Pub & Bar 2005 preview: The best in show
Each year companies choose Pub & Bar to unveil innovations to the pub industry and raise the profile of established products. Here are just some of the things you can see at this year's show.
- New for this year from Anchorfast, the leading supplier of heavy-duty outdoor furniture, is the Norfolk Diner. Available in six and eight-seater versions, the Diner combines the traditional picnic table with a comfortable back support.
Designed to save your valuable time, the new "count easy" scales from Anglo-Tech allows you to count a till in two minutes and joins the firm's range of forgery detectors, cash counters and coin sorting equipment.
Aspire AV will be showing its high-definition phosphor screen.
Avanti Screenmedia is offering an exclusive deal to Pub & Bar visitors on its MVN (Music Video Network) and Magnetic plasma screen channels, claiming they can increase your sales, communicate with your customers and improve the ambience of your pub or bar. The offer includes free service, free installation and free messaging - plus a 25 per cent share of advertising revenue.
BLCS is exhibiting its microprocessor-controlled automated beer line cleaning system which claims to clean lines in a fraction of the usual time, with a fraction of the work and a fraction beer loss.
Bleep UK's touch-screen terminal has already been supplied to more than 8,000 customers worldwide.
A small family-run artisan manufacturer based in deepest Devon, Burts' simple aim is to make the best crisps you have ever tasted.
Strongarm, the flagship ale brand of Hartlepool-based Camerons Brewery, is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2005.
Show visitors will be able to sample the Candy Shot Company's Vodka Slingshot range. The flavoured vodkas are described as strong enough to be a cocktail base, smooth enough to be a modern liqueur and vibrant enough to be the session shot of choice.
Intelligent line cleaning system, the CleverClear BLC1 from CleverClear, will be launched at Pub & Bar. The system employs the latest sensors to maintain contamination-free drinks, claims to be the first in the world that allows truly automated cleaning and can clean up to 80 lines in one cycle.
ClickerQuiz is a new approach to the pub quiz in which each player answers through a handheld pad. The multi-media quiz combines music, video and animation and thwarts mobile phone cheats as it scores the answers as it goes. Come and see the first public showing of ClickerQuiz at Pub & Bar.
Devon brewer Cotleigh will be launching Cotleigh 25 into the national arena.
Cruga Biltong is a low-carb, high-protein meat snack, available in six varieties. Marinated in a unique spice blend and then air-dried, Cruga Biltong is currently stocked in more than 3,000 outlets nationwide.
Accellarate gas management systems from CryoService are installed in thousands of licensed premises, providing a fully automated gas system tailored to the site.
Cunninghams, a one-stop-shop for EPoS, CCTV and cash registers for more than 30 years, will be unveiling its new Casio system and the hand-held Sumo Tablet.
Dynmark will be giving away its award-winning bulk SMS software application, e-txt. The company will present three "Effective Texting for Pubs & Clubs" sessions per day on its stand, demonstrating some of the unique mobile marketing tactics pubs and clubs can deploy using the software.
Emperor will launch the Video Station, which allows you to design and run your own music and video station.
A premium energy drink that contains no sugar, no carbs and only eight calories, Energy Blast is described as suitable for those on low-carb diets and is sold either as a mixer with premium spirits or as a soft drink.
Grampian Food Service will be unveiling its expanded portfolio of multiprotein products, now spanning poultry, lamb, pork and beef, and includes new hand-held snacks launched under the Spice & Co brand.
Solid oak pavement chalkboards from Jay Signs can have the name of your pub carved into both sides plus optional footers, choice of board sizes, fonts and letter colours and ready-carved specials and desserts boards.
Koala Koolers are everyday items in Australia, and now they're coming to the UK. What do they do? Well, in summer they stop a drink getting warm and in winter they stop your hands getting cold. Better call in to Pub & Bar to find out more.
Ireland's favourite cider Magners Original, which has leapt to a 24 per cent market share in the Scottish on-trade in less than two years, will be inviting show visitors to sample it the Original way - served over ice in a pint glass.
Rocket Fuel Drinks Company continues the roll-out of its premium vodka and mixed vodka drink - Rocket Fuel Ice - at the show. Both products have been available on the export market since last year but are new to the UK.
Saharas are tasty, crunchy, coated nuts, served hot and fresh in open cups from a dispenser that tempts customers to give them try.
Salcolme Dairy has produced rich premium dairy ice cream for more than 25 years, made with Jersey double cream, full-cream milk, butter and raw cane sugar.
The all new Grease Guzzler from Serious Waste Management is an innovative, self-contained solution to kitchen grease, blocked waste pipes and drain runs.
Stanwell Technic offers engineering expertise and ingenuity in drinks dispensing.
Tom Wood is celebrating 10 years of brewing cask beer in Lincolnshire.
The Beer Seller and Waverley will be presenting the newly merged business WaverleyTBS, providing a one-stop drinks offering, through three different features at the show - Cask Beer Showcase, Wines & Spirits Live and World of Beers.
