Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade News

Angela Mount reveals how to become a wine 'buying ninja'

Published: 07 April, 2014

Angela Mount, a former head of wine at the Somerfield supermarket chain, and now an independent consultant to restaurants and merchants, provided tips and advice she has learnt during her career on how to fine tune wine-buying and negotiating skills at the recent Wine Buyers' Forum held in Windsor last month.

Best buyers understand and work with their suppliers, hears Wine Buyers Forum

Published: 12 March, 2014

The best wine buyers are the ones that do their homework on their suppliers, know their market, understand their customers and choose wines that match their own business agenda, according to two former supermarket heads of wine speaking at this week's inaugural Wine Buyers Forum i n Windsor.

Over 100 buyers head to Windsor to take part in first Wine Buyers' Forum

Published: 10 March, 2014

Over 100 buyers from across all channels of the trade are heading to Windsor today to take part in the first Wine Buyers Forum where they will get the chance to have in-depth discussions with over 30 suppliers and take part in a series of targeted business workshops.

Industry experts lined up to offer advice in specialist workshops at Wine Buyers Forum

Published: 07 February, 2014

Those attending the first Wine Buyers Forum taking place in Windsor next month will be able to take part in a wide ranging series of trade workshops as well as organise meetings with key suppliers over the two day event.

Windsor 2014 attracts key players with collective buying power of over £222m

Published: 17 January, 2014

Up to two thirds of the buyers signed up for the Windsor 2014 Wine Buyers' Forum are from the independent on and off-trade sectors whilst the collective buying power of all the buyers attending is now over £222m.

Windsor 2014 event to launch with average wine buyer budget of £2.2 million

Published: 13 January, 2014

A growing number of prominent wine buyers and producers are set to participate in The Wine Buyers' Forum, Windsor 2014, the first of a new kind of event, organised by the publishers of Harpers.

Major buyers from all channels sign up to first Wine Buyers' Forum

Published: 17 December, 2013

Buyers that have signed up to the inaugural Wine Buyers' Forum to be held in Windsor next March have on average over £2 million worth of buying power each.

Windsor 2014, a new wine event for the UK trade

Published: 05 November, 2013

A new trade event, Windsor 2014, is launching in the UK trade that will be a 24 hour business forum where UK's leading wine buyers and suppliers meet with a tailor made agenda of pre-scheduled, face to face meetings, set to take place at Beaumont Estate in Windsor on March 10-11, 2014.

Getting down to business at London 2013

Published: 17 May, 2013

London 2013 takes place at the Royal Albert Hall on September 24 and offers a completely new way of buying and sourcing wine. Here's how it all works...