14-Mar-2007 By John Harrington
Wells and Young's has released two new varieties of Bombardier Premium Bitter - both with a patriotic theme. Wells Bombardier Burning Gold and Wells...
14-Mar-2007
WaverleyTBS and Welsh brewer and operator SA Brain have announced a 10-year strategic partnership. Under a reciprocal trading agreement, WaverleyTBS...
Lager is not your enemy
13-Mar-2007
Last week I was invited to chair the main debate at the SIBA conference in Leeds. Taking up such a role you silently pray for the audience to be a...
13-Mar-2007
Daniel Thwaites is continuing to use its 200 year celebrations to highlight the company's investment in cask ale, with Wainwright ale the latest...
Legal advice: FSA's food safety inspections stats published
12-Mar-2007
The Food Standards Agency has recently published the annual statistics for 2005-2006 food safety inspections carried out by local council...
Don't blame us: Asda responds to Dump the Deals
10-Mar-2007
IT WAS way back in October that we first put the calls out to the big four supermarkets - Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons. We, like The...
Diageo visits Barcena
09-Mar-2007
A stock house brand is the pouring brand - recommended to change to quality well known big brand names as this will say to Barcena's customers that...
08-Mar-2007 By Tony Halstead
Another regional brewery boss has called for a review of progressive beer duty (PBD) to create a fair system for all small brewers.
Young's restructure nears completion
08-Mar-2007
London pub company Young's is continuing to streamline itself following the sale of its Wandsworth brewery last year.With new offices due to open...
08-Mar-2007
A plan to charge licensees deposits of around £50 on kegs is now expected to be implemented at the end of the year. The call to have a deposit...
08-Mar-2007 By John Harrington
Carlsberg has become the first major brewer to outsource its business-loans division to a specialist credit management company, Avance Group, as it...
Our great brewing traditions
08-Mar-2007
When people describe Britain as a "post-industrial society" they imply that we don't make things any more. I appreciate we don't dig coal, fashion...
Brewer calls for urgent PDB review
08-Mar-2007 By Tony Halstead THals22851@aol.com
Another regional brewery boss has called for a review of progressive beer duty (PBD) to create a fair system for all small brewers. Guy Newell, of...
Keg with a positive spin
08-Mar-2007
Intrepid Suffolk brewer Adnams has bucked a prevailing trend to create Spindrift, a keg beer that's actually worth drinking. Andrew Jefford reckons...
Members' clubs fuss: storm in a pint pot
08-Mar-2007
The Scottish licensed trade has been stirred up by the press recently over a story that the Scottish Executive was to allow members' clubs an...
Slate 20's future uncertain as Diageo reviews RTDs
08-Mar-2007 By Rosie Davenport rosie.davenport@william reed.co.u
Diageo is reviewing the future of a handful of brands, including its RTD portfolio as the sector's performance continues to slide. The company is...
Bacardi-Martini closes plant
08-Mar-2007
Bacardi-Martini is to close its Southampton bottling plant in response to "continued and significant" ready-to-drink (RTD) sector decline. Announcing...
07-Mar-2007
In 2006, the soft drinks category in on-trade grew five per cent to reach sales of more than £2.4billion
Day in the Life: the lunchtime pint
07-Mar-2007
The cheeky pint or two at lunchtime is a pub tradition that has been suffering a slow, painful death. There have been many reasons for this: from...
Soft drinks surging forward
07-Mar-2007
Soft drinks have just had their most successful year since 2003, according to the latest Britvic Soft Drinks Report.The category saw a rise of seven...
06-Mar-2007
WKD is launching a national TV advertising campaign that it hopes will appeal to young adult male drinkers. The ads will continue the 'off-beat'...
St Patrick's Day: credit is Dew...
05-Mar-2007
An American point-of-sale poster featuring a burly Irish rugby player hangs prominently on the wall in the Tullamore Dew Heritage Centre in...
St Patrick's Day: stout support
05-Mar-2007
THERE ARE plenty of drinks brands out there with good, solid Irish heritage. Indeed, with the Celtic Tiger continuing to roar on, a marketing guru...
St Patrick's Day: raise a glass to the saint
05-Mar-2007
March is an eagerly anticipated month for licensees in Great Britain, and indeed around the world, as with it comes one of the most well established...
02-Mar-2007 By Rosie Davenport
Scottish & Newcastle UK (S&NUK) is testing two new ways of serving Strongbow, including a draught version that dispenses frozen cider crystals into the glass.
