Constellation to launch Jack Rabbit loyalty scheme
Constellation Europe is to launch a new trade loyalty scheme for its Jack Rabbit wine brand. The Jack Rabbit Wine Club allows licensees to earn...
Archives for March 9, 2009
Mark Daniels: Clubcard Pints!
Following in the business models of giant American retail corporations, who swept through US towns and decimated small businesses in the seventies...
The media gets it; now it's the government's turn
It's been a while coming but the mainstream media appears to be seriously waking up to the issues bedevilling the UK's pub trade. More and more...
'Pricing plan will hit heavy drinkers least'
Government plans to curb binge drinking have been dealt a blow by new research that suggests the heaviest drinkers will be the least responsive to...
Comment: We're dangerously obsessed with price
The past week has emphasised how dangerously obsessed with price we are.The trade's submissions in the run-up to the Budget are of huge importance,...
Cheese and onion topple ready salted from crisps chart
Ready salted crisps have been toppled from the top of the flavour charts by cheese and onion. The cheese & onion market is now worth £256m,...
Tesco plans to convert closed pubs
Tesco is planing to cash in on pub closures by converting them to small town centre stores. The Mail on Sunday reports that the supermarket giant has...
Blog: pubcos have ripped heart out of industry
Sir Shannon Alberry says the pubcos have ripped the heart out of the industry and killed the golden goose.
Caledonian first to apply for new SIBA status
The Caledonian Brewery has become the first brewer to apply for associate membership of the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA), following changes to its membership rules.
Hamish Champ: Can people please make up their minds on the issue of pub closures?
Alright, calm down, it's only a bloody headline. I'm the last person to be calling for pub closures. We all know the problems facing many pubs. And...
Biggest ever Foster's promotion supports pool and poker
Scottish & Newcastle (S&N UK) is aiming to bring blokes back to the pub with its biggest ever Foster's promotion. Game On will see around...
Pubs short-listed at 2009 Northern Hospitality Awards
The finalists for the 2009 Northern Hospitality Awards have been announced. Short-listed for Best Pub are the Black Swan Hotel, Ravenstonedale,...
Regent Inns: a troubled kingdom?
For some observers Regent Inns exemplifies in microcosm the plight facing much of the on-trade sector in the UK today.The three 'legs' of its...
Quiz prize is a Punch pub
A Punch Taverns pub in the West Midlands is being raffled off in a prize draw for £25 per ticket. The leasehold of the Arbor Lights' pub in Walsall...
Pre-packs: saviour or stitch-up?
Insolvency practitioners must play fair says Richard Miles in our second look at the issue
Brewers with a taste for publicity
A historic country hall in Derbyshire is home to an exotic band of brewers who together are a leading member of a new wave of micros innovating and...
Converting football fans to sampling wine
CHELSEA FOOTBALL club hasn't had much to celebrate recently. But when its fans do look to enjoy themselves after a home match, many choose to do so...
City Diary — 5 March
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
Freehold pub is quiz top prize
Yet another pub has been named as the top prize in a quiz for the price of a £20 ticket.Licensee Steve Goymer is launching an online competition for...