Who's backing Proud of Pubs Week?
18-Jun-2009
Find out more about how you can get involved in Proud of Pubs Week.If you'd like to join this illustrious group, email your picture and some text to:...
Getting into gear for Proud of Pubs Week 2009
18-Jun-2009
Whether it's with your own Proud of Pubs party, by engaging with a local MP or simply by selling Morrissey Fox Proud of Pubs Best Bitter, more and...
Crunch trade talks "encouraging
18-Jun-2009 By James Wilmore
Crunch industry talks between trade bodies, pubcos and campaign groups today in London have been described as "positive" and "encouraging". The...
'Pub landlord invents babygrow that glows if child has fever'
18-Jun-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
A pub landlord has signed a £12.5 million contract after inventing a baby grow that changes colour to indicate a child's temperature. Chris Ebejer,...
18-Jun-2009 By Ewan Turney
Today's crunch talks on the future of the pub industry are expected to be the first of many mediation meetings.
Broads Brewing buys site
18-Jun-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Norfolk Broads Brewing company, which trades as Humpty Dumpty, has bought the freehold of its brewery site. The firm bought outright the brewery...
17-Jun-2009 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Mark Stretton, editor of Morning Advertiser's sister title M&C Report, gives his views on the period of upheaval facing the trade.
Mark Daniels: What Freedom2Choose needs is a Joanna Lumley… but then again, don't we all?
17-Jun-2009
"Mark, you'll never be f****** rich," John says to me quite often, "because you're too f****** honest." (You'll have to forgive the swearing, but...
BII honours exceptional trainer
17-Jun-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
The winner of this year's BII Bill Hannon Award for an exceptional contribution to the industry has been presented with the prize. Mike Connell of...
Pub hosts Rock Paper Scissors championship
17-Jun-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Pub customers battled it out in the first ever UK Rock Paper Scissors Championships last week. The event was held at Wetherspoons pub the Imperial in...
17-Jun-2009 By John Harrington
A Liberal Democrat peer is to table a Private Member's Bill to make it easier for pubs to stage live music. Lord Clement-Jones' Bill wants the...
16-Jun-2009 By Ewan Turney
The Orchid Group has acquired 10 sites back from Bar Room Bar — it originally sold the sites in 2007.
Pete Robinson: The pubco disease
16-Jun-2009
Where did it all go wrong?The entire sorry saga can be summed up in three words - Suits, Greed and Smoking Ban. Okay, that's four words.Punch was...
Pubs get to grips with new £70-jackpot games machines - includes video
16-Jun-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubs across the country have been making the most of new laws that now allow amusement with prizes (AWP) machines to have £70 jackpots. The top...
Pubs in line for fruit machine tax windfall
16-Jun-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubs could hit the jackpot after a court ruling paved the way for huge rebates in overpaid VAT on games machines. At the High Court earlier this...
Scam artists targeting pubs with letting rooms
16-Jun-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubs with rooms to let are being warned to be on guard against a scam that could cost them thousands of pounds. Craig Henry, tenant at Fuller's pub...
16-Jun-2009 By Ewan Turney
Value meal deals sparked a 2% like-for-like sales increase at Whitbread's pub restaurants for the 13 weeks to 28 May. Whitbread, which owns the...
15-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team
The number of individual Punch licensees who end up buying their pub is likely to end up well in excess of 300. This morning, Punch said there were around 300 deals either complete or going through legals.
Adam Withrington: Bickering while Rome burns...
15-Jun-2009
Whatever you think of Fair Pint, the group has served a valuable purpose in this current political climate. They have shamed our industry and our...
Hamish Champ: Will Bish's bash help solve the industry's woes?
15-Jun-2009 By Hamish Champ
As news filtered through of the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailer's (ALMR) forthcoming mediation shindig - the pub industry equivalent of a...
UK economic recovery unlikely before 2010
15-Jun-2009 By Hamish Champ
The UK economy may be stabilising, but according to industry body the CBI it will not show real signs of recovery until next year.The organisation...
15-Jun-2009 By MA reporter
The legality of Pubwatch bans face further examination as a second legal challenge got underway in the High Court today. Drinker Francis James Boyle,...
Fuller's: Better the devil you know
14-Jun-2009 By Hamish Champ
Government interference in the pub industry following publication of the Business & Enterprise Select Committee (BEC) report should be avoided at...
Tough times are with us for a while
14-Jun-2009 By Hamish Champ
There is a growing sense that far from 2009 proving to be the nadir for the pub sector, it will be next year when the brown stuff really hits the...
