Monthly Archives: November 2011

COUNTRY lifestyle magazine Scottish Field unveiled the winners of its latest Whisky Challenge earlier this month – and it proved to be a night...

SOUTH African cider brand Savanna Dry has embarked on a fresh marketing push this month ahead of the festive season. A ten-second TV ad was...

IF operators haven’t compiled their Christmas wine lists by now, they’d better get cracking. The importance of planning festive wine offers early was emphasised by...

Stirling-based VC2 Brands has hit back at the Portman Group after the watchdog’s complaints panel forced it to rename its flagship product – despite giving it a clean bill of health for several years. VC2 has rebranded its Stiffy’s vodka liqueur as Stivy’s after the panel ruled that the product’s name was in breach of Portman’s code of practice on the naming, packaging and promotion of alcoholic drinks.

The parent companies of five-star hotels in Glasgow and Edinburgh have gone into administration. SI Argyle Street Limited and SI Hotels Glasgow Investments Limited, which own and run the Radisson Blu in Glasgow’s Argyle Street under franchise, called in administrators earlier this month.

The firm behind Airth Castle and Glenbervie House hotels has bolstered its portfolio with two Perthshire properties. Aurora Hotel Collection has bought Cairn Lodge in Auchterarder from liquidator Campbell Dallas in a seven-figure deal brokered by Jones Lang LaSalle. Chief executive Steven McLeod told SLTN work is already underway on a £1 million refurbishment of Cairn Lodge, with the property to be relaunched as The Cairn – a five-star, 16-bedroom hotel, bar and restaurant, in February. Aurora, meanwhile, has taken over the management and marketing of the Kenmore Hotel at Loch Tay.

SCOTTISH beer firm Innis & Gunn is preparing to unleash a new limited edition stout that has been matured in Irish whiskey casks. Innis &...

HILLINGTON-based wholesaler JW Filshill has restructured its buying team. The changes, which managing director Simon Hannah said are part of ongoing improvements to internal systems...

It’s shaping up to be a vintage Christmas for entry-level wines, writes Guy Chatfield THE trade at Christmas fascinates me as there always seems a...

PROPERTY agent Ryden has completed two recent pub sales on behalf of pubcos Belhaven Pubs and Punch Taverns. Machan Vaults in Larkhall was sold to...