Drinks Retailing is thrilled to announce the independent shortlist for our Drinks Retailing Awards 2026. Every year, the countdown to the awards night…
Drinks Retailing is thrilled to announce the independent shortlist for our Drinks Retailing Awards 2026. Every year, the countdown to the awards night…
Kill The Cat is a beer-led hybrid retailer described as a “craft beer bar, kitchen and bottle shop for the curious”. After opening the new Spitalfields location in late July, Kill The Cat co-owner Phil Curl discusses plans for the latest venture It’s a much larger site. Compared to our Brick Lane location, which is about 300 square ft, Kill The Cat Spitalfields is about…
As the couple behind Hove grocery store and wine shop, Shoreline Stores, prepare to open a café next door, they talk to Drinks Retailing about hybrid potential, wine prices and what hospitality can bring to retail Louise and Dariush Tamadon-Nejad opened Shoreline in August 2022, seven years after a California road trip gave them some ideas about the kind of space they wanted to…
The Drinks Retailing Awards are now open for entries for the 2023 event. The awards, which have been given a makeover for 2023, celebrate the best in the UK off-trade. The free-to-enter independent categories are: Newcomer, Best Retailer Promotional Activity, Convenience Drinks Retailer, Hybrid Retailer, Independent Drinks Retailer, Independent Beer & Cider Retailer, Independent Spirits Retailer, Independent Wine Retailer, Luxury Retailer, Online Excellence, Regional Chain…
The organisers of London Wine Fair (LWF) have said the live event will go ahead, after a two-year hiatus. This year’s show will also feature a digital element, making it the first time LWF has produced a hybrid event. The 2022 return to London’s Olympia, from May 16-18, marks LWF’s 40th live show. Meanwhile, the digital element will run a week earlier, on May 9-10. …
The 2021 London Wine Fair will be an online-only event after a chance of heart by the organisers caused by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. It had been announced last October that there would be a hybrid digital and live event with visitor numbers capped at 6,000, and the fair had hoped to outline details at their start of January. But the fresh lockdown and prospects…
Irish whiskey brand Kinahan’s is returning to its roots with the release of a new whiskey made in bespoke handmade hybrid casks. The Kasc Project is described as “the world’s first series of whiskies made in hybrid casks”. Each cask is made from a mix of five different types of wood, including unusual oak varieties and chestnut (Irish regulations, unlike Scotland, allow maturation in ‘wood’…
Vagabond is gearing up to add four stores to its estate over the next eight months. The company, which operates wine bar and shop hybrid sites throughout London, recently opened its sixth store in Paddington. It currently has four additional sites in the pipeline, with the first expected to open in late September, one in October or November, another in…
