Guala Closures Group has launched what it says is the world’s first screwcap closure for 75cl bottles of sparkling wine.

Kopparberg cider launches a new advertising campaign on TV today and in cinemas later in the summer.

Tesco has added an English sparkler to its range ahead of the Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics.

The Scottish government has set its preferred minimum unit price for alcohol at 50p.

Bacardi-Brown Forman Brands is running a free branded glass promotion on 500,000 bottles of its spirits brands in grocery accounts and convenience stores.

Adnams has opened a new Cellar & Kitchen shop in Norwich.

AB Inbev is set to launch a pear variant of its Stella Artois Cidre.

Oddbins has launched what it says is “the world’s first synchronised wine and music-matching event”.

Marks & Spencer is introducing 15 wines from six eastern Mediterranean countries.

Online retailer Naked Wines is moving into the US and Australia with low-key retail operations setting up in both countries over the summer.

The amount of land under vine in England has grown by more than 60% in just five years, according to the latest figures from the Wine Standards Branch of the Food Standards Agency.

Specsavers is looking for women in drinks retailing to enter its Everywoman in Retail awards.

Bargain Booze joint managing director Matthew Hughes has left the business after owner ECI Partners called off its search for a buyer for the franchise chain.

HM Revenue & Customs has stepped up its work with local councils to strip retailers who sell duty-defrauded and counterfeit alcohol of their licences.

MSPs have agreed a sunset clause in proposed minimum pricing legislation which will see the measure automatically expire after six years unless a specific order is made by ministers for it to continue.

D&D Wines has collapsed after running into cash flow problems, OLN has learned.

Booker’s wine category manager, Rob Hart, has left the business to start his own microbrewery.

Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference French Sparkling Cider has won the International Cider Challenge 2012.

Ireland’s independent off-licence sector will go out of business in five years, warns the chairwoman of the National Off-Licence Association, unless the Irish government enforces legislation to curb aggressive price promotion and introduces structural segregation of alcohol.

It has emerged that the number of people who lost their jobs in last year’s collapse of Simon Baile’s Oddbins was almost twice that stated by administrator Deloitte at the time.