Alcohol
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Kent brewer and pub operator Shepherd Neame has given a lukewarm response to calls to introduce minimum pricing on alcohol.
Posted: 07 April 2008 | 07:00
Pub company Marston’s has said the recent hike in beer duty has heaped further pressure on already tenants already struggling to maintain margins.
Posted: 03 April 2008 | 11:54
Enterprise Inns chief executive Ted Tuppen has attacked the Government for its “punitive and ill conceived” hike in alcohol duty.
Posted: 31 March 2008 | 14:26
East Anglian brewer and pub operator Adnams has warned of a “turbulent year for the drinks industry” and pubs in 2008.
Posted: 31 March 2008 | 12:50
Hospitality must build consensus on alcohol pricing, says leader of All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group
Posted: 27 March 2008 | 07:00
Beer guru Mark Dorber is now holding court at this 1920s pub-restaurant in the seaside village of Walberswick, Suffolk, where his expertise extends to a 90-bin wine list. Fiona Sims reports.
Posted: 27 March 2008 | 00:05
Pub industry fury over the chancellor's decision to ignore pleas from operators and lobby groups and raise alcohol duty in last week's Budget has forced a rethink on how to make their views count in future. Christopher Walton reports
Posted: 20 March 2008 | 00:05
France is planning to expand its Champagne region, in a bid to cope with a growing thirst for the exclusive tipple.
Posted: 14 March 2008 | 17:15
Shepherd Neame chief executive Jonathan Neame has defended the pub industry’s efforts to head off yesterday’s 6% hike in alcohol duty in the Budget.
Posted: 13 March 2008 | 11:00
Andrew Colley and Robin Knight have turned the Pride of the Valley into somewhere affluent local residents are happy to go. Janet Harmer reports on how the hoteliers are attracting a new market of discerning customers
Posted: 13 March 2008 | 00:05
Hospitality industry leaders have rounded on the chancellor after he announced inflation busting price hikes for alcohol in today’s Budget.
Posted: 12 March 2008 | 16:36
Tax on alcohol will rise substantially from midnight on Sunday with a 6% above inflation hike, the Chancellor has revealed in today’s Budget.
Posted: 12 March 2008 | 13:39
Trade body the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR), has insisted it is the “wrong time” to increase beer duties ahead of an assumed rise in alcohol taxes in today’s Budget.
Posted: 12 March 2008 | 11:15
According to a survey by drinks lobby the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra), 1,567 pubs closed permanently in 2007, equivalent to 57 a month.
Posted: 10 March 2008 | 11:30
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: 100 hotel guests evacuated by fire; Minnesota bars become theatres to get around smoking ban; Wetherspoon blames celebrities for making binge-drinking acceptable...
Posted: 10 March 2008 | 10:46
Proving you can’t have your American Pie and eat it, news this week that far from Cherish a new London boozer the Material Girl Madonna pretty much said Justify My Love and has denied that she has anything to do with Scottish & Newcastle’s Punch Bowl. Don’t preach; someone’s in trouble deep.
Posted: 07 March 2008 | 18:00
The Conservatives have proposed a two-tier tax on booze to tackle problem alcohol use and binge-drinking.
Posted: 07 March 2008 | 15:48
The Government is to develop a code for the responsible sale and promotion of alcohol, following the publication today of its long-awaited review of the Licensing Act 2003.
Posted: 04 March 2008 | 15:28
The Government has refused to call time on extended opening hours in England and Wales but has vowed to come down hard on those flaunting the alcohol laws, following a long-awaited review.
Posted: 04 March 2008 | 15:11
The Government’s review of licensing laws in England and Wales, which will be published later today, will call for a crackdown on problem outlets in the off-trade.
Posted: 04 March 2008 | 11:00
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