Can-do culture
05-Oct-2006
Beam is buzzing with energy. Rosie Davenport reports
Classic service
05-Oct-2006
Spirit's category manager Alison Riddington says that quality is the key to sales
05-Oct-2006 By Roger Protz
There's an old Gershwin song called "They All Laughed" that contains such lines as: "They all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world...
Brighten up your serve
05-Oct-2006 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...
'DON'T QUOTE ME ON THAT' - buyers on brands
05-Oct-2006
My first encounter with Foster's Twist almost gave me a nasty cut. I assumed that it would have a screw top, but it has a seriously sharp metal...
04-Oct-2006 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...
If your name's not down...
04-Oct-2006
What wines should I put on my wine list? It is an eternal question for anyone who sells the old grape juice in the on-trade, be they pub, bar,...
CAMRA urges drinkers to boycott the fizz for cider month
04-Oct-2006
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is calling on drinkers to boycott fashionable cider brands like Magners during October - the organisation's...
King Cobra
03-Oct-2006
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...
Pubs must offer more
03-Oct-2006
With the UK on-trade evolving at pace, it's time for pubs to start thinking like supermarkets. And what the supermarkets are good at is giving the...
CAMRA slams Greene King over H&H closure
03-Oct-2006
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has condemned Greene King's closure of Hardys & Hansons brewery in Kimberley, Nottinghamshire. Thousands of...
03-Oct-2006
The Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) has condemned Greene King's planned closure of the that Hardys & Hansons brewery in Nottinghamshire.
03-Oct-2006
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...
SA Brain launches Extra Cold beer
02-Oct-2006
Welsh brewer SA Brain has launched a new Extra Cold Continental-style beer, called Brains 45. The 4.5 per cent beer, which was created following...
29-Sep-2006 By The PMA Team
CAMRA investment club sees big boost in brewers stocks.
Lucky Smirnoff drinkers can win the chance to live like a Czar
28-Sep-2006 By Rosie Davenport
Diageo is offering drinkers the chance to win a taste of the high life in a £2m giveaway for Smirnoff. The "Win the life of a Russian Czar"...
Farewell to an inspiring brewer
28-Sep-2006
My life improved dramatically, thanks to John Young. More than 30 years ago when I was working on a newspaper in Hackney, East London, a colleague...
28-Sep-2006 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
27-Sep-2006
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...
Wells & Young's set for strong start
26-Sep-2006
The newly formed Wells & Young's is looking to be the country's foremost brewer of specialty beers, according to its new managing director.Nigel...
Cash in on the trend
26-Sep-2006
The recent wave of consolidation among regional brewers appears for some observers to signal the beginning of the end of this breed. Speculation is...
Forever Young's
25-Sep-2006 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...
25-Sep-2006 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...
Stocking up for Christmas: Prepare to take stock and pile up
22-Sep-2006
Selling drinks in pubs at Christmas is the proverbial no-brainer. Just to spell it out, according to recent AC Nielsen statistics, in December alone...
Stocking up for Christmas: Soft drinks set to join the mix
22-Sep-2006
The two soft drinks giants, Britvic and Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE), are singing from the same hymn sheet when it comes to their advice to licensees...
Festive build-up for Diageo
22-Sep-2006
Diageo is backing its major brands to the tune of £25m in a bid to build sales in the run-up to Christmas. The package includes a £5m TV, radio...
Let's sell ale under 'Brand Britain' logo
21-Sep-2006
Lobby groups and think-tanks play a role, says Andrew Jefford, but the ale industry deserves a single, more powerful organisation
21-Sep-2006 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...
21-Sep-2006
A few years ago I was waiting fairly patiently for a pint in one of my favourite pubs, the Square & Compass in Worth Matravers, Dorset. There's...
Cointreauversial competition offer
21-Sep-2006
Cointreau has teamed up with 20th Century Fox Film Corporation to support the launch of this year's highly-anticipated blockbuster film, The Devil...
BrandsBriefs
21-Sep-2006
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...
18-Sep-2006
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
18-Sep-2006
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...
John Young dies at 85
18-Sep-2006
London family brewer Young's has announced the death of its Chairman, John Young CBE.The company said Mr Young, 85, passed away after a "long and...
Sometimes the mighty fall…
15-Sep-2006
A mate of mine has been asked to work on a temporary basis for a Football League club (I'd better not name them - let's just say they're a couple of...
Soft option
15-Sep-2006
What are the big challenges for the soft drinks market in the next 12 months?The big challenges in the on-trade remain the same and they still...
Profits fall as costs rise for Joseph Holt
14-Sep-2006 By The PMA Team
Manchester-based brewer and retailer Joseph Holt, which runs an estate of 128 pubs, has unveiled "disappointing" profits for 2005. Turnover rose...
14-Sep-2006 By Jo Grobel
French wine suppliers are ramping up their marketing to promote the message that their products are affordable and accessible. The first burst of...
Real ale tale's more than brewer can bear
14-Sep-2006
There has been loads of campaigning lately to stop cask ale's image looking more wrinkly than Mick Jagger in a tutu - the Why Handpull? initiative...
Wine and food: think outside the Xmas box
14-Sep-2006
If ever there was an opportunity to sell a food and wine matching menu, then Christmas lunch is it. Not because you'll get fantastic pairings -...
BrandsBriefs - all the latest fro the world of brands
14-Sep-2006
Bitesize information from the world of brands.
13-Sep-2006 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.
Good Beer Guide shows industry in rude health
13-Sep-2006
More than 80 new breweries and hundreds of pubs have been added to the new CAMRA Good Beer Guide, which is out today.The guide also names the best 16...
Caribbean lager joins GBL
13-Sep-2006
Global Brands Ltd (GBL) is to import and distribute Carib, a 5.2 per cent lager from Trinidad & Tobago.The Publican has learnt that the beer,...
Listening to their customers
11-Sep-2006
"To a large degree, consumers have now taken control of the on-trade market and are not prepared to simply accept what is put before them. The...
What they said
11-Sep-2006
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...
RTDs - down, but not out...
11-Sep-2006
"Reports of my death have been great exaggerated". So said 19th century American novelist and humourist Mark Twain. Well if the ready-to-drink (RTD)...
Ready to fight back?
11-Sep-2006
How important is new product development (NPD) for the market?Stuart Davis: I think to keep the category stimulated a degree of NPD is necessary...
The new drinking occasion…
08-Sep-2006
AGE WAITS for no brand. Certainly not RTD brands anyway. Becoming unfashionable is always the danger when you align a product so completely with a...
07-Sep-2006 By Fiona Wells
We ask some food industry leaders their advice