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Crerar Hotels’ Chris Wayne-Wills declared ‘most influential’ CEO

Chris has worked with some of the UK’s leading hoteliers, including Marriott International, Macdonald Hotels and QHotels, beginning his career as a sales manager before progressing to the senior position at Crerar.

Assaggini opens in Edinburgh’s Rose St

Promising a focus on ‘fresh and flavourful’ small plates, the restaurant is styled using upcycled furnishings, offering a casual yet contemporary dining experience across two floors for over 160 guests.

Local pubs remain the ‘bedrock’ of UK communities

In its new report ‘Serving King and Country: The Great British Pub at the heart of communities’ Green King argues that as pubs still play such an important role in UK society, more should be done to protect them.

A new look for Tayport after five years in the spirits industry

The rebrand amounts to a new direction for Tayport Distillery, focussing on growing awareness of its connection with the local community and the authentic products it makes using fruit and grain from surrounding farms.

King William fortified wine falls foul of industry watchdog

Upholding a complaint by a member of the public, the Panel concluded that the use of King William of Orange on the labelling, in tandem with no less than five mentions of its 16.90% ABV, was ‘playing to sectarian elements'

Cru Holdings launches new ‘catering hire’ service for Highland events

Day-to-day operations will be overseen by Cru Holdings current operations director, Kenneth Loades, who will be step down from his Head Office position to focus solely on this new project

Glasgow’s Bluedog celebrates 20th birthday with charity partnership

The bar and the charity have joined forces to raise money for homeless services across Scotland and beyond, and to provide opportunities for new talent with Bluedog offering up its stage to local artists. 

Industry heavyweights back ‘Modern Face Of Whisky’ photo resource

A coalition of eleven whisky industry heavyweights has just launched a new library of stock images, free to use for the media and content creators, depicting women and people of all genders, races and ages enjoying a variety of unbranded whisky serves.

Leith’s Lind & Lime Gin achieves organic certification

After five years of using only organic materials in all aspects of its production, Leith-based Lind & Lime Gin has been formally awarded organic certification by the industry standard-setting Scottish Organic Producers Association.
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Pubs will no longer be ‘return points’ under DRS

Premises that sell alcohol for consumption off the premises will no longer be expected to operate as ‘return points’ under changes to the Deposit Return Scheme.

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