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Coca-Cola Enterprises [CCE] has partnered with e-learning specialists CPL Online to introduce a new animated online training programme to help licensees deliver the perfect soft drinks serve and boost sales.
Diageo has launched a new £4.5m brand campaign for its Smirnoff vodka brand focusing on celebrating ‘inclusive communities’.
Awards
A Warwickshire pub has triumphed in an annual awards ceremony run by Hook Norton Brewery.
General election 2015
The 2015 general election has proved successful for pub loving MPs, with Andrew Griffiths, Greg Mulholland, Kris Hopkins and Toby Perkins all keeping their seats.
Toby Refoy, who cooked for the PM when he was a private chef in Oxfordshire, has been appointed head chef at the Bear Inn, in Bisley.
New Product
Ocean Crown has introduced a premium marinated and flavoured herring range.
For the second year running, Pernod Ricard is launching a push for National Piña Colada Day (on 10 July) with its Malibu rum brand.
London had hop shoots delivered to their doors free of charge on Friday 8 May, as part of a new initiative spearheaded by the London Brewers’ Alliance.
My Pub
Celebrity chef brothers Chris and James Tanner opened their first gastropub, the Kentish Hare last year. Chris Tanner tells Daniel Woolfson about the business
Trend watch
Jerk chicken may be the public face of Caribbean food, but dig past it and you’ll find a diverse cooking style steeped in tradition… and smothered in spice.
Menu focus
Despite strong competition from a seemingly relentless horde of newly opened coffee outlets, licensees are in the ideal position to take advantage of growth in the category. Daniel Woolfson looks at ways licensees can capitalise over the coming summer.
Brand news
Bulmers is brightening up 50 pub gardens across the UK as part of its ‘Live Colourful’ campaign.
Hackney residents are celebrating the news that the Chesham Arms will reopen this summer as an ‘old fashioned East End boozer.’