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BBPA launches new website to step up beer duty campaign

Feb 9, 2015 | News

The campaign to secure a third, historic cut in beer duty moved up another gear today, with the launch of a new website from the BBPA, where supporters can email their MP asking then to back the campaign. The website, www.beerandpubjobs.co.uk, provides a huge range of...

Sales of cask ale increasing each year

Feb 4, 2015 | News, Stats & Research

Cask ale continues to grow and to increase its share of the on-trade beer market according to recently-released figures for 2014. Total sales of standard and premium cask ale were 2,204,000 barrels in 2012, 2,223,000 in 2013 and 2,248,000 in 2014. What appears really...

British beer sales up for the first time in ten years

Jan 30, 2015 | Latest

Total beer sales up 1.3 per cent in 2014,  ending a decade of decline Off-trade sales overtake on trade, for the first time on record A third duty cut is vital, says BBPA’s Brigid Simmonds A decade of decline in UK beer sales has come to an end, with a 1.3 per cent...

BBPA urges MPs to support Beer Duty cut

Jan 16, 2015 | News

The BBPA’s Brigid Simmonds has written to Members of Parliament this week, urging them to support a Parliamentary motion urging a cut in beer duty in the Budget on 18th March. Early Day Motion 625 has been tabled by campaigning MP Andrew Griffiths, and already has the...

Membership of SUSTAIN increases

Jan 12, 2015 | News

Nine new members have formally signed up to the BBPA-operated SUSTAIN waste packaging compliance scheme, marking a great start to 2015. The new members include Britain’s biggest brewer, Molson Coors, and, for the first time, two leading pub companies. Membership is...
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