Mixed Picture On Drinks Sales As Festive Rush Begins
Year-on-year drinks sales fell again at the beginning of December but there were brighter spots of trading to raise hopes for a strong Christmas and…
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Alcohol
Upheld Alcohol Complaints More than Double in 2023
The Portman Group’s Independent Complaints Panel (ICP) upheld more than double the amount of complaints in 2023 compared with the previous year, with products subject…
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Lanchester Wines Put Focus on Sustainability
Tom van der Neut is business unit controller at Lanchester Wines. While carbon offsetting is relatively mainstream, more and more businesses are looking at how…
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Admiral Taverns Invests Over £690,000 Into Two Hull Community Pubs
BarsAdmiral Taverns has invested £692,000 across two Hull community pubs on Anlaby Road. The Parkers, run by passionate operator Paul Harker, has received a £268,000…
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Looking Forward to 2024 with Lanchester Wines
Lesley Cook is Lanchester Wines’ director of purchasing. We caught up with Lesley to look at what will affect the wine trade in 2024. One…
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Spiking To Be Targeted In Raft Of New Measures
Photo Credit – Getty Images Spiking will be targeted by police and door staff in a raft of new measures unveiled yesterday (Monday 18 December)…
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NTIA & Parliamentarians Urge Home Office to Review Spiking Crime Categorisation
NTIA is pressing the Home Office to support a renewed examination of a fundamental legislative change that classifies spiking as a distinct criminal category. This…
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On Trade Christmas Countdown
This past week has seen a decline in sales as pubs simply couldn’t compete with the single BIGGEST sales day of 2022, England’s Quarter Final…
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CAMRA Flagship Festival Postponed
The Campaign for Real Ale’s Great British Beer Festival is taking a year off in 2024 but will return in 2025 with a bang! Work…
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Proper Pubs Celebrates Landmark Milestone As 200th Pub Opens
Proper Pubs, the community-wet led operator division of Admiral Taverns, has opened its doors on their 200th pub this Christmas! The Chrystal Bell, in Gallowgate,…
Read more...Christmas Drinks Sales On A Knife-Edge After Slow November
Year-on-year drinks sales in Britain’s On Premise were down again last week—though the 2022 football World Cup made for difficult comparatives. 7CGA by NIQ’s Daily…
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NTIA Backs Cross-Party Support for Specific Offence Against Spiking
In a united front, Members of Parliament have rallied behind the call for a specific offence against spiking, as proposed by previous Home Secretary Priti…
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£7.4 Bn Predicted To Be Spent On Christmas Partying – Three Times The Amount Of Last Year
A recent survey has unveiled promising prospects for the UK hospitality sector this festive season. The survey conducted by tonics and mixer brand, Double Dutch,…
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35.9 Million Pints Sold in “First Christmas Week”
The festive season kicked off in style this week with a whopping 35.9m pints being sold across UK pubs in this first Christmas week. Compared…
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Ringwood Brewery To Close
Photo Credit: © Clive Perrin and licenced for reuse under cc-by-sa 2.0 Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company has announced it plans to close the Ringwood Brewery…
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