Dakota Hotel at Eurocentral has been put up for sales. Property agents Jones Lang Lasalle have not set a price but are inviting offers. The hotel was originally owned by Ken McCulloch and racing driver David Couthard but it is not owned by a syndicate of investors. The property, which also includes an empty two-storey [...]

Glasgow licensees are being warned to be extra vigilant when setting their alarms after thieves targeted The Doublet in Park Road. The alarm scam involves burglars visiting a pub earlier in the day and jamming the alarm sensors on the door. When staff go to set the alarm a the end of the night, it [...]

Maybe we’ve always been boring. Or stable, reliable, traditional, steadfast, stalwart or any number of euphemisms that describe a people for whom change is frowned upon. Because, as a culture, we like things just the way they are. Or do we? In the beginning, there was real ale. Then came kegs, lager and smoothflow. Next [...]

The value of Rangers to the Scottish on-trade is more than £40m, and that is a conservative estimate. The figures seen by DRAM, show that fans spend around £19m around a home game while the remainder is spent when an away game is on. Therefore Scottish pubs and hotels, particularly those in the West of [...]

Forth Wines has bought family-owned specialist drinks wholesale business J. A. Glass of Dysart for an undisclosed sum. The two companies will trade separately but J. A. Glass will move to Forth Wines’ Milnathort base. J. A. Glass is a long established family business run by Duncan Glass and cousin Donald. It acts as a [...]

Tennent Caledonian has revealed a price increase of 2.2% effective from March for Tennent’s Lager and Magners Golden Draught. There will however be no increase on the wholesale list price of Caledonia Best. This equates to a 3.5p rise per pint, which is half, that of its nearest competitor. John Gilligan, Sales Managing Director of [...]

The new UK ‘Beer Barometer’ shows pub beer sales slipped 3.4% in 2011, but off trade sales were down 3.7% The figures, published by the British Beer & Pub Association, also revealed that the fall in beer sales has slowed. The fall in pub sales of 3.4% was the slowest rate of decline since 2004. [...]

Belhaven Brewery are planning to launch Belhaven Black, a new 4.2 ABV stout this month (January 2012). The company aims, it says, to “ignite the UK’s stout market” which is totally dominated by Guinness. This deluxe new stout has been crafted to provide a taste of something different for fans of deeper, dark ales. Says [...]

Patrick Venning has been appointed Marketing Director – Spirits at Pernod Ricard. Patrick, who has over 20 years’ marketing experience and seven years within Pernod Ricard UK working across the full portfolio of wine and spirits brands has been involved with the successful integration of brands following the Allied Domecq acquisition and turnaround performances on [...]

Alan Creevy, of CDLH Leisure & Hospitality Surveyors www.cdlh.co.uk recognised experts in the Hospitality property sector, looks back on 2011 with some surprising revelations on the popularity and growth of Glasgow’s buoyant restaurant sector. Alan Creevy commented, “There is no doubt that the doom and gloom merchants were out in force in 2011. Realistically, there [...]