All Alcoholic drinks articles – Page 236
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Halewood launches Iron Press as a ‘soft drink for real men’
Halewood International is breaking into the "female-focused" adult soft drink market with a blokey beer-style brew called Iron Press.Made with a barley and malt base, Iron Press (rsp: £2 per 500ml bottle) comprises apple and lime...
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Lanson introduces first Champagne to dine for
Champagne lovers will soon be able to quaff the only Champagne range tailor-made to accompany food here as well as in France.This summer, Lanson is introducing the five-strong Besserat de Bellefon Cuvée des Moines range, which has been...
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Fresh & Easy’s local sourcing boosted by new California hub
Tesco is to open a new sourcing hub in California to buy local wines and foods for its worldwide operations.
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Montana is rebranded in bid to leverage New Zealand heritage
Pernod Ricard's New Zealand wine business Montana is being renamed Brancott Estate three months after the brand's inaugural TV campaign sparked a sales revival.From October, the name of the Sauvignon Blanc specialist brand will change on...
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Tesco and Bacardi link for branded ice cubes
Tesco, Bacardi and the UK's biggest ice cube supplier claim to have brought the first bag of booze-branded ice cubes to the market - just seven weeks after the idea was mooted.
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The Human Angle: Amanda Booth
Our vision is to be the most admired beer company in the UK. Each of our employees has a role to play in achieving our vision: to change the way people think about beer.
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NewsAcid Test: Wolf Blass Sparkling Rosé
"In a season of parks, picnics and maybe even an afternoon game of tennis, this is a lovely pink bubbly to sip in the sunshine."
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NewsHeineken waves goodbye to loss-making Waverley
Heineken has sold loss-making drinks subsidiary Waverley TBS to private equity firm Manfield Partners for an undisclosed sum.
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NewsMontana becomes Brancott in brand revamp
Pernod Ricard is relaunching its New Zealand wine brand Montana as Brancott Estate and has secured a deal for the wine to be an official sponsor of the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
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Touchscreen technology hits wine aisles in Asda
Asda is introducing in-store touchscreen wine selectors to help demystify the category for shoppers.The retailer said the freestanding units would be trialled in the wine aisles of its Sheffield and Harrogate stores this week, with a...
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NewsDutch beer embroiled in World Cup ticket fiasco
Dutch beer brand Bavaria has been caught up in a row over the ‘ambush marketing’ stunt that resulted in the sacking of an ITV World Cup pundit.
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Why promotions are a lose-lose
Observing myself as a consumer, there are certain products that I now only ever buy on discount. I basically wait for the next promotion round and I almost never pay full price. Or if it's something like wine or beer, where I have...
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Carling’s sales slump is ‘a price worth paying’
Molson Coors has defended a sharp sales decline on Carling as a "price worth paying" for refusing to pursue low or no margin volume on its brands, The Grocer can reveal. In the past year, Carling has slipped from being the UK's...
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NewsAcid Test: England’s Pride
The timing of delivery was impeccable. With hot weather and England versus Mexico on the TV, it was just the ticket.
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AB InBev merger fuels good times for brands
The merger of Anheuser-Busch and InBev has helped deliver two of the biggest successes in the alcohol category, with Budweiser and Stella Artois 4% reporting massive sales growth over the past year, according to The Grocer's Britain's 100 Biggest...
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Hundreds of Threshers returned to landlords
As many as 1,000 former Threshers stores could be returned to landlords without a new tenant.KPMG, the administrator of First Quench Retailing, said it only expects to sell about 400 of the 1,400 Threshers, Wine Rack, The Local and...
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Focus On Scotland: Four to watch
BrewDog launched its 32% abv Tactical Nuclear Penguin in November. The unusual name comes from the fact that the beer is stored in an ice cream factory for 21 days at 'penguin temperatures'.
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Focus On Scotland: Scotch gains more global fans
Scotch whisky contributes £99 to the UK trade balance every second, and saw a 3% hike by value in 2009 boosting its overall worth to £3.13bn, according to recently released figures from the Scotch Whisky Association.
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Booths drinks to Cup with regional cases
Booths' online wine arm has kicked off its World Cup celebrations with the launch of limited-edition cases of wine.The six-bottle cases (rsp: £59.99) feature wines from three different areas of the world the Americas, Europe and a Rest...
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Tesco delivers £8.8m duty blow on promos
Tesco has called on brewers to foot the bill for the cost of all duty hikes for beers on promotion in the 16 weeks following the government's 22 June emergency budget.