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Monthly Archives: October 2011

Scotch firm raises the Standard

RUSSIAN Standard is to be distributed by Scotch whisky firm Whyte & Mackay, it was announced last week. The deal will see Whyte & Mackay...

Does the cup have your name on it?

CARLING set out on the road to Hampden last week when it kicked off a tour that will see brewer Molson Coors take the...

Students are the toast of 49 Club

THE 49 Wine & Spirit Club has helped more trade staff to achieve wine education and licensing qualifications. The club presented two of its latest...

Vanilla joins Smirnoff flavours

VODKA giant Smirnoff has expanded its flavoured range with the launch of a new vanilla variant in the on and off-trades. Joining the existing Green...

Leaseholds faring better, survey finds

LEASEHOLD pub values are holding up better than their freehold counterparts, a new survey has claimed. In a poll of members of the Association of...

Ale aims to give power to the people

Standards were high this summer as McEwan's and SLTN again travelled across Scotland to find the country's best community pub JUDGING the SLTN-McEwan’s Community Pub...

Opportunities knock for lessees

Operators who move with the times will prosper, pubcos say OPPORTUNITIES in the leased pub market have scarcely been greater. The positive assessment came from both...

Buy into some Dalkeith luck

Scope to profit from food at revamped Horseshoe Bar PROPERTY agent Bruce & Co is marketing a recently-refurbished Dalkeith bar on leasehold and freehold basis. Located...

Drinkers still seeing red in the on-trade

Spirit remains biggest-selling in Scotland – and one brand still dominates DESPITE the rising popularity of rum and whisky’s apparent return to form, vodka remains...

Goalposts to shift again on alcohol

IT was supposed to be a root and branch reform, making licensing law fit for the 21st century. Yet, the Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005, in...

Columns

Jack Cummins
LEGAL by Jack Cummins
FINANCIAL Wylie & Bisset
Neil Morrison
ASK THE OPERATOR Neil Morrison
THE GRAPEVINE
Luke Richardson
MEET THE MAKER
William Woodburn
MIXED UP WORLD Ewan Angus