The heatwave throughout most of July proved to nearly twice as successful for the UK's major grocery multiples than last year's London 2012 Olympic Games, according to the latest sales figures released by Nielsen.
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Total UK beer sales were down 4.8% in the last quarter, according to the British Beer & Pub Association's quarterly Beer Barometer, published today.
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Instil Drinks Co, the new beers and spirits business set up by Bibendum, continues to recruit senior specialilst staff to help...
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This Qubit benchmark looks at the onsite effectiveness of some of the UK's most popular alcohol retailers' websites. It uses industry best practice criteria to analyse the performance of each site against set customer user journeys.
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The government has formally announced it is to axe proposals to introduce a minimum price for a unit of alcohol in England and Wales.
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Eden Brewery, in St Andrews, Scotland, sold out off its limited edition Wimbledon beer, Grand Slam, on the day that fellow Scot, Andy Murray, won the tournament.
Read more...For the first time members of the brewing industry have united together to celebrate the very best of brewing through a campaign called Let There Be Beer.
Read more..."Equity for Punks", an innovative crowdfunding scheme launched by BrewDog, Scotland's largest independent brewery and Britain's fastest growing food and drinks brand, raised over a million pounds in its first 24 hours on June 20.
Read more...Normandy cider Duché de Longueville, which claims to contain no added yeasts, sugars or preservatives, has been launched ahead of the Sainsbury's Vintage Cider Festival.
Read more...Maverick Scottish brewer BrewDog has unveiled its latest creation - a unique style of spirit produced through ice distillation using an IPA-style beer - which it claims to be the "first original spirit style in decades".
Read more...A London pub is to up its wine offer after removing draught beer due to what it claims are rising costs.
Read more...Westons has announced it will release Rosie's Pig Cloudy Cider into the UK on-trade next month.
Read more...Japanese whisky specialist Number One Drinks Company has started importing Japanese beers.
Read more...Poor weather has been blamed for a drop in on-trade beer sales in the first quarter of 2013, as the sector hopes for a boost from the recent duty cut.
Read more...Wine and spirits tax rises will hit women drinkers the hardest, wiping out any benefit pubs might have felt from the cut in beer tax in the process, according to the Wine & Spirit Trade Association.
Read more...Kent's Hush Hush Estate has branched out into the world of cider making, with the imminent release of a range of still and sparkling ciders under the Jake's Orchard label.
Read more...Canadian ice cider producers, restricted by the state monopoly in Quebec, were out in force at last week's ProWein looking to build their presence in European markets.
Read more...Trade reaction continues to come in following reports that the government is on the verge of throwing out recommendations for a minimum price for alcohol. Here's our news blog on the issue:
Wine and cider are to go head-to-head in a food and drink matching competition to be held at foodie pub, The Thatchers Arms, near Colchester in association with DrinkBritain.com.
Read more...Bibendum's spirits and beer division has strengthened its brand offering with three new partnerships for 2013.
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