DESPAIR OF Smartbox COLLAPSE
30-Nov-2006 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
Company's failure leaves licensees with massive debts and onerous leases Controversial screen media company Smartbox has collapsed leaving hundreds...
Changes are on the cards
29-Nov-2006
Pub poker has grown in 2006 like the smile on a novice player's face who knows he holds a good hand. But anyone familiar with the game will know...
29-Nov-2006
Pubs in Glasgow look set to face a midnight glass ban if they plan any extended hours this Christmas. Licensing officials have told pub operators...
24-Nov-2006
British Beer and Pub Association survey goes against doom-mongers' 24-hour drinking predictions.
Plummeting profits for two major brewers
24-Nov-2006 By The PMA Team
Two major UK brewers indicate current difficulties facing beer business
Smoking out a bargain?
24-Nov-2006 By Hamish Champ
Ted Tuppen's comments that the sale of Enterprise Inns' entire 137-strong Scottish estate was strategically driven should be taken at face value,...
Fuller's sizing up rival family brewers
24-Nov-2006
Fuller & Co aims to fuel expansion by courting rival family brewers with shareholders looking to cash in their assets.Speaking as the...
24-Nov-2006
Fuller's has reported 'excellent' results for the six months up to the end of September. The London brewer and pub operator announced its results for...
23-Nov-2006 By John Harrington
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) is to ask Government to let pubs host small-stakes poker games.
Do It Right Kiely venture goes under
23-Nov-2006 By The PMA Team
Another company owned by Paul Kiely, the founder of discredited pub company Provence, has gone into administration, the Morning Advertiser has...
We must act and act now
23-Nov-2006
Beer producers, pub owners, pub operators; it no longer matters on which side of this £28bn industry you sit, we are all under attack. The issue at...
Call to arms
23-Nov-2006
Former Home Secretary David Blunkett, a current Home Office minister and the Deputy Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police were among the...
Exclusive research: drinkers are not spending more money in pubs
23-Nov-2006
EXCLUSIVE RESEARCH for The Publican has blown a hole in the argument that later opening would result in people drinking more in pubs into the early...
A mixed bag
23-Nov-2006
Reform may have caused its fair share of problems in the industry but it has not led to the end of the world as we know it, according to trade...
NewsDigest
23-Nov-2006
A new report calls for raising the age for buying cigarettes in Scotland from 16 to 18. It also calls for the licensing of cigarette sales north of...
Pubwatch ban contested by Liberty
23-Nov-2006
Pressure group Liberty has defended its decision to back the case of a man who is trying to fight his pubwatch ban by claiming it breached his human...
Let pubs host poker
23-Nov-2006 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
The British Beer & Pub Association is to seek a small-stakes exemption for pubs The British Beer & Pub Asso-ciation (BBPA) is to ask...
THE AGENTS
23-Nov-2006
Barry Aldred Associate Director, Davey & Co The pub sales market has continued to experience a sustained boom throughout 2006 and the...
Profit from a 250k face-lift
23-Nov-2006 By Lucy Britner lucy.britner@william-reed.co.uk
Union Pub Company (UPC), Wolves' tenanted arm, is looking for the right licensee for a Rotherham, South Yorkshire, pub undergoing a £250,000 revamp....
Right on Kew
23-Nov-2006
The Inn at Kew Gardens has had such a turnaround of fortunes - not least due to a £1m makeover - that it reached the finals in a gastro competition....
Raising their game
23-Nov-2006
As new legislation introduces higher stakes and prizes on gaming machines, Jo Grobel meets some key players The recent, long-awaited increase in...
Has the paper pile paid off?
23-Nov-2006 By Lucy Britner reports on MA research into how counc
The last 12 months haven't been easy for the councils at the front line of licensing but there is a sense that the hard work has paid off. In an...
LETTERs
23-Nov-2006
Targeting of trade is unfair I write in response to the MA's front page article of 16 November, Revenue slammed over swoop tactics. Now let's apply...
MyShout
23-Nov-2006
Why, oh why, do we men still have to wear black ties? asks Tony Jennings A few weeks ago I found myself watching the annual awards ceremony of...
23-Nov-2006 By Ewan Turney
One disgruntled Smartbox customer has decided to take the company to the small claims court to recoup the £1,800 he says he is owed. Bill Ganley, of...
The GUV'NOR Dennis Griffiths
23-Nov-2006
The licensee of the Miners Rest in Barnsley looks back on the FLVA conference The 2006 FLVA (Federation of Licensed Victuallers Associations)...
