Raise a glass to Cask Ale Week
18-Mar-2009
It is one of the most overused mantras in the cask ale industry: "We need to throw off company rivalries and work together, to get behind the...
18-Mar-2009 By Robyn Lewis
Magners UK boss says it will focus on the on-trade to boost the brand's market share.
Comment: SIBA HAS excluded the big boys
17-Mar-2009
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) claims new terms governing membership of the organisation that designates bigger brewers as 'associate...
2008 saw new dawn for beer
17-Mar-2009
Rock 'n' roll in 1956/57, the summer of love in 1967/68, punk and new wave in 1976/77, acid house and the dawn of rave culture in 1987/88… These...
Magners unveils plan to halt sales decline
17-Mar-2009
Magners has set out a battle plan for its newly-formed range that it hopes will see it arrest declining sales and become a "one-stop shop for...
Pub launches "honesty pint" for trusted punters
17-Mar-2009
A pub has launched an "honesty pint" which trusts customers to pull their own pint and place the money in a box.Martin Hughes, licensee of the...
16-Mar-2009 By John Harrington
The brew is to be added to Fullers' year-round cask ale range.
16-Mar-2009 By John Harrington
The 30-second ad in the "Have you got a WKD side" is to air on TV until early May.
16-Mar-2009 By John Harrington
Brakspear Pub Company plans to move most of its tenants onto its new longer six-year agreements that offer new discounts. Barrelage discounts of up...
Chris Maclean: Why refreshing payment isn't small beer
13-Mar-2009 By Chris Maclean
One great joys of the being a licensee is the ability, from time to time, to pay people with beer.Now before the tax and revenue people start acting...
Brewing up with Neil Morrissey
12-Mar-2009
It's not every day you get the chance to brew some beer with a couple of celebrities. But when you're doing it to further the cause of pubs then...
Desert Island Brands: Beer
12-Mar-2009
To tie in with this special beer issue The Publican has commissioned exclusive licensee research with drinks industry specialists Box Marketing to...
How much does beer tax cost you?
12-Mar-2009 By James Wilmore
On Monday (March 16) key players in the trade are due to speak to the Chancellor about the severe impact high alcohol duty is having on people...
Carling proves to be licensees choice
12-Mar-2009
Given a completely free choice licensees would stock Carling as their number one beer brand. Coors flagship lager came out on top in a Box Marketing...
EC agrees to VAT cut on pub meals
11-Mar-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubs could be in line to make savings on meals after the European Commission agreed to allow member states to reduce VAT rates in a range of sectors....
Britvic relaunches kids juice brand
11-Mar-2009
Britvic has relaunched market-leading children's soft drink Fruit Shoot, and added two new flavours to the range. Fruit Shoot has been given a new...
Fuller's: SIBA has snubbed us
10-Mar-2009
One of the big three brewers excluded from full membership to the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) has labelled the decision a snub.The move to...
Coors launches 'one stop shop' for online ordering
10-Mar-2009
Coors Brewers has launched a new website to provide a "one stop shop" for freetrade customers ordering from the company.Licensees will be able to...
Brewers with a taste for publicity
09-Mar-2009
A historic country hall in Derbyshire is home to an exotic band of brewers who together are a leading member of a new wave of micros innovating and...
Converting football fans to sampling wine
09-Mar-2009
CHELSEA FOOTBALL club hasn't had much to celebrate recently. But when its fans do look to enjoy themselves after a home match, many choose to do so...
Comment: We're dangerously obsessed with price
09-Mar-2009
The past week has emphasised how dangerously obsessed with price we are.The trade's submissions in the run-up to the Budget are of huge importance,...
Mark Daniels: Clubcard Pints!
09-Mar-2009
Following in the business models of giant American retail corporations, who swept through US towns and decimated small businesses in the seventies...
Biggest ever Foster's promotion supports pool and poker
09-Mar-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Scottish & Newcastle (S&N UK) is aiming to bring blokes back to the pub with its biggest ever Foster's promotion. Game On will see around...
09-Mar-2009 By Ewan Turney
The Caledonian Brewery has become the first brewer to apply for associate membership of the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA), following changes to its membership rules.
09-Mar-2009 By Ewan Turney
Constellation Europe is to launch a new trade loyalty scheme for its Jack Rabbit wine brand. The Jack Rabbit Wine Club allows licensees to earn...
06-Mar-2009 By John Harrington
The group also wants lower alcohol duty in its new campaign to save Welsh pubs.
06-Mar-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Scottish & Newcastle UK (S&N UK) has launched its biggest ever on-trade promotion for Fosters with 'Game On', an initiative designed to capitalise on men's passion for games.
