Southwold-based brewer Adnams is freezing its wholesale beer prices across all on-trade accounts for the whole of 2009. The brewer, which has warned that 2008 profits would be “substantially” lower than 2007 due to falling sales as a result of the economic downturn, said the freeze showed its commitment to the on-trade. It has 70 of its own pubs plus around 1,000 freetrade accounts and is listed in a further 4,500 pubs and bars across the country. "We are having two nuclear winters — one in the economy and a subsidiary one in the on-trade," said managing director Andy Wood.