Chameleon expands estate to seven
23-Feb-2010 By The PMA Team
North of England-based pub operator Chameleon Pub Company has increased its estate to seven by buying the Greaves Park in Lancaster.
23-Feb-2010 By The PMA Team
The former owner of Wigan-based Yesteryear Pub Company, is understood to have bought five of the ten sites that went in to administration.
23-Feb-2010 By John Harrington
Major pubcos will lose their 'kitemark' status for the clarity of their lease codes of practice for more than 20 or 25 major breaches per year....
23-Feb-2010 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Scottish & Newcastle Pub Company, the 2,000-strong tenanted and leased group owned by Heineken, is to market for sale up to 100 pubs this spring.
22-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
A free of tie pub world could lead to more business failures, Marston's Pub Company boss Alastair Darby has warned. Speaking to the Morning...
22-Feb-2010 By The PMA Team
The pre-pack administration of London Town has been done with a view to keeping all its pubs open, according to PwC.
What's in a rating?
22-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
News that Moody's, the US credit ratings agency, had downgraded Enterprise Inns' 'corporate family rating' didn't exactly faze investors in the group...
Hamish Champ: The pub as a debating chamber
22-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Pubs are often held up as places where members of the local community can meet to chat, to debate, to laugh, to argue. To demonstrate their...
The finalists for The Publican Awards 2010 have been announced
22-Feb-2010
For more information on the awards or to book tickets go online to www.thepublicanawards.com or contact Claire Bradshaw on 020 7921 8359...
Agents begin job of finding buyers for London Town's pubs
22-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Christie + Co is today beginning the task of finding buyers for the 44 leasehold pubs formerly owned by GRS Inns, one of the London Town subsidiaries...
22-Feb-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The licensee of the Farthings in Blackburn is demanding an apology after 50 officers raided her pub at 7.30pm last Friday and left empty-handed. The...
19-Feb-2010 By Mark Stretton & The PMA Team
Speculation is rife that Punch Taverns and Enterprise Inns will be major victims of the pre-pack adminstration planned by London Town.
19-Feb-2010 By The PMA Team
Gingerman Restaurants, the East Sussex-based pub and restaurant operator, has acquired its fourth site, a freehold in Brighton, for an undisclosed...
It's official: London Town goes into administration
19-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
After months of speculation London Town, the indebted property developer turned pub operator, has gone into administration. In a complicated deal...
Market Town Taverns bullish about prospects in 2010
19-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Ian Fozard, chairman of Harrogate-based Market Town Taverns, said he expected the business grow its sales "significantly" in 2010. Founded by Fozard...
19-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
Two of the finalists in the BII's Licensee Trainer of the Year competition say they feel "humiliated" by the decision not to give out the award. The...
19-Feb-2010 By Phil Dixon
MA columnist Phil Dixon says the move by the GMB to promote industrial action from pub tenants is a crying shame.
19-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
Stick to your guns and call for a full Competition Commission inquiry in to the way pubcos treat their tenants says Greg Mulholland.
19-Feb-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Award-winning Ossett Brewery is opening its first Leeds pub the Hop at Granary Wharf development on 26 March. The brewery already has 13 pubs in...
19-Feb-2010 By Lesley Foottitl
Popular professional darts player Wayne Mardle dropped into the Prince of Wales pub in Moseley, Birmingham this week to host a darts night. The pub...
19-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
Pendle residents in Lancashire are being urged to report pubs, clubs and off-licences selling alcohol to under-18s via a new 24-hour hotline. Pendle...
19-Feb-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Community spirit is running high in Winterton, Lincolnshire as licensee Dale Oades opened a barber's in his pub after the last one in town closed...
18-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Industrial action against pubcos could kick off as early as April, says the GMB, who will also be "quite happy" to go to court with the pubcos.
18-Feb-2010 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
18-Feb-2010 By The PMA Team
The newly-appointed pubs minister John Healey was on his rounds last week visiting pubs in his Wentworth constituency.
