Mulled Wines for Christmas season 2019

Alko is searching for the Christmas season 2019 mulled wines, glühwein and other mulled wine type of products incl. a non-alcoholic product. More detailed information about the searches in attached Excel-file. 

Please take into consideration when offering:

The product appearance must be suitable for the Christmas season.

An indicative minimum availability of the product is included in each of the Christmas season 2019 product searches. That is a suggested sales estimate based on the sales of the previous years. However, it is not necessarily the final purchase quantity. For each purchased product, the sales estimate will be defined after the assortment of mulled wines for Christmas 2019 has been confirmed.

The distribution time is 3 October to 23 December 2019 except for the search KW190209. The product of this search can be distributed until 31st March 2020.

Contrary to other seasonal products, the products listed from these searches cannot be transferred to a main product in general selection or to sale-to-order selection after season.

The price reductions of mulled wines

In general, the mulled wines and other related products of Christmas season 2019 will be removed from selection after 24 December 2019. After this date, the products must not be distributed to shops any longer. The products distributed to shops before Christmas will be sold using the same price reduction system as previous year. The prices will be reduced only once and straight to 0-margin price on 27 December 2019.

Half of the lost margin is compensated by the supplier. We will send an estimation of what the price would be after the price reduction with the tax information of that time. These estimations of reduced prices will be sent before the final purchase decision for the supplier to confirm.

The product purchased from the search KW190209, price will be reduced straight to 0-margin in April after distribution time has ended

Please send your offer to arrive by 29 March 2019 at the latest.