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Published: 19 March, 2015
Miles Beale, chief executive, of the Wine & Spirit Trade Association has described the Chancellor's decision to freeze wine duty and cut spirits by 2% as "just about the perfect result" it could have hoped from its Drop the Duty campaign.
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Published: 18 March, 2015
The Chancellor George Osborne has today cut the duty on cider and spirits by 2%, frozen duty on wine and cut beer by a penny a pint for the third year running in his last pre-election Budget.
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Published: 18 March, 2015
The recently combined Bibendum PLB company was able to showcase its new business strategy to the international wine industry at this week's Prowein with 120 of its producers taking part in the show.
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Published: 18 March, 2015
Craft beer enters the mainstream as it goes in the basket used to calculate inflation for the first time.
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Published: 17 March, 2015
Sainsbury saw like-for-like retail sales fall 1.9% in the ten weeks to 14 March 2015, as it warned that food deflation is here to stay.
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Published: 17 March, 2015
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Published: 16 March, 2015
Industry bodies have welcomed the government's ambitious review of business rates, which were laid out today by The Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander.
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Published: 16 March, 2015
Miles Beale, chief executive of the Wine and Spirit Trade Association has commended the drinks industry for uniting behind the WSTA's Drop the Duty campaign and producing a compelling case for a 2% cut in duty.
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Published: 13 March, 2015
Origin Wine has brought in Barry Dick MW to help the company expand its global sourcing footprint.
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Published: 12 March, 2015
Waitrose saw operating profits fall 23.4%, on the back of increased investment in operations and amid a deflationary market.
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Published: 12 March, 2015
Family run Oakley Wine Agencies, which specialises in Portuguese wines, posted 20% growth over the last 12 months despite facing a challenging trading market with supermarkets.
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Published: 12 March, 2015
Aldi is adding a new 'super' premium range of £10 'boutique' wines as it seeks to capitalise on growth from middle class customers.
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Published: 12 March, 2015
Morrison's results were broadly in line with expectations, City analysts agreed - but incoming chief executive David Potts faces a tough year.
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Published: 12 March, 2015
Morrisons has posted an annual pre-tax loss of £792m, as total turnover fell 4.9% to £16,816m in the 52 weeks to 1 February 2015.
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Published: 10 March, 2015
Investing in crime prevention measures like CCTV has seen the number of independent retailers that have been victims of shop theft fall from 91% in 2012 to 74% in 2014, but alcohol still remains one of the major problem areas, according to new figures.
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Published: 10 March, 2015
Supermarkets are missing out on £400 million in sales as price deflation continues to pick up pace offering further savings to consumers, according to latest figures from Kantar Worldpanel.
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Published: 10 March, 2015
Ocado saw sales jump 19.2% to £271.1m in the 12 weeks ending on February 22, 2015 compared to the same period last year - despite the average basket size declining by 2.4%.
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Published: 10 March, 2015
New Zealand winery Villa Maria is set to launch a lower abv wine range into the UK off-trade.
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Published: 09 March, 2015
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Published: 09 March, 2015
This year's London Wine Fair will be the most diverse in its 35 year history, according to show director Ross Carter.
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