Leading national waste management company Biffa has launched a new nationwide Food Waste Collection service for SMEs in the catering industry. Restaurants, bars, pubs, hotels and fast food restaurants look set to benefit from the new service which is now available across 22 areas of the UK. Conversion to energy From just £7 per lift, small businesses in these areas can … [Read more...]
Meantime’s Alastair Hook named UK Brewer of the Year
Meantime Brewing Company’s founder and Master Brewer Alastair Hook has been named ‘Brewer of the Year’ by the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group. The announcement was made at the Beer Group’s Annual Awards Dinner held at One Great George Street in Westminster and attended by MPs, Peers and leading lights of the UK brewing fraternity. True pioneer As the founder of Meantime … [Read more...]
Chapel Down Group appoints new MD, Wines
Chapel Down plc, the ISDX listed English wine and drinks producer, has announced that they are appointing Mark Harvey, formerly Business Development Director at LVMH, as its new Managing Director, Wines. He joins on the 14th September 2015 and will report to Frazer Thompson, CEO of the Group and is expected to join the Board before the end of the year. Commenting on the … [Read more...]
Young & Co first quarter trading up 5.6%
Nick Bryan, Chairman of Young & Co.’s Brewery, P.L.C., commented at yesterday’s Annual General Meeting about current trading: All areas of trading up “Trading in the current year has started well with managed house sales for the first thirteen weeks up 8.3% in total and up 5.6% on a like-for-like basis. On a like-for-like basis accommodation, a major focus of … [Read more...]
Love of the great British pub led by Yorkshire and NE
Despite the shrinkage in size of the pub industry over the past decade, the great British pub remains a quintessential part of the national identity. Today, half (47%) of UK pub visitors agree that pubs are an important part of the British way of life, but new research from Mintel reveals that some parts of the country are particularly frequent pub goers. Yorkshire and the … [Read more...]