As the on-trade gears up to begin a safe reopening on 4 July, mobile ordering app OrderPay has signed up several more high street names looking to meet social distancing requirements.
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The Worshipful Company of Distillers’ online auction in aid of The Drinks Trust goes live this Sunday via Whisky.Auction.
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Despite the shift from on-trade to home drinking, lockdown could still leave a sobering £7bn hole in UK alcohol sales this year.
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Fever-tree has reported a strong performance for its premium mixers across the off-trade boosted by locked down Brits hitting gin.
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Winetraders has added Quinta da Pedra Alta to its portfolio, marking the company’s first Portuguese producer.
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Producers from across the southern hemisphere have shared their experiences of what it was like to complete their 2020 harvests while infrastructure closed down around them and the movement of people became restricted.
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The biggest challenge for the Italian wine trade is recovery in the on-trade, according to Pierpaolo Penco, Italy country manager at Wine Intelligence, speaking ahead of publication of the Italy Wine Landscapes 2020 report, due out this week.
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Registration for Wines of Germany’s annual #31DaysofGermanRiesling July promotional campaign is soon to close.
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Drinking occasions have "been dealt a hammer blow” a new report into the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on consumer markets has concluded.
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Hilary Gibbs, founder and owner of Domaine Direct, has died.
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Catalonia-based wine producer Familia Torres has hit its target of reducing carbon emissions by 30%, when measured against levels in 2008, a year early.
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New research into the effectiveness of social distancing measures has renewed debate in the on-trade about the challenges of re-opening for business.
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London wine merchant Jeroboams is to have a new chief executive, with encumbent Hugh Sturges leaving the role at the end of June.
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The Covid-19 outbreak is causing serious damage to the UK’s wine industry, according to a survey of its members commissioned by Wines of Great Britain.
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Legendary Australian wine critic James Halliday is to auction 250 bottles of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti from his private cellar.
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Pub and hotel business Fuller’s has partnered with income-streaming provider Wagestream to give its staff access to their wages - or their furlough pay - ahead of pay day.
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The new range of mental health support services for members of the trade from the Drinks Trust have now been launched.
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Leading Chilean and Argentinian wine producer Santa Rita Estates has reshuffled its senior management team.
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The UK drinks trade has welcomed the extension of the government’s furlough scheme for UK workers during the corovirus crisis – but with concerns for the future.
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Rowena Curlewis, CEO of drinks design specialist Denomination, looks at the impact that the lockdown will have on our future drinks choices
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