Musgrove Budgens Londis has appointed Lyana Doyle as trading manager for spirits and fortified wine, she will be responsible for buying both categories in all Londis and Budgens stores. Doyle joins from Marks & Spencer, where she worked as fruit category industry merchandiser.
Read more...Consumer education, not heavy discounting, is the key to increasing Port sales in the UK, according to the brand manager for Cockburn's Port.
Read more...IWSC Communicator of the Year, Joe Wadsack, has teamed up with E& J Gallo and wine education company Blue Tree, to launch Joe Wadsack's Wine Tasting Adventure'.
Read more...Just one week since it took the IWC Supermarket of the Year crown, the Sainsbury's wine team has announced that it is to lose its second buyer in the space of a month.
Read more...Constellation Wines Europe CEO Christopher Carson is set to step down from his position within six months.
Read more...Have you always wanted to work in a restaurant?
Not really. My big plan was to become an actress and join RADA, but I didn't really like the people at the university drama group - they were too precious. So I chose rugby instead, which was a good move. We won the girls' rugby university final at Twickenham two years in a row. I played flanker and then winger, which means you have to run a lot. I don't have the time now but I'm still fit - restaurants are the best diet plan. Forget Atkins - just serve lunch and dinner, finishing at two in the morning.
Wine Intelligence, the specialist wine market-research and strategy consultant, has been named one of the UK's top 10 new companies after reaching the finals of the 2005 HSBC Start-Up Stars Awards.
Read more...Top-selling German wine Black Tower is to feature in a major national advertising print campaign.
Read more...They started picking grapes in the Douro on 30 August as growers and producers started to count the cost of the drought in Portugal this year - it has hardly rained since May and this is the third dry winter in a row.
Read more...Bottle Green has signed a deal that will see its Chilean PKNT brand sponsor popular-music event The Q Awards 2005.
Read more...The Napa Valley Vintners (NVV) has opened a petition book for its 2005 worldwide tasting tour to garner support for its initiative to promote and protect location'.
Read more...Oxford-based wine importer Stevens Garnier has taken over the distribution for premium McLaren Vale producer Wirra Wirra Vineyards.
Harpers would like to point out that Moreno's marketing manager is Christopher Payne, not Piper, as was reported in the Raise your glasses' feature (Harpers Spain supplement, 9 September). Apologies for any confusion caused.
Read more...German entrepreneur Achim Niederberger has purchased the historic Pfalz wine estate of Reichsrat von Buhl for an undisclosed sum.
The Jeroboams Group is opening two new stores in London next month in St John's Wood and Islington.
Read more...William Reed Publishing, the Crawley-based publisher of The Grocer, Morning Advertiser and Off Licence News, has bought Wine International, Wine & Spirit International, Drinks International, the duty-free title Frontier, and the Intenational Wine Challenge.
Read more...The Wine Society was the surprise star of this year's International Wine Challenge (IWC) awards dinner, winning the Overall Wine Merchant of the Year award - one of the industy's most sought-after accolades.
Read more...Wine educator Susan Hulme has become the 249th Master
of Wine after successfully completing her dissertation.
In the week that its closest rival, Sainsbury's, was made IWC Supermarket Retailer of the Year, Asda has become the latest of the major multiples to make big changes to its buying team.
Read more...It was once a truism that even the most ardently Anglophobic producer would not have disputed: though it was never going
to lead the world in terms of production, the UK was the most dynamic, most diverse and most influential wine market in
the world. More than that, it was both the spiritual home and the shop window of the global wine trade, the place where the reputations, styles and sales of the world's wine production were made and broken, and where the world's most knowledgeable merchants and consumers gathered to discuss, buy and drink the results. Forget New York - when it came to wine, if you could make it in London, Bristol or Edinburgh, you could make it anywhere.
