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OPINION
While the world’s attention turns to the football in North America, hospitality in the UK will no doubt be keeping one eye on a competition playing out a little closer to home in the coming weeks.
Ultra-endurance runner Gary McKee MBE has joined the Licensed Trade Charity’s (LTC) 900-mile fundraising pub run in support of hospitality workers.
NEW PRODUCTS
Budweiser Brewing Group UK&I has announced the launch of a new fruity variant of Stella Artois.
Functional beer is moving beyond low & no, as brewers increasingly look to fibre, electrolytes, vitamins, botanicals, gluten-free recipes and low-calorie positioning to reach health conscious drinkers.
Trade bodies have urged the sector to maintain momentum behind #VATsTheProblem as the campaign prepares for its next phase, ensuring hospitality’s voice is heard by Government.
THE LOW & NO PROJECT
Around 9m adults are expected to drink alcohol-free beer while watching World Cup games in pubs, according to new research.
Scottish pubs and bars are expected to see a significant uplift in sales as Scotland begins its first men’s football World Cup campaign in 28 years.
The annual event of Beer Day Britain is upon us again and event founder Jane Peyton is celebrating its 11th anniversary.
St Austell Brewery chief operating officer Andrew Turner believes customer demand is still alive in hospitality but Government decisions and taxes are making it more difficult to do business.
I was just wondering what people’s thoughts are about the proposed VAT cut for children’s meals over the summer.
The MA’s Ed Bedington caught up with Joules Brewery boss Vicky Colclough to get her take on the week’s news
DRINKS MASTERCLASS
This edition of The Morning Advertiser’s (The MA) Drinks Masterclass series features a modern classic from St Germain.
From iconic ales to household lager brands, The Morning Advertiser (The MA) has mapped where the UK’s biggest brewers are based and the beers they produce at each site.
Hospitality remains the canary in the coal mine and politicians need to start listening to us, a trade association boss has warned.
South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it received a call at around 8.30am yesterday (11 June) to reports of a fire at a pub.
THE CASK PROJECT
St Austell Brewery director of brewing and head brewer Georgina Young has reunited with the business she began her career at 25 years ago to help on a collaboration cask beer.
The #VATsTheProblem petition calling for hospitality VAT to be cut to 10% has passed 200,000 signatures.
Admiral Taverns has been named as the most highly rated pubco in the Pubs Code Adjudicator’s (PCA) 2026 Tied Tenant Survey.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves urged the hospitality sector to work with the Government in driving growth, while claiming “the best days are ahead”.
The hospitality sector should embrace the temporary VAT cut on children’s meal over the summer, the boss of UKHospitality said.
Greene King has invested almost £3m in pub gardens, sports zones and outdoor areas as it prepares for a summer of live sport, including the men’s FIFA World Cup.
Fuller’s boss Simon Emeny hailed “healthy” trading at the pub group, after the business delivered growth across multiple areas.
After more than 27 years with William Reed, Lorraine Hendle will be stepping down from her role as managing director in August to spend time with her family and to consider new opportunities.
Changes in the pub industry over the past decade has been ‘a period of unprecedented Government interference, additional taxes and regulations’, Fuller’s boss Simon Emeny has said.
As the Government launches a consultation paper on new protections for zero and low-hour workers, employer solicitor Lydia Button lays out what this means for operators.
PROPERTY ROUND-UP
This property round-up includes mentions from a Top 50 Gastropubs operator, DGB Hospitality, Heartwood, Hydes, and more.
BIG INTERVIEW
Dom Jacobs has designed cocktails for the Spice Girls, opened one of Mayfair’s oldest pubs at 24 and built Ardent Pub Group into one of London’s most ambitious modern pub operations.
MY PUB
Nedging Hall Estate covers 5,000 acres of incredible countryside between Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich, Suffolk.
Rob Jones, the founder of Dark Star Brewery and landlord of the Duke of Wellington pub in Shoreham by Sea, Sussex, has died following illness.
BrewDog co-founder James Watt has said he is hopeful an opportunity to buy back the Scottish brewer and bar operator could “come around again in the future”.
THE LOW & NO PROJECT
Publicans will need no reminding of what a bleak decade it has been for the sector, with the forthcoming World Cup a welcome opportunity for boosting sales, albeit with long working hours attached.
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) is to acquire a seven-strong package of sites from Whitbread, which will be converted to either Miller & Carter or Toby Carvery.
Seven pubs are among the UK’s best restaurants, according to this year’s National Restaurant Awards 2026.
Terra Firma Capital Partners is reportedly among a number of prospective bidders preparing offers for part of Stonegate Group’s Platinum estate.
FEATURE
As pubgoers flock to beer gardens with the onslaught of the warmer weather – cider is often the tipple of choice.
With changing consumer habits, has the tradition of buying drinks in a round gone the way of the dodo? The Lock In team head to the bar to find out.
Butcombe Group has announced strategic changes to its leadership structure, appointing Alice Bowyer as managing director of its managed division.
Tim Skinner has said pubs must rethink staffing models as rising labour costs make traditional management structures increasingly difficult to sustain.
More than a third of consumers planning to watch the men’s football World Cup will do so from a local pub, bar or hospitality venue, new research from Zonal and NIQ has found.
Pubs could benefit from a £275m beer sales boost during the World Cup if England reach the final, new analysis from the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) has suggested.
The level of pub closures is due to the quality of the venues that are shuttering, TV presenter and pub owner James May has claimed.
Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has pledged to reduce business rates for pubs by a fifth if he becomes Prime Minister.
This month (June), the MA Leaders Club head across the border and see what the city of Glasgow has to offer.
Heineken UK’s Boudewijn Haarsma has backed the UK pub sector by continuing to invest £40m per year despite beer volumes across the board shrinking.
Jeremy Clarkson’s pub the Farmer’s Dog made a pre-tax loss of more than £8,000 in its first quarter of trading despite being fully booked, the TV presenter has revealed.
The MA’s Ed Bedington caught up with New Dawn Pubs boss Mark Robson to get his take on the week’s news.
THE CASK PROJECT
The stout boom has helped revive darker cask beers as drinkers look beyond pale, heavily hopped styles, Theakston managing director Richard Bradbury told The Morning Advertiser (The MA).
TV star-turned-publican Jeremy Clarkson has revealed all the quirky and costly items that get stolen from his pub on a weekly basis, from pint glasses to urinal traps.
Heartwood Collection IT director Rob Trippett has warned there’s a danger the amount of data available to hospitality operators right now can lead to businesses having too many KPIs.
More than 100k people have signed the #VATsTheProblem petition calling for hospitality VAT to be cut to 10%.