The chief executive of the newly rebranded Naked Wines has defended the decision to trim down its 200-store estate while shifting investment focus to the online side of the business.
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Veeno has been saved by investors who have rescued the Italian wine café’s 15-strong estate.
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Armit Wines is flexing its muscles in its Italian portfolio, having added several new producers through agencies or partner agencies.
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Carluccio’s CEO has criticised the UK restaurant sector for focusing on “capex-heavy investments” – the same focus which almost brought the chain to brink of collapse last year.
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The launch of a new trading platform for the drinks trade promises to disrupt existing business models. Jo Gilbert investigates
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If we have heard it once we have heard it a thousand times: Business needs clarity to plan.
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James Lawrence talks Brexit, MUP, millennials and alternative formats with indie Dean Harper of HarperWells
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It’s hard to overstate the impact that I Heart has had on the trajectory of Robin Copetsick’s business – formerly Copestick Murray and, as of January 1, Freixenet Copestick – and where it is today.
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Three years ago, dynamic, family-run business Roberson Wines took the decision to close its flagship store.
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UK restaurants are on the slide, according to the new edition of the Market Growth Monitor from CGA and AlixPartners.
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Philip Hammond is being urged to abolish ‘debilitating’ business by some of the UK’s leading restaurateurs.
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A question to test the mettle of any commercial wine buyer: What are the criteria you use to select your wine range?
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Specialist fine wine importer Flint Wines has hired a new company development manager as part of an “ambitious” five-year plan to drive the company forward.
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Fine wine and steak restaurant Gaucho has become the latest casualty of the high street after administrators were appointed to deal with the ailing business.
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Offering flexibility and encouragement, and supporting women-owned business were key to advancing women in the wine industry, the Women of the Vine & Spirits’ inaugural London symposium revealed.
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Much is being written these days about consumers wanting authenticity, honesty and transparency in the products they buy, and the companies they buy them from. The news from across the drinks aisle that craft brewer Beavertown has sold an undisclosed minority stake to corporate giant Heineken for £40m raises interesting questions in this arena.
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Cash strapped wholesaling group Conviviality has announced it is in talks to begin equity fundraising in to plug a £30m tax shortfall which is due on March 29.
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Two stalwarts of the French wine industry have been elected as co-presidents of the BVIB, the Burgundy Wine Board.
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Conviviality continues to demonstrate its buying and selling power via its half-year trading update, which shows positive growth in each of its three newly configured business units.
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Anne Burchett, a well know figure in the UK wine trade and former managing director of Sopexa UK and Ireland, has launched herself back into the trade with the founding of Burchett Wine & Food Marketing.
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