Tennent’s signs five-year supply deal with Hastings

Hastings Hotels managing director, Howard Hastings (left) celebrates the new deal with Tennent’s head of NI on-trade, Jeff Tosh.

Tennent’s NI has won a five-year contract to supply draught beers and ciders to Hastings Hotels in Northern Ireland.

The contract will see Tennent’s NI’s supply its company-owned brands – Magners, Tennent’s, Heverlee and Caledonia – on bar counters across the Hastings group’s six hotels in Northern Ireland.  A number of leading European premium and speciality lagers will also be available to fill the needs of each of the hotels.

Announcing details of the supply deal with Hastings, Jeff Tosh, head of NI on-trade at Tennent’s NI, said that he was very proud to have worked closely with the prestigious hotel group for some years and delighted to have won this new five-year contract:

“Our commitment to giving best in class customer service and offering ongoing, practical support to our customers across the licensed trade continues to underpin our commercial success,” he added.  “For us, quality is the key to success but that doesn’t necessarily imply a price premium.  Despite our own rising costs we have already committed to a price freeze for the third year in succession on our wholesale draught pricing of our company-owned beers – and we are committed to maintaining that firm focus on value for the future.”

Delighted to be continuing its long association with Tennent’s NI, Howard Hastings, managing director of the Hastings Hotels Group, added:

“The connection between our companies stretches back to the time of The Ulster Brewery when my father, and Hastings Hotels chairman, Sir William Hastings was a director and shareholder.  Since those days we have enjoyed a long and mutually beneficial relationship based on a shared commitment to quality and service.

The Tennent’s NI beer and cider portfolio will be pouring in The Europa and Stormont in Belfast, the Culloden and Cultra Inn at Cultra, Slieve Donard and The Percy French in Newcastle, Ballygally Castle on the Antrim Coast and the Everglades in Londonderry.