18-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna
The BBPA is working on a plan to make it easy for licensees to claim their share of the £10m owed in music licence fees.
18-Feb-2010 By Lesley Foottit
A pub operator has opened a second site — the Millstream in Marden, Wiltshire — after winning £33,000 at the races.
Pub Bitch: Darling's Blarney budget
18-Feb-2010
Blarney Budget I recall as a young pup sulking mightily when all my favourite TV programmes got chopped to make way for hours and hours of boring...
18-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
The trade has hit back at suggestions that Alcohol Disorder Zones are the answer to the binge drinking problems.
18-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
Magners producer C&C Group has appointed former Scottish & Newcastle chairman Sir Brian Stewart as chairman designate and non-executive...
18-Feb-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Entrepreneur Julian Leefe-Griffiths has opened his third venture, the George & Dragon at Chipstead, Kent, with experienced business partner...
17-Feb-2010 By The PMA Team
Alcohol Concern has slammed pub and club operators after finding half the venue in three Welsh city centres were offering "irresponsible" discounts.
17-Feb-2010 By John Harrington
The BBPA has written to MPs investigating pubcos saying it's "not aware" of its members taking fines directly from licensees' bank accounts.
17-Feb-2010 By John Grogan
John Healey's new role as minister for pubs means that public houses will play a greater role in the general election campaign, says John Grogan.
Shepherd Neame scoops regional family business award
17-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Kent brewer Shepherd Neame has been named 'Best UK Family Business' in Southern England and Wales. The Faversham-headquartered group won the regional...
17-Feb-2010 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Fuller's is conducting a tail-trimming exercise of its pub estate, selling six properties from its tenanted division.
Banks still not lending to businesses, says IoD
16-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Banks are still rejecting the majority of lending applications from the business community, according to the Institute of Directors (IoD). The IoD...
'Businessmen convert ice van into mobile pub'
16-Feb-2010 By James Wilmore
The chimes of one ice-cream van will no longer alert children for a cornet - instead, they will lure thirsty adults to a quick, crafty pint....
Licensee tries again in bid to tackle supermarkets
16-Feb-2010 By James Wilmore
A Scottish licensee is having a second crack at trying to prove supermarkets in his area fall foul of licensing laws over their deep discounting of...
16-Feb-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Licensees can get advice on boosting sales and increasing customer footfall at the BII Scotland annual general meeting in Edinburgh next week. Guest...
15-Feb-2010 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
London Town is reportedly set to undertake a pre-pack administration this week after failing to find an alternate solution to tackling its debt burden.
Debt reduction good/debt reduction bad
15-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P's) rather rained on Punch Taverns' parade last week when it revealed it was putting some of the...
Faucet Inns Pub Co goes through pre-pack deal
15-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Faucet Inn Pub Co, which until recently operated more than 20 pubs in London and the Home Counties, is understood to have gone through a pre-pack...
London Town shares slide further on administration rumours
15-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Shares in London Town, the Norfolk-headquartered pub company, fell by a third this morning to 0.5p after weekend press reports suggested the group...
15-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
Joe Laventure has been appointed sales director of Budweiser Budvar following the retirement of Neville Hall. Laventure steps up from national...
15-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
Managed pub and restaurant chains took a hit on sales in January due to the severe weather conditions. According to figures submitted by 15 pub and...
12-Feb-2010 By The PMA Team
John Healey has been made minister for pubs — but he might not have enough time to make an impact, says The PMA Team.
12-Feb-2010 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
Market Town Taverns: strong trading results
12-Feb-2010 By The PMA Team
Market Town Taverns, the Enterprise Investment Scheme, has reported strong results for the year to 30 September 2009.
Pub Bitch: Camra gets Gordon Brown's autograph
12-Feb-2010
CAMRA gets PM's autograph Now that the Office of Fair Trading has decided to take a second look at evidence surrounding the beer tie, CAMRA has put...
