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==Organic Industry Structure==
The [[Coalition Against Raising the Drinking Age in Scotland]] (Cardas)
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[[File:Howard, Philip H. 2009. Organic Industry Structure. Media-N Journal of the New Media Caucus, 5(3). -online.png|center|<ref>Howard, Philip H. 2009. Organic Industry Structure. Media-N Journal of the New Media Caucus, 5(3).-online.png|Howard, Philip H. 2009. Organic Industry Structure. Media-N Journal of the New Media Caucus, 5(3)-online|Acquisitions by the Top 30 Food Processors in North America. (click to resize)</ref>]]
  
[[Tim Ambler]]
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[[National Organisation for Foetal Alcohol Syndrome UK]]
[[Landmark Europe]]
 
[[Image:Tosspock3.jpg|right|thumb|Claire's favourite Star Trek character]]
 
Have a look at the resources section of the page on CoRWM: http://www.spinprofiles.org/index.php/CoRWM or http://www.spinprofiles.org/index.php/Bell_Pottinger_Communications#References
 
  
The key thing is to reference docuemtns fully (ie author, title, source, vdate etc) and to upload the documents to the site via the 'upload image' link under 'special pages'.  To determine the url for the uploaded file right click on the name of it once uploaded and 'copy link location'.
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==  Booze in News Past Stories  ==
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*Big Alcohol are reducing the alcohol volume in key products by 0.2% in order to pay less duty to the UK exchequer. Daily Mail, 22 January 2012, [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2090136/Taxbeater-Stella-Budweiser-cut-alcohol-levels-bid-save-millions-pounds-duty-hikes.html?ito=feeds-newsxml Taxbeater! Stella and Budweiser cut alcohol levels in bid to save millions of pounds in duty hikes], Mirror, 22nd January 2012, [http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2012/01/22/alcohol-content-of-top-beers-budweiser-stella-artois-and-beck-s-cut-to-save-cash-115875-23712345/ Alcohol content of top beers Budweiser, Stella Artois and Beck's cut to save cash]
  
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*NME, 26th October 2011, [http://www.nme.com/news/amy-winehouse/60020 Coroner expected to hear that Amy Winehouse's died from alcohol withdrawal Inquest into the singer's death begins today (October 26) in London]
author, [http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/2/23/Foi.pdf title for this doc] dates etc et
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*British Medical Journal, 27th September 2011, Mark Bellis, [http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d6023.extract UK drinking guidelines are better for the alcohol industry than the public]
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*The Sunday Times, 2nd October 2011, Melanie Newman and Mark Hookham [http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/Politics/article788525.ece Beer-tax MP ‘blurs lines’ on lobbying rules: Conservative who campaigned for a cut in alcohol tax was being paid more than £30,000-a-year by a consultancy linked to a brewer] (Subscription Required)
  
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== Former Booze in the News Stories  ==
  
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*Reuters, 12 January 2012, [http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/12/us-red-wine-heart-idUSTRE80B0BH20120112 Red wine-heart research slammed with fraud charges]
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*BBC, 19 January 2012, [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-16624823 Beer 'must be sold' at Brazil World Cup, says Fifa], the sale of alcohol in sports stadia is not permitted in Brazil on the grounds of promoting health and reducing violence. This has been the case since 2003. Budweiser is a major sponsor of the FIFA world cup and together Budweiser and FIFA are working together to force a change in Brazilian policy in order to increase alcohol sales.
  
great stuff on Rycroft.  The SDP links and Bell Pottinger info is great.  Maybe it is worth having a setion at the bottom on his career which just lists the dates of his various appointments? I was confused about when whe was where and if he cae from and went to Bell Pottinger or was only there once etc?
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[[Alcohol Price and Consumption]]
  
--[[User:David|David]] 08:59, 28 August 2008 (BST)
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[[File:Mephadrone.jpg|thumb|right| Mephedrone]] <ref> Fantasia [http://www.fantazia.org.uk/drugs/mephedrone.htm Mephedrone] accessed 13th June 2012</ref>
  
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No, I think two pages is fine.  If you are fleshing this page out I would include a short ref to the history of Hnover as Media strategy on the Hanover page and reserve most of the pr-Hanover history for the Media Strategy Page.
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[[European Travel Retail Confederation]]
  
Check for typos...
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[[Penn Schoen and Berland]]
  
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== EPC Alcohol ==
--[[User:David|David]] 08:45, 25 September 2008 (BST)
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In 2001 the European Commission had begun the process of developing an alcohol strategy for Europe, which initially involved gathering information on the extent of alcohol related harm and possible policy solutions.  By 2006 the initial European Alcohol Strategy were being slowly introduced.  The alcohol industry were against a Europe wide strategy, but were keen for any action to be based on self regulation of the industry.   
  
