Tailoring the customer experience at a local level and focusing on innovation, is the advice given to retailers on the run up to Christmas by market research company, IGD.
Read more...The Scottish government has admitted it expects a legal challenge to its plans to introduce minimum pricing for alcohol.
Read more...Fake Blossom Hill has been found on sale in Scotland.
Read more...The Burgundy Wine Board has cancelled its UK-based generic tasting in 2012 following feedback from the British trade and Burgundy producers.
Tesco is ramping up its consumer engagement outside of the supermarket aisles, with the launch of an online wine community.
Read more...The Portman Group is extending the deadline for responses to its consultation on the Code of Practice for responsible alcohol marketing until January 31, 2012.
Read more...Sterling continued to hover around a 10 month high against the euro as investors favour sterling to the ailing single currency.
Read more...The Wine Society has announced it will not put up prices in the new January list and has lowered prices on more than 300 wines.
Read more...McGuigan Wines has broken into the top 10 wine brands in the UK for the first time, according to the latest Nielsen figures, making it 8th largest by value.
Read more...Pernod Ricard has announced a £80 million investment in the expansion of its Jameson Irish distillery, due to continued growth.
Read more...London independent wine merchant Wines of the World has closed down.
Read more...Pub and restaurant sales in November grew 2.1% on last year, says Coffer Peach Business Tracker.
Read more...Sterling is holding on to gains against the euro as the euro zone debt crisis cast a shadow over the single currency.
Read more...Amps Fine Wine is heading to New Zealand after coming top in a competition encouraging on-trade buyers to boost wine sales.
Read more...Champagne suppliers have expressed dismay at deep discounting in the category this year, at a time when their own costs are rising.
Read more...Laithwaites Wine has extended its Christmas order cut-off date until 1pm on December 22, in order to cater for the last minute rush.
Read more...Anheuser-Busch InBev UK, owner of Budweiser is investing in its second year of the 'Designate a Driver' TV and radio advertising campaign, throughout December.
Read more...The season's deep discounting and the accelerated fall in wine volumes in the last weeks of the year will have a lingering hangover effect on the trade in 2012.
Read more...Sterling has had a strong week against the euro, strengthening to a 10-month high and holding ground as European policymakers struggled to come to grips with the euro zone crisis.
Read more...Brand Phoenix has denied that BBC Strictly Come Dancing star, Alesha Dixon, has been dropped as the face of its First Cape Café Collection lower alcohol wine brand following an appearance on a TV chat show where she was seen drinking wine out of a bottle.
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