Mark Daniels: It is time to bring some sense to the table...
12-Feb-2010
Last week, Michael Turner - chairman of Fuller, Smith & Turner - stated that whilst there was so much in-fighting going on inside our own trade,...
12-Feb-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Temporary pub management company Publicana has been fined £15,000 after being convicted of fire safety breaches at the Little George pub,...
11-Feb-2010 By David Elliott
David Elliott looks back on 25 years in the trade and gives his views on the sector a month after retiring from running Greene King's tenanted division.
Guinness scores record pub market share
11-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Diageo boss Paul Walsh said he believed the economic environment is in the "early stages" of recovery, as the drinks giant announced Guinness had...
New threat to darts in London pubs
11-Feb-2010
The days of darts in London pubs could be numbered according to the new Capital Arrows darts pub guide. And that's despite the apparent national...
11-Feb-2010 By John Harrington
Giving tenants a 67% share of machine profit and greater discounts are also promised in the new three-year Business Partnership Agreement.
Inez Ward: United we stand, divided we fall
10-Feb-2010
There are many aspects that are detrimentally affecting the Great British Pub, from supermarket pricing, to government legislation and red tape, to...
Job swap vicar boosts pub takings
10-Feb-2010
A vicar fulfilled her part of a job swap with a licensee when she pulled pints for an evening - and boosted bar takings by 35 per cent! The Reverend...
Community acts to leash the Greyhound
10-Feb-2010
A community group that stepped in to save a pub from closure is now battling to raise enough funds to buy the place. The Greyhound Inn in Grizebeck,...
BBPA warns of £85m cost of SWP tax
10-Feb-2010
Government plans to change the taxation of popular quiz and games machines like Clued and Monopoly, will cost the industry £85m, the British Beer...
10-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney & John Harrington
Trade chiefs speak highly of the man appointed as the first pubs minister, but what impact can John Healey really have? Ewan Turney and John...
10-Feb-2010 By Tony Halstead
Pubwatches could face legal problems defending banning orders if police are found to have exercised undue influence on decision-making.
Birmingham's best - bar none
09-Feb-2010
Birmingham City Council believes the number of pubs accredited by its Best Bar None scheme will leap by half this year. The local authority hopes 150...
09-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
National pub poker and quiz specialists Redtooth has revealed a 20% uplift in turnover for 2009 to over £2m. The growth was fuelled by a 47%...
09-Feb-2010 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Pubs 'n' Bars, the collapsed managed and tenanted pub operator, is being run by a temporary management firm set up by Oxford Hotels & Inns (OHI),...
09-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
A new training scheme to help bar staff recognise and handle alcohol excess before it gets out of hand has been launched today. The training course...
09-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
Tied licensees who take part in industrial action are putting their businesses and homes at risk, one pubco has warned. The pubco hit out after trade union the GMB announced a series of 16 national roadshows to ballot on industrial action.
08-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
The Campaign for Real Ale's (CAMRA) fight against the beer tie is "illogical", one city analyst has claimed.
08-Feb-2010 By The PMA Team
Slug & Lettuce brand is to be transferred out of Bay Restaurants into sister company Town & City amid private equity interest in Bay.
Mark Daniels: The Marmite Theory
08-Feb-2010
If I were the owner of a gambling website business, right about now I'd be starting to get very, very worried. I shall explain: I have deduced this...
David Smithers: Every pub has a Colin
08-Feb-2010
It beggars belief how many Colins there are in the world, the bloke that suffers with the most extreme version of verbal diarrhoea and who knows...
Hamish Champ: Old age is a-creepin' up on me...
08-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
I've been wheezing a lot lately, and not just in my editorial copy (shome mistake, surely. Ed). I mean my breathing has become somewhat laboured...
CAMRA's beer tie stance "illogical", says City analyst
08-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
A leading City pubco analyst has condemned CAMRA's appeal against the beer tie for "lacking substance and logic". Noting the decision by the Office...
Paul Symonds to leave Bay Restaurant Group
08-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Bay Restaurant Group (BRG) has ring-fenced its La Tasca and Ha Ha Bar & Grill brands and is effectively being lined up for sale after chief...
