Som Distilleries & Breweries Ltd is gearing up for major expansion of its business, riding the consumption boom in beer in India with its Woodpecker and Hunter brands. In keeping with its ambitious targets, the company reported robust 67% year-on-year volume growth in its beer portfolio during the third quarter of FY2024. Total beer sales […]
Kerala has launched the much-awaited BevQ app to facilitate the sale of liquor in the state from tomorrow onward. The app will be available in the Google Play app store in a few minutes, after which connoisseurs can download the same and a slot in the virtual queue tomorrow. ‘Hot’ liquor will be served through […]
Kerala High Court has stayed a government of Kerala order allowing the sales of alcohol to anyone who produces a doctor’s prescription for the same. A civil supplies department official had issued directions to liquor dispensing agencies instructing them to provide liquor in case a person came with a doctor’s prescription for the same. At […]
A 38-year-old man from Kunnamkulam in Kerala reportedly committed suicide on the third day of the pan-India Coronavirus shutdown in Kerala because he could not get his daily dose of alcohol. Sanoj, a resident of Thuvanoor near Kunnamkulam was found dead today morning. According to the statements of his relatives, he was showing signs of […]
With a 21-day lockdown on people movement coming into place overnight, the Kerala government has taken an in-principle decision to allow the sale of liquor via the Internet. A decision in this respect was taken at today’s meeting of the council of ministers headed by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, according to local media reports. Liquor […]
Kerala Government may radically expand the number of liquor outlets in the state by tomorrow to prevent crowding at the existing outlets. Kerala State Beverages Corporation, along with Kerala State Co-operatives Consumers’ Federation, has a legal monopoly over the retailing of liquor in Kerala. However, with only around 300 outlets to serve a population of […]
United Spirits Limited (USL), India’s biggest liquor maker and a unit of Diageo plc, said it has sold its wine unit Four Seasons Wines and associated brands for Rs 32 cr. Four Seasons Wines was established in 2006 in Bangalore. It produces red, white, and rose wines from grapes grown around Sahyadri valley in Maharashtra […]
Facebook has refused to block a ‘drinker’s group’ that the Kerala Police had requested to be taken down, according to local media reports. The social network reportedly told the police that the group was not in violation of its guidelines and cannot be taken down without proper justification. The Kerala Excise department is trying to […]
Kerala’s snaking long queues in front of its liquor shops — the state’s only source of alcohol after bars were banned in 2014 — are almost as famous as the backwaters and beaches, but some relief may be on the horizon for hapless liquor buyers. As there are only about 340 liquor shops in a […]
The Madras High Court has asked the government of Tamil Nadu not to open any liquor shops for three months after complaints that it did not comply with the Supreme Court order on relocating roadside liquor shops. Unlike in most states in India, alchohol shops in Tamil Nadu are run directly by the state government under a […]
The Supreme Court of India has banned the sale of liquor along highways in India. It has ordered that all the licenses of liquor shops in and around the national and state highways in all the states should be closed when their licenses expire. During the trial, the court asked the central government for its […]
Beer afficianados can look forward to one more global brand on the shelves as the UK’s no. 1 beer, Carling, has been launched in India. The beer has been launched by its brand owner Molson Coors under a tie-up with Cobra Beer. Cobra is already a well known beer brand in India. “As one of […]
