UK Hospitality (UKH) has welcomed the new support for closed hospitality businesses but said that support for others must go further, repeating its call for a much more comprehensive package of support for the whole sector to cover rent and other overheads.
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The vast majority of consumers have been satisfied with pub, bar and restaurant operators’ safety precautions and communications in the three months since lockdown was lifted, the industry-wide We Hear You initiative has shown.
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South African wine and spirits company DGB has purchased Fryer's Cove for an undisclosed sum.
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The number of licensed premises trading across Britain is down by nearly 25,000 on March levels as openings stall, according to the latest Market Recovery Monitor from CGA and AlixPartners.
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The 10pm curfew on hospitality venues and ‘rule of six’ restrictions on gatherings have had a major impact on recruitment in the sector, according to new data released by global recruitment site Indeed.
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Foods and Wines from Spain has announced that its annual Eat Spain Drink Spain will take a virtual format this November.
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Seckford Agencies has expanded its South African portfolio with Stellenbosch producer Waterford Estate.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to announce additional lockdown restrictions across parts of England early next week.
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On-trade businesses across Scotland’s central belt, including Glasgow and Edinburgh, have been ordered to shut down for 16 days from this Friday.
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Prowein 2021 has been extended by two days to five to allow the fair to follow current Covid hygiene and safety provisions.
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Bordeaux Wines UK has inveiled a new Christmas campaign aimed at independent wine merchants.
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The Lindeman’s wine brand is set to be certified carbon neutral in Europe, thanks to a new partnership between brand-owner Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) and the Carbon Trust.
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The government has delayed a vote in the House of Commons on the 10pm curfew for pubs and restaurants.
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North South Wines has won the UK agency rights for New Zealand's Tohu and Kono wine brands.
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Ahead of a possible vote in Parliament tomorrow, UK Hospitality (UKH) has urged MPs to rethink the 10pm curfew which is crippling hospitality businesses.
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The value of Austrian wine sales in the UK plummeted in the first six months of 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 crisis.
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Wine importer Delibo has added three new producers to its portfolio.
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Drinks giant Pernod Ricard has been awarded ‘Lead’ status by the United Nations Global Compact for the third consecutive year for its work on sustainability.
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Bordeaux Wines UK has become the latest marketing body to move its activities online.
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Sussex winery Ridgeview has launched its first new wine in a decade to mark its 25th anniversary.
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