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In 2005 and 2006, just before the introduction of the strategy, DG Sanco asked the European Policy Centre (EPC) to host four meetings between the alcohol industry and health NGOs.  These Round Table on “Alcohol related harm: ways forward” aimed to reach consensus on policy interventions and to ‘identify areas of agreement between the stakeholders as to actions that can contribute effectively to the reduction of alcohol-related harm and indicate where and why there is disagreement, and in so doing help create confidence between stakeholders’.<ref> Corporate Europe Observatory, [http://www.corporateeurope.org/observer2/epc.html Part One: The European Policy Centre] European Think Tank Series, Issue 2, October 1998, </ref> According to the [[Institute of Alcohol Studies]] these meetings were "At the behest of the [alcohol] Industry, DG SANCO officials organised roundtable discussion through the aegis of the European Policy Centre, between representatives of the Commission, Member States, Industry and NGOs to discuss the draft proposals for a European Alcohol Policy Strategy". <ref> Rutherford, D. (2006) [http://www.ias.org.uk/What-we-do/Publication-archive/The-Globe/Issue-3-2006/Editorial.aspx AIS Editorial] The Globe Issue accessed 28th October 2013 </ref>
  
Great that you can work on Claire Fox--pls do update her page also with any material you have about her booze-related activities.
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The meetings involved working through 78 issues or policy proposals related to alcohol harm reduction that were presented by the [[European Commission]] in an informal draft of their communication on Alcohol.  Participants graded each item using a traffic lights system, green issues were broadly agreeable to all present, amber a possibility and red a clear no.  68 of the measures were marked green,  Seven were amber, indicating no overall agreement but that some compromises might be reached.  Three were categorised as red issues where the industry simply refused to negotiate. <ref> Anderson & Baumberg, [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01713.x Alcohol Policy: Who should sit at the table?] ''Addiction Volume'' 102, No. 2 pp 335-336 (online subscription required)</ref>
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Dr [[Peter Anderson]], author of the Alcohol In Europe report (2006) commented “The European Policy Centre (EPC) describes itself as ‘an independent, not-for-profit think tank, committed to making European integration work’.  Its independence is, of course, ensured by the fact that its prime corporate members and sponsors include [[InBev]], the world’s largest brewer and [[Philip Morris]] International”. <ref> Anderson & Baumberg, [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01713.x Alcohol Policy: Who should sit at the table?] ''Addiction Volume'' 102, No. 2 pp 335-336 (online subscription required)</ref> The final outcome of this process, and other consultations resulted in the launch of the [[European Alcohol and Health Forum]].
  
Re your spinprofiles email account, as a portal editor, you should have had a couple of weeks ago an email from Bill, the spinprofiles web guy, giving you an email adde, which shd be
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In 1998 [[Diageo]] and The [[Weinberg Group]] helped set up a [[European Policy Centre]] ForumCorrespondence shows a representative of [[Diageo]] trying to organise a discount for a booking made by [[Weinberg Group]] for a forum run by the EPC<ref> Legacy Library, [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/documentStore/l/m/g/lmg63a99/Slmg63a99.pdf Fax to Sarah Bennett BLRA from Andrea Livett of Diageo] 10th March 1998, accessed 7th November 2011 </ref>. [[Weinberg Group]] are well known for their work assisting tobacco, alcohol and chemical industries.
claire.harkins@spinprofiles.org
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and a user name and password. you need to go into yr email prog and set up a new account with the details that Bill has sent you. It's slightly techie so you might want to get someone to help you. I have sent you a test email to this adde so let me know if you get it! Also let me know if you didn't get such an email from Bill. I am still struggling to work out the technical details of how the site runs myself.
 
 
 
BW
 
Claire
 
 
 
HI Claire
 
 
 
just doing a tour of the portal pages. think yr booze one is looking good. if there's one thing that may make it more accessible to the public before the launch, I think it might be to introduce them in simple language to a couple of the main issues around booze. In the Issues box or similar? I am not an expert on the topic but one possib that comes to mind is the industry's attempts to link lack of regulation of booze with liberty/freedom from government in the public mind? also people are worried about the licensing hours issue because of the violent binge-drinkers etc rolling along the streets at all hours--and relaxing licensing hours has got to be about raising revenue for the government hasn't it? because they get more tax back from the booze sold as a result of the longer hours? these are just guesses--as I said, I'm not an expert, but is it possible just to choose a couple of issues to foreground for the public? whatever the industry is/has been lobbying for I guess are the things to highlight.
 
 
 
hope I didn't trip over yr toes on Claire Fox--thought you'd finished her when I dived in. my apologies for that. must be like working in a field of vultures...
 
 
 
BW, Claire
 
 
 
== From Rick Berman need sorted and referenced ==
 
 
 
Berman & Co. are behind the [[Center for Consumer Freedom]], formerly known as the Guest Choice Network, known to have received a $200,000 donation from Monsanto. The Consumer Freedom campaign smears organic food as dangerous and promotes what t calls 'genetically improved food'Berman and his firm paint GM opponents as terrorists, asserting that 'anti-biotech extremists' are part of a 'growing wave of domestic terrorism'. They say the people we need to worry about are not just al-Qa'ida but 'the middle-class kids down the street.' (Terrorists On The March -- In America, USA Today)   
 
 
 
Berman & Co. have even declared the charity of the British and Irish churches, Christian Aid, a 'far-left leaning' group that 'flat-out lies about GE foods', hiding 'behind a religious facade to more easily malign farmers, scientists, food companies, and even PR people who deal with GE foods.'.
 
