Andy Slee
10-Jan-2008
Andy Slee, trading director, Coca-Cola Enterprises What is your corporate goal for the year ahead? Within the Licensed trade CCEs aim is to...
Sudarghara Dusanj
10-Jan-2008
Sudarghara Dusanj, chief executive, Cains Corporate goal for the year? To maximise our sponsorship of Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008,...
Paul Boggia
10-Jan-2008
Paul Boggia, licensee, the Kingston Arms in Cambridge Corporate goal for the year? We have two: a defensive, reactive goal (partly in anticipation of...
Maurice Breen
10-Jan-2008
Maurice Breen, marketing director, Magners Corporate goal for the year? As the leading player in the on-trade packaged long alcoholic drink market,...
John McNamara
10-Jan-2008
John McNamara, chief executive, BII Corporate goal for the year? As an organisation, BII's key goal for next year is to stand up for responsible...
Andrew Meadowcroft
10-Jan-2008
Andrew Meadowcroft, head of licensed trade, Barclays bank Corporate goal for the year? Helping our customers achieve their aims might sound like a...
Fred West
10-Jan-2008
Fred West, sales director, Wadworth Corporate goal for the year? To continue differentiating the character and individuality of our beers, pubs and...
Andy Wood
10-Jan-2008
Andy Wood, managing director, Adnams Corporate goal for the year? To continue to grow the Adnams brand. Adnams Spindrift allows us to put great...
Gary Whitlie
10-Jan-2008
Gary Whitlie, managing director, Miller Brands Corporate goal for the year? To continue the growth of our portfolio of brands by working closely with...
Paul Wells
10-Jan-2008
Paul Wells, chief executive, Charles Wells Corporate goal for the year? We will continue to grow our pub estate gently, with investment in the pubs...
Jeremy Allen
10-Jan-2008
Jeremy Allen, Partner, Poppleston Allen Solicitors Corporate goal for the year? To continue to expand in Nottingham and London within all areas of...
Paul Baker
10-Jan-2008
Paul Baker, managing director, Thwaites Corporate goal for the year? Our long-term focus has always been on investment in our people, pubs and brands...
Jeremy Blood
10-Jan-2008
Jeremy Blood, Managing director, S&NUK Corporate goal for the year? To introduce more innovative products and approaches that make an impact on...
Benet Slay
10-Jan-2008
Benet Slay, Managing director, Diageo GB Corporate goal for the year? Our main aim is to drive growth in our brands and their categories. To do this...
Michael Turner
10-Jan-2008
Michael Turner, chairman, Fuller's Corporate goal for the year? To continue to grow both our retail and brewing businesses and deliver excellent...
Bruce Ray
10-Jan-2008
Bruce Ray, Director of external affairs, Bacardi Brown-Forman Brands Corporate goal for the year? To demonstrate that the industry in which we work...
10-Jan-2008 By Tony Halstead
Difficult first quarter ahead with duty increase to follow
The shape of things to come
10-Jan-2008
Fears of recession or a chance for profit and growth? Industry bosses tell the MA what the future holdsJonathan Neame Chief executive, Shepherd Neame...
The Agents
10-Jan-2008
Stephen Taylor Managing director Guy Simmonds Well, there are many who will be glad to see the back of 2007, a year which brought natural disasters,...
MyNewPub
10-Jan-2008
Featherston Arms Kirkoswald, Cumbria Agent: Kings Business Transfer First-time pub buyers Jennifer and Glen Mossop have been very busy at the...
Gold award for 'most improved' pub
10-Jan-2008
A Punch pub labelled "the worst in Warwickshire" by its council one year ago has won a top award for cleanliness from the local authority. This...
MyShout
10-Jan-2008
The time is now ripe to develop a new language to describe beer, says Tony Jennings A couple of years ago the lads' mag Maxim ran a review of the...
THE GUV'NOR
10-Jan-2008
John Ellis The licensee of the Crown Inn, Oakengates, Shropshire, is sure he has hit upon a positive suggestion to help the trade - and please the...
Storm risk: the forecast for 2008
10-Jan-2008
Along with economic worries, Tony Halstead picks out some of the key themes set to shape the year ahead Beer Prices The threat of a substantial...
BarTalk
10-Jan-2008
How was your festive trade this year? Nick Green Stansfield Arms Apperley Bridge North Yorkshire We had a good Christmas here - we're well up on...
