NEWS Oddbins stores for sale
ADMINISTRATORS acting on behalf of bust off-sales chain Oddbins have put five Scottish stores on the market. Two stores in Aberdeen, one in
Magners makes TV return
MAGNERS will ‘bee’ making inroads into your viewing habits once again with two new adverts which aim to build on the success of last year’s award- winning ‘Method in the Magners’ campaign. ‘Bees’ (above), which debuted earlier this month during the FA Cup semi- final on ITV1, promotes Magners Original and follows a day in the life of Eamon, the Magners bee keeper. A second campaign, which tells the tale of Tommy Flynn, a giant who doesn’t know his own strength, will air from the end of April. It focuses on the launch of Magners Golden Draught.
Industry voices concern after Black Wednesday
NMW hike ‘will hit jobs’ – SLTA
By Jan Patience
LABOUR called it Black Wednes- day, and for the hospitality trade the label struck a chord as the latest round of tax and benefit changes came into force.
Introduced earlier this month on the
day the new tax year started, the chang- es included a 1% rise in the employees’ National Insurance contributions (a Labour initiative which the government decided not to reverse), an increase in statutory sick pay, taking the weekly amount employers have to pay from £79.15 to £81.60, and the effective end- ing of an employer’s ability to issue six- month notifications of retirement using the statutory retirement procedure. Following hot on the heels of these planned changes, the government an- nounced an increase in both the adult and youth minimum wage. From October, the adult minimum
wage will increase to £6.08, while the youth minimum wage – for those aged 18-20 – will rise by 6p to £4.98 an hour. The rate for 16-17 year olds will rise by 4p to £3.68 per hour. SLTA chief executive Paul Waterson said the planned minimum wage rise had “come at the worst possible time” for pubs. “It’s a very serious issue and it will af-
fect jobs, there’s no doubt about it,” he told SLTN. “A lot of businesses are just breaking even at the moment. When business isn’t good, cuts take place, so we’re concerned about the impact it could have on service “At a time of [pub sector] freezes, it
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Waterson fears service standards could suffer.
would have been nice if the government had recognised the problems publicans are facing.” A spokesman for the British Hospital- ity Association said while the minimum wage rise was inevitable, it would still present difficulties for the sector. “We are concerned about youth un- employment,” he said, “and increas- ing the minimum wage for young peo- ple, while not pushing it up so much for adults, is one way of tackling it. There is a recognition we have to be careful about wage costs for young people. It’s unwelcome, as it will put pressure on the payroll at a time when all costs are going up. “Every hospitality establishment is caught in a vice-like grip of rising costs and a reluctance on the part of the consumer to increase spending. “There’s a limit to how much efficiency
savings can be made. It has come to the point that if you can provide value then you can survive.”
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Inverness and two on Glasgow’s south side are among a tranche of 55 Oddbins outlets across the UK which Deloitte has instructed property agent Christie & Co to market. The agent said ‘best and final’ bids have to be submitted no later than 5pm on Monday May 2. “We will be conducting a short, focused campaign aimed at individuals and operators with an interest in this sector,” said Christie & Co head of retail Steve Rodell. “These off-licences offer both independent and multiple operators an excellent opportunity to acquire stores of varying size in prominent locations.”
This Oddbins branch on Glasgow’s Hyndland Road is not among those being marketed by the agent.
Beer campaign cleans up
MILLER Genuine Draft has hailed its Clean Streets campaign a major success for the brand, with sales rising around the activity.
The campaign emphasised the cool
factor of the product by taking a form of street art, called Clean Art. This combined with the Miller Filtered Music event, which featured performances from bands such as Doves and Ash.
MGD said sales rose during the campaign.
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