Four stages of a tenancy
20-Feb-2003
Ken Newton's latest column turns the spotlight on the issues that affect licensees with tenancies and leases The life of a tenancy or lease can be...
Soho House to stay open
20-Feb-2003
Soho House the celebrity haunt where Jude Law and Sadie Frost's two-year-old daughter swallowed an ecstasy tablet has held onto its licence...
Have a knight to remember
20-Feb-2003
The Publican has teamed up with Charles Wells to raise the profile of St George's Day, which takes place on April 23. The new campaign - the Value of...
Inntrepreneur licensees may be too late to follow Crehan's lead
20-Feb-2003
Hundreds of publicans who are awaiting a High Court ruling on the dispute between publican Bernie Crehan and Inntrepreneur could be left...
City briefs
20-Feb-2003
Heavitree Brewery saw operating profits fall to £875,000 in the year to the end of October 2001, down from £1.2m the previous year. During the...
St Peter's blasted over MD's sacking
20-Feb-2003
St Peter's Brewery was wrong to sack its managing director, an employment tribunal has ruled. George Wortley, 51, was dismissed from his...
Blooming great
19-Feb-2003
A garden can draw in customers and supply your kitchen with ingredients.That Alan Titchmarsh - makes you sick doesn't he? Not only is he handy in the...
Springwood appoints new chief operating officer
18-Feb-2003
Springwood Leisure has appointed a new chief operating officer as the bar and nightclub operator battles with tough trading conditions.New appointee...
ALMR backs calls for ID card
18-Feb-2003
Publicans' calls for a national ID card received a boost last week when a major industry association backed its introduction.The Association of...
What the Sunday papers said
17-Feb-2003
Sunday TimesPubmaster chairman John Sands does not want to float the 3,200 pub business, preferring to securitise money through bonds to raise the...
City briefs
17-Feb-2003
It has been reported that Capital Management and Investment, the UK-listed cash shell, is said to be considering investment in the pubs sector. The...
Licensee hits out at local council control of licensing
17-Feb-2003
A licensee has highlighted his disastrous experiences with his local council in a bid to stop the transfer of licensing from magistrates.Peter Lowry...
Employers hit by rise in litigation
13-Feb-2003 By Tony Halstead
Pub operators are likely be hit hard by increases in compen-sation payments, trade leaders are warning. Increases in tribunal awards, announced last...
BBPA attacks police fee plan
13-Feb-2003
The trade has hit out against suggestions that it should fork out to cover the cost of drink-related crime.According to speculation, Home Office...
Seeing the
13-Feb-2003
light When it comes to having a drink with your meal, beer is emerging as a popular alternative to wine, reports Sally Bairstow What's in your beef...
Tanya charms the Richmond locals
13-Feb-2003
The Fleece, a Laurel outlet in Richmond, North Yorkshire, has been the centre of great interest since it put up a new pub sign last week and...
An age-old concern
12-Feb-2003
Jackie Annett investigates the wealth of fake ID cards that are readily available on the internet and the repercussions they have on the trade.An...
What the Sunday papers said
10-Feb-2003
The Sunday TimesMitchells & Butlers is the new name for Six Continents Retail, the 2,000-strong pubs division that will be split from the leisure...
City briefs
07-Feb-2003
Hampshire brewer Gales has appointed a new chairman. Charles Brims, a non-executive since 1995, will assume the role from George Bowyer, whose family...
A touch of class
06-Feb-2003
The Licensed Victuallers School celebrates its 200th birthday tomorrow. Sally Bairstow takes a look at its proud history and bright future Rubbing...
ScotCo aims for revolution
06-Feb-2003
by The PMA Team Scottish Courage believes it will eradicate the problem of poor quality in the draught lager sector with the £10m roll-out of its...
Red alert over
06-Feb-2003
rating cowboys' by Richard Matthews Licensees are being warned not to part with money upfront to any companies offering to negotiate rate reductions....
Will war have an effect on pubs?
06-Feb-2003
These are tough times for the industry. In recent years pub operators, and the leisure sector at large, have faced a series of trading challenges.The...
Charles Wells hosts are Star performers
06-Feb-2003
Charles Wells has hosted its annual Eagle Star Awards night, aimed at recognising and rewarding the best licensees throughout the Bedford brewer's...
SFI bars for sale?
06-Feb-2003
Speculation over the assets of troubled bar operator SFI Group has resurfaced this week with reports that Bar Med and Slug & Lettuce are up for...
