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Quality counts

Quality counts

New on-trade managing director Colin Pedrick is hoping to realise Interbrew UK's aim of 'Making Beer Great'. Ben McFarland reports.This time last...

Branded for life

Branded for life

Every columnist has to face up, sooner or later, to the awful possibility that he or she might just conceivably be wrong about something. I had such...

Marketing matters

Marketing matters

The following article is brought to you by McCain.Product and marketing go hand in hand for menu success.Successful marketing begins with your...

From ad to worse

From ad to worse

Ben McFarland looks at what happens when the marketers get it wrong.The drinks industry's advertising is probably the best advertising in the world....

The demon drink?

The demon drink?

A recent report in The Guardian laid the blame for underage drinking firmly at the door of 'alcopops'. Phil Mellows investigates.My mum was a teenage...

ASSing around

ASSing around

Allied Domecq has created the Anti-Seriousness Squad to introduce a new generation to the 80s classic, Malibu. Ben McFarland joined it.In the 1980s,...

Poles apart

Poles apart

The six weeks leading up to Christmas traditionally account for about a third of all scotch whisky sales. Here, Ben McFarland and Phil Mellows...

The right choice

The right choice

People with all kinds of experience can find a pub to suit them and their skills.Anne Pirrie, the Ace, OldhamWhile some styles of pub suit the...

No place like home

No place like home

Global consolidation in the beer market has led to an increase in brands being brewed under licence, but is the beer the same? By Ben McFarland.The...

Board changes

Board changes

Charles Wells, the Bedford-based brewer, has appointed Alan Jackson and Colin Mayes to its board. Current chairman Alec Monk will be retiring at the...

A soft goal

A soft goal

Pepsi and Coca-Cola are going head to head to win sales during the World CupOne of the biggest clashes of the World Cup campaign could take place off...

Left on the shelf?

Left on the shelf?

Jack Daniel's has the dark spirits market cracked but other brands are less fortunate. Ben McFarland investigates the future of bourbonsDark spirits...

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