What you need to know about the new vaping legislation coming into force on 20 May May 19, 2016 From tomorrow, new legislation will significantly clamp down on and choke off e-cigarettes throughout the European Union. Here's everything you need to know about what will change, where the laws have come from and where you can still vape. What will change tomorrow? The maximum capacity of nicotine in an e-cigarette will now be 20mg, [...]
New domestic and EU laws will stub out menthol cigarettes and 10-packs from tomorrow May 19, 2016 Smokers are in for a bitter cocktail of regulation tomorrow as EU and UK laws come into force, phasing out 10-packs, menthol cigarettes and introducing new plain packaging rules. Manufacturers will be banned from producing 10-packs of cigarettes under the European Union's Tobacco Products Directive, which will be implemented on Friday after the European Court of [...]
Big tobacco companies lose High Court battle over plain packaging May 19, 2016 Big tobacco firms have lost a High Court challenge against new plain packaging rules that will be implemented tomorrow. Under the new rules, all cigarette packets will look similar, with the same green colour, font, size, case and alignment of text on boxes. Manufacturers will have to comply with the new packaging legislation from 20 [...]
Millennials are driving wine sales but are in the dark when it comes to actual knowledge about wine May 19, 2016 Millennials will be raising a glass to the news that they are now a major force in the UK's wine industry, although new research also suggests they don't have a clue what they're talking about. Successful millennials – between the ages of 18 and 35 with an above average income – now account for 31 per cent of [...]
Cold weather and early Easter hit the pub trade in April, according to CGA Peach’s Coffer Peach Business Tracker May 19, 2016 Pub sales suffered as a result of cold weather and an early Easter, according to figures from CGA Peach's Coffer Peach Business Tracker. Pub groups experienced a 2.7 per cent sales decline on the same month last year, undermining wider growth in casual dining trading, although restaurant groups registered a like-for-like trading increase of 2.5 per [...]
Super-premium beer market takes London by storm, while Peroni is the highest-selling super-premium brand May 18, 2016 Super-premium beer brands have risen from obscurity to corner 25 per cent of the London beer market today. Around £1 in every £4 spent on beer in London now goes to a "super-premium" brand, which, according to Miller Brands, is beer that has a clearly defined and understood provenance, authenticity and brand story, and costs £4.15 [...]
Diageo appoints Javier Ferran new chairman of the board May 18, 2016 DRINKS giant Diageo yesterday announced that Javier Ferran, currently a non-executive director at SABMiller, will become its chairman on 1 January 2017. Ferran will be appointed to the Diageo board as a non-executive director from 22 July and will take up the position of chairman on the retirement of the current chairman, Swiss-Austrian businessman Franz [...]
Marston’s raises a glass to growth from posh pub food and its beer business in its half-year results May 18, 2016 Premium pub owner and brewer Marston's raised a glass to strong growth across the board in its half-year results today, with extra boosts from its beer segment and posh pub food. The figures Marston's, which has an estate of around 1,600 pubs in the UK, posted growth of 11.5 per cent in group underlying revenue in the [...]
Instagram’s rebrand has made the app lose its charm: Why brands need to avoid the trap of over-design May 18, 2016 The unveiling of Instagram's new logo has handed us another example of a successful digital brand that has unwittingly sacrificed its ownable assets in pursuit of "modernity". Like Uber, which had a redesign in February, Instagram has removed what made it distinctive to fit into the environment it sits, in a bid to appeal to its [...]
San Fransisco startup Ava Winery is claiming they don’t even need grapes to make fine wines May 18, 2016 It is a claim that will make sommeliers and amateur wine-lovers everywhere balk, but a San Fransisco startup has said it can make fine wines… without using grapes. The California startup Ava Winery has claimed it can "hack" wine-making by building it on a compound-by-compound basis, adding together amino acids, sugars, volatile organics, ethanol and other [...]
