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Ukranian vodka company gives bartenders ‘tips’ for Instagram cocktails
Ukraine’s largest vodka manufacturer has launched an online cocktail competition and is offering applicants “tips” for each entry.
Nemiroff, Ukraine’s state-owned alcohol producer, has launched a digital bartending competition that will see anyone who enters get paid.
The company told the drinks business that it has halted all scheduled marketing campaigns to cut costs while many large companies face an “uncertain furture” thanks to lockdown measures.
Instead, the vodka maker launched the Nemiroff Cocktail Challenge in April this year, which it describes as a “win-win” situation for bartenders.
Every bartender, who uploads a video of a cocktail that uses Nemiroff vodka to their personal social media profiles and fills in the application will receive a guarantee cash reward – or “tips” – from the company. The most “creative and outstanding” works are chosen by a panel of judges, and the winners are announced via an Instagram post at the end of the week which includes the successful bartenders’ respective social accounts. They are then rewarded separately with larger sums, according to the group.
The competition is intended to help out bartenders “who have been together with brand all this time, but are temporarily unemployed during the quarantine period,” Sofiya Makaruk, Nemiroff’s global PR manager, told the drinks business.
Nemiroff has a budget of just shy of 1 million UAH (£29,679) to spend on the competition.
The competition will run in four “seasons” that last a week. Each season dedicated to a different theme, and at the end of the week, Nemiroff names five winners who created the most impressive drinks.
So far around 400 bartenders from across Ukraine have entered, and will receive financial support from Nemiroff.