02-Mar-2007 By John Harrington
The company blames "significant decline" in the RTD sector
WSTA gives evidence to Lords
02-Mar-2007 By Gareth Iacobucci
A delegation from the Wine & Spirit Trade Association (WSTA) has given evidence to the House of Lords Committee inquiry into the reform of the EU...
Brulines: now it's 'fizzlines' for soft drinks
01-Mar-2007 By The PMA Team
Beer flow monitoring company trials soft drinks equipment at 20 tenanted pubs Beer flow monitoring company Brulines is trialing flow-monitoring...
Snowy retires after shifting 1.5bn pints
01-Mar-2007
Greene King has waved goodbye to one of its longest-serving employees - Derek "Snowy" White, who has retired after racking up 1.5bn pints during his...
King Cobra goes small for pubs
01-Mar-2007
Cobra Beer is launching a mini-version of its award-winning King Cobra lager. Supplied in single-serving half-bottles (375ml), the smaller pack...
NEWS OF THE BREWS
01-Mar-2007
Beer style matters Herefordshire micro Wye Valley Brewery has launched a range of half-pint glasses branded with its beer logos in a bid to...
01-Mar-2007 By Rosie Davenport
Anheuser-Busch is hoping to increase its share of the imported beer market by adding Spanish lager Estrella Damm to its range. The Budweiser brewer...
28-Feb-2007
Daniel Thwaites director writes to Culture Secretary asking for review of decision not to award Blackpool the 'supercasino' licence.
28-Feb-2007
Heineken UK is launching a major new marketing campaign for 2007, as it hopes to build on the 24% volume growth the brand achieved during 2006. The...
27-Feb-2007 By Sarah Britton
Food developers are constantly switching jobs. Sarah Britton looks at why staff move on so frequently and how this affects manufacturers
Keep them under pressure
27-Feb-2007
The Dump the Deals campaign is gaining real momentum. Our inboxes and letterboxes are being deluged with responses from licensees fully supporting...
27-Feb-2007
A soft toy gift pack containing alcohol has been removed from sale after breaching The Portman Group's Code of Practice on the Naming, Packaging and...
26-Feb-2007
Daniel Thwaites has held a string of roadshows designed to inform its licensees about the smoking ban. The brewer has also produced a brochure which...
North West Focus: brewery listing
23-Feb-2007
This list is an update on information contained in the Good Beer Guide 2007. Use it to order local beers for your pub3 riversStockport0161 477...
North West Focus: brewers forum
23-Feb-2007
Adam Withrington, drinks editor of The Publican, chaired a discussion among brewers in the North West, including:Oliver Robinson - marketing...
Move to off-trade hits Diageo figures
22-Feb-2007 By The PMA Team
Guinness and spirits producer Diageo has reported tough trading conditions in the UK and Ireland in the six months to 31 December 2006. Guinness...
No super brew review
22-Feb-2007 By James Wilmore
The Portman Group has ruled out looking at the issue of super-strength lagers as part of a review of its Code of Practice.The group has just finished...
Brewers go Fairtrade
22-Feb-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Westerham Brewery and Freeminer from the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, have received Fairtrade accreditation for their draught beers. Having the...
Wainwrights wins CaskForce
22-Feb-2007
Wainwrights, a Lake District pub serving seven different cask ales, has won one month's free beer in Marston's CaskForce February draw. The pub in...
Marston's unveils Cricket World Cup trade activity
21-Feb-2007
After inflicting Australia's first home one-day series defeat for 14 years, the England team is in good spirits and Marston's hopes drinkers will be...
Move out of neutral...
20-Feb-2007
What's the story with vodka in pubs? It is the category in the on-trade with the largest number of new brands and new entrants to the market. And yet...
Carlsberg strikes Glastonbury deal
20-Feb-2007
Carlsberg UK has signed an exclusive four year deal with Glastonbury Festival to become the event's "official beer" until 2011.The agreement gives...
A Czech original
16-Feb-2007
Do you think Anheuser-Busch (A-B) will ever back down in the trademark dispute?A universal solution to this dispute does not exist. The only possible...
A boost for Bud
16-Feb-2007
Budweiser has launched its biggest ever UK consumer campaign, giving drinkers the chance to win trips to major music and sporting events.Bud Bucks...
Diageo pumps £100m into Scotch whisky operation
15-Feb-2007 By Hamish Champ
Up to 200 new jobs are to be created when drinks giant Diageo rolls out a £100m investment programme to expand its Scotch whisky operations north of...