Amazon halts alcohol sales in Northern Ireland and prepares to de-list more products due to new Brexit customs rules
26/01/2021
Amazon has stopped selling wines, beers and spirits to its customers in Northern Ireland as it wrestles with new customs rules post-Brexit.
Bars and pubs are struggling to get drinks from Europe due to Brexit paperwork and rising costs
24/06/2021
‘Everything’s just a lot more difficult and it’s costing us more’
Heineken and Carlsberg follow makers of Carling and Budweiser in hiking cost of their beers in face of weak pound
Brexit-backing Wetherspoon has become the latest business to be hit by supply chain issues as the pub giant faces shortages of popular beer brands.
The BBC has spoken to three companies that trade heavily with the UK, to find out what changes consumers can expect after Brexit.
BrewDog CEO James Watt has warned that Brexit “has been tragic for UK business”, including his own.
Leaving the EU has “massively handicapped UK companies that do business in Europe", James Watt has said.
It is more than a month since the UK's new trading relationship with the European Union (EU) came into being but the transition has been far from easy for some businesses. From being told to set up operations in Europe, having goods stuck in port and facing increased costs to clear the border, three North East firms reveal the reality of adapting to the new rules.
It comes as a British wine wholesaler ‘left Brexitland for good’ over paperwork, and is flourishing by all accounts.
Brexit: despatches from the downside – No 19
27/01/2024
This week's Brexit downsides: half a billion in extra costs to import food, the collapse of trade talks with Canada and more.
A Kent brewery says it has seen a 95% drop in export sales since the UK left the EU.
A POPULAR Brighton pub has closed due to the rising cost of electricity bills and “Brexit nonsense”. / Management cited various reasons for the closure including the rise in energy costs, Brexit and “other issues” which meant they did not expect to survive.
Britain needs 100,000 more drivers if it is to meet demand, according to the UK's Road Haulage Association (RHA). The signs are already there: sporadic gaps on supermarket shelves, pubs running low on beer, McDonald's suspending milkshakes.
Wetherspoon's — one of the U.K.'s largest pub chains — admitted this week that they were struggling to keep some major beer brands in stock.
Bury St Edmunds beer shop set to reopen after owner 'takes back control' of Brexit red tape
10/04/2021
Before the UK left the European Union, the beer, which makes up 80 per cent of his stock, would have arrived within 10 to 14 days 'without a hitch'.
We look ahead to next week's European Council and the Peoples Vote March on 20 October.
"A combination of the Covid-19 pandemic, Brexit and other factors have led to unresolvable supply chain issues for critical elements of the festival infrastructure," organisers said on Twitter.
Closure fears for Beautiful Beers in Bury St Edmunds after Brexit red tape depletes stock
17/03/2021
The owner of a popular Bury St Edmunds shop which specialises in European beers fears he may have to close after Brexit related red tape depleted his stock.
Drinks industry reiterates concerns after minister refuses to provide latest on efforts to resolve HGV driver shortage.
The artisan brewing business based in Kinloss, Morayshire, founded by Heather McDonald, has suffered “unsustainable cash flow problems” arising from the rapid contraction of the global hospitality and licensed trade industry and problems and costs for exporters arising from Brexit.
Did the EU ban crown marks on pint glasses?
05/01/2022
To mark the first anniversary of the trade deal between the UK and the EU, Downing Street issued a press release about how prime minister Boris Johnson plans to "maximise the benefits of Brexit".
How cocktail of Brexit and Covid is causing mounting problems in Folkestone - and across the country
08/09/2021
But over the course of the year, a crisis, fuelled by the decision to leave the European Union, has been steadily, stealthily, stretching its tentacles around many of the services and products we expect and rely on.
How have consumers and businesses been impacted a month on from the end of transition period?
01/02/2021
What has changed in the 31 days since the UK left and how has it impacted consumers and businesses?
New changes to alcohol duty in the UK take effect today, with some drinks set to see their biggest price increase in almost 50 years.
Rishi Sunak says he wants to protect the price of your pint - but membership in the EU didn’t stop him.