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Drinks Trends 2015: Beer cocktails, craft sodas and automated coffee

15-Jan-2015 By James Wallin

Bars specialising in beer cocktails and the rise of ‘craft sodas’ are among the drinks trends for 2015 being predicted by Mike Palmer, founder of the consultancy lostincatering.com.

Brian O'Driscoll to promote Coca-Cola's Rugby World Cup 2015 tie-up

17-Dec-2014 By Robyn Black

Irish rugby hero Brian O’Driscoll is to front a new campaign for Coca-Cola as part of its deal to sponsor next year’s Rugby World Cup.

Coca-Cola's Designated Driver Campaign is back - and bigger than ever

04-Dec-2014 By Robyn Black

Some 12,500 licensees will be participating in Coca-Cola Enterprises’ (CCE) Designated Driver scheme this year – an increase of over 50% on 2013.

Video: The Holidays Are Coming...to a town near you

13-Nov-2014 By Robyn Black

The Coca-Cola Truck Tour is set to bring some Christmas cheer to cities and towns around the UK again this festive season.

Share A Coke launches in pubs

31-Jul-2014 By Robyn Black

Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) is bringing its successful “Share a Coke” campaign back to pubs and bars this summer.

Cabana and Ben Shaws post-mix brands ditched, as part of Nichols restructure

08-May-2014 By Robyn Black

Soft drinks firm Nichols is ditching its post-mix brands, Cabana and Ben Shaws, as part of a major restructure of the business.

Britvic launches new dispense solutions into on-trade

28-Apr-2014 By Rob Willock

Britvic is launching a range of new carbonate draught dispense solutions into the on-trade to help pubs deliver “the perfect serve every time”.

Mother's Day campaign for Appletiser

17-Mar-2014 By Robyn Black

Mums are in for a treat this Mother’s Day (30 March) with a new on-trade promotion from Appletiser.

Coke Zero the Hero

28-Jan-2014 By Robyn Black

Coke Zero takes an “edgier” direction to attract a new generation of drinkers

The Big Interview: Alan Clark, Monster Energy

09-Dec-2013 By Robyn Black

Alan Clark tells Robyn Black he has set his sights on Monster becoming the number-one energy-drinks brand in the UK after admitting that even he has been surprised by its remarkable growth.  

8,000 pubs sign up to Coke's Designated Driver campaign

04-Dec-2013 By Robyn Black

Over 8,000 pubs are set to take part in this year’s Coca-Cola Designated Driver campaign.

New Christmas campaign for Coca-Cola

14-Nov-2013 By Robyn Black

Alongside the John Lewis Christmas campaign, Coca-Cola’s Santa’s truck ad is always a sure sign that the “holidays are coming.”

Coca-Cola brings 'Share a Coke' to pubs

03-Jul-2013 By Robyn Black

The hugely successful Share a Coke campaign that has been running in the off-trade, in which the Coca-Cola logo is replaced with people’s names, is moving into the on-trade this week.

Coca Cola Enterprises reveals £2.1bn growth opportunity for soft drinks

25-Jun-2013 By Jessica Mason

Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd (CCE) has revealed an opportunity to grow the soft drinks category by a further £2.1bn over the next five years, according to a recent study.

Here's hoping the Government's pub industry intervention is well-considered

08-May-2013 By Rob Willock

Campaigners for a compulsory free-of-tie, market-rent option for pubco leases have organised themselves impressively and credibly under the banner Fair Deal for Your Local.

Expensive soft drinks fall but category boosted by carbonates, juice drinks and energy drinks, according to Britvic

03-Apr-2013 By Robyn Black

Cash-strapped consumers are rejecting mineral water, fruit juices and bottles of cola in pubs and clubs, according to the annual Britvic Soft Drinks Review out yesterday evening.

Coca Cola GB launches range of initiatives to fight obesity

06-Mar-2013 By Michelle Perrett

Coca-Cola Great Britain has announced plans to be part of the solution to tackle the global problem of obesity.

