Cains Brewery takes over Honeycombe
17-May-2007 By Andrew Pring andrew.pring@william-reed.co.uk
Five years after buying Cains, the ambitious Asian brothers Sudarghara and Ajmail Dusanj have agreed a reverse takeover of pub operator Honeycombe...
Bud Silver bites the bullet
17-May-2007 By Rosie Davenport rosie.davenport@william-reed.co.u
Anheuser-Busch has been forced to axe Bud Silver - its first foray into the standard lager market - after sales failed to reach the company's...
Abbott is well rewarded
16-May-2007
Anyone who reads my comments regularly will have noticed that I've been bellyaching recently. Sometimes you need something to remind you what a joy...
United Spirits buys Whyte & Mackay for £595m
16-May-2007 By Hamish Champ
United Spirits, a division of Indian drinks business UB Group, has bought Scotch whisky maker Whyte & Mackay (W&M) for £595m.W&M owns...
'Supermarket prices encourage drinking at home'
16-May-2007
Deep discounting by supermarkets is encouraging more people to drink at home, says a new report by consumer analysts Mintel. It claims the in-home...
15-May-2007 By The PMA Team
Archers Brewery has been placed into administration. Archers, which is based in the Great Western Railway locomotive works in Swindon, is a brewer of...
On-trade only...
15-May-2007
One of the great characters in South African wine is a man named Charles Back. He runs the Fairview winery in the Paarl region of the Western Cape....
What next for Kumala?
15-May-2007
While many South African winemakers would find this statement hard to swallow, it really does seem that Kumala is the lifeblood of South African...
14-May-2007
Britvic has announced it has agreed to acquire the soft drinks and distribution businesses of C&C Group plc (CCSD) for £169.5m in cash.
Britvic buys C&C's soft drinks and distribution businesses
14-May-2007 By Hamish Champ
Britvic is set to acquire CCSD, the soft drinks and distribution businesses of Magners cider maker C&C Group, for €249.5m (£169.5m) in...
Guinness launches Perfect Pour campaign
14-May-2007
Diageo has launched a new advertising campaign for Guinness this summer aimed at encouraging "The Perfect Pour".The campaign will include a new...
14-May-2007
Constellation Europe today announced the launch of a £5million campaign for its wine brand, Echo Falls. The campaign will include the brand's first...
Don't sell on price
11-May-2007
Late last month I was talking to Michael Turner, chief executive of Fuller's. We were discussing the supermarket pricing issue and something he said...
Troublemakers named and shamed on beermats
10-May-2007 By Gareth Iacobucci
Cleveland pubs are being issued with beermats displaying the faces of troublemakers under a new scheme to target disorder.Stockton Council has...
10-May-2007 By Roger Protz
My copy of the MA arrived last week at the same time as I took delivery of two bottles of beer from the Westerham Brewery in Kent and the latest...
Gallo rolls out 'Rosé on the Rocks'
10-May-2007 By Rosie Davenport
Winemaker E&J Gallo has rolled out its "Rosé on the Rocks" promotion to the on-trade and announced a £2.5m advertising spend for the year. The...
Challenge-25 example set by Asda
10-May-2007
Asda is trialling a Challenge-25 scheme at 10 stores in Scotland and has called on its off-trade rivals to follow suit. The supermarket giant already...
SOUTH AFRICA
10-May-2007
Promotional organisation Wines of South Africa (L40 and L50) will have themed tasting zones devoted to rosé wines, Rhône-style blends, Sauvignon...
Binge drink anger over bargain beer
10-May-2007
A trade leader has slammed a beer "giveaway" deal by Sainsbury's which sees a bottle of 330ml Budweiser on sale for just 37 pence. The supermarket...
World of wine
10-May-2007
The London International Wine & Spirits Fair is one of the main events on the trade calendar. Nigel Huddleston provides a preview and looks at...
Thwaites installs flow monitoring
10-May-2007 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
Brewer and retailer Daniel Thwaites has become the first regional operator to install beer flow monitoring equipment that allows the quality of beer...
Q&A: Talking tequila
09-May-2007
What role does tequila play in the spirits market?It's a big category in its own right. There are a lot more tequilas than people think, and it's a...
Could the beer industry do more to help?
09-May-2007
The Dump the Deals campaign has been running for four months now and in that time a lot of attention has been drawn to the issue of supermarket...
Drinking in a session style
09-May-2007
The darling suds of May are of the mild variety. Yes, if you hadn't heard, this month has been dedicated by the tireless sabre-rattlers at the...
