Your personal Drinks Industry Ireland digest
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Your personal Drinks Industry Ireland digest

Nearly 25% of females increase alcohol intake during Covid-19

Off-trade | Similar percentage of male and female respondents report increase in consumption of alcohol

2020 Irish Whiskey Awards cancelled

Off-trade | Organiser cannot be sure what restrictions will be in existence next October

British beer sales collapse 40% in March

On-trade | Fall reflects immediate impact of first two weeks of pubs lockdown

Central Bank extending National Claims Information Database to EI & PLI

On-trade | Data to be published asap with data collection to commence H2 2020 and first report H1 2021

Planning for Mercantile Hotel extension granted

On-trade | Mercantile Group secures planning for €10m Dame St extension

April H1 online alcohol sales up 19%

Off-trade | People placing more orders online but of lower value

LVA & VFI seek urgent meeting with Government

On-trade | Pub representatives to put forward series of radical proposals to maintain public health compliance

Craft Brewing & the Coronavirus lockdown

What’s happening in our craft breweries as we live through lockdown? Pat Nolan spoke to a number of them to see how they’re coping, what they’re doing to counter the drop in business and what plans they have for when all this is over.

UK FCA seeks to resolve Business Interruption insurance issues

The British Beer & Pub Association has welcomed an announcement by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority that it intends to obtain a court declaration – “on an agreed and urgent basis” - to resolve contractual uncertainty in Business Interruption insurance cover.

Covid-19 payment causing problems for retailers with part-time staff

Many retailers have become frustrated at the apparent ease with which the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Welfare has introduced the €350 Covid-19 Unemployment Benefit Scheme, according to the Convenience Stores and Newsagents Association.
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