11-Sep-2008 By Roger Protz
Demand is high for the training courses run by the Brewers' Laboratory.
11-Sep-2008 By The PMA Team
Value offers are making a difference to the performance of managed operators, says The PMA Team.
11-Sep-2008 By Ewan Turney
Camra has launched the 36th edition of the Good Beer Guide featuring 1,227 new pubs and 73 new breweries.
11-Sep-2008 By The PMA Team
Thousands of tenanted pubs are receiving special help as they struggle with "the biggest test" for the industry in living memory, according to an MA survey of four major quoted pubcos.
Keep on moving
11-Sep-2008
Keep moving your business forward - by introducing new products, by keeping the décor looking fresh and by constantly innovating and surprising your...
On a Mission
11-Sep-2008
Three of the pubs involved in Sell More, Save More this year have entered a new dimension - with the addition of their own EPoS system.Installed by...
Pub caught up in BNP furore
11-Sep-2008
An award-winning licensee was forced to call in the police when her pub became the target of a showdown between British National Party (BNP)...
11-Sep-2008 By Andrew Pring
The Government has done nothing to help pubs, so it's time the trade went on the offensive and showed just how tough it can be.
11-Sep-2008 By Ewan Turney
The Government must introduce a minimum price on alcohol to stop from the relentless supermarket onslaught of cut price booze from killing pubs —...
Pensioner saves pub in memory of his wife
10-Sep-2008
A farmer has saved the historic pub where he used to regularly drink with late wife. David Bingham has pumped £100,000 into renovating the Fleece in...
Comedian Vegas has smashing time at pub
10-Sep-2008
Comedian and pub fan Johnny Vegas smashed a giant piñata filled with cigarette lighters and other smoking paraphernalia to open a new patio at a...
Licensee wins smoke ban court case
10-Sep-2008
A licensee has won his court battle against an air purifier system supplier who promised to take the equipment back in the event of a smoking...
10-Sep-2008 By Ewan Turney
A city analyst believes that 20-30% of Enterprise and Punch leased pubs may be "uneconomic" because the licensees are making under £20,000 a year...
10-Sep-2008 By PubChef
Marks & Spencer is appealing to pub and restaurant-goers with its new advertising campaign. The company has dropped the seductive lilt of...
New trade body boss pledges support for Northern Ireland pubs
09-Sep-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
A new chief executive has been appointed by the Federation of Licensed Trade Retail (FRLT), which represents more than 1,100 pubs, hotels and...
'Continental customs could save the pub'
09-Sep-2008
The much-vaunted adoption of the Continental custom of families gathering over food and drink has been a desperately slow one, but it remains not...
Pubs battle against flood devastation
09-Sep-2008
Flood-hit pubs have revealed the devastation severe weather has had on their businesses. Staff at the Joiners Arms in Morpeth, Northumberland, tried...
09-Sep-2008 By Lucy Britner
A Staffordshire pub chef is celebrating increased trade after he won a day with celebrity pub chef Jean-Christophe Novelli. Chef proprietor Michael...
09-Sep-2008 By Tony Halstead
Licensees suffered yet more floods misery over the weekend barely 12 months after last year's monsoon, which forced hundreds of pubs to close their...
Marc Allinson: What is a recession anyway?
08-Sep-2008
In short it is confidence.There is nothing tangible, it is not a big fire-breathing monster that can be slain and everything be put right. Simply...
Dear Prudence?
08-Sep-2008 By Hamish Champ
When Greene King published its trading update on Tuesday of last week its shares immediately shot up, to the bewilderment of even some of the City's...
Get your five a day - at the pub!
08-Sep-2008
Going to the pub can help with your health regime thanks to a new scheme introduced by an innovative licensee. Patsi Matthews, who took over the...
London Town names Billy Buchanan as its new chief executive
08-Sep-2008
London Town, the AIM-listed pub group which acquired GRS Inns earlier this year, has appointed Billy Buchanan to the combined roles of chief...
FIVE pubs now closing a day
08-Sep-2008
Pub closures across Britain leapt to five a day during the first half of this year, according to new figures released today. Figures compiled by CGA...
08-Sep-2008 By Ewan Turney
A massive 74% of licensees believe the smoking ban has been bad for business — a damning statistic that could become worse if cigarette vending machines are banned.
08-Sep-2008 By Ewan Turney
Pubs are now closing at the rate of five a day — up 33% on last year as the credit crunch and Government enforced duty rises and red tape take a...
