Majestic, the UK’s largest specialist wine retailer, today revealed details of a brand new national TV campaign hitting screens this Christmas – aimed at turning their real life “staff into on-screen stars”. The advert will premiere this November across a range of channels, and marks the retailer’s first television commercial in almost a decade.  Set in one of Majestics newest stores, and featuring colleagues playing themselves, the advert follows a couple as they prepare to fill up their trolley with wines ahead of the festive season. The store team mischievously guide the pair to ..read more

Majestic Wine’s board of directors will this September be taking on a cycling challenge which will take them from the company’s most southern store in England, Majestic Falmouth, to beyond Hadrian’s Wall right the way to Majestic Edinburgh. All with the aim of raising money toward the retailer’s charity of the year – the Brain Tumour Charity.  The 700+ mile route will be tackled virtually by Majestic’s eight retail directors in just 24 hours, on static bikes in the company’s head office in Watford. A team of four will begin the route in Edinburgh, with the other board members comin ..read more

We’re delighted to reveal details of our updated Majestic branch in Winchester, Hampshire! Almost doubling in size, we’ve expanded into the site next door to facilitate a host of brilliant new features including a brand new and expanded fine wine section, a large dedicated tasting area, massively increased stock holding and an enlarged stock room for our on-trade customers. Store Manager Chloe Boulter, alongside CEO John Colley and our Retail Director Keith Blessley enjoyed getting to meet some of the locals over a glass of fizz as our ribbon cutting cere ..read more

All 201 Majestic stores will be opening late this Monday, as staff are given an extra couple of hours to recoup after a busy, football filled month. From 5pm on Sunday, doors will not be reopened until 12 noon on the 12th July, with staff being encouraged to have a lie in, sleep off the excesses of an emotional night – or just take an hour or two to enjoy breakfast and time with friends and family.  Sunday night marks a landmark moment in the nation’s history – and one Majestic’s Board were keen to mark with a special thank you to the company’s 1,300 colleagues. The teams in Majest ..read more

The International Wine Challenge, the world’s most influential, impartial and rigorously judged wine competition, brought the UK wine industry together at a live awards evening on Wednesday 30th June to celebrate the winners of this year’s competition. Majestic Wine scooped both the National Merchant of the Year and Consumer Campaign of the Year at the 2021 The double win marks marks Majestic first major triumph at the awards for three years, including the first time their marketing had been called out for an award. As a first time winner of the National Merchant award, the judges recog ..read more

Natalie Faulkner, who works in the Majestic Wine Stockport branch, was inspired to nominate the charity after her own brain tumour diagnosis. All of Majestic’s 200 stores and 1,300 staff will be part of this fundraising campaign, with a calendar of events, tastings and activities in support of the partnership. Every year, Majestic raise funds for a selected Charity of the Year partner across their stores, depot and Support Centre. The cause is selected via a colleague-wide vote, which this year was won by The Brain Tumour Charity. It’s an area which is close to the hearts of a number of ..read more

Majestic Wine’s Chief Executive, John Colley, has won a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award honouring the Top CEOs in 2021.  Glassdoor, the worldwide leader in insights about jobs and companies, released its annual award recognising the Top CEOs, which highlights top leaders that employees love working for in countries throughout North America and parts of Europe. Among chief executives recognised by employees in the UK, John received an impressive approval rating based on the anonymous and voluntary reviews Majestic Wine employees shared on Glassdoor throughout the past ye ..read more

After six month hiatus, free tastings are now back on the menu in Majestic Wine stores across the UK. The move follows the easing of lockdown measures, inline with the reopening of in-door hospitality, something which both customers and colleagues at the retailer have been keen to see return – in a safe environment. The ability to taste a range of wines, beer and spirits – free of charge – in any branch of the country’s largest specialist drinks retailer has been a hallmark of the business for over forty years. Majestic estimates it opens over 200,000 bottles a year just for the purpose ..read more

Majestic Wine, the UK’s largest specialist retailer, is offering customers a year’s supply of wine if they help them to find new sites for future stores as part of a renewed commitment to bricks and mortar retail. Following recent store openings in Beaconsfield, Beckenham and Henley, Majestic is now eyeing up new locations for future stores – and is enlisting the Great British public to help find them.  Although 88% of the UK’s population already live within 10 miles of one of Majestic’s 200 national stores, the retailer is keen to continue to improve their estate – with a shortlis ..read more

Majestic has finished rebranding over 20 of their stores to bring them in-line with the company’s new direction. The move affects 10% of their nationwide estate and is part of a wider strategy based around improving their physical presence, as the UK emerges from lockdown.  The sites, which are scattered across the country including in Edinburgh, London, Manchester, Harrogate and elsewhere, had been adapted to a vibrant pink colour with wine glass logo by the company’s previous management – under a controversial rebranding exercise. The new Majestic branding, including a return to ..read more