06-Mar-2009 By Ewan Turney
Marston's, Fullers and Shepherd Neame have been excluded from full membership of the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) following the introduction of a 200,000 hectolitre threshold.
Sam Smith's: 10p beer rise would hit production
06-Mar-2009 By The PMA Team
Brewer Sam Smith ruled out beer price increases as a means of boosting pub revenues and chose to cut staff hours to reduce costs, an employment...
Roy Beers: Hooray for the SNP - it's giving minimum pricing to Britain
06-Mar-2009
I hope it works, even if I don't think it will make a decisive difference to Scotland's massive overall drink problem, and that it works well enough...
Blackthorn cider relaunched
06-Mar-2009
Gaymer Cider Company is to relaunch its best-selling brand Blackthorn with a new liquid, new packaging and a £1.5m marketing campaign.The relaunch...
Three brewers forced to take new SIBA membership terms
06-Mar-2009 By James Wilmore
Three major brewers - Shepherd Neame, Marston's and Fuller's - have been excluded from full membership of the Society of Independent Brewers...
Blackthorn £1.5m overhaul
06-Mar-2009 By Sonya Hook
Blackthorn cider is set to undergo a major overhaul to include an improved flavour, reduced abv and a new look. Gaymer Cider Company is investing...
Careless talk costs pubs
06-Mar-2009 By Roger Protz
So you thought things couldn't get worse for the pub trade at the hands of the present Labour Government. Well, sit down and pour yourself a stiff...
Marston's revamps bottled Pedigree for pubs
05-Mar-2009 By Hamish Champ
Midlands brewer Marston's has unveiled a revamped version of its bottled Pedigree ale, which it hopes will help drive consumers back into pubs.The...
05-Mar-2009 By Robyn Lewis
The RTD market is experiencing a shake-up this month as two of the biggest brands announce reformulations. Diageo is lowering the abv of its Smirnoff...
05-Mar-2009 By Ewan Turney
Blaming duty increases for the closure of pubs is just a smokescreen, the anti-beer tie campaign group Fair Pint has warned. The group, who want the...
04-Mar-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Marston's is marking 175 years of brewing with the launch of Pedigree's summer marketing campaign, which continues the cricketing tradition.
Adam Withrington: It is time to stop selling beer like it's perfume
04-Mar-2009
I just picked the latest issue of Marketing magazine. On its opinion page it asks four "experts" from its Marketing Society Forum whether "lager...
MacAskill "confident" over minimum pricing
04-Mar-2009 By James Wilmore
Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill remains "confident" his party's plan to set a minimum price is "sustainable" and will get legal and...
04-Mar-2009 By John Harrington
Two senior Government ministers have called on the pub industry to help struggling licensees by examining how the beer tie works. Licensing minister...
04-Mar-2009 By Ewan Turney
Miller Genuine Draft is giving drinkers in Scotland the chance to win a limited edition MP3 player loaded with live tracks. The promotion froms part...
'Labour is giving Britain a beer belly'
03-Mar-2009 By James Wilmore
More evidence that the Tories would alter the Licensing Act emerged yesterday, as a senior party figure claimed binge-drinking was "becoming the...
'Hitman Hatton joins the beer tax fight'
03-Mar-2009
Ricky Hatton tells The Sun why he backs the brewing industry's Axe The Beer Tax campaign. "I am supporting the Axe The Beer Tax, Save The Pub...
Magners' share of UK cider market falls
03-Mar-2009 By Hamish Champ
Magners producer C&C Group said its share of the UK cider market fell by three percentage points in volume terms last year and the market was...
S&NPE to offer beer quality training to lessees
03-Mar-2009
Scottish & Newcastle Pub Enterprises (S&NPE) is offering beer quality training to all its new lessees, following a six month pilot...
03-Mar-2009 By Ewan Turney
Scottish proposals to introduce minimum pricing and restrict off-trade sales undermine individual judgement and accountability — the fundamentals...
Seven out of 10 say no to beer tax hikes
02-Mar-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Seven out of 10 people are opposed to government plans to increase beer tax in the forthcoming Budget, according to an opinion poll published...
02-Mar-2009 By Robyn Lewis
Diageo is to roll out Smirnoff Apple and Smirnoff Lime across the on and off-trades following a successful six-month trial in Bristol bars and...
02-Mar-2009 By Ewan Turney
Over 70% of the UK population are opposed to plans to increase tax on beer in the Budget, according to a ComRes poll. The poll, carried out on behalf...
