Coors creates Project Eve
17-Jul-2008 By The PMA Team
Business unit is formed to boost beer drinking Carling brewer Coors has set up a women's business unit in an attempt to boost the amount of beer...
Ask An Expert: Offering beer samples
17-Jul-2008
I've noticed some pubs promote their beers, especially cask ales, by offering customers a taster. What's the best way of going about this? Are there...
SABMiller 'talk alcohol' on new website
17-Jul-2008
A new consumer-friendly website has been launched to provide a comprehensive guide to alcohol - from how beer is made to how drink impacts on the...
Excellence as standard
17-Jul-2008
After 150 years, brewer Timothy Taylor's beers are in ever-increasing demand. Roger Protz looks at the company's history and what makes their ales so...
A-B InBev: world's biggest
17-Jul-2008
Budweiser brewer Anheuser-Busch has finally agreed to a $52bn (£26bn) takeover by InBev. The board of the St Louis-based brewer relented after an...
89p a pint — but margin is only 2p
17-Jul-2008 By Paul Collins
Binge-drinking fears quelled by vigilant host New licensee Belal Hussain is serving pints for 89p after buying in bulk to earn big brewery discounts....
Football Preview: Brands are football supporters
16-Jul-2008
Big-name brands are once more piling behind football, in the hope that they can associate their drinks with one of the biggest pub draws there...
Drinks suppliers on the smoking ban
16-Jul-2008
It is not an exaggeration to call the smoking ban the biggest and most significant piece of legislation to hit the pub trade since the Beer...
15-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney
Punch Taverns is offering licensees a new training course to help licensees combat the 8.6% decline in beer sales over the last year. The Profit...
Corona Extra launches £1m advertising
14-Jul-2008
Corona Extra is launching a £1m national advertising campaign this week, highlighting the brand's position as a style icon.It is the first campaign...
14-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney
Coors has launched a new TV ident for Grolsch Blond as part of its sponsorship of Channel 4 Original Comedy. Grolsch Blond is currently exclusively...
14-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney
The Government must re-think plans to impose further tax rises on beer or risk losing public support, a new opinion poll shows. Just 16% said they...
'UK's strongest beer ever has campaigners all in a froth'
11-Jul-2008
The owners of one of Scotland's largest independent breweries were yesterday attacked by health campaigners and politicians for creating Britain's...
Thwaites' pre-tax profit down 22%
10-Jul-2008 By The PMA Team
Shire Hotels makes £8.5m profit, up £7m Thwaites, the brewer and retailer, has reported a "very difficult year" that saw turnover and profits down...
10-Jul-2008 By John Harrington
Pub till receipts should state how much the customer pays in tax — to highlight how much things like alcohol duty hit people in the pocket. That's...
Cask ale heading for a premium future
10-Jul-2008
While cask ale is experiencing welcome steady growth in volume, the premium category is doing particularly well. Adrian Tierney-Jones reports As the...
Welcoming you to beer heaven
10-Jul-2008
The Great British Beer Festival opens its doors in three weeks' time at Earls Court in London. Adrian Tierney-Jones previews the event and examines...
Harveys grows taller with new long serve
10-Jul-2008 By Jessica Harvey jessica.harvey@william-reed.co.uk
As part of Beam Global UK's £500,000 spend on its Harveys brand this year, the company plans to educate consumers with modern ways to drink sherry....
Fat Buddha takeaway is doing well
10-Jul-2008
Utopian Leisure, the company headed by former Ultimate Leisure boss Bob Senior, has opened its first Fat Buddha takeaway in Darlington. The company...
Show beer duty on till receipt, says MP
10-Jul-2008 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Nigel Evans introduces bill on tax in Parliament Pub till receipts should state how much the customer pays in tax — to highlight how much things...
08-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney
Super strength lagers, whose alcoholic content exceeds the Government's recommended drinking levels, do not encourage irresponsible drinking, according to the Portman Group.
Charity blasts ruling on super-strength lagers
08-Jul-2008 By James Wilmore
Homeless charity Thames Reach has claimed the Portman Group's Independent Complaints Panel has been "completely discredited" after its decision to...
Super-strength lagers let off the hook
08-Jul-2008 By James Wilmore
A homeless charity's complaint that cans of super-strength lager encourage irresponsible drinking has been rejected by an independent panel. Thames...
07-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney
The Fair Pint campaign hits back at claims that the pubco model has nothing to do with the current problems faced by community pubs.
'175 million fewer pints sold, thanks to smoking ban'
06-Jul-2008
Pubs have sold 175 million fewer pints of beer in the past year as a direct result of the smoking ban, according to market analysts AC Nielsen. Jake...