Brulines: more than a spy for the beer-tie
05-May-2007 By Hamish Champ
Brulines. Mention the name of the country's leading installer of beer dispense monitoring technology and many of the nation's licensees come out in...
Winning ales
05-May-2007
Adrian Tierney-Jones profiles the nine beers that satisfied the punters and scooped the top Cask Marque awards across 10 regionsSouth West St...
Marston's away victory
04-May-2007
The winners of Marston's Fantasy Ashes competition, run in association with The Publican, have been treated to the ultimate cricketing prize - a trip...
Don't judge a book by its cover
03-May-2007
I'm known as someone who is prone to making outlandish statements. For example, I still stand by my belief that Premiership footballer of the year...
03-May-2007 By Ewan Turney
Daniel Thwaites has become the first regional brewer to install beer flow monitoring equipment throughout its tenanted estate. The Blackburn based...
Pub chief bitter at Harveys turnabout
03-May-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.
A Greene King lessee has criticised the company's decision to re-introduce Harveys to the Lewes Arms, East Sussex, while his pub opposite is not...
03-May-2007
Imagine the scene: a family is sitting round the dinner table. A bottle of wine or beer accompanies the evening meal, enjoyed by the parents and...
Beer and bombay mix
03-May-2007
Morning Advertiser's PubChef magazine went beer and Indian food-matching with the Beer Academy and Coors at the famous Bombay Brasserie in London's...
NEWS OF THE BREWS
03-May-2007
Banks's e-zine Banks's has published an electronic magazine to keep its drinkers up-to-date with the latest news from the music scene. Banks's List...
Coors appeals for unity on keg thefts
03-May-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Coors has called for the industry to unite to stop the epidemic of keg thefts. This follows comments by Tadcaster Pub Company boss James...
02-May-2007 By Iain O'Neil
Robert Humphreys, PASS chairman and parliamentary beer group secretary, was this year's recipient of the BII's prestigious Bill Hannon Award. The...
Sharing States secrets
01-May-2007
You've got to hand it to those pesky Americans. They have a great ability to take a concept or product from another part of the world, refashion it...
Flushed with success
01-May-2007
While every Tom, Dick and national newspaper has been writing about the incredible growth in the cider market, rosé wine has been enjoying a...
Focus Midlands: brewery listing
27-Apr-2007
Banks'sWolverhampton01902 711811www.marstons.co.ukGeorge Bateman & SonLincolnshire01754 880317www.bateman.co.ukDaniel Batham & SonBrierley...
Focus Midlands: safe as Banks's
27-Apr-2007
There is much written in the food and drinks press about regionality - the growing importance of local produce, of provenance and heritage of...
Young's unveils new advertising
26-Apr-2007
Wells & Young's has unveiled its first advertising campaign for Young's Bitter since the creation of the new brewing company last year.The...
26-Apr-2007
Scottish & Newcastle produced a 'robust' set of results for 2006, chairman Sir Brian Stewart will tell today's Annual General Meeting. Sir Brian...
26-Apr-2007 By Roger Protz
American friends often say when we meet up, "We must raise a couple of cold ones". But it's more of a warning than an invitation. I like cool beer....
Local protest wins return for Harveys
26-Apr-2007 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
Greene King has confirmed that Harveys Best Bitter will return to the Lewes Arms in Sussex this week. The beer was removed from sale in December last...
26-Apr-2007 By John Grogan
Brewers will feel the squeeze as climate change affects the cost of malting barley, says John Grogan Last Sunday lunchtime I visited one of my...
Thousands vote for Best of British Beer award-winners
26-Apr-2007
The winners of the first Best of British Beer Awards have been announced. About 30,000 real-ale drinkers turned out to vote in the competition that...
Beer fans" are sophisticated, report claims
25-Apr-2007 By James Wilmore
More than half of all UK beer enthusiasts are under 44, upmarket, affluent and well-educated, a new report has revealed. The research, commissioned...
24-Apr-2007 By The PMA Team
Britvic is consulting with its staff about outsourcing its retail distribution network and chiller re-manufacturing operations
Playing the long game
24-Apr-2007
The recent decline of spirits continues to be big news, yet there are some categories that have bucked the trend. It seems that, where vodka, gin and...
24-Apr-2007
Beer and cricket have gone hand in hand since the birth of the game, and will continue to do so thanks to a new book from the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA).
20-Apr-2007 By Ewan Turney
Greene King tells MA that Harvey's Best Bitter will go on sale again this week.
