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Sole Bay trader - Editor Steve Curtis talks with Jonathan Adnams

By: Steve Curtis

01/09/2016

Adnams has a long and rich heritage. Beer has been brewed on the same site as the present brewery for at least 670 years and Adnams is proud of their history as well as looking to the future and a business that continues to innovate and evolve.

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Risky business - Disruption in the alcohol industry

By: Bronwyn Kunhardt

01/09/2016

New technology and innovation are disrupting traditional industries from pharmaceuticals to car-making. The alcohol industry is no different.

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Operations Management

By: Shane McNamara

01/09/2016

The first of a two-part article on operations management, this is an adaptation from the Creative Commons Global Text Project book Business Fundamentals. Part one provides an overview of the role of operations management in organisations covering the differences between strategic and tactical decisions, and key operations management decisions faced by managers.

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Milling and Mashing

By: Billy Mitchell

01/09/2016

This is the second article in the series to support those studying for their General Certifi cate in Distilling. This article will cover many of the milling and mashing processes employed in the spirits industry although its main focus will be on spirits produced from 100% malted barley.

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Kerry’s world leading Innovation Centre in the heartland of Kildare

By: Gerry McGovern

01/08/2016

The Kerry Group’s origins date back to 1972, when three shareholders, the state-owned Dairy Disposal Company, a group of eight small farmer co-operatives in Kerry and the Erie Casein Company Inc. from the US, committed to invest £200,000 to finance a £1 million dairy processing facility in Listowel, Co. Kerry.

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Crisis Management

By: Paul Byrne

01/09/2016

Every day, companies are faced with crises. From natural disasters to unsavoury co-worker behavior – and everything in between – crises are commonplace. In today’s 24-hour news cycle, companies must be prepared to respond to a crisis as well as handle incidents that have the potential to become disastrous. How a company manages a crisis situation can correlate with how it is perceived by media, customers, suppliers and the community.

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As we walked out ... IBD Southern Section 2016 tour to Catalonia, Spain

By: Julian Herrington

01/09/2016

In May of this year, delegates from the UK Southern Section visited Catalonia in Spain where we were reminded of another famous tour eighty-one years ago. As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is a memoir by Laurie Lee, a British poet, describing his walk through Spain in 1935. It is a sequel to Cider with Rosie which detailed his life in post First World War Gloucestershire. So as we walked out one midsummer morning we were reminded of his epic travels as we encountered warm welcomes from our hosts in Barcelona and later in Girona.