
Tech & innovation: Seismic shifts
We’re on the cusp of a new and advanced tech-fuelled era for hospitality as the on-trade begins to reopen, says Jo Gilbert.
Read more...We’re on the cusp of a new and advanced tech-fuelled era for hospitality as the on-trade begins to reopen, says Jo Gilbert.
Read more...Organisers of the London Wine Fair (LWF) have discarded hopes of running a Covid-secure physical event and have now confirmed a virtual only schedule.
Read more...James Lawrence rounds up the highlights of the coming year’s events calendar
Read more...The International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) is gearing up to implement a digital transformation strategy spurred on by the pandemic having highlighted ecommerce as “an extraordinary determinative to more traditional distribution channels”.
Read more...Covid-19 has given birth to the digitalisation of the hospitality sector. Welcome to a new era, says Jo Gilbert
Read more...The introduction of burdensome VI-1 forms to wine entering the UK from the EU has found its way into the House of Lords where members debated scrapping them via an amendment to the Agriculture Bill.
Read more...Port producer Symington Family Estates has launched a new digital platform named The School of Port.
Read more...A digitised on-trade, premium in home drinking experiences and ‘liquid personalisation’ have been identified as the key trends for the year ahead by research and analyst company Rewrite Digital.
Read more...‘Order wine online’ has become the newest buzz word for housebound UK consumers looking to get their fix during lockdown.
Read more...Excel spreadsheets and WhatsApping account reps should be a thing of the past, say the brains behind OnStock, a new online ordering platform for the UK bar trade from the Vanquish and 31Dover team, as Jo Gilbert reports.
The BNIC has redesigned and expanded its cognac.fr website.
Read more...How can smaller stores compete with the sprawling technology departments and deep machine learning capabilities of giants such as Amazon and Walmart? NextOrbit’s small business networks might provide an answer, writes Jo Gilbert
Read more...The Wine Society has unveiled new corporate branding across all channels.
Read more...The launch of a new trading platform for the drinks trade promises to disrupt existing business models. Jo Gilbert investigates
Read more...My Wine Society has launched a new app it has dubbed “Facebook for wine”.
Read more...Gaucho has announced it is closing all of its Cau sites in order to focus on stabilising the Argentinian wine and steak restaurant.
Read more...Immersive experiences, category blur and premium drinks were hot topics at the recent Global Drinks Forum in Berlin, where the trends shaping the on-trade were put under the spotlight.
Read more...Vins de Bordeaux is releasing a new ad campaign focused on digital formats and social media with the hope of engagining "younger" audiences.
Read more...Last month we talked about virtual reality. This month we look at augmented reality and artificial intelligence and how the big tech companies are poised to bring the sommelier into the home. Jo Gilbert reports
Read more...The impact of digitisation is so powerful that most marketers and brand designers are only just grasping the need for a more holistic approach, writes James Harmer of Touch design and innovation agency
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