Industry

The Two Faces of Christmas

Christmas is a time of festivities, but also for alcohol multinationals to push their product with aggressive marketing. Colin Shevills discusses this and Diageo's partnership...

The case for repoliticising alcohol use and harms

Journalist and PhD candidate James Wilt discusses how the profit seeking of the alcohol industry has led to a public health crisis. Wilt explains how...

Contents unknown: what alcohol labels aren’t telling us

The only information required on alcohol labels is container size, ABV and common allergens. Non-alcoholic drinks need far more information. The alcohol industry claims that...

What do we know about the alcohol industry’s engagement with youth alcohol education?

The alcohol industry provides materials for schools to educate children about alcohol harm. This study highlights the bias nature of these materials, which normalise alcohol...

The alcohol industry is everywhere? Researcher experiences of industry monitoring, surveillance, and legal threats

Researchers' contact with the alcohol industry can range from short conversations at conferences, to attacks in the media and even legal threats. Here Dr Mitchell...

What can the UK learn from Australia and New Zealand’s fight for mandatory alcohol warning labels?

Australia and New Zealand struggled for years to bring in mandatory pregnancy warning labels on alcohol products. Maddie Heenan looks at what lessons other countries...

2012’s Alcohol Strategy 10 years on: was the ‘GAS’ a lot of hot air?

Our Head of Research looks at 2012's Alcohol Strategy a decade on, highlighting the Government's inertia and failure to achieve the vast majority of what...

Under the influence: is the alcohol industry using the World Trade Organization to lobby against alcohol policies?

World Trade Organization member states regularly use alcohol industry arguments to prevent and delay the implementation of effective alcohol control policies. Here Dr Barlow explains...

How do stakeholders in global alcohol policymaking talk about alcohol harms and control measures?

Analysing the responses to the World Health Organization's alcohol strategy consultation, Chiara Rinaldi highlights the difference in how stakeholders frame alcohol consumption and harm.

Is the alcohol industry placing profits before teens’ future prospects?

How much does the alcohol industry profit due to underage drinking? Dr Trangenstein and Dr Eck look at this question and discuss what should be...

Alcohol marketing versus public health: David and Goliath?

A major obstacle for public health bodies is challenging powerful transnational alcohol corporations: a story of David and Goliath.

A brief window of opportunity: The case of MUP in England

Ben Hawkins writes about the pricing policy's short lived time in the spotlight

Has pub diversification ended decades of decline?

Adapted from Alcohol Policy UK

International trade, alcohol policy and health regulation

Arianna Andreangeli asks whether the current crisis of the WTO appellate body is likely to have an impact on this complex equation?

DrinkTank – Alcohol industry calling the shots on Australian health policy

Cross-posted from the Drink Tank website

‘When you drink more, I earn more’ – fuelling the oil fund problem in Norway

Why is the Norwegian prime minister painted on walls in Uganda? Nils Garnes of IOGT explains

Heineken honoured as a benefactor despite its misconduct in Africa

Translated by Wim van Dalen

Is the decline of pubs overstated?

The issue may seem more complex than first appears, says Aveek Bhattacharya

Tell me more, tell me more – what’s this industry-led public health initiative about?

How useful are the messages given by Public Health England’s partnership initiative with industry sponsored Drinkaware? Researcher Colin Angus finds out

Trade magazines offer insights into Australian alcohol industry priorities and strategies

Research finds profits prioritised over public health