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Locals petition Greene King to save beer

Locals petition Greene King to save beer

Drinkers at a Sussex pub have launched a petition to stop owners Greene King replacing their favourite ale with one of its own. Greene King plans to...

A King among men

A King among men

The Kings Arms was packed out to welcome former England football star Phil Neal after licensee Hilary Timms won a competition run by the MA and Carlsberg. Iain O'Neil was there

Brighten up your serve

Brighten up your serve

By Rosie Davenport

At about £2.50 a go, a spirit and mixer is not one of the cheapest options on offer to customers at the bar. When shoppers can buy a bottle of their...

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Brewer's three million pound plan for ban

By The PMA Team

Kent brewer and retailer Shepherd Neame is to spend £3m preparing its estate of 375 pubs for next year's smoke ban. The company has already...

King Cobra

King Cobra

Legend has it you were introduced to beer in an Army mess in India. Was it a Beautiful Beer?My father was a commander in chief in the central army in...

Camra slams brewery closure

Camra slams brewery closure

The Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) has condemned Greene King's planned closure of the that Hardys & Hansons brewery in Nottinghamshire.

Greene King to close Hardys brewery

Greene King to close Hardys brewery

Greene King is to close Hardys and Hansons Kimberley brewery at the end of this year. Rooney Anand, chief executive of Greene King, said: "We...

Wells & Young's set  to overhaul rivals

Wells & Young's set to overhaul rivals

By Andrew Pring

The new Wells & Young's Brewing Company starts trading next Monday with plans to increase combined barrelage by 20,000 to well over 500,000...

Special agent

Special agent

You worked with Heineken when they made the decision to move brewing operations out of England back to Holland, as well as the change in ABV to five...

Forever Young's

Forever Young's

By Hamish Champ

The death of John Young from cancer at the age of 85 has robbed the UK brewing industry of one of its greatest champions. Young was the oldest and...

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New brewer Wells & Young's aiming high

By Andrew Pring

The new Wells & Young's Brewing Company starts trading next Monday with plans to increase combined barrelage by 20,000 to well over 500,000...

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Pubs face keg deposit charges

By Tony Halstead

Licensees could be charged a deposit of between £10 and £20 for each beer keg or cask delivered to their premises unless the trade finds ways of...

BrandsBriefs

BrandsBriefs

All Bar One selects Aspall All Bar One has made Aspall its house bottled cider brand. Aspall will run a training programme to introduce the brand...

Young's chairman dies after long illness

Young's chairman dies after long illness

John Young, who died this week after a long and courageous battle against cancer, was, at 85, by far the oldest and longest serving chairman in the British brewing industry.

Festive season

Festive season

While the Campaign for Real Ale has been doing an increasingly good job of marketing the Great British Beer Festival, it still loses out when it...

Buyouts and co-ops 'could save brewers'

Buyouts and co-ops 'could save brewers'

By Tony Halstead

The Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) has called for management buyouts and the formation of co-operatives to stop more regional and family breweries from closing.

What they said

What they said

CAMRA's proposed guest beer law, (which would see all companies that own 30 pubs or more give their outlets the freedom to buy a guest beer), has...

WKD's category management campaign

WKD tracks down sales data

By Rosie Davenport

Beverage Brands is unveiling a new category-management initiative to help licensees make the most of space in their fridges. Based on AC Nielsen's...

BrandsBriefs

BrandsBriefs

Diageo trials alcoholic water Diageo is trialling a new Smirnoff-branded alcoholic sparkling water in Texas, USA. If trials are successful, Diageo...

A still from a Guinness advert

Irish cold shoulder for Guinness

By Roger Protz

One of the great treats of the trade used to be visiting the Guinness brewery at London's Park Royal - a trip round the site, including the...

Standard bearer

Standard bearer

Anyone who thinks they know what the future holds in the drinks industry is a mug. If someone wagers you a decent sum of money predicting what the...

Losing bottle?

Losing bottle?

Last year a drinks buyer for one of the big managed pub groups told me that the future of beer lay in draught and that premium packaged lager (PPL)...

Inside track

Inside track

How do you see the lager market developing over the next few years?For us at Scottish & Newcastle (S&N), innovation and product quality has...

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