Foster's EMEA has announced management changes, with Richard Trimby transferring from commercial director for Continental Europe to the position of marketing director EMEA and Global Brands Rosemount and Lindemans.
Read more...Jim Beam owner Fortune Brands saw net sales drop by 20% in the first quarter of 2009, to $1.4 billion - but the spirits division buoyed the company's figures with a relatively modest fall of just 3%.
Read more...A Sonoma winery is offering $10,000 a month and free accommodation to a "lifestyle correspondent" who can report on its activities.
Read more...The last quarter of 2008 was the worst in living memory for wine producers, according to a report by a Californian bank providing commercial banking services to the industry.
Read more...Restaurant insolvencies have risen by 70% for the first three months of this year, but the amount of pub closures has reduced, new research shows.
Read more...Winegrowers of Ara, the premium Marlborough producer, has appointed Julie Williams to the newly created position of business development manager for the UK and mainland Europe.
Read more...Drinkaware, the UK charity which aims to reduce alcohol is expanding their team in order to help the organisation spread the message about responsible drinking.
Read more...What the critics in the press have to say this week.
Read more...Brand Phoenix has appointed the Irish arm of Pink Elephant wine firm 10 International to handle sales of its First Cape brand in the country.
Penfolds has released the 2009 instalment in its ongoing Luxury & Icon Australian fine wine range.
Read more...Drinkaware has hired an adult strategy manager to develop campaigns aimed at improving alcohol awareness among over-25s.
Read more...The UK's annual vodka sales are likely to reach the £2 billion mark according to a new Mintel report.
Read more...Burgundy is taking a lesson from the New World in launching its first large-scale biodiversity project.
Read more...The SNP government in Scotland is claiming that its controversial plans for a minimum price for alcohol have gained widespread trade support.
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Robert Parker's high scores for the Bordeaux 2008 vintage could bring a premature end to the en primeur campaign, warns UK fine wine specialists Berry Bros.
Foster's EMEA - the European, Middle Eastern and African division of Foster's Group Limited and a leading producer and distributor of wine in the UK - has announced it is the first wine company to join a major initiative from the Waste and Resource's Action Programme (WRAP).
Read more...The 2009 UK Sommelier of the Year was awarded last night to 27-year-old Laura Rhys from Hotel TerraVina in Southampton.
Read more...The Sauza tequila distillery has been recognised for its commitment to social responsibility issues.
Read more...Russian Standard vodka has continued its quest for world domination by signing a distribution agreement in the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan.
Read more...Foster's EMEA has become the first wine company to join the WRAP Courtauld Commitment.
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