07-Sep-2008 By The PMA Team
Chicago Rock Cafe operator 3D Entertainment is to try to find tenants for its loss-making sites to reduce losses with nightclubs to let for as little as £1,000-£4,000 a week.
'Pubs close at rate of 36 a week'
07-Sep-2008
One in six pubs will close by 2012 - hit by the credit crunch, the smoking ban and drinkers turning to cheap supermarket booze. Thirty-six are...
05-Sep-2008 By Neil Morgan
The sector will be kept on its feet through survival of the smartest.
05-Sep-2008 By Andrew Pring
Cutting the price of alcohol to combat the economic downturn can only do harm in the long term, so isn't it finally time for Government to tame the supermarkets?
Pete Robinson: £5 a pint? That'll do nicely!
05-Sep-2008
Conversation usually starts with, "Well ain't this bloody stupid?", followed by a vociferous condemnation of the ban, Nu-Labour, Pubcos, and the...
Profit from premium products at major Publican event
05-Sep-2008
When the stellar line-up of speakers takes to the stage at the Premium Innovation conference at London's Commonwealth Club on Tuesday, September 30,...
Pig rearing pub picks up AA award
05-Sep-2008 By James Wilmore
A Somerset village pub, which rears its own pigs, has been named England Pub of the Year at this year's AA Centenary Awards. Rupert and Victoria...
Pub recognised for facilities for the deaf
05-Sep-2008
An award-winning pub has added to its accolades with a charter mark in recognition of its facilities for the deaf.The True Lover's Knot in Tarrant...
05-Sep-2008 By Peter Coulson
News that the persistent young man banned by Buckingham Pubwatch wants to try and persuade the Court of Appeal to overturn a judge's previous ruling...
Tales of the tie
04-Sep-2008 By James Wilmore
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Former Pubmaster boss launches finance agency
04-Sep-2008 By The PMA Team
John Sands, who last month quit as non-executive chairman of the London Town pub company, has set up the London-based Delphi Partnership.
04-Sep-2008 By John Harrington
Euan Venters - who helped launch draught Fosters in the UK - become MD of Greene King's Scottish brewery and pub operator.
04-Sep-2008 By John Harrington
The gap between what landlords seek and what tenants are prepared to pay is widening but pubcos are shunning arbitrations, says Fleurets chairman Barry Gillham.
04-Sep-2008 By The PMA Team
The all-you-can-drink promotions at six sites are well-run and had "supportive" response from police, said Crabtree.
MA100 finalists revealed
04-Sep-2008 By The PMA Team
The finalists of the first-ever Morning Advertiser 100 awards for independent multiple managed retailers have been unveiled. The six awards aim to...
Power switch-off costs pub money
04-Sep-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
A pub lost three days trade when a power company switched off the electricity because the previous lessee had not paid the bills. Licensee Fred Bell...
Cains administrators deny drop in production
04-Sep-2008
Pubs selling Cains beers have been told there has been no drop in production at the brewery despite problems with deliveries since the company fell...
The Future of Pub Retailing.
04-Sep-2008 By Mark Stretton
The Future of Pub Retailing, M&C Conference Offer.
Pub shelter scuppered by screws
03-Sep-2008 By John Harrington
A licensee is ordered to remove his smoking shelter because the seven screws fastening it to the ground mean it needs planning permission.
I want to break free
03-Sep-2008 By Hamish Champ
If the nation's pubcos had followed the recommendations of the Trade & Industry Select Committee's (TISC) findings four years ago, they might not...
Minimum pricing plan confirmed for Scotland
03-Sep-2008 By James Wilmore
Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond today confirmed the country will legislate to tackle alcohol misuse - which could include a ban on off-sales...
03-Sep-2008 By Andrew Pring
BII is sponsoring the 'Corporate Citizenship' category of the 2008 Springboard Awards for Excellence. The esteemed awards are run by Springboard UK,...
Merchant Inns invests £7m in two pubs
02-Sep-2008 By The PMA Team
Merchant Inns, the food-led operator headed by Robert Breare, is to open two new sites this month - with a huge £3.75m invested in each. Merchant...
M&A deals slump as credit crunch gets crunchier
02-Sep-2008 By Hamish Champ
The value of corporate deals in the first six months of this year has more than halved, according to new research published today.Evidence that the...
