03-Jul-2017 By Ed Bedington
Speed of service is vital for a good lunchtime offer at any pub, and one Newcastle operation is aiming to guarantee a 30-minute service for time-pressed office workers.
10-Sep-2015 By Nicholas Robinson
Newcastle’s pub and bar sector has switched from venues offering cheap and plentiful drink, to one filled with “quirky” and “stylish” pubs serving great food and upmarket drinks, commentators have said ahead of the latest MA300 event.
14-Mar-2011 By Robyn Black
Canny Geordies are being celebrated in a new campaign for Newcastle Brown Ale to run through this and next month. The poster and print ads aim to...
10-Nov-2009 By MA Reporter
Heineken UK is the UK's leading long alcoholic drinks producer with an unrivalled portfolio of beer and cider brands. Heineken UK is also the UK...
26-Oct-2009 By Roger Protz
It was stretching things to brew Newky Broon in Gateshead, but moving it to Tadcaster? I ask you, writes Roger Protz.
S&N to close Dunston brewery
13-Oct-2009 By The PMA Team
Scottish & Newcastle has announced its intention to close its Dunston brewing operations in Gateshead, by mid 2010. The company proposes to...
Scottish & Newcastle to close Dunston brewery
13-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) has announced plans to close its Dunston brewery in Gateshead - which produces its Newcastle Brown Ale - by the...
18-May-2009 By Ewan Turney
Licensees are being urged to take advantage of a new branded schooner for Newcastle Brown Ale. Scottish & Newcastle's joint venture brand...
Beer and food matching: Nigel Crane's menu
05-May-2009
Nigel Crane, a former sous chef under Anton Mosimann at The Dorchester, started Essential Cuisine in 1996. Based in Cheshire, the business is focused...
British Pie Week: Pub 'goes large' with Newky Brown pie
27-Feb-2009
Diners at County Durham pub will definitely need big appetites when a classic dish gets the North East treatment during British Pie Week, running...
Heritage Drinks salutes its local heroes
01-Oct-2008
It is hard to know what to do with a drinks brand when it has lost a bit of its previous sparkle. Newcastle Brown Ale, Newcastle Exhibition,...
£2m support for Newcastle Brown, McEwan's and Scrumpy Jack
09-Sep-2008
A £2m marketing support package has been placed behind Newcastle Brown Ale, McEwan's, Youngers, Newcastle Exhibition, Woodpecker and Scrumpy Jack.It...
Interesting choice of logo
10-Jul-2008
Not surprisingly perhaps the July issue of Drinks Business runs quite a long article on the InBev bid for Anheuser Busch, brewers of Budweiser. Very...
02-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney
Newcastle Brown Ale is celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Angel of the North by introducing special edition labels across the on and off trade....
New marketing campaigns for Newcastle Brown and Scrumpy Jack
02-Jul-2008
Heritage Drinks, the joint venture established between Scottish and Newcastle and Jygsaw Brands last November, has announced new marketing...
Newky Broon — or is it?
22-May-2008
Multiple operator Tony Brookes has jumped at an opportunity. Brookes, who runs the Head of Steam chain, has bought a large batch of Newcastle Brown...
Food pubs urged to serve free tap water
06-Mar-2008 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk
The Government and the UK's biggest water provider are urging the hospitality industry to offer free tap water to customers as a matter of course....
Jygsaw puts missing pieces back into heritage brands
27-Feb-2008 By Hamish Champ
Jygsaw Brands, the trading partner in a joint venture set up last year between ex-Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) managers and the brewer to...
26-Feb-2008 By Ewan Turney
Jygsaw Brands, the company formed to look after Scottish & Newcastle's heritage ale brands, has commenced operation
20-Feb-2008 By Ewan Turney
Heineken is third brewer in two days to warn beer prices are set to rocket
25-Jan-2008 By The PMA Team
Heineken has promised to retain Scottish & Newcastle pub management business
S&N outlines new ale and cider joint ventures
20-Nov-2007 By Hamish Champ
Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) today spelt out details of its new heritage brand joint venture.The venture, Heritage Drinks Ltd (HDL), will...
What the papers say - August 8, 2007
08-Aug-2007
Scottish & Newcastle, Britain's biggest brewer, admitted yesterday that "stinking weather" in June and July had meant that it would struggle to...
Bangers and Ale: Newkie Brown sausage launch
12-Mar-2007
Two Yorkshire farmers have joined forces with Newcastle Brown Ale to launch a pork an ale sausage. Debbie and Andrew Keeble launched the sizzlers to...
NewsDigest
11-Jan-2007
Scottish & Newcastle UK (S&NUK) will close the bottling plant at its Dunston brewery in Gateshead on 16 February 2007 with the loss of 66...
Scottish & Newcastle to shut bottling plant
09-Jan-2007 By Hamish Champ
Advances in recycling technology have prompted Scottish & Newcastle UK (S&NUK) to close its Dunston, Gateshead, bottling plant next month...
Brown Ale to woo younger drinkers
23-Jun-2005
S&N is splashing out £2m in a bid to attract younger drinkers to its Newcastle Brown Ale. A consumer campaign will launch later this year,...
A clear winner of a not-so-clear award
12-May-2005
Somewhere deep in the bureaucracy of the European Union there is a unit composed of highly-paid people whose job is to think up the most...
A round with The Publican
13-Jan-2005
What made the news in The Publican this week 10 years ago, five years ago and last year.1995Independent brewers, unhappy with spiralling beer duty...
What the Sunday papers said
15-Nov-2004
Leading investment banks and research houses are cutting their growth forecasts as the outlook darkens for the global economy, research has revealed....
Have Courage
22-Sep-2004
ScotCo aims to regain its market-leadership status. John Porter reports.Scottish Courage is back, and this time it's personal. Personal, that is, in...
Christopher Pope
06-May-2004
A memorial service is to be held for Christopher Pope, the former chairman of Dorset pub retailer Eldridge Pope, at Sherbourne Abbey in Dorset on...
ScotCo axes Tyne Brewery as production moves to the Fed
29-Apr-2004
by Tony Halstead Scottish Courage is to close its historic Tyne Brewery at Newcastle next spring, the second major closure announced by the company...
S&N on-trade beer volumes drop 5%
26-Feb-2004
Scottish & Newcastle beer volumes are booming in the off-trade but are declining in pubs, its full-year results reveal. S&N, Britain's...
Sale of S&N Retail costs brewer £51m
23-Feb-2004
Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) has revealed it spent £51m on the sale of its Retail managed pub business last year.The 1,400-strong estate was...
Scottish Courage
05-Jun-2003
Who are they? The British brewing division of Scottish & Newcastle, which recently put its 1,450 pub estate up for sale. Courage is the giant of...
ScotCo gives £100,000 to LVS
13-Feb-2003
Scottish Courage has donated £100,000 towards a £3m appeal to build a new sixth form and learning centre at the Licensed Victuallers School in...
S&N in raid for £1.2bn Finnish brewer
14-Feb-2002
Britain's biggest brewer Scottish & Newcastle has made its first big move into Russia, Europe's second largest beer market.The £1.2bn deal for...
S&N + SAB + Miller = world's biggest brewer
29-Jan-2002
Speculation over a proposed merger that would see Scottish & Newcastle combine with two foreign brewers to form the biggest beer maker in the...