BarTalk
23-Nov-2006
Would you host poker at your pub if you could? John Ullman Red Lion Coleshill Buckinghamshire Yes we would. We are a sports pub, with darts teams,...
What the Sunday papers said
20-Nov-2006
City banks planning a rival to the London Stock Exchange have earmarked up to £10m to build a trading system and have even identified potential...
Government reassures licensees over duty stamps
20-Nov-2006
The government has moved to quash fears that licensees may be inadvertently breaking the law when the new duty stamps scheme comes into force next...
17-Nov-2006 By The PMA Team
Another company owned by Paul Kiely, founder of Provence, has gone into administration, the MA has learnt.
Held to account
17-Nov-2006 By Hamish Champ
With the dust still settling on the collapsed London & Edinburgh Swallow Group (L&ES), I rang the Institute of Chartered Accountants of...
17-Nov-2006
Pressure group Liberty has defended its decision to back the case of a man who is trying to fight his pubwatch ban because he claimed it breached his...
17-Nov-2006 By Tony Halstead
Retailer apathy will be the trade's worst enemy when the smoking ban arrives next summer, a senior pub company executive has warned. Hosts who fail...
Shaun Kiely in pub trade
16-Nov-2006 By The PMA Team
Another member of the Kiely family, Shaun Kiely, has entered the pub business with a company which, like his brother Paul Kiely's Provence, has been...
Laurel renames Ha! Ha! to suit clientele
16-Nov-2006 By The PMA Team
Laurel Pub Company, the managed division of Robert Tchenguiz's pub empire, is undertaking a re-branding tweak at three of Ha! Ha! Bar & Canteen...
Coaker calls for partnership with industry
16-Nov-2006
Home office minister Vernon Coaker has urged a partnership approach to tackling underage sales and alcohol related disorder.Speaking at The Publican...
Pubwatch in clash over human rights with campaigners Liberty
16-Nov-2006
A Nottinghamshire pubwatch scheme is heading for a clash with human rights campaigners Liberty after banning a customer for alleged abusive...
Licensees warned of "apathy" over smoking ban
16-Nov-2006 By James Wilmore
Licensees have been warned of the dangers of "apathy" when it comes to next summer's smoking ban. "Apathy with the ban is the most dangerous thing...
Blears and Reid support Pubwatch
16-Nov-2006 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Home Secretary John Reid and Labour Party chairwoman Hazel Blears have vowed to speak up in support of Pubwatch groups. They pledged support when...
MyShout
16-Nov-2006
There are just too many cask-ale organisations achieving too little says David Bremner I remember from my economics degree that a market would be in...
The GUV'NOR
16-Nov-2006
Dave Daly A hike in tax on alcohol will only lead to increased drug-taking, says the licensee of Cahoots in Blackpool On the back of banning smoking...
Controversial ADZs given green light
16-Nov-2006 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Local authorities have been given the green light to impose controversial alcohol disorder zones (ADZs) after the Violent Crime Reduction Bill...
Hoops hunt Red Devil scalps
16-Nov-2006 By Richard Ross
The UEFA Champions League takes centre stage once more. While many fans will be criss-crossing the Continent to watch their heroes in action, what is...
BarTalk
16-Nov-2006
Should women be referees? Dave Parker Shoulder of Mutton Castleford West Yorkshire Of course they should - why not? They drive trucks and fly planes....
Local heroes
16-Nov-2006
The Society of Independent Brewers has presented its first Local Brewing Business Awards in London. Adrian Tierney-Jones met its innovative winners...
You don't have to measure up
16-Nov-2006
Some months ago, a shopkeeper was being prosecuted for not going metric, at the same time a licensee in Scotland was being threatened with...
LETTERs
16-Nov-2006
Camra does not profit from club Greene King's Rooney Anand is wrong to suggest that the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) profits from the success of the...
Time to help each other
16-Nov-2006
Beer, once our undisputed national drink, is on the ropes. Figures just out show sales fell by nearly 7% in the warm summer months of June, July and...
Revenue slammed over swoop tactics
16-Nov-2006 By Andrew Pring andrew.pring@william-reed.co.uk
Staff interrogations and clumsy till audits are alienating licensees, say trade accountants Licensees across the country are fuming at the...
15-Nov-2006
A Wiltshire couple say roadworks close to their pub have halved takings and forced them to quit. Peter and Jennifer Gill from The Bell in Purton...
