Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) is making a significant investment in Coca-Cola and Coke Zero in the on-trade in the run-up to the 2014 FIFA World Cup. It is offering on-trade customers bespoke point-of-sale materials and themed packs of its 330ml bottle to drive visibility and rate of sale around Coca-Cola and Coke Zero. CCE has sponsored …

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Tom Walker from The American Bar at The Savoy in London has been declared winner of this year’s global Bacardi Legacy cocktail competition in Russia. After gaining a place to represent the UK in this week’s semi-finals in Moscow, he made it through to the grand final – beating 26 other bartenders from around the …

Will Cox (pictured) from The Bon Vivant bar in Edinburgh has won a place in the international final of a cocktail competition in the French West Indies. He was named UK winner of the Domaine de Canton Bartender of the Year contest in London after creating The Lady of the Indies that mixes the premium …

Maverick Drinks has announced the launch of Darkness! – a range of bold, dark single-malt and single-grain whiskies sourced from leading Scottish distilleries. The whiskies have a deep, dark colour from a three-month finish in specially crafted 50-litre first-fill sherry casks which the UK drinks distributor says makes the range the first of its kind. …