08-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
New Minister for Pubs John Healey has promised to table a package of measures to help pubs within weeks. Prime Minister Gordon Brown appointed...
08-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
The GMB has announced a series of 16 dates for its roadshows to gain support for a national ballot on industrial action by tied pub tenants. As a...
To 'buy' or 'sell' the pub sector
06-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Another week, another set of conflicting assessments as to the economy's prospects. It seems that everywhere one looks these days there is an...
05-Feb-2010 By The PMA Team
Manchester brewer and pub retailer Hydes managed to renegotiate its bank borrowing last year after a cash squeeze caused a covenant breach.
05-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna
British Beer & Pub Association boss Brigid Simmonds denied that tied pub tenants are financially worse off than free of tie tenants in a live radio debate. In a heated discussion, Simmonds clashed with Paul Maloney of the GMB.
200 jobs to go at WaverleyTBS
05-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Drinks wholesaler Waverley TBS is to make more than 15 per cent of its workforce redundant after a revamp of its logistics network and telesales...
Fuller's chairman calls for an end to 'industry in-fighting'
05-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Michael Turner, chairman of London brewer Fuller, Smith & Turner, has called for an end to what he described as the "unbelievable in-fighting"...
05-Feb-2010 By Lesley Foottit
A blanket ban on 24-hour opening could cause a return to pre-Licensing Act street violence. That's the warning from Noctis executive director Paul...
04-Feb-2010 By Emma Eversham, Restaurant
Emily Hodgson, owner of the Rose pub in Fulham, has opened her second pub — the Hillgate in Notting Hill. Hodgson, who worked for her father, Slug...
04-Feb-2010 By John Harrington
A new campaign has been launched to combat keg thefts, which cost the trade £50m per year. The Keg Aware campaign, backed by the British Beer &...
04-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney & Lesley Foottit
Greene King IPA ambassador Lawrence Dallaglio gives his view on the Six Nations as he launches the rugby pub supporter network.
04-Feb-2010 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
04-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
London brewer and pub operator Fullers claims it has ridden out the recession well but still remains cautious about the year ahead.
Nick Bish: Mr Mediator
04-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
As the last round of Westminster hearings into the pub sector loomed, the much-publicised industry mediation process, helmed by Association of...
Pub trading likely to get tougher, warns Fuller's
04-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Rising taxes and inflation are likely to make life even tougher for the pub sector in the coming months, warned Fuller, Smith & Turner, the...
04-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
Pub closure rates have slowed from the high of 52 a week to 39 a week but remain at historically high levels, the British Beer and Pub Association...
04-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
The Campaign for Real Ale is urging MPs to back "radical reform" of the beer tie and to speak up for community pubs, local brewers and consumers.
03-Feb-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
One in five teenagers have purchased fake ID over the internet in a bid to buy alcohol, a new survey has claimed.
03-Feb-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Charles Wells Pub Company's induction programme for new tenants has been recognised by the BII awarding body (BIIAB).
Pubs' performance perking up, says Merrill Lynch
03-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
There are signs the worst may be over for the UK's tenanted pub sector, according to research published by a leading City broker. In a note published...
Fall in pub gig attendances blamed on 'economic factors'
03-Feb-2010 By James Wilmore
The government has admitted pubs are losing out to bigger venues over the resurgence in live music, but denied the current licensing regime is to...
03-Feb-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The Chesterfield Arms has been crowned Derbyshire's Pub of the Year 2010 by local ale enthusiasts. The Everards Brewery family-run pub received the...
02-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna
The Institute of Licensing has elected CGA boss and Noctis chairman Jon Collins as its vice chairman.
Licensees arrested in foreign satellite football crackdown
02-Feb-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
A dozen pubs have been raided and three men arrested in a police crackdown on foreign satellite broadcasts. Several private homes across Hull and...
BBPA campaign hits 100,000 supporter mark
02-Feb-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Support for the British Beer & Pub Association's (BBPA) campaign 'I'm backing the pub' has swelled with 100,000 people now on board. With so...
02-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Scammers are using more sophisticated tactics to dupe cash out of people, according to a survey carried out by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). ...
