Bringing out the Best in beer
THERE are two ways to react to the arrival of new competition: you can close your eyes, carry on as normal and hope it...
Make a game of it this summer
AS I write, the Olympic torch is slowly making its way around the UK – a journey that will see it come within ten...
Double trouble for the trade?
SO it’s official: the UK economy has slipped into the much-dreaded double-dip recession for the first time since 1975.
According to the Office for National...
Club tension rises again
THE age-old antipathy between the mainstream trade and members clubs has reared its head again, this time in Moray. Not that the issue is...
Deal or no deal?
IT’S difficult to avoid being offered a ‘deal’ these days. Whether doing the weekly shop or checking your emails, we’re almost constantly bombarded with...
Tax hopes set to be dashed?
TIM Martin, the ebullient boss of pub giant JD Wetherspoon, never disappoints a trade journalist in need of a quote.
Martin was in typically outspoken...
Bring escalator down to earth
IT’S been a pleasure to document the steady growth of the craft beer scene in Scotland and across the UK in recent years.
In this...
Old Firm is good for pub business
THE glee many Celtic fans will be feeling at Rangers’ sorry demise is expected and entirely justifiable.
After all, seeing your fiercest enemy in the...
Sky showing its cuddly side?
PERHAPS it was deliberately timed for the end of the pantomime season.
Sky, for so long a thorn in the side of the trade, made...
Go for business gold in 2012
THE comically-named ‘Hurricane Bawbag’ aside, pubs, restaurants and hotels did not have to contend with the kind of adverse weather at Christmas and New...
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Luke Richardson
William Woodburn
