Latest Alcohol News – Page 87
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Product News
Training schemes win recognition
Spar wholesalers CJ Lang & Son and Capper & Co have won licensed retail industry awards for their alcohol sales training programmes.
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Angels on your side in war against proxy sales
The Co-operative Group is tackling adults who buy alcohol for under-18s with an innovative trial scheme in Cheshire.
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Product News
Ministers ask for your help
The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) is asking local retailers for help in shaping guidance to help parents educate their children on alcohol consumption.
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ACS puts stores' case on alcohol
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has advised the government to tackle the sources of alcohol-related harm rather than introduce new legislation which could put small stores at a disadvantage.
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Product News
Retailers urged to back Challenge 25
The Retail of Alcohol Standards Group (RASG) is urging alcohol retailers to adopt a Challenge 25 policy.
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News
Trade doubts merit of an alcohol code
A planned new Code of Practice for alcohol retailers could see an end to multipack deals and introduce mandatory training for staff, but falls short of preventing supermarkets from selling alcohol below cost.
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Scots concerned at council's plan for alcohol code of practice
Scottish retailers have reacted with concern to a regional council's plan to introduce its own Code of Practice for alcohol retailers.
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Product News
stocklines licensed - Gordon's
DIAGEO GB is extending the partnership between Gordon’s gin and Gordon Ramsay over the festive period.
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Product News
stocklines licensed - Disaronno
FIRST DRINKS BRANDS has launched a £2m Christmas TV campaign for Italian liqueur Disaronno.
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Product News
Let bottle commence
Read your customers right and your wine sales could double in the next four weeks
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Product News
stocklines licensed - Baileys
DIAGEO GB has launched a Christmas and winter awareness campaign for Baileys Irish Cream.
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Product News
Below-cost selling backlash
The Federation of Wholesale Distributors (FWD) has added its voice to the call for a ban on the sale of alcohol below cost price.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: It's better to be safe than sorry when it comes to selling alcohol
Retailer Brian Fitzgerald and I put the world to rights the other day.
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Product News
stocklines: Stella on the telly
INBEV UK is backing its new Stella Artois 4% with an extensive TV, press and outdoor campaign to illustrate the brand's smooth nature
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Product News
stocklines: price-marked WKD
BEVERAGE BRANDS is supporting trade customers in the run up to Christmas with a range of price-flashed case offers for WKD
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stocklines: Xmas support for Guinness
DIAGEO GB is investing more than £5m in the Guinness brand this Christmas
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Opinion
Think tank: shopping for alcohol
Georgina Wild of HIM looks at the trend for drinking alcohol at home and suggests how to exploit it
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Product News
New booze restrictions miss the point
Supermarkets could be forced to set up booze-only checkouts in the latest proposed restrictions on the sale of alcohol.
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Product News
Behind the times?
By stocking high value products behind the till you could be losing out on valuable impulse sales, says Amanda Nicholls
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Product News
Raising spirits: Diageo’s layout for a new cash and carry’s spirits section is a big hit with retailers
Retailers in Rochdale have faced a minimum journey of at least 12 miles to the nearest cash and carry. Imran Awan spotted the gap in the market and two months ago opened Rochdale Cash & Carry. Imran was already managing director of Rochdale Drinks Distributors...