Treasure in the heart of Cornwall
17-May-2007
The Cross House Inn at Metherell, near the Cornwall/Devon border, is on the market with Colliers Robert Barry. The former farmhouse, built in 1880,...
Two pubs 'tick boxes for ban'
17-May-2007 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk
Two well-established pubs have come on to the market in Derby. The Exeter Arms and the Traveller's Rest are both on the market for the first time in...
THE GUV'NOR
17-May-2007
Peter Gatling Be professional in your promotion, says the licensee of the Merry Harriers in Clayhidon, Devon Text-book marketing wisdom talks about...
InBrief
17-May-2007
Host's staple gun is 'noise nuisance' A licensee is in trouble with his local authority after being told a staple gun he used to attach St George's...
Prepare for a brace of cup finals
17-May-2007 By Richard Ross
Coming up over the next seven days there are two football finals to look out for. On Saturday it's time once again for the FA Cup final. For the...
Selling strategies
17-May-2007
Neil Dunning tells Ewan Turney how a sound marketing strategy helped the Duke on the Green in Parsons Green, London, become Young's Pub of the Year...
Donations in time
17-May-2007
The LTC is making a real difference to people's lives through its team of volunteer visitors, who give their time, rather than money, to help those...
BarTalk
17-May-2007
Should the UK ditch the Eurovision Song Contest? Steve Murphy Church House Inn Bollington Cheshire It's not been a vintage year. It's more like a...
Three's the magic number
17-May-2007
Before announcing the winner of the 2007 CaskForce competition, we meet the final three MA readers hoping to win a year's free rent in the Marston's...
LETTERs
17-May-2007
Working out cash profits for lessees In a Morning Advertiser report on Punch results (3 May 2007), it is stated that "Punch lessees saw average...
NewsDigest
17-May-2007
Heineken is testing how its brands are served in pubs in a new initiative. "Auditors" will assess how outlets perform across a range of areas...
Grouse flies in a new direction
17-May-2007
The Famous Grouse has signed a new deal to continue its sponsorship of Scottish Rugby until May 2009. The renewal follows a 16-year partnership but...
Chris Maclean: celebrate the British pub
16-May-2007 By Chris Maclean
I have, tonight, written to my local MP inviting him to come to my pub in July as part of Proud of Pubs Week. I don't think he will come.British...
What the papers say - May 16, 2007
16-May-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
Enterprise Inns, Britain's second biggest pub owner, is talking to HM Revenue & Customs about whether it can include the money that landlords pay...
Pubs 'n' Bars will be "badly hit" by smoke ban
16-May-2007 By Hamish Champ
Pubs 'n' Bars, the South West London-based pub group, says it expects to be "badly hit" by the English smoking ban.Announcing the group's annual...
16-May-2007 By Ewan Turney
Morning Advertiser Pub of the Year Award winner David Sax has secured £10m worth of private-equity backing to expand the Cow brand in the southern...
14-May-2007
Entrepreneurial brothers Sudarghara and Ajmail Dusanj have agreed a reverse take over of Honeycombe Leisure PLC
An epic challenge?
14-May-2007 By Hamish Champ
Constellation Europe president Troy Christensen may well come across as your typically laconic yet focused American executive, but he's darned...
Spring: a time of results announcements and hayfever
14-May-2007 By Hamish Champ
Spring is here, the birds are getting flirty, and hayfever - that most unpleasant of non-life- threatening conditions - is playing its usual annual...
Cains goes public with Honeycombe Leisure takeover
14-May-2007 By Hamish Champ
The management of Liverpool brewer Robert Cain has undertaken a reverse takeover of troubled pub group Honeycombe Leisure.Under the deal, Honeycombe...
Booker to float with reverse takeover
14-May-2007
Cash & Carry group Booker is returning to the stock market via a reverse takeover deal with grocery wholesaler Blueheath.Subject to shareholder...
What the papers say, May 14, 2007
14-May-2007
Polish workers, already a significant force in Britain's plumbing industry, are starting to supplement Antipodeans as one the main sources of bar...
What the Sunday papers said
13-May-2007
Pubfolio, a 545-stong pub company run by County Estate Management is to hire bankers Rothschild to sell it for around £150m, according to the Sunday...
More than a third of pub-goers say smoky venue is a turn-off
12-May-2007
A smoky atmosphere is the biggest reason for avoiding a pub or bar, according to a survey published by the Department of Health. The survey of 1,700...