Coca-Cola Enterprises teams up with CPL Training to run two online training courses

18-Jan-2013 By Ellie Bothwell

Coca-Cola Enterprises has teamed up with CPL Training to run two online training courses.

Ooberstock secures £600,000 in second round of funding

16-Jan-2013 By John Harrington

Ooberstock, the drinks distributor, has secured £600,000 in a second round of fundraising to take the business “to the next level of growth”.

Coca-Cola launches its Christmas Designated Driver campaign

06-Dec-2012 By Mike Berry

Coca-Cola has launched its annual Christmas campaign which offers free soft drinks to designated drivers.

Britvic's Fruit Shoot makes comeback in pubs

03-Sep-2012 By Noli Dinkovski

Britvic has made available its Fruit Shoot kids soft drink range again after three variants were taken out of the market in July following a packaging safety concern.

Flood-damaged Yorkshire pub offers shares to investors as it looks to buy freehold from Punch

16-Aug-2012 By Adam Pescod

A Yorkshire licensee whose pub was devastated by the floods which hit the region last month is hopeful of raising over £200,000 to secure its freehold from landlords Punch Taverns.

Coca-Cola Enterprises relaunches website for licensees

03-Aug-2012 By Michelle Perrett

Coca-Cola Enterprises’ (CCE) website www.cokepubandbar.co.uk has undergone a major makeover - making it easier for licensees to get up to date advice and training to maximise soft drinks sales.

The Big Interview: Colm O'Dwyer, Coca-Cola Enterprises

02-Jul-2012

An industry made up of lots of independent retailers tied in to buying their main products from big companies, and many of them struggling to cope with change and going out of business. It’s surprising that parallels are not drawn more often between petrol...

Schweppes, Pimm's and Gordon's join forces in £3.5 million summer drinks campaign

19-Apr-2012 By Matthew Moggridge

Diageo GB and Coca Cola Enterprises (CCE) have joined forces in a £3.5 million campaign to help the on-trade maximise sales opportunities and tap into consumers’ sense of patriotism around national events this summer.

Embrace a summer of sales opportunities at your pub

17-Apr-2012 By Colm O'Dwyer

I’ll never forget an incident 10 years ago in our local pub when my family were made to feel bad simply because we ordered food and soft drinks and we had kids with us. Now, under new management, the pub has been completely transformed.

On-trade soft drink sales fall by 1%

19-Mar-2012 By John Harrington, M&C Report

Sales of soft drinks in the on-trade fell 1% by value last year, while the decline in volumes accelerated to 4%, according to the Britvic Soft Drinks Report.

Pedrick heads new wholesale venture

14-Mar-2012 By John Harrington. M&C Report

Colin Pedrick, former managing director of Enterprise Inns and UK and Ireland president of AB InBev, is among a group of pub and drinks industry veterans to launch a new wholesale business.

Pub Mentors: Softs put fizz into business

22-Feb-2012

Executing ‘brilliant basics’ on soft drinks and using targeted promotional activity to drive new footfall were the two key areas that lessees Duncan and Natalie Entwistle and I talked about on my first visit to their pub, the Greets Inn in Warnham, West...

Pub Mentors: Surge in soft drink sales

15-Feb-2012

Martin Sampson, out-of-home shopper marketing controller at Coca-Cola Enterprises, keeps tabs on his protégés.

Pub Mentors: The Elephant makes its mark

14-Feb-2012 By Phil Davison

On a return visit to the Elephant in Bristol, trade consultant Alastair Scott, who runs Catton Hospitality, discovers that licensees Ben Bartrip and Sarah Eskins have been hard at it implementing many of his suggestions.

Pub Mentors: Soft sell pays dividends

08-Feb-2012

Martin Sampson, out of home shopper marketing controller at Coca-Cola Enterprises, keeps tabs on his protégés’ progress at the College Arms. Stratford.

Pub Mentors: Optimising soft drinks service

27-Jan-2012

Martin Sampson, out-of-home shopper marketing controller at Coca-Cola Enterprises, reviews progress on improving soft-drink visibility at the Great Lyde in Yeovil, Somerset.

