InBev slammed over new payment terms
07-Jun-2007 By Hamish Champ
A private business pressure group has lambasted brewing giant InBev for doubling the time it takes to pay suppliers.The Forum for Private Business...
Ready to go into audit?
07-Jun-2007
Alex McGill of stocktaker and inventory specialist Venners shows how an audit works and how it differs from a stocktake People often confuse...
Rewarding best practice
07-Jun-2007
With the pub trade under frequent attack for many social ills, the MA's award scheme promoting responsible alcohol retailing has never been more...
Sparkling and rosé set pace
07-Jun-2007
Sparkling and rosé wines will be setting the pace of growth in the on-trade in the coming year as suppliers attempt to replicate successful trends...
On-trade sales dip continues
07-Jun-2007 By Tony Halstead THals22851@aol.com
Pub and bar sales of drink are continuing to decline, with every category except cider and minerals showing a drop in volumes, according the latest...
Clay reveals plans for renowned Blackpool pub
07-Jun-2007
Award-winning pub manager Adrian Clay has crossed the trade divide to become his own boss as tenant of the Raikes Hall Hotel in Blackpool,...
Rate relief plan for making loos public
07-Jun-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
A lobby group is calling for rate relief for pubs that open their toilets to the public. The British Toilet Associa-tion (BTA) has argued for the...
MyShout
07-Jun-2007
It's time the Government considered the real impact of its activities on the trade, says David Elliott Once again our industry is being pounded by...
THE GUV'NOR
07-Jun-2007
Paul Clerehugh Be prepared for unannounced visits from the tax man, warns the licensee of the Crooked Billet in Stoke-Rowe, Oxfordshire Recently I...
BarTalk
07-Jun-2007
How would your business cope if there was a national postal strike? Fiona Hornsby Thomas Rigby's, Liverpool First of all there would be less junk...
NewsDigest
07-Jun-2007
The European Union (EU) is looking to ban smokers from huddling in pub doorways, according to a report in The Observer. The newspaper says that the...
Hamish Champ: Me, my motorbike and pubs...
06-Jun-2007 By Hamish Champ
It's been my recent experience that standards of service in pubs are on the rise. Sure, you can still get a 'traditional' welcome in certain robust...
What the papers say - June 6, 2007
06-Jun-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
Visa, the credit card brand and Olympic sponsor, has given a ringing endorsement to the London 2012 logo, which made its first commercial appearance...
SIA appoints new chief exec
06-Jun-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
The Security Industry Authority (SIA) has announced the appointment of Mike Wilson as the new chief executive.It is expected Wilson will take over...
Blame for alcohol related disorder shifted away from pubs
05-Jun-2007
A host of senior pub trade figures have added their weight to the argument that pubs are not to blame for alcohol-related disorder.Speaking at trade...
What the papers say - June 5, 2007
05-Jun-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
Middle-class wine drinkers will be the focus of government plans to make drunkenness as socially unacceptable as smoking, The Times has learnt. Under...
Something in the Ayres
05-Jun-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
A Gloucestershire brewery has rewarded two brothers for decades of custom by giving them their own pint glasses.Swindon-based Arkell's Brewery, which...
The price is right - or is it?
04-Jun-2007
Apart from next month's smoking ban in England, the debate raging most strongly in the industry at the moment is the huge disparity between prices in...
What the papers say - June 4, 2007
04-Jun-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
Top chefs insure their crockery, their wine cellars and the contents of their fridges and freezers. Now they are being offered cover against the...
Pubs among the targets of litter campaign
04-Jun-2007
Businesses and smokers are being targeted in a new campaign launching this week, aimed at keeping the streets clean after July 1.Free posters and...
To list or not to list...
03-Jun-2007 By Hamish Champ
Why do companies seek a stock exchange listing? An obvious answer is to be able to throw a wider net to access funds. That, and affording investors a...
What the Sunday papers said
03-Jun-2007
Hundreds of English pubs plan to flout next month's ban on smoking in public places, reports the Sunday Telegraph. The number of pubs involved in...
What the papers say - June 1, 2007
01-Jun-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
Richard Caring, the millionaire owner of celebrity haunt The Ivy, has sold off his Strada pizza chain for £140m, less than a month after buying a 3%...
01-Jun-2007
The Government is set to call for pubs to display notices at the bar to educate customers about safe drinking. The proposal is not included in the...
