All Alcoholic drinks articles – Page 259
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Campaign Trail: Mr Jack in his birthday suit
Jack Daniel's is celebrating its birthday with a limited-edition all-black bottle and a concert bringing 'Tennessee to Town'. Mr Jack's 160th Birthday bottles (rsp: £24.99) hit retailers and wholesalers next month.
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Aussie upstart stirs UK spirits with new range
An Australian drinks group is hoping to shake up British spirits fixtures after storming the market Down Under with its "funky", award-winning line-up.Aussie Spirits is talking to two multiples over listings for Kinkylux White Rum (rsp:...
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NewsAcid Test: Symonds Founder’s Reserve
"The labelling is distinctive and promises "a fresh, crisp, fruity cider, with a high degree of complexity and depth of character". In my view it's an understated flavour with a pleasant aftertaste."
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Malibu tunes in to Boom TV on 4Music
Pernod Ricard says its Malibu-branded 'pop up' TV show could spearhead a new form of advertising.'Malibu presents Boom TV' debuted on 4Music and KISSTV last week. It will run for 12 weeks and aims to showcase the brand's Caribbean...
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Molson Coors: Grolsch can survive hit to sales
Molson Coors says it is prepared to take "the short-term hits" on its struggling Grolsch brand and that it will continue to eschew promotions in an attempt to boost long-term sales. Although sales of the 400-year old Dutch beer have...
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Dafereras takes over as Makro booze buyer
Tassos Dafereras has taken over the role of head of buying for ambient and beers, wines & spirits at Makro Cash & Carry UK. Dafereras is one of the wholesaler's international heads of buying, based in the UK. He replaces Nick...
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Brains Black gets listed in Welsh Tescos
Tesco has granted listings to Brains Black throughout its Welsh stores, following the stout's success as a challenger to Guinness in the on-trade. The Welsh brewery launched Brains Black into pubs in March as an alternative to the market...
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The Human Angle: Graham Archibald
I have the luxury of working with something I love beer and wine and also have the advantage of a very supportive head office team which makes my very high workload more manageable than you'd expect.
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Price of barley adds to woes of indie brewers
Independent breweries are warning they may have to put up prices by up to 15% as they are more exposed to soaring barley prices than the big breweries.Beer prices are expected to rise across the board next year as a result of a 50% rise...
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Rolfe opens his own food and wine shop
Bill Rolfe, the former Unwins marketing director and co-founder of wine agency 10 International, is opening a new-format food and wine store with "old-fashioned" service.The Market Square opens in East Grinstead next week and will stock...
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Molson and c-stores club in for cold beer
Molson Coors is launching a convenience store loyalty scheme called My Cold Beer Club to help smaller stores compete with the mults. The Carling brewer is investing £2m in the initiative, which will reward retailers actively promoting...
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NewsAcid Test: Frank’s Alcoholic Ginger Beer
"When I think of ginger beer, it usually summons up mixed emotions involving summertime, limited pocket money and Enid Blyton."
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Harvest to reap reward of ‘best beer’ accolade
Being crowned the 'Best Beer in Britain' will more than double sales of Castle Rock's Harvest Pale ale over the next year, the brewer's chairman has predicted. The 3.8% abv pale ale was awarded the Great British Beer Festival's highest...
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NewsMilk is the new beer as price war erupts
Asda kicked off a milk price war last weekend after pledging not to sell alcohol below cost and "to invest in core grocery essentials like milk instead".
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NewsTales of Titania: A top tipple for under-fives
Things were getting desperate. P&F had been reduced to punting the "world's strongest beer" to the parenting press as a convenient party drink for the under-fives. But still no outrage. We needed Alcohol Concern and the Daily Mail to unite in...
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Focus On Organic: Purity is quite a turn-on
"It's the whole purity and provenance message," says Rupert Thomas, marketing director of Waitrose, explaining why sales of organic beers and spirits are up 28% year-on-year at Waitrose and 32% since April.
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Mars hires Pickering as petcare sales boss
Whiskas owner Mars Petcare has appointed John Pickering as its new sales director, following the departure of Martin Porter to Heineken UK.
Pickering was previously sales director for Radox and Douwe Egberts owner Sara Lee in the UK and… -
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Whyte & Mackay in hi-tech barcode first
Whyte & Mackay claims to be the first drinks brand to introduce 2D hi-tech barcodes to drinks, with a new digital marketing strategy for its Glayva brand. The 2D barcodes will be added to Glayva PoS material in retailers later this...
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Asda says pre-mixes set for massive sales burst
Asda predicts an explosion in sales of pre-mixed drinks within the next five years, and that every big spirit brand will introduce a version. The retailer backed Mintel's forecast that pre-mixed category sales would grow more than...
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NewsDogs, stoats and a royal coat of arms
Last week BrewDog stole the headlines with genre-bending 55% abv beer End of the World, the apocalyptic sequel to last year's 32% Tactical Nuclear Penguin. (We'd ask what they've been drinking to come up with names like those, but there probably...