Hungarian bartender Gabor Onufer has won the Bols Around the World cocktail competition.

Heaven Hill Distilleries is to launch a limited edition 20 year old bourbon.

Belvédère’s Polish vodka brand Krupnik recorded the largest growth of any spirit or liqueur brand in 2011, pushing it into the top ten of the world’s best selling vodkas, according to The Millionaires’ Club 2012.

Gruppo Campari has announced group pre-tax profit of €52.8 million for the quarter ending March 31, 2012. 

The Philippines-based Emperador brand is the world’s number one selling brandy after more than doubling its volume sales during 2011.

UK distributor First Drinks is to invest £2m in marketing the Green Mark vodka brand in the UK.

Scottish health minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced that the Scottish government will be introducing a minimum price for alcohol of 50p per unit.

Glenfiddich has become the first single malt scotch to sell a million 9-litre cases in a year.

Bacardi is to launch a cognac in the US.

AB InBev UK today announced the June launch of Stella Artois Cidre Pear to the UK on and off-trade.

Danny DeVito has partnered with Design Spirits UK for the launch of his eponymous limoncello brand this month.

A US court has upheld a ruling to protect Maker’s Mark’s dripping red wax seal.

Meantime Brewing Company is to open “London’s biggest new brewery since 1936”. The new facility is to quadruple Meantime’s beer production capacity to 100,000 hectolitres and will host a visitor’s centre and shop.

Islay single malt Bowmore is launching a new expression in the UK - Bowmore Small Batch Reserve.

Diageo has apologised to Scottish brewer and bar operator BrewDog after it was stripped of an award at an industry event in Scotland.

China is the key for any global company and it is as important now as the US was in the past, according to speakers at the inaugural Worshipful Company of Distillers' city debate.

Panache Beverage is to launch its vodka brands in Canada. Wodka Vodka and Alchemia Infused Vodka are to be represented in Canada by OBH Wine and Spirits.

Pernod Ricard USA is to move its US headquarters to Park Avenue in Manhattan.

Bacardi Global Travel Retail has appointed Mike Birch to the role of managing director.

A London bartender has fought off competition from more than 60 bartenders in the Sloane’s Gin ‘Twisted Traditions’ National Cocktail Competition.

The 2011 World’s 50 Best Bars list has been published, in partnership with sponsor Stolichnaya. This year, New York speakeasy PDT (Please Don’t Tell) took the top spot, with London hotel bars The Connaught and the Artesian in second and third place.