23 Iain Holden
31-May-2007
commercial director, Sky Business (22)
15 John Dunsmore
31-May-2007
managing director, Western Europe, Scottish & Newcastle UK (7)
7 Robert Tchenguiz
31-May-2007
owner, R20 (6)
2 Tim Clarke
31-May-2007
chief executive, Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) (3)
40 Inspector Steve Greenacre & Sergeant Jan Brown
31-May-2007
Greater Manchester Police (39)
36 Jonathan Paveley
31-May-2007
commercial director, Punch Taverns (new entry)
Yesteryear plans to unload nine bars
31-May-2007 By The PMA Team
Yesteryear Pub Company, founded by Tony Callaghan, is selling nine of its north-west sites prior to embarking on a change of strategic direction....
Project update 4: Putting it on the map
31-May-2007
GET A town mayor together in a pub with a couple of hundred locals, some high-tech entertainment, and a bunch of Morris dancers and what have you...
Admiral Taverns names new management team
31-May-2007 By Hamish Champ
Admiral Taverns has appointed Lynne D'Arcy and Andy Clifford as joint managing directors with immediate effect.D'Arcy has been with Admiral since...
Licensee blasts council over pub closure
31-May-2007 By James Wilmore
A furious licensee has blasted his local council after it threatened his pub with a £20,000 fine if it failed to close over the busy bank holiday...
Licensees left disappointed over pool competition
31-May-2007 By James Wilmore
Licensee and customers have been left disappointed after a major national pub pool competition with a £50,000 winner-takes-all prize was...
Under 18s can serve behind the bar
31-May-2007 By James Wilmore
Under-18s can serve behind the bar under the new Licensing Act - but every sale has to be approved by a "responsible person".The Department for...
BII supports alcohol education for young
31-May-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
The BII have supported calls for more alcohol education for young people, after an investigation revealed arrests of under 2'5s for drink-driving are...
31-May-2007 By Tony Halstead
Award-winning pub manager Adrian Clay has crossed the trade divide to become his own boss as tenant of the Raikes Hall, Blackpool. Clay and his wife...
MyNewPub
31-May-2007
Mermaid Inn, Ellington, Cambridgeshire Agent: Christie+Co Gary Barton has just taken on the lease of the Mermaid Inn, a Merchant Inns-owned freehold...
THE AGENTS
31-May-2007
Jon Clyne Christie+Co Exeter Office Areas such as Devon, Cornwall and Somerset are still, in the main, considered tourist-orientated by the majority...
Cumbrian hosts buy second pub
31-May-2007 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk
A couple who run a microbrewery at a pub in Cocker-mouth, Cumbria, have bought a second pub in the town. Mike and Susan Askey have owned the freehold...
31-May-2007 By Stephen Oliver
Getting tough on crime really means getting creative to reach target figures says Stephen Oliver. When I was a kid, around nine or 10, me and my...
THE GUV'NOR
31-May-2007
Ali Carter Outdoor space can add value to a premises, so it makes you question why we didn't do it sooner, says the former BII Licensee of the Year...
27 Brian King managing director, Trust Inns (new entry) Trevor Hemmings millionaire leisure tycoon (new entry)
31-May-2007
Why they are on the list: Entrepreneur Trevor Hemmings, whose empire embraces pubs, hotels, fun parks, Blackpool Tower, construction companies and...
22 Paul Wells chairman, Wells & Young's (26) Nigel McNally managing director, Wells & Young's (new entry)
31-May-2007
Why they are on the list: Paul Wells now enjoys a dual role following the merger of the Wells & Young's brewing interests to form one brewing...
8 Tony Hughes
31-May-2007
managing director, M&B pub restaurant division (9)
Consistency is vital
31-May-2007 By Peter Coulson
Listening to Dave Sissons of Doncaster LVA giving evidence to MPs the other day about the problems of the new Licensing Act, I found myself getting...
LETTERs
31-May-2007
Red tape is a money spinner I'm sure neither MA's legal editor Peter Coulson, nor Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers chief executive Nick...
31-May-2007 By Joe Lutrario
Guild of Master Victuallers calls for fairer insurance deal for pubco licensees Members of the Guild of Master Victuallers (GMV) have called for a...
30-May-2007 By The PMA Team
Food and Drink Group is to open its first new Henry J Bean's site since it acquired the brand. The company is to convert the Life bar in Wimbledon it...