Will four per cent Stella Artois actually work?
04-Jul-2008
What's it all about, InBev? A question that was on many people's lips last week. After all, it's not often you take your flagship brand, one of the...
Harveys encourages modern serve for sherry
04-Jul-2008
Beam Global UK has launched the second phase of an initiative to encourage consumers to drink sherry in a modern way - chilled, in contemporary...
Pubco chief defends beer tie in front of MPs
04-Jul-2008 By James Wilmore
A pubco chief has been forced to defend the beer tie in front of a panel of MPs. Simon Townsend, chief operating officer of Enterprise Inns, was...
Beer sales fall 12% at Globe
03-Jul-2008 By The PMA Team
Tenancy changes mean drop in rent roll Globe Pub Company, the tenanted company owned by Robert Tchenguiz, has seen a 12% fall in beer sales in its...
St Helier is more than a me-too
03-Jul-2008
When any consumer goods category explodes to life unexpectedly the one thing you can bet your life on is a group of previously uninterested brand...
03-Jul-2008 By John Harrington
The pubco model has nothing to do with the problems faced by some community pubs - Enterprise Inns chief operating officer Simon Townsend tells the Community Pubs Inquiry.
Coors and the art of museum maintenance
03-Jul-2008
What's in a name? Not, unfortunately, a sense of history and heritage when it comes to Burton's former Bass Museum
Enough of the competition — let's hear it for co-operation
03-Jul-2008
It's far from being a dog-eat-dog world among craft brewers. Combined effort is the way forward I must be the only person on the planet who wasn't...
Autumn arrival for 4% Stella
03-Jul-2008 By Jessica Harvey jessica.harvey@william-reed.co.uk
InBev has confirmed full plans for the launch of Stella Artois 4% abv, a triple-filtered premium Belgian lager, which has been designed specifically...
New marketing campaigns for Newcastle Brown and Scrumpy Jack
02-Jul-2008
Heritage Drinks, the joint venture established between Scottish and Newcastle and Jygsaw Brands last November, has announced new marketing...
02-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney
Newcastle Brown Ale is celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Angel of the North by introducing special edition labels across the on and off trade....
Adnams issues profits warning
01-Jul-2008 By Hamish Champ
Adnams, the Suffolk-based brewer, has warned its operating profits for the half year to June 30, 2008, will be "substantially lower" than a year...
MillerCoors opens for business today
01-Jul-2008
MillerCoors, the combined US beer interests of SABMiller and Molson Coors, launches today in what Graham Mackay, chief executive of SABMiller,...
01-Jul-2008 By M&C Report
Adnams, the Suffolk brewer, has issued a profit warning, saying that its first half operating profits would be "substantially lower" than last year's...
01-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney
Marston's is using the father of English cricket WG Grace to promote Marston's Smooth sponsorship of the Twenty20 tournament. The quirky advertising...
01-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney
Shepherd Neame's Spitfire ale is to be the official beer of the European Open golf tournament to be held at the London Golf Club near Brands Hatch,...
30-Jun-2008 By The PMA Team
Robert Tchenguiz's pubco also had 69 tenancy changes in quarter
Marston's teams up with WG Grace
27-Jun-2008
Marston's Brewing Company has secured the services of an English cricket great to help promote Marston's Smooth.WG Grace, considered the best player...
Focus South East: Marston's march south
27-Jun-2008
Over the past three years Marston's has built up a highly impressive portfolio of cask ale brands. Already in possession of the Marston's and Banks's...
Brains extends Wales shirt deal to 2009
27-Jun-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Leading Welsh brewer Brains has renewed its sponsorship of the national rugby team. The deal means the Brains logo will remain on the Wales team's...
26-Jun-2008 By Ewan Turney
Inbev officially unveils its new lower strength version of Stella Artois
26-Jun-2008 By Ewan Turney
Campaign group, backed by Vince Power, looking forward to putting its case to MPs
26-Jun-2008 By Ewan Turney
SA Brains has agreed a new shirt sponsorship deal with the Welsh national rugby union team until September 2009. The arrangement is part of a wider...
Now Cask Marque's got the Jolly Roger
26-Jun-2008
Roger Clayson, the larger-than-life super salesman who's got beer in his blood and pubs in his soul, has moved from Adnams to Cask Marque. Andrew...
Warming to the cask task
26-Jun-2008
Camra and Cask Marque both agree cask beer should be cool and refreshing. Who'd argue? Ireturned home last Thursday evening, full of the joys of...