Pub Mentors: Elephant trumpets its successes

13-Dec-2011

Consultant Alastair Scott had plenty of ideas to help Ben Bartrip and Sarah Eskins, licensees at the Elephant in Bristol, improve performance when he last popped in, and he is pleasantly surprised by what he finds on his return visit.

Government launches Christmas drink-driving campaign

06-Dec-2011 By Gurjit Degun

More than 8,000 pubs and student union bars are taking part in the Government’s THINK! Christmas drink-drive campaign launched today.

Pub Mentors: Top marks for College girls

05-Dec-2011

Jay Smith is upbeat by what he found on a return visit to see Jo Arevalo and Marilyn Herdman at the College Arms in Lower Quinton, Stratford-upon-Avon.

Pub Mentors: Turning the Lyde tide

02-Dec-2011

Ali Carter had lots of ideas when she last met up with Ben Scott, manager of the Great Lyde, in Yeovil, Somerset, to assess his pub operation and advise him on improving profitability. She is pleasantly surprised by what she finds on a return visit.

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Spring relaunch for healthier J2O

10-Nov-2011 By Noli Dinkovski

Soft drink J2O is to under-go a major relaunch and healthier reformulation next spring, the Publican’s Morning Advertiser can exclusively reveal.

Coca-Cola launches designated driver scheme

01-Nov-2011 By Gurjit Degun

Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) and Coca-Cola Great Britain will once again be offering free soft drinks to designated drivers, in partnership with the Department for Transport (DfT), over the upcoming festive period.

Brilliant basics are key to sales drive

01-Nov-2011

Martin Sampson, out-of-home shopper marketing controller at Coca Cola Enterprises, advises the Greets Inn on how to boost footfall.

Pub Mentors: Going for high visibility

25-Oct-2011

Martin Sampson, out-of-home shopper marketing controller at Coca-Cola Enterprises, makes his suggestions for improving soft drinks sales at the Great Lyde in Yeovil, Somerset.

Still time to apply for Pub Mentors

02-Sep-2011 By Michelle Perrett

There is still time to apply for a groundbreaking scheme — Pub Mentors — which has been launched by the Publican’s Morning Advertiser (PMA) and Coca-Cola Enterprise’s Open More Business to help four pubs build their businesses.

Soft drink volumes fall three per cent

25-Mar-2011 By Claire Dodd Claire

Soft-drink sales have withstood tough conditions and recorded slight growth in the on-trade, according to Britvic's annual report into the category's...

'£23bn of extra red tape to fall on firms'

15-Feb-2011 By James Wilmore

Businesses will be strangled by £23billion worth of extra red tape over the next four years, an alarming report warns today. The British Chambers of...

Top gastropub owners speak at Freehouse 500

08-Feb-2011 By Jo Bruce

The owner of the winning pub in the MA's Top 50 Gastropubs 2010 is among the speakers at the next Freehouse 500 business club meeting.

2011: a chance to make pubs more appealing

14-Jan-2011 By Dave McNulty

It's the new year, a time to reflect on the challenges and successes of the past 12 months and consider how to make the next even better. What...

Coke teams up with DfT

06-Dec-2010 By Robyn Black

Coca-Cola has joined forces with the Department for Transport (DfT) to run its Designated Driver campaign for the third Christmas running.

Drinks giants crack down on drink driving

02-Dec-2010

Drinks companies are getting behind transport groups to help tackle drink driving over the festive period. Coca-Cola is to offer designated drivers...

Soft Drinks Focus: Step up the soft

02-Dec-2010

Soft drinks have been generally a bit of a blind spot in our country's pubs. It's all too often that they're treated as an afterthought in the bar's...

Coca-Cola offers free soft drinks to drivers

01-Dec-2010 By Ewan Turney

Coca-Cola has teamed up with the Department of Transport to offer free soft drinks for designated drivers at over 8,000 venues.