All Beer and cider articles
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Rankings
Britain’s Biggest Alcohol Brands 2025: The top 100
Britain’s Biggest Alcohol Brands is The Grocer’s annual ranking of the biggest booze brands in the UK by value and volume.
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Analysis & Features
Britain’s Biggest Alcohol Brands 2025: Riding out the storm
A storm is forecast for Britain’s top booze brands. Input costs, duty changes, tariffs, EPR and National Insurance rises are all hiking expenses as the market declines
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Rankings
Britain’s next top booze brands?
These 10 players have notched up strong value growth that puts them on track to compete in the top 100 next year
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News
Hardys suffers £47m loss as wine brands see value decline
Shoppers bought 30.4 million fewer litres of Britain’s top 100 alcohol brands in the past 12 months
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News
Vocation Brewery to cease Israel exports ‘with immediate effect’
It comes just days after the brewery defended its right to export to the country
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Comment & Opinion
Banning alcohol advertising would hammer Britain’s beleaguered booze industry
As plans to ban alcohol advertising grow, the abstinence movement appears to have struck a body blow in its war against drinkers
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Interviews
BrewDog CEO James Taylor: ‘I don’t think BrewDog has an image problem’
With a new look and fresh faces at the helm, BrewDog is looking forward rather than back at its chequered past
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News
BrewDog posts return to EBITDA growth despite flat revenues in 2024
Adjusted EBITDA in the year ended 31 December 2024 stood at £7.5m
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News
Stowford Press cider gets ‘modern’ overhaul in bid to halt sales slide
The new design includes a call-out that Stowford Press uses locally sourced apples
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News
Vocation Brewery defends decision to ship beer to Israel following backlash
The brewer said it was continuing to monitor government advice in relation to doing business in Israel
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News
M&S backs English wine and adds new spritz serves in BWS revamp
The overhaul includes a growing focus on English wine, alongside new lower-abv spritzes and more branded craft beers
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News
Signature Brew restructures in bid to tackle pandemic debts
Like many other small breweries Signature Brew saw a drastic reduction in trade during the pandemic
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News
Alcohol packaging should carry cancer risk warning, charities say
The government is said to be considering a raft of measures to tackle alcohol-related harm
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News
Aldi faces blistering attack from lawyer over ‘lookalike’ 3D nail art
Geoff Steward, head of IP at Addleshaw Goddard, said it ‘beggars belief’ that Aldi would ‘expand lookalikes into merchandising’, just days after losing a trademark court battle with Thatchers Cider
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News
BrewDog leans into moderation movement with Baby Hazy launch
The 3% abv brew features Krush, Talus, and Citra hop varieties
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News
Aldi ‘will have to change its business model’, says Thatchers’ lawyer
‘This changes the landscape because it gives brands a piece of domestic law to hang their hat on,’ said Thomas Chartres-Moore, commenting on the Aldi trademark case
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Profiles
My food & drink job: Vic Gomm, head of off-trade, Jubel
‘It’s equally important to learn what’s not for you as much as what is’
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Comment & Opinion
Heineken’s F1 movie stars fail to deliver thrills
Despite having Brad Pitt and Damson Idris’s new F1 movie to work with, Heineken’s ad is a miss
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News
Beyond Belief Brewing Co seals Sainsbury’s listing for beer brewed with surplus pasta
Zenith Pasta IPA will roll into 400 Sainsbury’s stores nationwide next week
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News
Carlsberg rolls out first beer brewed from entirely regeneratively grown barley
Initially, the beer will only be sold in limited quantities from Carlsberg’s brewery in Copenhagen