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People moves: the latest news on people moves, jobs and training from across the pub sector (Image: MaximFesenko/Getty Images) The latest pub sector jobs round-up includes news of senior hires at Stonegate and Hawthorn, as well as new staffing data from workforce management specialist Bizimply.
Hawthorn appoints Colin Rutherford as new chairman
Community pub company Hawthorn has announced the appointment of Colin Rutherford as the new chairman of the 700-site group.
Rutherford, who has been a non-executive director at Mitchells and Butlers for eight years, takes up his position immediately, and joins CEO Mark Davies, CFO Matt Ward, COO Edith Monfries and non-executive director Ken Buckley on Hawthorn’s board.
The top 12 wine bargains of 2020 include an outstanding boxed malbec for the equivalent of $5 a bottle Dave McIntyre The most unusual wine I tasted this year was a bubbly from Slovenia called Untouched by Light. It was made by the Radgonske Gorice winery, which dates back to the Hapsburgs, with the premise that any exposure to light damages wine. The grapes were harvested at night and the wine produced, bottled and aged in an unlit cave by workers wearing night-vision goggles, then packaged in black bottles, wrapped in vacuum-sealed black bags and shipped off to lucky invitees around the world. The wine was officially unveiled during a nighttime gala at the winery, complete with an emcee, a world-renowned champagne expert to exclaim its virtues, and an apparently famous Slovenian singer crooning lengthy ballads from a balcony. And in keeping with the ethos of 2020, the whole shebang was hosted over Zoom.