Schweppes offers licensed venues a £20,000 summer social giveaway 

The competition closes on Sunday 30th July, and then 20 randomly selected venues will win £1000 in cash to put towards the costs of a Summer Social event.

Scottish National Whisky festival unveils its 2023/24 tour schedule

Created to celebrate the historical relationship between whisky and Scottish music, this year’s festival series – which began in Inverness – will proceed to Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow over the next six months.
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Messaoud becomes restaurant manager at KORA by Tom Kitchin

David takes the helm of the 65-cover Bruntsfield operation one year after it first opened its doors, joining from Michelin-starred sister restaurant, The Kitchin in Leith.

No more night buses for Glasgow as under-used services scrapped

Citing low passenger uptake and operating losses, First Glasgow has announced that the 11 routes it has been operating in the early hours of Saturday and Sunday mornings will cease to run as of 31st July.

Popping in for a pint and a PhD at The Napier Graduate

One of Edinburgh’s oldest pubs, Shakespeare’s on Lothian Road, temporarily rebranded this week as ‘The Napier Graduate’ in honour of the university’s class of ’23.

New TV ad for Coors’ multi-million-pound ‘Keeps it Fresh’ campaign

Molson Coors continues to be one of the top ten lagers in GB. The campaign plays upon the beer’s Rocky Mountains heritage – with the key message being ‘we do things differently on the mountain’.

Eden Mill’s new distillery and visitor centre works towards 2024 opening

The project to create a ‘new Scottish landmark’ has begun the second phase of construction, which will finish in 2024 with the distillery becoming fully operational, alongside a new gin and whisky visitor experience.

Time running out to enter Jägermeister’s Meister Hunter

Bartenders only have a few days left to enter this year’s Jägermeister Meister Hunter cocktail competition.

It’s happy hour again as Paul Heaton rolls into town for TRNSMT

Publican popstar Paul Heaton is playing in Glasgow tonight, and has once again supported the on-trade by putting money behind a number of local bars so fans in the know can go in and have a drink on him.

Net Zero Now and Coca-Cola call on operators to cut their carbon emissions

The UK hospitality sector produces around eight million tonnes of CO2 annually, which makes action an immediate priority. We are already overshooting the 2050 target of keeping warming below 1.5c.

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