY
Our services aren’t limited to bottling and packing; we also provide high-quality bulk spirit to brands.
So if you want to experiment and innovate, creating and distilling your own liquids, we can offer you the best starting point.
OUR SERVICE INCLUDES:
– Liquid and packaging development
– Replicating or refining liquids
– Product range extensions
– Laboratory and quality assurance
– Manufacturing facility with in-house sensory accreditation (tasting panels)
– Cost saving expertise
– International transport by tanker and IBC