Britons shun lunchtime drinking
02-May-2008 By Tony Halstead
Drinking after work is now more popular, an SAB Miller survey shows
Core brands boost Pernod Ricard
30-Apr-2008
Drinks giant Pernod Ricard said the value of its 15 strategic brands rose twice as fast as their volume in the nine months to March 31, 2008, thanks...
30-Apr-2008 By MA reporter
The main purpose of any loyalty scheme is to put more cash in the till by giving something of value back to the customer. Good schemes are an...
28-Apr-2008 By Ewan Turney
A Lincolnshire licensee has had to pay out £8,000 in fines and costs after passing off supermarket spirits as premium brands. Simon Crathorn, from...
Tesco struggling with underage policy
22-Apr-2008
An industry chief has urged Tesco to "get its house in order" after four out of 10 stores failed to comply with its policy to combat underage...
Beam Global relaunches Sauza tequila
17-Apr-2008
Beam Global UK is relaunching Sauza Blanco and Sauza Reposado with new look packaging as part of a £650,000 marketing investment in the tequila...
Leadenhall vodka bar hours cut to midnight
17-Apr-2008
Inventive Leisure's flagship Revolution vodka-bar site in the City of London's Leadenhall has had its hours pegged back from 3am to midnight...
Pernod: 'be responsible'
17-Apr-2008
Pernod Ricard UK (PRUK) has launched a responsible drinking campaign urging consumers to take responsibility for their actions. The Accept...
11-Apr-2008 By Ewan Turney
Pernod Ricard UK is urging consumers to take responsibility for their own actions in a new campaign
Plymouth gold in San Fran
10-Apr-2008
Maxxium UK's Plymouth gin has been named as best gin in the prestigious San Francisco World Spirits Competition. Highland Park 12-year-old single...
Pernod considers Absolut limit
10-Apr-2008
Pernod Ricard could look to rein in the number of Absolut vodka flavours on the market after its purchase of the brand from the Swedish Government....
Survey: young adults prefer spirits to beer in pubs
10-Apr-2008
The drinking habits of young adults vary wildly between the home and the pub. Wine is more than three times as popular for home drinking, while...
'Pernod wins Absolut in fight for V&S'
01-Apr-2008
Pernod Ricard closed the gap on Diageo at the top of the global spirits league table yesterday after clinching the €5.63 billion (£4.48 billion)...
31-Mar-2008 By Ewan Turney
Pernod Ricard has acquired Absolut Vodka producer Vin & Spirit for €5.626bn from the Kingdom of Sweden
Pernod Ricard gets Absolut vodka for £4.4bn
31-Mar-2008 By Hamish Champ
French drinks giant Pernod Ricard has bought Vin & Spirit (V&S), the Swedish company that owns the Absolut vodka brand, for approximately...
A first for pear
14-Mar-2008
Gaymer Cider Company has announced the launch of Gaymers pear cider - the first brand owner to do so on draught.The company has designed a special...
Birthday blitz for Bushmills
13-Mar-2008
Diageo is celebrating 400 years of Bushmills Irish whiskey with a string of events and promotions. The celebrations will include advertising, rugby...
Family focus: Family affair
04-Mar-2008
BRITVIC IS a pub supplier that has worked hard to develop products for the family market in recent years, and a raft of research makes this seem a...
04-Mar-2008 By Ewan Turney
Plymouth's Black Friars Distillery, home of Plymouth Gin, has been saved from destruction after a fire broke out last Wednesday. A fire started at...
25-Feb-2008 By Ewan Turney
Warrants for the arrest of two restaurant owners were issued after the pair failed to turn up to court on charges of spirits substitution. In...
Reaction to Tesco's move on alcohol prices
21-Feb-2008
Why not add your voice to the debate? Click on the link to the right and have your say...Andy Bond, CEO of ASDA "We are already talking to government...
21-Feb-2008 By Ewan Turney
The Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers has slammed Tesco for ducking its responsibilities
Vodka focus: Spirit of spuds
18-Feb-2008
Standing here in the shadow of a state-of-the-art copper still with wintry sunlight pouring through the windows of a former agricultural building,...
Vodka focus: Fear of the unknown
18-Feb-2008
Vodka, vodka, vodka, yawn, yawn, yawn!! Ask many licensees what vodka they sell and the reply will often be two: one house band and one named brand....
Vodka focus: Vodkas for all
18-Feb-2008
What was the strategy behind Revolution?Roy and Neil saw a lot of independent bars opening up in the Manchester area which all had great staff, great...
