Competition report is divorced from reality
08-Nov-2007
London Road in St Albans, Hertfordshire, leads travellers from the south to the heart of the city, with its magnificent Norman cathedral, and a Roman...
Supermarkets in clear on drink sales
08-Nov-2007
The Competition Commis-sion has cleared supermarkets of any wrongdoing in selling alcohol below cost. The result comes as little surprise as it had...
'Woman suing bar after being set on fire by sambuca'
21-Sep-2007 By James Wilmore
A legal executive is suing a bar after she was set on fire by a tower of sambuca shots. Vanessa Yoward claims flames swept towards her and her...
Supermarkets accused of dairy price fixing
20-Sep-2007
Leading supermarkets have been accused of working together to keep the price of dairy products artificially high. The Office of Fair Trading (OFT)...
Low booze prices: trade battles on
13-Sep-2007 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
Price war fears intensify in wake of inquiry giving supermarket alcohol deals the all clear Trade leaders have warned that the battle against...
MyShout
21-Jun-2007
The necessity for a rational alcohol policy is finally getting through to ministers, says John Grogan Most ministers have cleared their diaries for...
Supermarkets fail to defend themselves over loss-leading alcohol
19-Apr-2007
The Big four supermarkets failed to defend themselves against accusations of loss-leading with alcohol when grilled by top-level MPs at the House of...
18-Apr-2007 By John Harrington
Supermarkets rule out increasing alcohol prices and say they are not to blame for town centre binge drinking
Grogan: justify cheap booze
05-Apr-2007
John Grogan MP has invited the bosses of the four major supermarkets and retailer Bargain Booze to explain their alcohol pricing policy. Grogan,...
30-Mar-2007 By Iain O'Neil
ASDA, Tesco, Morrison's and Sainsbury's expected to attend
FLVA calls for ban on supermarket newspaper ads
22-Mar-2007
A trade association is calling on the government to ban supermarket alcohol advertising in newspapers.The Federation of Licensed Victuallers'...
Waiting for Tesco
20-Mar-2007
It has been really gratifying to see responses from three of the four big supermarket chains come into The Publican offices on the back of our Dump...
Don't blame us: Asda responds to Dump the Deals
10-Mar-2007
IT WAS way back in October that we first put the calls out to the big four supermarkets - Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons. We, like The...
Asda chief responds to The Publican
08-Mar-2007
Another of the most senior supermarket figures in the UK has responded personally to the accusations made by The Publican's Dump the Deals campaign.A...
135 MPs sign up against supermarket pricing
26-Feb-2007
The campaign against supermarket pricing is gaining momentum with 135 MPs now signed up to Early Day Motion (EDM) 495. MP John Grogan tabled an EDM,...
MP urges talks on cheap booze deals
22-Feb-2007
MP John Grogan has invited the bosses of the big four supermarkets to discuss the issue of cheap drinks deals. So far, 84 MPs have signed Grogan's...
InBrief
15-Feb-2007
TV cheat caught with wrong card A London licensee has been ordered to do 100 hours of community service work and pay costs of £768.68 after he was...
Supermarket alcohol pricing to be investigated
25-Jan-2007
Licensees finally have their chance to make a stand against alcohol pricing in supermarkets. The Competition Commission (CC) has stunned the...
Ten supermarket chains guilty of booze loss-leading
23-Jan-2007
The Competition Commission has accused ten supermarkets of using alcohol as a loss leader.The Commission has produced an interim report in its...
Supermarkets defend deals
18-Jan-2007
Supermarkets have stood by their cheap alcohol deals - saying price on the shelf has no impact on binge drinking. The MA asked Britain's four biggest...
18-Jan-2007
Supermarkets say price on the shelf has no impact on binge drinking.
05-Jan-2007
John Grogan urges Health Secretary to act
Grocery booze prices slashed
30-Nov-2006
Beer prices in supermarkets have hit a new low a whole month before Christmas, according to a survey by Morning Advertiser sister magazine The...
MyShout - John Grogan
02-Nov-2006
The critical issue of off-trade pricing is galvanising the entire industry, says John Grogan For the first time in a generation, the supermarkets are...
Grogan: let's fight supermarket prices
02-Nov-2006 By Tony Halstead tony.halstead@william-reed.co.uk
All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group chairman John Grogan has called on more brewers and pub companies to join the fight against rock-bottom...
02-Nov-2006 By Tony Halstead
All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group chairman calls on brewers and pub companies to join the fight against rock-bottom supermarket beer prices.
Legal advice: Should youth pay rates be challenged?
19-Oct-2006
On October 4 Asda announced plans to pay under-18s the same hourly rate as older workers. Although the move was not directly in response to age...
City Comment: Hamish Champ
14-Aug-2006 By Hamish Champ
Recently the brewer had written to the Competition Commission - currently investigating the trading practices of the supermarket giants - to suggest...
What the Sunday papers said
13-Nov-2005
Property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz and City money woman Robin Saunders are locked in a battle to buy Spirit Group, the managed pub business valued at...
Round-the-clock supermarket sales will fuel problem drinking
27-Jul-2005
Supermarkets selling cheap booze for 24 hours a day could fuel an increase in problem drinking, lobby group Alcohol Concern has warned.With many pub...
Trade anger at 45p supermarket pint
21-Jul-2005
Trade leaders fear that the latest round of price cuts by supermarkets may fuel a rise in summer street drinking, resulting in behavioural problems...
ASDA responds to licensees' accusations
07-Jun-2005
ASDA has defended itself against accusations from licensees that it encourages binge drinking through cut-price promotions.Reacting to a story on...
Price war is on as supermarkets continue to slash prices
07-Apr-2005
The first shots in a new supermarket price war have been fired this week, with alcohol set to become a key weapon in the battle for market share.Both...
Supermarkets to sell alcohol around the clock
17-Mar-2005
Major supermarket chains could soon be selling alcohol around the clock - despite the fact that most pubs will stay open just one or two hours...
Pubs face supermarket onslaught for Euro 2004
24-May-2004
Pubs can expect a massive challenge for beer sales in the run-up to the Euro 2004 tournament next month, as supermarkets compete for...