 
 
Berman & Co's internet PR campaign also includes [[ActivistCash.com]] which claims to 'root out the funding sources' of 'the most notorious and extreme groups that conspire to restrict the public's food and beverage choices'. However, the [[Center for Media and Democracy]] says ActivistCash.com draws on information already largely public and mixes it with distortions and misinformation. 
 
Curiously, Monsanto's $200,000 donation to Berman's PR activities only became public as a result of information from a whistle-blower. And Berman appears to take great exception to attempts to root out his own financial relationship with the various lobby organisations run by Berman & Co. He even threatened a lawsuit for defamation after attention was drawn to his 'funneling millions of corporate dollars - donated to non-profit organizations he runs - right into his own bank accountsBerman pays himself the cash both directly and personally in the form of salary and benefits for his role as 'Executive Director,' as well as through payments he makes from the non-profits to his own corporation, Berman & Company, Inc., for 'consulting.' '
 
[http://www.vegsource.com/articles/berman_release.htm http://www.vegsource.com/articles/berman_release.htm]  
 
[http://www.parentalfreedom.com/response2berman.htm http://www.parentalfreedom.com/response2berman.htm]
 
Berman was also implicated in a [http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2001Q1/berman2.html cash-for-favors scandal] involving Newt Gingrich.
 

Latest revision as of 11:40, 29 October 2013

Organic Industry Structure

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National Organisation for Foetal Alcohol Syndrome UK

Booze in News Past Stories

Former Booze in the News Stories

Alcohol Price and Consumption

Mephedrone

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  1. Howard, Philip H. 2009. Organic Industry Structure. Media-N Journal of the New Media Caucus, 5(3).-online.png|Howard, Philip H. 2009. Organic Industry Structure. Media-N Journal of the New Media Caucus, 5(3)-online|Acquisitions by the Top 30 Food Processors in North America. (click to resize)
  2. Fantasia Mephedrone accessed 13th June 2012

European Travel Retail Confederation

Penn Schoen and Berland

EPC Alcohol

In 2001 the European Commission had begun the process of developing an alcohol strategy for Europe, which initially involved gathering information on the extent of alcohol related harm and possible policy solutions. By 2006 the initial European Alcohol Strategy were being slowly introduced. The alcohol industry were against a Europe wide strategy, but were keen for any action to be based on self regulation of the industry.

In 2005 and 2006, just before the introduction of the strategy, DG Sanco asked the European Policy Centre (EPC) to host four meetings between the alcohol industry and health NGOs. These Round Table on “Alcohol related harm: ways forward” aimed to reach consensus on policy interventions and to ‘identify areas of agreement between the stakeholders as to actions that can contribute effectively to the reduction of alcohol-related harm and indicate where and why there is disagreement, and in so doing help create confidence between stakeholders’.[1] According to the Institute of Alcohol Studies these meetings were "At the behest of the [alcohol] Industry, DG SANCO officials organised roundtable discussion through the aegis of the European Policy Centre, between representatives of the Commission, Member States, Industry and NGOs to discuss the draft proposals for a European Alcohol Policy Strategy". [2]

The meetings involved working through 78 issues or policy proposals related to alcohol harm reduction that were presented by the European Commission in an informal draft of their communication on Alcohol. Participants graded each item using a traffic lights system, green issues were broadly agreeable to all present, amber a possibility and red a clear no. 68 of the measures were marked green, Seven were amber, indicating no overall agreement but that some compromises might be reached. Three were categorised as red issues where the industry simply refused to negotiate. [3]

Dr Peter Anderson, author of the Alcohol In Europe report (2006) commented “The European Policy Centre (EPC) describes itself as ‘an independent, not-for-profit think tank, committed to making European integration work’. Its independence is, of course, ensured by the fact that its prime corporate members and sponsors include InBev, the world’s largest brewer and Philip Morris International”. [4] The final outcome of this process, and other consultations resulted in the launch of the European Alcohol and Health Forum.

In 1998 Diageo and The Weinberg Group helped set up a European Policy Centre Forum. Correspondence shows a representative of Diageo trying to organise a discount for a booking made by Weinberg Group for a forum run by the EPC. [5]. Weinberg Group are well known for their work assisting tobacco, alcohol and chemical industries.

  1. Corporate Europe Observatory, Part One: The European Policy Centre European Think Tank Series, Issue 2, October 1998,
  2. Rutherford, D. (2006) AIS Editorial The Globe Issue accessed 28th October 2013
  3. Anderson & Baumberg, Alcohol Policy: Who should sit at the table? Addiction Volume 102, No. 2 pp 335-336 (online subscription required)
  4. Anderson & Baumberg, Alcohol Policy: Who should sit at the table? Addiction Volume 102, No. 2 pp 335-336 (online subscription required)
  5. Legacy Library, Fax to Sarah Bennett BLRA from Andrea Livett of Diageo 10th March 1998, accessed 7th November 2011