Gomberg, Fredrikson & Associates

What Gomberg, Fredrikson & Associates does

Gomberg, Fredrikson & Associates (GFA) is a privately held wine industry market intelligence firm that has operated continuously since 1948, providing research, analytics, and consulting services focused exclusively on the U.S. wine market. The company serves wine industry decision makers — producers, distributors, importers, exporters, and trade organizations — with longitudinal data covering production volumes, sales trends, import and export flows, and long-term industry forecasting. Its core offering is the GFA Wine Reports subscription product, now distributed through the bw166 platform following a 2025 operational transition.

GFA's underlying capability rests on a proprietary longitudinal data library spanning more than 75 years of U.S. wine market history, which the firm uses to produce industry reports covering the full supply chain. There is no evidence of a software or SaaS platform in the conventional sense — the product is content-based (reports and intelligence) rather than a technology product with APIs, integrations, or a development stack. Distribution is handled through the bw166 website (bw166.com/reports) and the company's own gfawine.com domain, with subscriptions and report inquiries routed through bw166's contact system.

The business model is subscription and report-sales based, with pricing not publicly disclosed. GFA partnered with bw166 in 2015 to extend resources, and in 2025 transitioned day-to-day support and report hosting to bw166's platform while continuing to publish under the GFA Wine brand. The firm is small (1–10 employees per disclosed headcount), operates solely within the United States, and shows no evidence of outside investment, M&A activity, or public capital markets exposure.

Name

Gomberg, Fredrikson & Associates

Legal name

Gomberg, Fredrikson & Associates

Website

https://gfawine.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1948

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Gomberg, Fredrikson & Associates (GFA) is a U.S. wine industry market intelligence firm, operating since 1948, that produces GFA Wine Reports covering production, sales, imports, exports, and long-term industry trends for wine industry decision makers, now distributed through the bw166 platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Wine Market Intelligence

NAICS

Wineries (31213)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Wine Production & Winemaking (AFAFAAAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Wine & Sparkling Wine Wineries & Brands (CRADAIAB), Wineries & Vineyards (Tasting Rooms) (THAFALAE)

Keywords

• Wine market intelligence
• Beverage alcohol analytics
• Wine industry reports
• Market research services
• Industry trend analysis

Headquarters

HQ city

San Rafael

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Gomberg, Fredrikson & Associates delivers subscription-based industry research, analytics, and consulting focused exclusively on the U.S. wine market. Its GFA Wine Reports cover production volumes, sales trends, imports, exports, and long-term industry forecasts, providing wine industry leaders with market intelligence and strategic decision support.

Product overview

Gomberg, Fredrikson & Associates (GFA) provides wine industry market intelligence through its GFA Wine Reports, now distributed via the bw166 platform. These reports offer comprehensive data covering the U.S. wine market, including production, sales, imports, exports, and long-term industry trends for wine industry leaders.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• GFA Wine Reports Subscription-based industry research reports providing key U.S. wine market data covering production, sales, imports, exports, and long-term industry trends for wine industry decision makers.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• bw166coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2015bw166 became a partner in Gomberg Fredrikson & Associates in 2015. In 2025, the support and hosting for GFA Wine reports transitioned to the bw166 website. The reports continue to provide key industry data complemented by additional resources from bw166's broader beverage alcohol market coverage.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Circana: Formed from the merger of IRI and NPD, Circana provides CPG and beverage alcohol market measurement that can substitute for some of GFA's wine data products as part of broader enterprise analytics contracts.
• Rabobank Food & Agribusiness Research: Banking institution with a global Food & Agribusiness Research group that publishes beverage and wine industry market reports and outlooks. Competes with GFA at the high-end wine/beverage strategic insights tier but does not specialize in U.S. wine market data alone.
• NielsenIQ: Global consumer intelligence firm offering large-scale CPG measurement including alcoholic beverage sales data. Operates broadly across categories with enterprise distribution, competing for the same U.S. wine industry data budgets as GFA.

Direct peers

• Wine Intelligence: Specialized global wine industry research firm delivering consumer insights, market sizing, and category reports to wine producers and distributors—directly comparable in function to GFA's U.S.-focused wine intelligence offering.
• bw166: Beverage alcohol market intelligence platform that became GFA's strategic partner in 2015 and now hosts GFA's reports. Provides overlapping wine, beer, and spirits data and consulting services to similar beverage industry decision makers.
• Allied Grape Growers: California-focused grower cooperative that produces wine grape market intelligence, supply data, and pricing analysis for the U.S. wine industry—an overlapping supplier-side data product for many of the same winery customers GFA serves.
• WineBusiness.com: Wine industry media and data platform serving U.S. wineries and suppliers with industry news, market data, and analytics—an overlapping target customer (U.S. wine producers) and adjacent product set as GFA's reports.

Others

• Wine Market Council: U.S. wine industry research nonprofit tracking consumer demographics and category trends. Shares GFA's U.S. wine intelligence focus but as a complementary/adjoint research resource rather than a competing paid intelligence subscription.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/gombfredrikson

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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