Henry puts faith in brands, icons and the next generation
Published: 23 July, 2008
A new marketing strategy aimed at explaining the Australian offer across all price points has been unveiled by the AWBC.
Read more...Producing countries come out against EU wine reform
Published: 23 July, 2008
By Jack Hibberd and Dawn Cran
A number of Europe's largest wine-producing countries made pronouncements against the European Commission's draft proposals for the reform of the European wine sector last week, following a meeting of agriculture ministers in Brussels.
Glasses can breathe: it's official
Published: 23 July, 2008
Rhodes Twenty Four is pioneering the use of a new type of breathable glassware from Germany.
Read more...Football boss to open restaurant
Published: 23 July, 2008
Outspoken Crystal Palace chairman Simon Jordan is to open a restaurant on the site of the former Sugar Club in Warwick Street.
Read more...New wines + new look = higher sales for HBJ
Published: 23 July, 2008
Hayman Barwell Jones Wines and Spirits has revamped its Terrain label and launched a new range of nine French Vin de Pays house wines for the UK on-trade.
Read more...M1NT is undeterred by Gordon Ramsay
Published: 23 July, 2008
Club M1NT will reopen in September in new Mayfair premises following the recent, controversial repossession of its old site in a Gordon Ramsay Holdings' building in Sloane Street, London.
Read more...The comeback kid
Published: 23 July, 2008
Sherry is making a comeback! These are the words the Sherry Institute and the gang from Jerez have been trying to put on the UK street for the past decade, and still the fight goes on.
Read more...Keeping the peace
Published: 23 July, 2008
It's 10pm on a Friday night. The bar is packed and a client slurs three large vodkas' to the bartender. Serving the group will take them to dangerously high levels of alcohol, but saying no' will antagonise them, and in the mood they're in, God knows what they'll do. It's tempting to give the nearest a gentle shove and then watch them fall, domino-style, to the floor, a flaying mass of flesh and booze.
Read more...Three Barrels goes First
Published: 23 July, 2008
First Drinks Brands is bringing the number one off-trade brandy brand, Three Barrels, into its portfolio following the acquisition of Raynal & Cie by William Grant & Sons.
Read more...D&F hand over off-trade role
Published: 23 July, 2008
10 International - the recently launched wine agency formed by Bill Rolfe and Toby Hancock - has reached an agreement with Portuguese specialist D&F Wine Shippers to take over their off-trade sales and marketing activity in the UK.
AWBC launches online education initiative
Published: 23 July, 2008
The AWBC is to set up an online education programme on its website, aimed at both the trade and wine consumers.
Boom time is over
Published: 23 July, 2008
It was one of the UK's more dubious exports: a fleet of white vans whose drivers' total experience of our Gallic neighbour's country was the short drive from the ferry terminal to a pile-it-high' cash-and-carry.
Read more...Argentine showcase
Published: 23 July, 2008
Gaucho Grill's flagship venue in Piccadilly is now fully complete.
Read more...No short-term solution to Australian oversupply
Published: 23 July, 2008
The current oversupply of wine in Australia is set to continue until 2010 at the earliest, according to the latest figures.
Ramsay chef to depart Connaught
Published: 23 July, 2008
Angela Hartnett is to leave the Connaught restaurant to head up Gordon Ramsay's new venture in Miami.
Read more...Top 25 brands continue to drive the wine market
Published: 23 July, 2008
With the overall off-trade wine market stumbling - posting just 2% growth in the last 12 months - the top 25 branded wines are pulling ahead of the rest of the market, showing 12% volume growth in the last year.
Experience supper with Mondavi
Published: 23 July, 2008
Robert Mondavi is teaming up with some of the UK's best-known chefs to launch a 600,000 marketing campaign.
Read more...One-third of Oz wineries predict good growth
Published: 23 July, 2008
More than one-third of Australian wineries polled in a recent survey expect to increase their profitability by 10% or more over the next five years - with only 4% of respondents predicting a decline over the period.
Sutcliffe receives Lgion d'Honneur
Published: 23 July, 2008
Serena Sutcliffe MW, head of Sotheby's International Wine Department, has become the first member of the British wine trade to become a Chevalier dans l'Ordre National de Lgion d'Honneur.
KWV defends empowerment progress after SAWIT pull-out
Published: 23 July, 2008
KWV has denied that the South African Wine Industry Trust's (SAWIT) decision to withdraw its loan of R135 million (10.25 million) to the black empowerment group Phetogo Investments will detrimentally affect KVW's overall black economic empowerment (BEE) strategy.
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