Hamish Champ: Pubs need music, not violence
11-May-2007 By Hamish Champ
I abhor violence. True, I don't mind the stuff in fantasy films and Sam, my seven year old (pictured right), positively hoots with joy when watching...
Brulines moves into AWP market
11-May-2007 By Hamish Champ
Brulines is moving into the AWP monitoring market with the acquisition of a 66 per cent stake in Milton Keynes-based Coin Metrics.Brulines, which...
10-May-2007 By John Harrington
Trade pours scorn on Government plans to force pubs to clean up streets
An exclusive interview with a scambuster
10-May-2007
The Scambusters Team at the Office of Fair Trading was set up to tackle all rogues and scams targeting consumers and small businesses. Mark...
Help us fight the scam artists
10-May-2007 By James Wilmore
The Publican is taking evidence from pubs that have been scammed directly to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).Following the launch of Scamwatch...
Scottish licensees support smoking ban
10-May-2007 By James Wilmore
Support for the Scottish smoking ban has soared among licensees, with half now in favour, a survey has revealed. Data supplied exclusively to...
Licensees told to clean up after smokers
10-May-2007
Licensees could be forced to clear up cigarette butts outside their pubs under new government proposals. Draft legislation, which is expected by July...
What the papers say - May 10, 2007
10-May-2007
Marston's, the Midlands brewer and pub operator, is poised to announce today the sale of 279 of its tenanted pubs for around £80 million to AIM, the...
10-May-2007
Come and enjoy some golf with the Morning Advertiser and the Licensed Trade Charity and help to raise money at the same time.
10-May-2007 By Tony Halstead
BBPA plans information pack to explode the "myths and misinformation
MyShout
10-May-2007
Despite recent reports of multiple pub closures, it's not all doom and gloom, says Colin Wellstead The subject of pub closures frequently hits the...
Pack for sale to suit aspiring pub player
10-May-2007 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk
A highly-unusual property is up for sale in Combe Martin, on the north Devon coast. The Pack o' Cards Inn was designed around the theme of a pack of...
MyNewPub
10-May-2007
Red Cow, Chrisall, Essex Agent: Christie+Co Chris and Alice Cozens bought the freehold of the Red Cow from Christie+Co off an asking price of...
THE AGENTS
10-May-2007
Konrad Szymanski Humberstones I have sold pubs in all sorts of markets, through the good times and the bad times. I was about when the brewers were...
THE GUV'NOR
10-May-2007
Graham Rowson The licensee of the Plungington Tavern in Preston, Lancs, offers some simple ideas to keep punters coming back With summer nearly...
Testing Ground
10-May-2007
Two pub caterers put three new products to the test on their pub menus Star ratings are out of five, with one being poor and five excellent Paul...
FRANCE
10-May-2007
France remains the biggest supplier of wine to the UK on-trade and is well-represented at this year's fair. Burgundy producer Louis Jadot will be...
AUSTRALIA
10-May-2007
Australia has emerged as the major challenger to France in the UK on-trade and the nation's wine producers have a big presence at the fair. The chief...
BarTalk
10-May-2007
Will you be sorry to see Tony Blair go? Nigel Oxford Three Compasses Hornsey London No. I thought he was a really insincere person right from the...
January winner - STAFFORDSHIRE LICENSEES Josef, Phyllis and Jamie Lang
10-May-2007
The Langs run the Red Lion, a Marston's Pub Company local in Rugeley, Staffordshire. We spoke to Phyllis Lang Winning CaskForce in January was very...
December winner - CHESHIRE LICENSEE Mike Ford
10-May-2007
Mike Ford runs the Farmers Arms, a Punch Tavern in Kelsall, near Tarporley in Cheshire I entered CaskForce to get one of my staff trained up, because...
LETTERs
10-May-2007
Council's smoke ban mistakes The new smoking ban law that has just come into force in Wales states that to accommodate smokers you can have a...
NewsDigest
10-May-2007
A senior City analyst has claimed that Punch's acquisition of Mill House Inns has been disappointing so far. Punch bought Mill House last September...
Shout to the top
09-May-2007
IF WE are to make Proud of Pubs Week a success, it won't only be about getting some national attention for the industry - it will be about ensuring...
Gambling for pleasure
09-May-2007
IF PLAYING poker involves a fine balance of skill and chance, it seems that pubs hosting it are in a similarly precarious game with much at...
Twelve ounce steak safe as Brussels backs off
09-May-2007
Pubs can continue giving the weight of steaks in ounces on the menu after the European Commission (EC) confirmed that plans to outlaw imperial...
