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Ryder Cup legend Colin Montgomerie helped launch a very special Ryder Cup bottling of Johnnie Walker Blue Label.

Back home

FOOD and drink will play a major part in golf’s Ryder Cup, being held next month (26 - 28 September) at Gleneagles. And Diageo will...
Hamlyns of Scotland is sponsor on STV of the daytime TV show Let’s Do Lunch. The campign is a key part of the marketing activity behind its Scottish Porridge Sachets and Porridge Pots.

As seen on TV

Hamlyns sponsors new daytime show, Let’s Do Lunch, to promote its instant porridge and porridge pots. OATS brand Hamlyns of Scotland is sponsoring the...
RR Spink and Sons

Trout gets its freedom

ARBROATH fish company, RR Spink and Sons, has launched what it claims is the first Freedom Food-standard smoked trout. The brand has also scooped...

Birthday plans for Distillers

INVER House Distillers, the company behind Old Pulteney, Balblair, Speyburn, Hankey Bannister, anCnoc and Caorunn gin, is 50 this year. The company has planned a...

The special one

ORKNEY Cheddar has joined Parma ham and Cornish pasties in gaining PGI status, meaning that it can only be produced in the specific region...
rapeseed oil

Oil farmers go for gold

EIGHT Scottish rapeseed growers have joined together to promote the product they are calling “Scotlands Gold”. Scottish Rapeseed Oil, made up of producers of cold-pressed...
Glayva

Glam Glayva

WHISKY liqueur Glayva has a new-look embossed bottle, desgined to highlight the flavours present in the drink. The label has been modernised and the closure...
Lees, teacake,

New teacake

AS the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony showed, there is nothing more Scottish than a teacake. Lees’ new Jaffa Teacakes might not be entirely traditonal...
AG Barr, Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, Irn-Bru,

Post-Games Brus

SOFT drinks giant AG Barr’s support of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games has helped retailers capitalise on consumers’ excitement, according to head of marketing...
Baxters

Highland giant launches snack meals range

FOCHABERS-based family-run food manufacturer Baxters has branched out with two new ranges of instant hot meals using some distinctly non-Scottish recipes. Baxters Meal Pots...
Marking September’s Craft Beer Rising, left to right: Matt Johnson, Pilot Brewery, Leith; Pat Jones, also Pilot; Alessandra Confessore, Drygate Brewing Co, Glasgow; Graeme Martin, Tempest Brew Co, Kelso; Peter Stuart, Thistly Cross Cider, Dunbar.

City to host the craft

GLASGOW’S new Drygate brewery is hosting the Craft Beer Rising festival at its city headquarters next month, the first time the event has been...
The award-winning Killie Pie has new silverware for the trophy cabinet: it has been voted Scotland’s Best Savoury Product for the second year running.

Pie goes sky high

KILMARKNOCK-based Brownings the Bakers has done the double: its Killie Pie has been voted Scotland’s Best Savoury Product two years in a row. The...

Waste not…

SCOTTISH businesses can find out how to cut waste and save money by accessing a free package of support being rolled out this summer...
Nairn’s

Oats champ in snack attack

Nairn’s bars with fruit and seeds aim to capture health-conscious nibblers OATCAKE brand Nairn’s is expanding its range to take advantage of what it sees...
Hovis has a new bag, made from renewable polythene, that will cut its carbon footprint by three-quarters.

Hovis slashes its carbon footprint

Bakery giant’s new renewable polythene bag to be flagged on-pack to emphasise its green credentials to consumers. BREAD giant Hovis is lowering its packs’...
Macsween

No more landfill

HAGGIS producer Macsween has changed its manufacturing process so that no waste products are sent to landfill. Earlier this year the company was recycling 90%...