Bidfood puts fresh focus on Scots produce
The firm's website has launched a new section featuring around 700 products from 100 Scottish suppliers.
Top Brands 2023: Getting in the spirit
It wasn’t that long ago that gin seemed on track to overtake vodka as the biggest spirit in the Scottish on-trade – but gin itself has now been overtaken.
Festive season is time to trade up on beer and cider
It's usually safe to assume that an influx of customers over the festive season will bring an increase in demand for pints and bottles as people socialise with colleagues, friends and family.Â
Awards celebrate independent brewers across Scotland
Broughton Brewery in the Scottish Borders and Swannay Brewery on Orkney were the two big winners at the recent SIBA Scotland Independent Beer Awards.Â
Top Brands 2023 – Scots are still thirsty for a pub pint
With a combined value of more than £880 million, beer – encompassing lager, ale and stout – is the single biggest drinks category in Scotland’s bars and pubs.Â
Rod Stewart rock and rolls out the barrel…
When 1970s rock icon Rod Stewart first met whisky industry veteran Duncan Frew at a Celtic game, they hit it off right away and went on to drink ‘a lot of whisky and a lot of cocktails’.
Lower alcohol, lower calorie Genius beer launched on draught
The launch was scheduled to coincide with this year’s Rugby World Cup, with 5p from every beer sold going to the My Name'5 Doddie Foundation, founded by rugby legend Doddie Weir.Â
Planning permission secured for two new Campbeltown distilleries
It’s been some time since a new distillery was opened in Campbeltown. Although the area once hosted scores of distilleries, there are currently only three in operation.Â
Scotland’s Top Brands 2023 – Tennent’s is still king of the castle
Figures provided by CGA show drinks sales through Scotland’s bars, pubs and restaurants have grown by over £200 million in the course of the past year – to £2.2 billion.Â
Spirits company strengthens its globe-trotting credentials
Acquisitions mark the 'start of a new era' for International Beverage, and a strategy that will see it adding high quality brands across a range of categories
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