All the latest news, products and developments for pubs, restaurants, hotels and the catering and hospitality industry.
Businesses are increasingly concerned over mounting debt burden following lockdown The Wine and Spirit Trade Association has surveyed members to discover what key messages it
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A tension exists in alcoholic drinks between consumers’ established preferences, market norms, openness to innovation, and products that cross traditional category or flavor lines. Creative
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Chancellor Rishi Sunak has refused to cancel monthly beer duty payments, prompting warnings that thousands of jobs are at risk, a decision described by The
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Gin distiller Harrogate Tipple, which recently announced that it would be switching production from gin to hand sanitiser, has been supported by Andrew Jones, MP
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Research has revealed the UK’s most expensive places to buy a pint. Data collected by healthcare company Treated.com found London once again the most expensive
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Free ‘Home and dry’ POS offered to all on-trade operators Alcohol education charity Drinkaware is launching a new campaign against drink-driving, called Home and dry.
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A NEW law introducing a minimum alcohol price has come into force in Wales. Earlier this week ( Monday March 2), retailers and any outlets
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CGA research shows more than five million people now drink rum out-of-home, with spiced and flavoured varieties powering interest Rum sales growth is outpacing many
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New HMRC figures show the number of distilleries registered in 2019 shot up to at least 441 as the UK boosted its distillery numbers by
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The spirit market is booming! Last year total UK spirit sales were a staggering £11bn. The sector has, over the past 10 years, seen incredible
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British beer drinkers have paid as much in Beer Duty by February 27th as those in Germany will pay all year, despite the fact that
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Mis Amigos Chocolate Cream and Strawberry Cream Tequila, two Tequila-based cream liqueurs which were unveiled launched by G&I Spirit Group last November and went on
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The proposed UEFA two season Champions League ban on Manchester city could have huge implications for Manchester’s night time economy, the region’s night tsar has
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O’Neill’s has reported a 56% increase in low and no alcohol category sales versus the same period last year. The Mitchells & Butlers operated chain
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UK Vineyards, distillers and retailers ask ‘why tax what we do best most heavily?’ Britain’s best loved wine and spirit SMEs have joined forces to
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