Warning for trade as licensee sees cost of PEL rise 572 per cent
06-Feb-2003
The case of a Welsh publican who saw the cost of his entertainment licence rise by a whopping 572 per cent, has sent alarm bells ringing throughout...
Hosts help stranded travellers
06-Feb-2003
A pub manager accepted watches, rings and a family photograph as collateral for food and drink from desperate motorists stuck in the blizzards which...
Capital gains
05-Feb-2003
Belfast may not have the tourist pull of its southern Irish rival Dublin, but as Michelle Perrett found, it has a lot to offer.Stag and hen parties...
repairs / dilapidations
05-Feb-2003
i took over a pub back in may of last year on a new 20 year lease (no assignment,, just purchased outgoing tenants f&f). In november we started a...
High streets, low prices
03-Feb-2003
Mark Stretton asks whether Ted Tuppen was right in saying Enterprise was benefiting from discounting.Last week Ted Tuppen, chief executive of...
Attention to details: displaying required information
03-Feb-2003
Licensees must take care to display all required informationby Richard Williams of thePublican.com's legal team of experts from London solicitors...
What the Sunday papers said
03-Feb-2003
The Mail on SundayTHE MAIL picks up on thePublican.com's story last Friday that Spirit Group and Laurel Pub Company are both bidding for the Tom...
Hardys perennial
31-Jan-2003
Mark Stretton visits Nottingham's Hardys & Hansons and finds that first impressions can be deceiving."Define Hardys & Hansons," I ask."We are...
Trade group alerts publicans to measures danger
31-Jan-2003
Customers are at risk of accidentally drinking too much because licensees are failing to give sufficient information on measures.The Federation of...
The widespread appeal of Beefeater
31-Jan-2003
A pack of managed pub companies including Greene King, Noble House and Spirit Group are bidding for the discarded Beefeater sites.The large-scale...
Thirsty northerners are drinking their southern counterparts
30-Jan-2003
Drinkers up north knock back an average 11 pints each week against just seven managed by their southern counterparts. The poll, commissioned jointly...
Gould moves
30-Jan-2003
Punch training and recruitment directorStephen Gould is to join Leicestershire brewer Everards as its trade director. Gould, who introduced a number...
It's bars in their eyes
30-Jan-2003
by Tony Halstead London's Nylon bar will be thrust under the national spotlight in March as the venue for a new ITV network reality show The Club....
Hammers' pub hits the spot
30-Jan-2003
There's a widespread belief in the pub trade that there areno-go areas for cask beer. For no-go areas read working-class areas: the assumption is...
Is this a good way in to the industry?
30-Jan-2003
We have come across a recruitment company that operate retail partnerships. For a fee, they provide you with training for the NLC and the BII...
InfoPage: Tradeteam - creating new value in the supply chain
30-Jan-2003
This InfoPage is an online advertorial from our commercial sponsor Tradeteam.Imagine what it may be like in a few years time. Draught beer volumes...
S&N to be sued for Admiral Duncan nail-bomb blast
30-Jan-2003
Six victims of the 1999 nail-bomb attack at London's Admiral Duncan pub are suing the owners for damages.The victims, all customers at the pub at the...
Finance worries could force Bulmer sale
30-Jan-2003
More than £20m has been wiped from the value of troubled cidermaker HP Bulmer after it warned that yet another debt crisis had forced the Hereford...
Brighton nightclub case serves as disability reminder for pubs
30-Jan-2003
The case of a Brighton nightclub that was hauled before the courts because staff refused entry to a blind person is serving as a reminder to all...
Steep profit warning rise in leisure sector
30-Jan-2003
The leisure, entertainment and hotel sector saw the steepest rise in profit warnings in the last quarter of 2002 according to Ernst &...
Revised Firkin chain comes into its own
30-Jan-2003
Spirit Group has decided to open four more new-style Firkins after success trialling the new format at three outlets in London. The Firkin...
Founder buys back Brulines
30-Jan-2003
The licensed trade's biggest supplier of beer dispense monitoring equipment, Brulines, was in new ownership this week following a management buyout...
What the Sunday papers said
27-Jan-2003
The Sunday TimesINVESTMENT bankers working on the break up of Six Continents are examining ways to release additional capital tied up in its £3.5...
Clean-Air
23-Jan-2003
Pub of the Year This award, sponsored by Vent-Axia, aims at recognising the pub that has made the most effort to comply with the "Smoking in Public...
Disco Venue
23-Jan-2003
Pub of the Year This award, sponsored by PPL, aims at recognising the venue that has regularly staged the most entertaining and well-attended dance...
