Mancs for the memories
How JW Lees got innovative and turned to a group of cool, anorak-clad dancers to help promote Manchester Pale Ale.
Archives for October 14, 2013
Free-of-tie option would boost trade, claims Federation of Small Business survey
Licensees would invest more in their pubs, employ more staff and stock a wider selection of beers if they were offered a free-of-tie deal, according to a new survey.
VK range is rebranded by Global
Global Brands has rebranded its VK range, ditching traditional RTD flavours and replacing them with mixed fruit variants.
Statutory Code: Mulholland accuses pubcos of "The Great British Pubco Scam”
Save the Pub Group chairman and MP Greg Mulholland has accused pubcos of "The Great British Pubco Scam” in an adjournment debate in the House of Commons yesterday evening.
Statutory Code: Andrew Griffiths accuses Greg Mulholland of 'pre-choreographed act not a debate'
Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group MP Andrew Griffiths has accused MP Greg Mullholland of conducting a “pre-choreographed act, not a debate” over the pubco model.
Fire Kills campaign rallies support from publicans
The Fire Kills campaign and its partners are urging the pub trade to encourage customers to test their smoke alarms when the clocks change on 27 October.
Government to offer business improvement district promoters £50,000 loans
Businesses and community groups looking to establish new Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) will be offered loans of up to £50,000, community pubs and high streets minister Brandon Lewis has announced.
Celebrating Burton’s brewing heritage
The National Brewery Heritage Trust has been set up to support the work of the National Brewery Centre and protect the historic Bass archives, making them more readily available for research and study, as Roger Protz discovers.
First appeal to be made against Asset of Community value pub
Campaigners hoping to save a Hackney pub are set to find out the outcome of an appeal against its asset of community value (ACV) status on Thursday (17 October).