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YORKSHIRE brewery Timothy Taylor, perhaps best known for its Landlord ale, has joined the Society of Independent Brewers. SIBA said the coup reflects its growing...

Brewer has stout market in sight as it adds to beer BELHAVEN has made its first foray into the stout market in the UK with...

CZECH brewery Budweiser Budvar is to make its yeast beer available to the UK on a year-round basis, following demand from consumers and stockists....

TENNENT’S made good on its pledge to put its 2012 prices up by less than inflation on Monday when it confirmed the cost of...

VALENTINE’S Day presents a great chance for bartenders to encourage consumers to trade up to higher margin drinks. So contends drinks giant Pernod Ricard, which...

HEINEKEN is to bring the sales and distribution of Desperados Tequila beer back in-house. The move signals the end of SHS Sales & Marketing’s association...

SCOTTISH beer firm Innis & Gunn has appointed David Cockburn as chief financial officer. Cockburn, who amassed 19 years’ professional services experience with PricewaterhouseCoopers and...

A STRONG performance by Magners was last week credited with helping owner C&C Group record robust sales figures. The volume of the Irish cider sold...

BEER will be 50% more expensive in Scotland than England if a minimum price of 45p a unit is introduced – a differential that could spark an increase in cross-border trading. Molson Coors UK, brewer of Carling lager, is not opposed to the principle of minimum pricing as part of a “holistic” approach to tackling alcohol misuse – but said it should be set at a level which “targets problem prices”, allows retailers to compete responsibly on price and “avoids driving problem prices underground”.

FOR many consumers a cocktail is as much a part of Valentine’s Day as a romantic card or red roses. From an operator’s perspective, however, a strong cocktail list is about more than romance – it could bring a welcome boots to trade after the traditionally quiet month of January. Roshean Cairns, bookings administrator at Glasgow bar Metropolitan, said cocktails have become “part and parcel” of Valentine’s Day.