NewsDigest
10-Jan-2008
Scottish & Newcastle could achieve synergies of £100m by taking full control of Baltic Beverage Holdings (BBH) from Carlsberg, the brewer says....
Comment: A turning point
09-Jan-2008
The recent British Beer & Pub Association figures showing that beer sales in November fell by 10 per cent year-on-year were alarming. But the...
Pete Robinson:...A new one just begun
09-Jan-2008
My apologies in advance for sounding such a doom merchant but I've racking my addled brain and still can't make any positive predictions in the...
The Restaurant Group sees 'subdued' growth in final quarter
09-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
The stock market value of The Restaurant Group (TRG), whose operations include the Frankie & Benny's and Bluebeckers pub restaurant chains, fell...
08-Jan-2008
ALMR urges licensing minister to take action on cheap supermarket booze
Living Room sees record sales in December
08-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
Premium Bars and Restaurants (PBR), formerly known as Ultimate Leisure, has reported that its sites "performed well" in December, with total group...
08-Jan-2008
Reading Pubwatch is not about to enforce a ban on Gangsta Rap music, despite media reports to the contrary. Venues in Reading have come under close...
Pete Robinson: Another year over...
07-Jan-2008
Our industry leaders and spokesmen joined hands with the politicians and antis to reassure us of the "new opportunities" to come. You were all going...
Hamish Champ: Shock, horror! A Daily Mail reader calls for a return to the 'good old days'
07-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
Reading recent press coverage of Christmas and New Year festivities you'd think public wrath is once again being summoned against the Great British...
04-Jan-2008
Pubco share prices plummeted yesterday in the wake of a 9.7% decline in beer volumes for November compared to last year. Shares in Punch Taverns...
02-Jan-2008 By John Harrington
Another bar operator has won an appeal against the council's controversial policy of restricting open hours in busy areas
John Sands appointed chairman at London Town
02-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
Pub industry veteran John Sands has been appointed non-executive chairman of London Town after the AIM-listed pubco acquired independent operator GRS...
Free drink-drive posters for pubs
19-Dec-2007 By James Wilmore
Free posters are being made available to pubs this Christmas to re-enforce the dangers of drink-driving. A range of posters are being offered to...
A bit of crystal ball-gazing
17-Dec-2007 By Hamish Champ
Predicting the future is a mug's game. That said, I'll set aside common sense and take a punt on a few things I reckon will occur in the coming 12...
2007: A pig of a year?
14-Dec-2007 By Hamish Champ
It's fair to say that 2007 wasn't one of the UK pub trade's best years. Smoking bans, the worst summer for years and waning consumer confidence; all...
14-Dec-2007 By Ewan Turney
An Energy Performance Certificate could cost pubs up to £1,500. The MA broke the news in June that from 1 October 2008, all pubs that are sold,...
13-Dec-2007 By The PMA Team
Paul Salisbury has launched a new concept in Solihull called The Farm
Special Occasions: Music to licensees' ears
13-Dec-2007
IT'S THE soundtrack to our lives - and the soundtrack to pub profits. Get the music offer right in your pub, theme some special occasions around it,...
BBPA opposes ADZ discounts
13-Dec-2007 By James Wilmore
Best Bar None-accredited pubs in alcohol disorder zones (ADZs) should not be given a discount, a trade group has argued. The British Beer & Pub...
Blackpool pubs hit in pilot crackdown
13-Dec-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Blackpool police say two £80 fixed-penalty notices were issued to bar staff for serving drunks in a pilot crackdown and one outlet was closed for...
Criterion chases Bowes' ex-wife
13-Dec-2007
Ida Bowes owes £60,000 to Criterion Asset Management under a privity of contract deal she signed with her ex-husband. She talks to John Harrington...
BarTalk
13-Dec-2007
How was trade in 2007? Jessica Luke Brewery Tap Peterborough Cambridgeshire Trade pretty much matched 2006 so it hasn't been too bad - I think we got...
Bish: off-trade's in denial about its role
13-Dec-2007 By Tony Halstead THals22851@aol.com
Big supermarkets should review their alcohol advertising and marketing techniques to encourage more responsible retailing. That is the view of...
The Agents
13-Dec-2007
John William Managing director Sidney Phillips Despite the well-documented losses by US banks and other lending institutions in the sub-prime...
MyNewPub
13-Dec-2007
Sun Inn Feering, Essex Andrew Howard has become Shepherd Neame's youngest licensee, taking over the helm at the Sun Inn, in Essex, at the age of 20....
