To help provide professional, first-hand advice for independent retailers, Harpers has extended its Top Merchants programme to bring leading, award-winning multi-site operators together. Here's how its new initiative, the Independent Wine Crew, hopes to help the independent trade as a whole
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Hayward Brothers hopes its recent acquisition of fellow independent merchant distributor World Wine Agencies will help widen its collective reach among independent retailers and provide them with a greater selection of wines.
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London Cru, set to be the first urban boutique winery in London, is busy preparing for harvest and getting ready to open its cellar doors to the public this November in central London.
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Glenn Caton is to leave his postion as managing director of Laithwaite's Wine to join Mondel?z, owner of confectionery giant Cadbury's.
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Last year Frenchman Yannick Loué set up boutique wine lounge and merchants Le Vignoble in the historic Royal William Yard in Plymouth. Here's how it's all going.
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The Wine Society was named overall Merchant of the Year at this week's International Wine Challenge Awards ceremony, which also saw Marks & Spencer named Supermarket of the Year for the fourth time since the Merchant Awards started in 1990.
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After nine months of research and PowerPoint presentations on issues surrounding wine retail - multiple vs. independent, expectations of the consumer, making not just a sale but an experience - I now find myself in the thick of it, though it was not the destination I initially envisioned when I decided to pursue a career in the wine industry.
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In April 2012 Royal Mail raised a few eyebrows by increasing its postal charges by 30%. Royal Mail said it was necessary to keep the organisation afloat...
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The head of Hedonism Wines tells Elinor Zuke why the London retail operation aspires to be the finest wine shop in the world
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Offering nips of wine for as little as 50p, the Wine Tasting Shop in south west London is approachable to all, as Ed Robertson reports
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We reveal the results of phase two of Harpers' Indies Uncovered project ? the most comprehensive survey of independent merchants to date.
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Newly appointed to the family business, Avery talks through the portfolio and tells Anne Krebiehl how she plans to...
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The line between the wine shop and the wine bar is becoming increasingly blurred, as D&D London's new retail outlet illustrates. Matt Walls reports from the New Street Wine Shop
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Seeing as I do 95% of the cooking at home, and I have recently developed a craving for risottos of all types, I've found that a lightly chilled bottle of Lopez de Heredia Vina Tondonia Gravonia Crianza Rioja Blanco 2003 goes down like a homesick mole.
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For West Country wine business Red & White, location is absolutely key, as Ed Robertson reports
Read more...Convincing people of the benefits of shopping locally is a tricky business, but independent retailer Dafydd Morris, director of Cheers Wine Merchants in Swansea, shows he's up to the job.
Read more...Liberty Wines has confirmed it will not be exhibiting at the London International Wine Fair for the first time in the company's history.
Read more...Large numbers of independent on and off-trade buyers attended this week's SITT tastings in Manchester, London and Singapore.
Read more...Sheffield-based independent wine merchant Le Bon Vin has become distributor for the VinoServ wine preservation system.
Read more...Northern Rhône producer Maison Nicolas Perrin has appointed Liberty Wines as its agent in the UK and Ireland.
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