This April, Orderella, the leading mobile ordering app which allows its customers to order and pay for drinks and food with their phone, is being trialled at 40 Star Pubs & Bars. The leased pub division of leading cider and beer business, Heineken UK, will undertake the trial before being potentially rolled out to a total of 1,200 of the business’s venues. Simple and … [Read more...]
Wetherspoon starts work on first pub in Ireland
Pub operator JD Wetherspoon is to start building work on its first pub in the Republic of Ireland on March 3, developing the former Tonic Bar in Temple Road, Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock. The pub, to be named The ThreeTun Tavern, is set to open on Tuesday 8 July, and Wetherspoon is investing 1.5 million euros developing the site, making a total investment of 3 million euros, … [Read more...]
226% uplift in contactless payments in past 12 months
New figures from WorldPay show contactless payments are rocketing, with 226% more contactless transactions compared to this time last year. Contactless payments have more than trebled (249%) between 2012 and 2013 (from 12.5 million UK payments processed by WorldPay in December 2012 to 43.6 million UK payments in December 2013). There are currently 38.1 million contactless … [Read more...]
Anheuser-Busch InBev pleased with UK performance for 2013
ABInBev has reported its results for the fourth quarter and full year 2013, with Inge Plochaet, BU President, AB InBev UK commenting: “We are pleased with the performance of AB InBev UK’s beer and cider brands in 2013 in a challenging market. Budweiser in particular performed well, with volumes up 3%. This was driven by growth in off trade retail and draught distribution in … [Read more...]
Independent brewers grow sales by 7.9 per cent
Independent brewers are reaping the benefits of the scrapping of the beer duty escalator in last year’s Budget. According to Beer Report 2014, published 26 February by the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA), its members grew volume sales by an estimated 7.9 per cent in 2013 to 1.55 million barrels – meaning the nation’s beer lovers drank nearly 33 million more pints of local … [Read more...]