If the share price holds its value by close of trading today at 16.30, the company will be worth in the region of £200m, with 60% of the firm’s stocks floated. Investment company LDC is selling 80% of the 25% equity is bought last year and founders Tim Warillow and Charles Rolls are selling 40% of their majority stake. The pair, who will hold onto…

IT MAY HAVE TAKEN more than 10 years but it’s fair to say that gin has at last shaken off its old fuddy-duddy ‘gin and jag’ image and has not only emerged as the preferred white spirit among the top mixing fraternity in über watering holes around the world, but is finding favour with a growing band of trendy “young things” – aka consumers. …

THREE-QUARTERS is a commanding share of the whole. It’s a grade A on your maths paper, the controlling share of a business, and more than enough seats to govern a country. It’s also the proportion of T in a G&T – but here three-quarters commands only a small fraction of attention. When it comes to the gin quarter of the…

Consumers are not bartenders. In the main they want their drinks to arrive with the minimum of fuss. Complicated serving rituals, measures and alcohol-to-mixer ratios involve input, effort and knowledge. Having it pre-mixed makes life easy. People like easy. So why has it taken the spirits world so long to realise this? Why only now, in the past few years of a few hundred-year-old…