Taking Stock – Our Latest Newsletter

We’re pleased announce the Issue of Taking Stock – the newsletter for Stocktake UK and Stockcheck, filled with all the latest news, views and goings-on from our businesses.

This special Winter edition focuses on our future plans unveiled at our two national franchisee north and south meetings, held in Manchester and Oxford respectively, plus all the up-to-date news on our latest appointments and developments in products and services.

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Recent News

Experienced Licensed Trade Stocktakers required!

Stocktake UK is seeking to recruit an experienced and knowledgeable stocktaker in the West Yorkshire/Leeds area.

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STUK goes racing!

Stocktake UK’s Franchisee, Robert Fitzsimmons’s son, Michael is entering the new 2012 motorsport season with a new, more powerful vehicle.

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Publicans urged to gather more trading info to help business rates appeals

Licensees are being warned to be more diligent with the information they gather when taking on a new pub, to help any future business rates appeals.

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Panic Now!

It would be nice to think that the British public considers ale and lager to be liquids every bit as essential as diesel and petrol. And that, if draymen threatened to go on strike at some unspecified time within the next few weeks, pub bars would be 10-deep with worried beer lovers buying in bulk, and pub car parks would fill up with people decanting their brew of choice into jerry cans, lemonade bottles and jam jars.

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Pub industry condemns beer duty rise

Pub companies and trade groups have expressed their dismay at the Chancellor’s decision to maintain the alcohol duty escalator in the 2012 budget, which has resulted in a 5% rise in duty – to come into force at midnight on Sunday.

Pub companies and trade groups have expressed their dismay at the Chancellor’s decision to maintain the alcohol duty escalator in the 2012 budget, which has resulted in a 5% rise in duty – to come into force at midnight on Sunday.

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Business Outlook 2012: What’s in store for hospitality?

Business Outlook 2012: What’s in store for hospitality? Restaurants, hotels and pubs had mixed fortunes in 2011, with all three hospitality sectors suffering a decline in property prices. But there is hope on the horizon, with the potential for an increase in opportunities and transactions in 2012.

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Taking Stock – Our Latest Newsletter

Download the new edition of Taking Stock to find out what’s going on at Stocktake UK and Stockcheck this Winter.

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On-trade soft drink sales fall by 1%

Sales of soft drinks in the on-trade fell 1% by value last year, while the decline in volumes accelerated to 4%, according to the Britvic Soft Drinks Report. The report says the value of the category in the on-trade reached £2.7bn in 2011. The decline of 1% compares with a 1% increase in 2010. Volumes [...]

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