Restaurants and bars across British Columbia are being told to stock up on liquor as the BCGEU strike threatens liquor supply through provincial warehouses.
The Scotch whisky industry is appealing to the UK Government to freeze spirits duty in the upcoming Autumn Budget, following more than 1,000 direct job losses since the Chancellor last increased tax on whisky. Industry leaders are warning that further duty hikes will jeopardise investment, growth and jobs unless ministers follow through on promises to support the sector.
The Government has decided not to reduce the hours alcohol bottle stores can be open amid reforms announced today.
Irish drinkers pay 11 times more excise duty on beer than Germans and 80 times more excise on wine than French, writes Sarah Slater.
The Craft Distiller's Guild of BC is calling on the province to make policy changes to support local businesses. The guild says production caps on the industry prevent companies from growing. Richard Zussman has more.
Rural Ireland is bearing the brunt of a deepening crisis in the pub trade, with closures now happening at a rate of one every 2.8 days, according to the Vintners' Federation of Ireland (VFI).
Bourbon fans in Toronto are coming to the realization that their drink of preference is getting increasingly hard to find, months after the Ford government first pulled U.S. alcohol from LCBO shelves in response to tariffs imposed on Canadian goods.
The NSLC's decision to pull American alcohol from its shelves means it has to warehouse almost 600,000 units of booze as part of the province's response to the ongoing trade war with the United States.
The Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA) has created a new brochure designed to highlight the economic importance and complexity of the UK's wine and spirit trade.
The research, commissioned by the Drinks Industry Group of Ireland (DIGI), highlights a worrying trend for rural communities and small businesses alike.