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Spirits and fizz ‘taking over beer’
Spirits and wine are giving beer a run for its money, with the two categories now accounting for almost half (49%) of value sales in new pubs, bars and restaurants.
New products
Top shelf: One of your five-a-day, good for kids and made with natural flavours, what more could you want from a soft drink?
Carlsberg
Carlsberg UK is teaming up with Brooklyn Brewery to handle the exclusive distribution of the brewery’s beer portfolio in the UK after an agreement to transfer distribution rights from James Clay is made effective from 30 December this year.
Staff
JD Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin has become the latest big name to offer staff on zero-hours contracts the opportunity to work guaranteed hours.
CLOSURE
Outraged locals are protesting the ‘overnight’ closure of a much-loved Brighton freehouse, which was turned into a furniture shop last week.
Future Trends: Spirits
Sales of rum in the UK on-trade are growing at 17% and pubs can do more to benefit from the boom, according to Pernod Ricard UK on-trade channel director Ian Peart ahead of the company’s study tour session at The Morning Advertiser’s (MA) Future Trends:...