The Portman Group received just five complaints about the marketing of alcoholic products last year — the fewest since its code of practice was introduced in 1996.
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Shepherd Neame, the Kent-based brewer and pub operator, has appointed Mark Rider, former head of finance, food at Sainsbury’s, as its new finance and IT director. Diageo has launched a vanilla variant to its Smirnoff vodka ‘Flavours’ range. Tim Foster tells Alison Baker how its second venture, the Grove Ferry Inn, has placed the Yummy Pub Company firmly on the map. Source:The Yum guns Mitchells & Butlers’ (M&B) new South-East Asian cuisine concept will be called TUK CHO, with a first restaurant under the brand set to open in Ealing, west London, in December. Pub-finder website Use Your Local has teamed up with O2 to encourage people into their nearest pub to try a Bulmers cider. Source:Pub-finder site’s cider call An award-winning licensee and restaurateur has resurrected the fortunes of a Cheshire pub which has been closed down for the past two years. Almost 7,500 pubs are still waiting to appeal their 2010 business rates, costing the industry an estimated £7m each year. Licensees will be able to vote for their favourite British ‘pub grub’ as part of British Pub Week, which kicks off tomorrow (28 October). The lobbying war over the need for a statutory code of practice to govern the pubco-tenant relationship intensified this week. |
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