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INNIS & Gunn, the Scottish beer firm, has expanded its team with three new appointments. Rachel Sutherland has joined the Edinburgh-based company as quality...

DEUCHARS IPA has added X Factor winner James Arthur and Pussycat Doll Nicole Sherzinger to its fanbase after the two were pictured pulling and...

Role played by small retailers must be recognised, Cunning insists CENTRAL government and licensing boards should support independent off-trade retailers to help them trade responsibly...

THE importance of tourism to Scotland’s economy will be highlighted at a series of events in March. Scottish Tourism Week, which takes place from March...

G1 Group, the Glasgow based bar, restaurant and nightclub operator, has secured gold Investors In People (IIP) status for the second time. The firm, which...

Govanhill retailers back scheme designed to cut underage drinking OFF-TRADE retailers on the south side of Glasgow have signed up to a new scheme designed...

Jon Beach, four-time winner of the SLTN Whisky Bar of the Year award, urges distillers to do more to support the on-trade. THE whisky industry...

Scottish consumers buying wine more frequently since laws came in THE Scottish Government’s ban on multi-buy deals has encouraged more people to buy wine, according...

PUBS in Edinburgh may soon be entitled to start serving alcohol on Sunday mornings as the city’s new licensing board continues to put its stamp on local licensing policy. Eric Milligan, the Labour councillor who became board convener after the local elections in May, signalled his support for extended Sunday trading in a speech to a conference hosted by legal journal Scottish Licensing Law and Practice.

THE Scottish Government has been slammed by the business community for delaying the next revaluation of business rates by two years. The next revaluation was due to take place in 2015 but will now take place in 2017 as ministers consult on plans to review the business rates regime. One lobby group criticised the move saying firms, including pubs, restaurants and hotels, will have to pay rates based on pre-recession property values for two more years.