February 2026

Distributor Allowances – Funding Demand, Not Discounts

Leave a Comment / 3rd Party Distribution, A&P, Business Growth, Discounts, Growth Strategy, IFRS, Irish Whiskey, Irish Whiskey Association, IWA, IWSR, Margin Management, Marketing, Profitability, Spirits Industry

Optimizing Trade Allowances in the European Spirits Market Expanding an independent spirits brand across Europe is a thrilling milestone. For many Irish whiskey manufacturers, breaking into markets like Germany, France, Czech or Poland means relying on the local expertise of third-party distributors. To fuel this expansion, brands typically offer distributors a financial incentive — often […]

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The Strategic Art of Subtraction

Leave a Comment / AI Integration, Business Growth, Change Management, Month-End Close, Process Automation, Process Improvement, Process Standardisation, Start-ups

Why Your Finance Function Needs to Delete Before It Creates In the world of high-growth startups and expanding SMEs, there is a natural instinct to “Add.” We add new software. We add new product lines. And in Finance, we inevitably add new reports. “We need a dashboard for that.” “Can we get a weekly report

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