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Cocktail brand Bar Buoy extends into cans with new RTD quartet
The 10% abv cans sit alongside the Devon producer’s existing ready-to-serve bottled cocktails
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Greene King to invest £40m in new brewery site
The move was ‘in line with the company’s strategic driver of optimising its assets’, it said
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Beam Suntory rebrands as Suntory Global Spirits
It comes a decade after Beam Inc’s acquisition by Suntory Holdings
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Heineken blames declining demand for cider as it culls 300-acre Bulmers orchard
The Bulmers maker said it had acted in accordance with the Wildlife Act
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Bacardí looks internally for new UK and northern Europe leadership hires
The Bombay Sapphire owner has shaken up its leadership team in Europe
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Malfy partners with Remeo to launch posh spritz-flavoured lolly
The lollies contain a serve of Malfy’s blood orange gin
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Asda trials Diageo digital spirits screens at Express stores
Currently Asda Express stores stock a spirits range of 13 or 26 products depending on size. The new system takes the range up to 50 products
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Brooklyn Brewery to lead global collaboration showcasing ‘drought resistant’ fonio grain
Brewers signed up include Carlsberg, Guinness and Thornbridge
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Cava shortage fears grow as drought prompts Freixenet to furlough staff
Yields in the Cava DO appellation have been hit by dry hot weather in recent years
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City snapshot: PZ Cussons to sell-off St Tropez to refocus group
PZ Cussons is kicking off a sale process for self-tanning brand St Tropez as part of reorganisation of the group. Plus, Reckitt Benckiser, Heineken and Nichols report Q1 numbers, Supreme issues a year-end trading update, and Haleon appoints Tate & Lyle CFO as its new CFO.
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Age verification company Innovative Technology launches in Scotland with Premier store
It works by alerting cashiers with red or green lights displayed on the screen to distinguish whether they need to request ID
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Northern Monk partners with Toast for Earth Day regenerative agriculture beer
Sixty per cent of the grain bill for the beer is regenerative agriculture malt from a single farm in Yorkshire
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Thousands of saplings in BrewDog’s ‘Lost Forest’ die
The project has to date received nearly £700,000 of public money
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Big Drop successfully challenges ‘Dry January’ trademark application by Alcohol Change UK
The ruling means brands can talk about Dry January in terms of not drinking in January without fear of reprise
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Supermarket booze prices continue to climb despite duty freeze
Some branded lines have seen price hikes of more than 40%
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Five Points Brewing celebrates successful crowdfunding round to boost beer capacity
Five Points Brewing is set to boost its brewery and taproom capacity after surpassing a six-figure crowdfunding target
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Aspall unveils apple cider in ‘sleek, stylish’ cans
The tipple has a lower abv than Aspall’s core cider
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Beam Suntory hails hydrogen-powered distillation success in government-funded trial
The trial used the energy source to directly heat the still used to produce whisky at Yamazaki distillery
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Brockmans Gin appoints spirits veteran as new managing director
Jean-Dominique Andreu is also a founding investor in UK-based brandy house Burnt Faith