12-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team
Industry expert Phil Dixon has told tenanted pub company chiefs that the pubco/tenant relationship must change in ten areas.
12-Jun-2009 By Roger Protz
When Arthur Guinness signed the lease on a brewery in 1759 it was the start of a legend, says Roger Protz.
12-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team
Major tenanted companies are now trying to put together a unified response to the hostile Bec report. The PMA Team looks at what might happen.
12-Jun-2009 By Peter Linacre
Two unrelated news events in this weekend's press made me ponder the continuing saga of the beer tie, says Peter Linacre.
12-Jun-2009 By Andrew Pring
It's right and proper, given the range of problems traced to their door, that the post-Bec talk has been all about what pubcos must do to change the way they operate, says Andrew Pring.
Chris Maclean: Keep me out of the round please
12-Jun-2009 By Chris Maclean
I suspect I won't be popular for saying this - but I don't like buying rounds.For some who read this their suspicions may be confirmed. It is amazing...
'The future's looking rosé'
12-Jun-2009 By James Wilmore
Drinkers are turning up their noses at white and red wine and switching to rosé, according to a study. Sales of rosé more than quadrupled to...
11-Jun-2009 By Sir Shannon Albury
One of the great running conversations at The Bloated Toad is 'what was the best ever decade', says Sir Shannon Albury.
CGA: more than 50 pubs a week now closing
11-Jun-2009 By Mark Stretton
The head of CGA Strategy, the pub and drinks market analyst, says the number of pubs closing has now reached more than 50 per week. Speaking at The...
11-Jun-2009 By John Harrington
HSBC is the bank that likes to say "no" to pubs — it's official. An email from an HSBC local manager, seen by the Morning Advertiser, shows clearly...
11-Jun-2009 By John Harrington
A licensee has written a barrage of letters to people in authority complaining that justice has not been meted out to thugs who attack hosts and pub...
10-Jun-2009 By MA reporter
The Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers has written to BEC chairman Peter Luff asking for six months to sort the industry's problems out.
Publican Local Focus: Cardiff - a Welsh welcome
10-Jun-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
A Polish traveller recently arrived in Cardiff and was keen to take a few photos to commemorate his trip. But instead of snapping tourist attractions...
Pete Robinson: When is a pub not a pub?
10-Jun-2009
Imagine you are chatting to an overseas visitor when he asks you, "What is a British Pub?" How would you reply?"It's a building where you go to eat...
Pub complains after missing out on grant
10-Jun-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubs that missed out on grants to help move their businesses forward because of tight deadlines could be in line for extra funding. Rural pubs in the...
Redundancies leading to increase in drinking
10-Jun-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
People are turning to alcohol to relieve the stress caused by redundancy, according to new research by alcohol awareness charity Drinkaware. One in...
10-Jun-2009 By Ewan Turney
The cost of a pub meal could drop back to 2006 levels as competition for customers increases, according to one market analyst. Peter Backman of...
'Pub groups try to head off probe into tie-ups'
09-Jun-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Pub companies are stepping up their efforts to head off a competition investigation into the tied arrangement that is at the heart of their business...
Thousands of pub jobs under threat in Northern Ireland
09-Jun-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Thousands of pub jobs will be in jeopardy in Northern Ireland if the decline in trade continues, according to new research. In a survey of 200...
09-Jun-2009 By John Harrington
AWP suppliers say they're working hard to ensure pubs can offer higher stakes and prizes when they get the green light to do so this Friday. From...
08-Jun-2009 By John Harrington
Licensees and pub operators could claim some of the £500m windfall in overpaid VAT on gaming machines after a landmark High Court ruling. The...
Hamish Champ: Trying not to faint on live television
08-Jun-2009 By Hamish Champ
I know very well that the country is waking up to the problems facing the pub trade. How do I know? Because last Friday I had to get up at the crack...
Licensee appeals foreign satellite conviction
08-Jun-2009 By James Wilmore
A licensee convicted of showing foreign satellite football using a non-EU card has launched a crown court appeal. Alec Piercy of Ridge Farm Pub and...
BII rewards the best Channel Islands pubs
08-Jun-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Top performing pubs on the Channel Islands have been recognised at the BII's annual awards ceremony. Justin Pledger, of the Victoria in St Peter's...
08-Jun-2009 By Ewan Turney
Sheffield is the latest city to establish a Best Bar None scheme to reward best practice in licensed premises. The scheme launches on 15 June at...
'Tesco to bring derelict pub back to life'
07-Jun-2009
"Drinkers could soon be raising a toast in The Sir Terry Leahy or The Jolly Shelf-Stacker after Tesco offered to reopen a derelict pub as a planning...
