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BREW TIME

Take time out to get in the know at what is happening
in the hot beverages market

The world of work in 2023

At the end of 2022 many of us
anticipated 2023 being the year things
would start to settle down. The
pandemic would largely be behind us
and Brexit ramificationsdisappearing
in the rear-view mirror.
Instead, we have lurched straight into another difficult
period with the hardest-hitting cost-of-living crisis in living
memory, an escalating war in Eastern Europe and a
predicted global recession.

Scotland delays DRS until
October 2025 RESEARCHERS ONE STEP

The Scottish government has pushed CLOSER TO GROWING
back the rollout of the country’s DECAFFEINATED COFFEE
deposit return scheme (DRS) until BEANS
October 2025, in line with the rest of
the UK. A Brazilian coffee research institute has started a
The announcement was made on the 7th of June by the decisive stage in a two-decade project to develop
circular economy minister Lorna Slater. It arrives in light of arabica coffee varieties that are naturally
the UK government blocking the inclusion of glass in the decaffeinated, a development the researchers
scheme. think could have significant commercial potential.
Ms Slater said: “I told parliament on the 6th of June that If successful, the resulting varieties could find a
our scheme cannot proceed as planned. The refusal of the market niche in large consuming regions such as
UK government alone to budge on glass makes that Europe and the US among consumers who would
obvious. prefer them to current decaffeinated brands that
are the result of chemical or industrial processes.
Over-50s to fill post-Brexit
vacancies

One of Britain’s leading pub
companies has filled 500 vacancies
over the past 12 months using a
scheme that brings the over-50s
back into the workplace.
Fuller, Smith & Turner said that its attempts to secure help from JULY/AUGUST. 2023 | ISSUE 31
the government in resolving the post-Brexit labour shortage had
proved fruitless, forcing it to change tack on recruitment.

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