Signature Pub Company has revamped the bar at Edinburgh’s Rutland Hotel More than four years after turning the run-down Rutland Hotel in Edinburgh city centre into a stylish hotel, Signature Pub Group has invested in an update for its bar. Formerly the luxurious Rutland bar, it has been reinvented as The Huxley, with an emphasis …

Chris Moore (pictured) of the Beaufort Bar at London’s Savoy Hotel will be competing against 18 other bartenders from around the world at the global final of the Bacardi Legacy Cocktail Competition in Puerto Rico on April 25. He won the UK & Ireland final with his cocktail, The Encantador, in February. Judges will include …

The owners of Fat Cat Café Bars have put six of their sites up for sale, including the option to buy the name and continue roll-out. Colliers International has been instructed to dispose of the bars in city and town centre locations in Nottingham, Leicester, Derby, Bangor (pictured), Bow in east London and Frodsham in …

The Pimm’s brand is to be extended this summer with a vodka-based variant blended with blackberry and elderflower. The launch of the special edition will be supported by an integrated marketing campaign including print advertising, digital, social media and point-of-sale materials in the on-trade and off-trade. A TV ad campaign for Pimm’s will start in …

A series of activities and incentives are to be run throughout 2013 to promote the Stella Artois pouring ritual in the on-trade. AB InBev UK’s campaign will highlight the value of using the Stella Artois Chalice, which increases consumers’ willingness to pay more by 67 per cent and increases their perception of high quality by …