Profits warnings, price wars, share collapses. Ah, it's coming up to Christmas
Though not the first from the group this year, was last week's profit warning from Regent Inns the first thunderclap of a storm which threatens to...
Archives for December 10, 2007
Negative ads 'turning people on' to drink
Advertising aimed at switching off young people from drinking to excess could be having the opposite effect, according to an academic study....
Cellar to Glass: Bold new font for Holts
Amid the din of fancy countermounts on today's bar tops, Manchester brewer Joseph Holt has gone back to its solid industrial roots to make its voice...
Francis Patton: Working together as an industry
Twenty-two years ago, when I started as a graduate trainee with a vertically integrated brewer called Allied Breweries, the UK had around 60,000...
Diageo responds to criticism of its adverts
Diageo has hit back at allegations from university researchers that its advertising encouraged young people to get drunk.The drinks giant said its...
Hamish Champ: Tackling under-aged drinking
A few days after my 18th birthday, many years ago, I was refused service in a pub where I'd been a regular for at least two years.Actually, I wasn't...
Diageo 'proposed more safe drinking ads'
Diageo reportedly told Gordon Brown the industry proposed making one in every six ads a warning
Cellar to Glass: Plastic branding
Magners Cider is maintaining the integrity of its branding in its new sampling campaign with the help of a new process for printing logos on plastic...
Cellar to Glass: Get ready for Christmas
The intense fortnight of trading that is the Christmas period can put cellar equipment under pressure it is not usually exposed to. With this in mind...
Cellar to Glass: One tap, two heads
Greene King's bid to bridge the great cask beer divide - between northern folk who like their head tight and creamy and southerners who prefer it...
Cellar to Glass: Glycol cooling
Imagine your refrigeration needs run off of a single remote cooler - and free hot water into the bargain. That's not science fiction. There is, in...
Chris Maclean: The unkindest cut
I am sitting in near darkness writing this on my laptop. We are in the midst of another power cut. We has a short one on Tuesday, lost power all day...
Cellar to Glass: Green glassware
The way is open for pubs to use disposable glassware with the launch of plastic tumblers that carry the required CE measure markings - and are...
Cellar to Glass: The rules on F gas
Cellar services supplier Innserve is urging publicans to take action over new climate change regulations covering refrigeration systems.EU rules...
Trade body submits alternative capital gains tax proposals
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has come up with a series of alternative proposals to Chancellor Alistair Darling's plans to abolish the...
Two out of three Scottish doorworkers found without licences
One of the first operation's carried out under the Security Industry Authority's (SIA) pre-Christmas crackdown has seen two out of three doorstaff...