Vodka focus: Premium players
18-Feb-2008
Paul Walsh, chief executive of Diageo, was quoted in The Times newspaper earlier this month suggesting that premium spirits brands would be unlikely...
Vodka focus: A different league
18-Feb-2008
What with the news of the Scottish & Newcastle sale and the potential merger of Punch Taverns and Mitchells & Butlers you could have been...
Npower grants contract reprieve to licensee
14-Feb-2008
A licensee who faced soaring electricity bills because he did not contact Npower three months before his contract ended has been granted a reprieve....
12-Feb-2008
Diageo's Old Bushmills Distillery is to feature on new banknotes in Northern Ireland. The new-look bank notes will come into circulation in April,...
06-Feb-2008
Diageo and the Nolet family have formed a 50/50 company, which will own the rights to Ketel One vodka
The spirit of the South
06-Feb-2008
Sundown, and it's like an invisible force-field has been thrown up around the Royal Sonesta. Beyond the swinging glass doors the crazies of Bourbon...
The American way
01-Feb-2008
American brewer Garrett Oliver tells Lucy Britner why Americans get food and beer right Garrett Oliver is brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery, New York....
SoCo looks to own February
31-Jan-2008
Southern Comfort is planning on 'owning' February with the launch of the SoCo Mardi Gras Month. Activity throughout the month will see SoCo pushing...
Mixability: The dawn of the ice age
29-Jan-2008
Such is the appeal of ice in the on-trade drink experience that "icy" innovation is coming into the sector thick and fast. Here we profile two...
Mixability focus: Cold temperature, cool serve?
29-Jan-2008
I mean, it's just bloody frozen water after all. How the hell did we end up here? It will remain one of the great mysteries of my professional life...
28-Jan-2008
Brits are the most generous round buyers in Europe, according to a new survey. An SAB Miller survey of European drinking culture revealed that 82% of...
'Wine and Spirits Trade Association calls for duty freeze'
27-Jan-2008
The cost of a tipple is set to soar by about 10 per cent because of poor grape harvests and increasing prices for raw ingredients, a leading trade...
Famous Grouse to tackle Murrayfield
24-Jan-2008
The Famous Grouse is to provide pre-match entertainment for fans at both of Scotland's home Six Nations rugby games. Comedians Jason Byrne and...
SoCo promo evokes Mardi Gras
17-Jan-2008 By Rosie Davenport
Southern Comfort is putting pubs at the centre of its plans with a £1m carnival-themed promotion. In a fresh direction, owner Bacardi-Brown Forman...
13-Dec-2007
The wholesale price of Draught Guinness is to increase by 3% from 1 February 2008. The relatively modest increase will come as a relief to many...
Diageo 'proposed more safe drinking ads'
10-Dec-2007
Diageo reportedly told Gordon Brown the industry proposed making one in every six ads a warning
Diageo responds to criticism of its adverts
10-Dec-2007
Diageo has hit back at allegations from university researchers that its advertising encouraged young people to get drunk.The drinks giant said its...
A move to the dark side
30-Nov-2007
The phrase 'hiding your light under a bushel' is a well known one, but Budvar could be accused of hiding its Dark under a bushel.The Czech lager...
Top Gunners get two shots
29-Nov-2007 By Helen Bendell helen.bendell@william-reed.co.uk
England football fans will have to distract themselves from disappointment at their failure to qualify for Euro 2008 with some of this week's top...
Rum Focus: Q&A - Chester Browne
28-Nov-2007
You have created your own rum punch which has become well known in Barbados. How versatile is rum as a spirit for pubs to mix?It's called Chester's...
Rum Focus: Gold is the new white...
28-Nov-2007
Taken individually the following rum-related events may seem like small steps:1. Early next year, the West Indies Rum and Spirits Producers...
Rum Focus: Opinion
28-Nov-2007
The UK rum market would seem to be in the doldrums, losing two per cent in volume and three per cent in value between 2006 and 2007. Attention has...
Rum focus: In need of a shake-up
28-Nov-2007
Rum has not enjoyed a good year; the Nielsen statistics are pretty emphatic on this (see box below). There has been a decline of 3.3 per cent in...
Mixability: Changing partners
13-Nov-2007
While there are are innovative licensees and managers all over the UK, as well as pub companies that have seen the light when it comes to investing...
Mixability: Mixed with style
13-Nov-2007
For several years we have watched the great and the good of the spirits market try to inspire growth in sales and rekindle interest in the category...
