Average drinks sales by value in Britain’s managed pubs, bars, and restaurants in the seven days to Saturday 16 July were 0.4% ahead compared with the same week in 2019, the latest CGA Drinks Recovery Tracker has revealed.
This week's round-up features new products from Black Sheep Brewery and Spirit of Manchester Distillery as well as a tongue in cheek nod to outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson while Freixenet Copestick expands its wine portfolio.
Average drinks sales in managed pubs, bars, and restaurants were 1% down in the seven days to Saturday 18 June compared with the same period in 2019, according to the latest Drinks Recovery Tracker from CGA by NielsenIQ.
This weeks new products round up features Theakston's first cider offering in 30 years alongside new serves from Beavertown, Black Sheep Brewery, Spirit of Manchester Distillery and a new RTD cocktail from America ready to take the UK by storm.
Drinks company C&C Group has announced the sale of minority interest in pubco Admiral Taverns to Proprium Capital Partners for a total consideration of £55m.
Molson Coors has invested £16m into Aspall Cyder through a three-year renovation project to the cider-making facility in Suffolk and a first-ever TV advert campaign.
Sandford Orchards release a new serve for the upcoming Jubilee as well as new products from Belvoir, La Chouffe, Howler Head and Portobello Road Distillery in this weeks round up.
The Chinese new year began a couple of months ago, ushering in the Year of the Tiger, but operators of hospitality businesses will be hoping 2022 will be the ‘Year of the Pub’ as sites return to full use across the UK.
Thatchers Cider yesterday (Monday 11 April) unveiled its latest offering, Thatchers Blood Orange Cider (4% ABV), with the new product launch set to be supported by the company’s biggest multi-media campaign to date.
As we head into summer, consumers will start looking for easier drinking and more sessionable drinks to enjoy in hot beer gardens and with more drinkers than any other cider brand(1) and being the best-selling fruit cider in the UK(2), Kopparberg should...
The National Association of Cider Makers (NACM) has petitioned 10 Downing Street and urged the Government to rethink the measures proposed in the Alcohol Duty Review.
Claimed to be a first for the cider industry, Thatchers has launched its 3 in 1 font for serving fruit ciders. Also in the world of new products, Krombacher has rolled out its Pils cans to the on-trade, Black Sheep releases details on its seasonal cask...
There’s a new cider on the block and it has the lot. Made by Sharp’s Brewery, in collaboration with Aspall, Cold River Cider offers “a unique blend of bitter-sweet and culinary apples creating a crisp, balanced, refreshing cider”.
While premiumisation has taken longer to catch on in the cider category versus the likes of beer, wine and spirits, a lesser spotted symptom of Covid-19 has seen quality pours become the apple of many a pubgoer’s eye.
Fruit cider flooding the UK on-trade just after the turn of the century saw sweet serves drench both bar tops and fridges – where they remain ubiquitous. The Morning Advertiser (MA) asks ‘have we hit peak cider?’
As British Summer Time begins, The Morning Advertiser cuts to the core of the cider category before the nation’s sweet tooth and beer garden weather strike back against Covid with a vengeance.
Despite being closed for four months, facing strict curfews, tier systems and enduring a second national lockdown, drinks sales in the on-trade were strong when the sector was open.
While operators may have missed a large chunk of the summer cider love-in this year, far from serving up a rotten apple, autumn and winter could yet offer a golden opportunity for profits.
More than 30 cidermakers have united in a campaign to grow the visibility of cider among the British public and encourage punters to be adventurous within the category.
Somerset-based cidermaker Brothers has attributed a 69% year-on-year sales increase to the rollout of experimental pours including Tutti Frutti and Marshmallow variants.
As pubs prepare for a summer start to life after lockdown, MA asks what aspects of a carefully harvested fruit cider offer can give operators another bite at the cherry.
Cider-maker Thatchers has announced it will be putting £1m behind helping publicans get back to business, offering every pub in the UK a free keg of its cider.
Teetotal Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak paid critical attention to the pub trade in the release of his 2020 Budget today (11 March), as the sector braces itself for a hammering by coronavirus.
Fruit cider maker Brothers has followed up the successful release of its Rhubarb & Custard and Parma Violet variants by launching two new flavours inspired by sweet shop staples.
Hawkes Cider moved to the Bermondsey Beer Mile to follow the beer crowd, founder Simon Wright told delegates at The Morning Advertiser’s MA500 conference in London today (13 February).
What's threatening the cider category? Why is it in decline? How can the category be elevated? CGA’s senior client manager, Paul Bolton, tells all at The Morning Advertiser’s Drink Tank.
A leading cider producer is hoping to kill two birds with one stone by tackling a major supply issue while strengthening its environmental credentials.
The popularity of Parma Violet and Strawberries & Cream flavours among younger drinkers has helped Brothers Cider’s on-trade sales volume increase by 102% according to latest figures.
