News in brief: Brewery chases ale accolade and more
SKIPTON brewery Copper Dragon is celebrating winning another accolade for its hand crafted cask ales after reaching the final of the 2008 Sainsbury’s Beer Competition.
Copper Dragon’s Scotts 1816 brew will find out in October if it has won the supermarket giant’s challenge.
An initial order of 35,000 bottles of Scotts 1816 will also be distributed to Sainsbury stores across the country.
Copper Dragon, the first brewery to be based in Skipton for over 100 years, supplies its hand crafted Best Bitter, Golden Pippin, Scotts 1816, Challenger IPA and Black Gold cask ales to more than 1,500 pubs across the country and supplies its bottled ales to a number of supermarkets as well as foreign markets including Australia and Russia.
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UK entrepreneurs are being slow to recognise the business advantages and opportunities which adopting environmentally friendly behaviour can bring, according to Entrepreneurship UK: 2008 a report by Deloitte, the business advisory firm.
Less than a third (29%) of entrepreneurial businesses are currently undertaking any carbon reduction initiatives, despite more than a quarter of the businesses surveyed by Deloitte believing that environmental issues will have a positive impact by presenting opportunities to exploit new products and services.
Nearly two-fifths (38%) of companies questioned say they are many years away from introducing changes to reduce their carbon footprint, while 33% say they will do so in the next one or two years.
Most of the green initiatives being employed by UK entrepreneurs involve waste reduction, recycling and energy conservation.
More complex initiatives, such as reducing CO2 emissions for the business as a whole, water conservation and imposing green requirements on their own suppliers are not as popular, perhaps reflecting the greater focus and resource required, which is less readily available in a fast growing entrepreneurial business.
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PUREBRAND Creative Communications has been commissioned by Leeds City Council to create and deliver the pre-opening promotional campaign for the £26m Leeds City Museum.
Set to become one of the City’s major visitor attractions, the museum, which will open its doors to the public in September, is situated in the transformed Grade II listed former Civic Theatre building next to Leeds’ Millennium Square.
Jointly funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, Leeds City Council, the Single Regeneration Budget and Yorkshire Forward, the museum will offer free entry, and has been designed to bring the City’s history to life and explore different civilisations throughout time.
