The Drinks Business

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The Drinks Business
Editor-in-chief Patrick Schmitt MW [1]
CategoriesWine magazines
FrequencyMonthly
PublisherUnion Press Ltd
Founded2002
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Website www.thedrinksbusiness.com

The Drinks Business is a monthly international B2B magazine and website published by Union Press. The magazine discusses the latest news and trends in the global beer, wine and spirits industries.

Contents

History and profile

thedrinksbusiness.com was launched in 2002. [2] It has an international audience of 685,000 monthly readers [3] and regularly provides content for publications such as The Huffington Post [4] [5] [6] and Time Magazine . [7]

db Awards

The db Awards is an annual drinks industry event, held at the London International Wine Fair [8] in Olympia. Winners in 2013 included Beefeater Gin, [9] Cote du Rhone, [10] Roberson Wine [11] and Dubai Duty Free. [12] [13]

Green Awards

The Drinks Business Green Awards is the world's largest programme to raise awareness of green issues in the drinks trade. Winners in 2013 included Sainsbury's, [14] John E Fells [15] and Wetherspoons. [16]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wetherspoons</span> British pub chain

J D Wetherspoon plc is a pub company operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The company was founded in 1979 by Tim Martin and is based in Watford. It operates the sub-brand of Lloyds No.1 bars, and 56 Wetherspoon hotels. Wetherspoon is known for converting unconventional premises, such as former cinemas and banks, into pubs. The company is publicly listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Waitrose</span> British supermarket chain owned by John Lewis Partnership

Waitrose Limited, trading as Waitrose & Partners, is a brand of British supermarkets, founded in 1904 as Waite, Rose & Taylor, later shortened to Waitrose. It was acquired in 1937 by employee-owned retailer John Lewis Partnership, which still sells groceries under the brand. Its head offices are located in Bracknell, Berkshire.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Diageo</span> Multinational alcoholic beverages company

Diageo plc is a British multinational alcoholic beverage company, with its headquarters in London, England. It operates from 132 sites around the world. It is a major distributor of Scotch whisky and other spirits. Distilleries owned by Diageo produce 40% of all Scotch whisky with over 24 brands, such as Johnnie Walker, J&B and Old Parr.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Buckfast Tonic Wine</span> Caffeinated fortified wine

Buckfast Tonic Wine is a caffeinated alcoholic drink consisting of fortified wine with added caffeine, originally made by monks at Buckfast Abbey in Devon, England. It is now made under a licence granted by the monastery, and distributed by J. Chandler & Company in Great Britain, James E McCabe Ltd in Northern Ireland, and Richmond Marketing Ltd in Ireland. It is based on a traditional recipe from France. The wine's distributor reported record sales of £43.2 million as of March 2017.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wychwood Brewery</span> English brewery

Wychwood Brewery was a brewery in Witney, Oxfordshire, England, owned by Marston's. Hobgoblin, a 5.2% abv brown ale, was the company's flagship brand.

Sir Timothy Randall Martin is an English businessman and the founder and chairman of Wetherspoons, a pub chain in the UK and Ireland. In 2016, Martin actively campaigned for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union and was a strong supporter of Brexit, donating £200,000 to the Vote Leave campaign.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fuller's Brewery</span> Brewery in Chiswick, west London, England

Fuller's Brewery in Chiswick, west London, England, is the former brewing division of Fuller, Smith & Turner PLC. It was a family-run business from its foundation in 1845 until 2019, when it was sold to the Japanese international beverage giant Asahi.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Oz Clarke</span> British actor and wine writer

Robert Owen Clarke, known as Oz Clarke, is a British wine writer, actor, television presenter and broadcaster.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Beer in England</span> Beer in England

Beer has been brewed in England for thousands of years. As a beer brewing country, it is known for top fermented cask beer which finishes maturing in the cellar of the pub rather than at the brewery and is served with only natural carbonation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Liquor store</span> Retail shop that sells alcohol

A liquor store is a retail business that predominantly sells prepackaged alcoholic beverages, including liquors, wine or beer, usually intended to be consumed off the store's premises. Depending on region and local idiom, they may also be called an off-licence, off-sale, bottle shop, bottle store or, colloquially, bottle-o, liquor store or other similar terms. A very limited number of jurisdictions have an alcohol monopoly. In US states that are alcoholic beverage control (ABC) states, the term ABC store may be used.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Weltons Brewery</span>

Welton's Brewery is an independent brewery founded by Ray Welton in 1995 in Capel, Surrey, England, before it was moved to Dorking. Welton now brews in Horsham, West Sussex.

Hooper's Hooch is an alcopop that was most popular during the mid-1990s. The name Hoopers refers to William Hooper, inventor of the hot water bottle and manufacturer of lemonade in the 1840s whose trademark was owned by Burton-on-Trent-based brewer Bass. Launched in Britain in 1995 by Bass as an alcoholic lemonade, it attained immediate popularity, leading to the development of orange- and blackcurrant-flavoured versions.

Wine-Searcher is a web search engine enabling users to locate the price and availability of a given wine, whiskey, spirit or beer globally, and be directed to a business selling the alcoholic beverage. There are also both Wine-Searcher and WhiskeySearcher mobile apps for iOS and Android.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Crabbie's</span>

Crabbie's is a brand of alcoholic ginger beer originating in Scotland, United Kingdom. It is owned by UK-based Halewood International Ltd and manufactures at Halewood's plant in Liverpool.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dubai Duty Free</span> Duty-free shop at Dubais international airports

Dubai Duty Free (DDF) is the company responsible for duty-free operations at Dubai International Airport and Al Maktoum International Airport.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Index of drinking establishment–related articles</span>

This is an index of drinking establishment-related articles.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lion (Australasian company)</span> Alcoholic beverage company operating in Australia and New Zealand, owned by Kirin

Lion is an alcoholic beverage company that operates in Australia and New Zealand, and a subsidiary of Japanese beverage conglomerate Kirin. It produces and markets a range of beer and cider in Australia, and wine in New Zealand and the United States through Distinguished Vineyards & Wine Partners. It acts as distributors for a range of spirits in New Zealand, but does not own any distilleries outright, although holding a 50% share of Four Pillars Gin in Victoria.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Funky Buddha Brewery</span> Brewery in Oakland Park, Florida

Funky Buddha Brewery is a large brewery headquartered in Oakland Park, Florida.

Jaega Wise is an English beer brewer, campaigner, broadcaster and author. Born in London and raised in Nottingham, she is the head brewer and co-founder of London-based Wild Card Brewery and in 2018 was named "Brewer of the Year" by the British Guild of Beer Writers.

The food and drink industry of Wales is the sector of the Welsh economy consisting of food and soft drink companies as well as distilleries and breweries in Wales. The food and drink sector is classed as a priority economic sector in Wales. It involves 170,000 people that contribute to gross sales of £17.3 billion.

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