Crooked House Campaigners Want to ‘Break the Internet’
CAMRA and the Great British Beer Festival have teamed up with pub campaigners to mark anniversary of pub scandal. The “Great British Beer Festival” a…
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Breweries
Bank of England Delivers Fifth Rate Cut as Hospitality Sector Seeks Relief
The Bank of England has reduced the base rate to 4% following a closely contested vote that required an unprecedented second ballot, offering potential respite…
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CAMRA Calls For Fairer Market Access And Transparency In Pub Supply Chain
New polling from YouGov reveals that the overwhelming majority of UK adults agree that large multinational brewers are making it harder for independent breweries to…
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PCA Launches Consultation on Arbitration Process
The Pubs Code Adjudicator (PCA) is calling on the pub industry to respond to a new consultation it has launched on the rules for handling…
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Dorset Beer Festival Hosts County’s First Beer And Music Pairing, Raises £10,000 For Charity
Over 1500 guests visited the Dorset Beer Festival at the Hall & Woodhouse Brewery in Blandford last weekend (13 and 14 June) to enjoy beers…
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St Austell Brewery Delivers Another Year Of Growth And Unveils Major New Rebrand
St Austell Brewery has reported strong financial performance with a further year of record-breaking turnover and underlying EBITDA growth of 8.7% in the 52-week period…
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Thornbridge Brewery and Garrett Oliver Collaborate to Support The Michael James Jackson Foundation
Thornbridge Brewery has announced a special collaboration with Garrett Oliver, Brewmaster of Brooklyn Brewery, to create a unique beer brewed on the world’s only operational…
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43 Breweries Become Insolvent In 2024/25 – As UK Craft Beer Market Faces Up To Overcapacity
43 UK breweries have become insolvent in the last year, says national accountancy group UHY Hacker Young. The 43 breweries that have become insolvent include…
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Hall & Woodhouse Named a Sunday Times Best Places to Work Employer for Second Year Running
The 2025 Sunday Times Best Places to Work Awards celebrate top UK companies that deliver employee satisfaction and workplace excellence. Results for the awards are…
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Start of 2025 ‘Tough for Independent Brewers’ as Number of UK Brewers Continues to Drop
The number of breweries in the UK has continued to drop, with 136 fewer brewers as of the end of March 2025 compared to 31st…
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Annual Pride Of Greene King Awards Celebrates Team Members From Across The Country
Greene King, the country’s leading pub company and brewer, enjoyed a gala night of celebration in Solihull on Wednesday evening (7 May) to crown the…
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Heineken Announces £40 Million Star Pubs Investment
HEINEKEN UK has announced today (May 5) it will invest £40m in upgrading and reopening pubs in its Star Pubs division in 2025, creating nearly…
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Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Comes To Shepherd Neame’s Historic Brewery
Brewer Shepherd Neame is joining forces with Kent theatre company, Changeling, for a third year to stage a live performance, but this summer’s show will…
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Heavy Headwinds Threaten To Blow Independent Breweries Off Course According To New Report
A new report published today has shown that whilst demand for independent beer remains strong, UK brewers face “heavy headwinds” from increased taxation, market access…
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CAMRA Renews Calls to Halt ‘Imitation’ Cask Beer Sales
“Centuries of British tradition” are under threat says CAMRA as it renews calls for brewing giant Carlsberg to stop selling what it says is imitation…
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