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Leading British ale producer and pub-owner Greene King plc has braved a slowing market and soaring costs to raise profits before tax by 2% to £142 million in the last year according to its annual report.  The firm beat a declining ...

Coors Brewers is set to take the plunge into a resurgent national cask ale market in August when it rolls out a new blonde beer across the country.   Prompted by a buoyant cask ale market, which for the first time ...

Scottish Government proposals to stamp out below-cost sales of alcohol in the off-trade and “irresponsible” drinks promotions could become reality by September next year.   The UK government group set up to act in the interests of the British brewing and ...

British brewer and pub-owner Fuller, Smith & Turner today announced a 4% rise in pre-tax profits for the last financial year despite a darkening economic climate and increasing pressures on the industry.   Group chairman Michael Turner said the hike ...

A self-styled punk brewery pledged today to take its fight against claims it promotes thuggish behaviour to the European Court of Human Rights if industry watchdogs do not drop complaints against it. Concerns about the labels of three boutique beers ...

A Scottish microbrewery has joined the ranks of the world’s most expensive beer producers with the release of a wallet-emptying special edition stout. At £40 per 330ml bottle, BrewDog’s whisky barrel-matured Paradox 1968 Islay Cask is enough to make any ...

The news that British licensees could have to pay deposits for beer kegs within a year has been welcomed by a body set up to cut keg and cask thefts. Brewers’ Guardian broke the news yesterday that the British Beer ...

A brewer claims to have clasped the environmental Holy Grail by being the first in Britain to create a completely carbon-neutral beer. Adnams’ East Green brew is now on sale, boasting enough environmental credentials to make your average eco-warrior go green ...

Licensees could soon have to lay down deposits for beer kegs as the brewing industry responds to a crime wave that has cost it an estimated £60million. The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) told Brewers’ Guardian today that it hopes to ...

Concerns that the Heineken takeover of Scottish & Newcastle could decimate the domestic UK brewing industry as the company seeks to flood Britain with its Dutch-produced premium brew were dismissed today. Yesterday Brian Revell from Britain’s largest union Unite told Brewers’ ...

London’s fastest growing brewery is looking overseas to develop its exports as trade on home soil goes from strength to strength. This week Meantime Brewing director Peter Haydon told Brewers’ Guardian that cracking export markets was one of the next ...

Innis & Gunn managing director Dougal Sharp has completed a management buyout of the company, acquiring independent distillers William Grant & Sons’ majority stake in the brewer. The purchase price has not been disclosed.Sharp continues as managing director. His father, ...

Unite, Britain's largest trade union and the biggest union in the UK brewing industry, has voiced concerns over a possible takeover of Scottish & Newcastle by Carslberg and Heineken. National organiser Brian Revell said that Unite is worried about a ...

Britain's Society of Independent Brewers says that its members are under threat from sharp increases in raw material prices. SIBA, which with 400 members represents the vast majority of the country's microbrewers, estimates that barley prices have risen nearly 40% ...

John Dunsmore is to be the next chief executive of Scottish & Newcastle. Dunsmore, currently S&N’s managing director for Western Europe, will take over from Tony Froggatt on 1st November.Dunsmore’s appointment, said by S&N to be the outcome of an ...

Scottish & Newcastle is refusing to comment on a story that chief executive Tony Froggatt is planning to step down.The Sunday Times reported this past weekend that Froggatt, 59, has informed S&N chairman Sir Brian Stewart that he plans to ...