03-Mar-2011 By The PMA Team
Lincolnshire brewer and retailer Batemans has offered its licensees the opportunity to cancel out price rises on a key company product this year....
03-Mar-2011 By Lesley Foottit
A Surrey town could incorporate facial recognition into its CCTV system to help keep troublemakers out of pubs. The suggestion came up during a...
02-Mar-2011 By Dave Daly
Dave Daly reflects on the changes to the managed-house system since he entered the trade.
02-Mar-2011 By The PMA Team
David Crabtree has stepped down as chief executive of Atmosphere Bar and Clubs. Former JDW chief operating officer Paul Harbottle will replace him.
John Roberts to leave Fuller's
02-Mar-2011 By Hamish Champ
John Roberts, managing director of Fuller's Beer Company, is leaving the company next week after 15 years with the business in order to pursue what...
02-Mar-2011 By Michelle Perrett
Pubs are capitalising on royal-wedding fever with a range of imaginative food promotions. London pub operators ETM Group and Renaissance have...
02-Mar-2011 By Lesley Foottit
A west Belfast based pub company that has a chain of pubs in the city has gone into administration. Castle Street Inns owns six bars, which are...
02-Mar-2011 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report
Whitbread, the leisure group, has this morning reported a 6.7% increase in like-for-like sales for the 50 weeks to 17 February 2011, driven by strong...
01-Mar-2011 By Lesley Foottit
An anti-supermarket campaigner and bar operator has welcomed calls to ban the placing of alcohol in stores near everyday items such as milk and bread.
Licensee facing fifth prosecution for showing foreign satellite football
01-Mar-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
A licensee is facing her fifth prosecution for showing Premier League football through a foreign decoder - but her lawyer is confident of another...
01-Mar-2011 By Lesley Foottit
TV presenter Fiona Phillips has become the latest celebrity to venture into pub ownership. She and husband Martin Frizell have bought the freehold...
28-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
Tributes have been paid to Alec Roud, BII founding member and chairman of the BII Wessex region, who died on Thursday (24 February).
Pub manager sacked for 'no travelers' sign
28-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
The manager of a tenanted pub in Cambridge has been sacked for displaying a 'no travelers' sign.
28-Feb-2011 By Phil Mellows
Martin Rawlings has fought the pub trade's corner with steely determination. He talks to Phil Mellows about what makes a campaign succeed.
Karen Black: Is it paranoia when they really are out to get me?
28-Feb-2011
Painful as it is to share these defects with you, share I must: • I am blonde - and as we all know blondes are stupid. We are now the acceptable...
The Fourth Option
28-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
The days of filling in order forms for a pub's supplies and things like staff rotas and holidays could soon be a thing of the past for an increasing...
Talent, not quotas, is the way forward
28-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
Lord Davies' argument that there should be more women in the boardroom of UK plc will strike a chord with many, and will irritate others to high...
More women needed on company boards, says peer
28-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
UK boardrooms are over-populated by men and companies must do more to recognise the part women play in business, Lord Davies, the former minister of...
'Mr Average spends 10585 hours of his life in the pub'
28-Feb-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
If your fella is either in the boozer, watching the box or shopping online, don't panic… it's normal behaviour.The typical bloke spends 10,585...
Booker launches Fully Booked to drive trade
28-Feb-2011 By Jo Bruce
Booker has launched a campaign to help licensees drive extra trade around events. The "Fully Booked" initiative aims to help pubs capitalise on the...
28-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
Everards is giving customers the chance to have their say on the planned revamp of Nottinghamshire pub via an on-line blog. The Newcastle Arms,...
25-Feb-2011 By Tony Holman
Only when the Murphy case is complete will hosts know limits on the use of foreign domestic cards on commercial premises, says Tony Holman.
25-Feb-2011 By Lesley Foottit
Making the Challenge 25 age check policy compulsory in pubs on Saturday 1 October could be "very problematic for pubs", says SBPA.
25-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
The UK's last Rat & Parrot, the former Scottish & Newcastle Retail brand, closes today. TCG, which operates the Rat & Parrot on the High...
24-Feb-2011 By The PMA Team
Moving to British Double Summer Time before next year's Olympics would be a great boost to the pub industry, says The PMA Team.
24-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is urging the Welsh Assembly Government to lobby Westminster to grant it powers to act on the beer tie.
Justin Carter joins Fuller's
24-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
Justin Carter, the founder of the Elbow Room chain of pool bars, has joined London brewer Fuller, Smith & Turner to run its Premium City pubs...
Electricty giant halves £25k bill after Publican intervenes
24-Feb-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
A utilities giant has shaved £12,000 off a licensee's electricity bill after The Publican intervened on his behalf. Neil Crampton, who runs the...
24-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
One in 50 people have played poker in a pub or club in the past year — with young men the most active players. That's according to a Gambling...
24-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
The Home Office has released guidance to help pubs and doorstaff spot and deal with ID that's used fraudulently to buy alcohol. The 44-page...
Pubs face penalty points for serving youngsters
23-Feb-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
Irresponsible pubs in Northern Ireland will face a penalty points system that could lead to closures as part of new plans. The proposal has been...
'How a daily tipple could help topple risk of heart disease'
23-Feb-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
At last, some good news for drinkers as research shows alcohol can protect against heart disease. As little as one drink a day can cut the risk of...
23-Feb-2011 By Phil Mellows
Alcohol-related illness has more to do with money than how much you drink and the rich/poor divide is widening, says Phil Mellows.
23-Feb-2011 By Roger Protz
Molson Coors' takeover of Sharp's could signal the decline of the brewer's ales, says Roger Protz. The £20m takeover of the Cornish brewer Sharp's...
23-Feb-2011 By Gurjit Degun
Pubs in Northern Ireland face penalty points if caught serving underage drinkers, in radical new plans by the Irish Assembly. The law is proposed...
23-Feb-2011 By Lesley Foottit
Licensees in Brighton and Hove have given strong support to the Morning Advertiser's campign to cut VAT to 5% in the hospitality industry. Support...
Pop star celebrates pub's music makeover
22-Feb-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
A pub is ready to rock after the completion of a £5,000 refurbishment to improve its live music facilities. The Royal Oak in Taunton, Somerset, won...
'Kate Middleton invites landlord of local pub to Royal Wedding'
22-Feb-2011 By James Wilmore
Kate Middleton has invited the landlord of her family's local pub to her wedding. John Haley, who runs the Old Boot Inn, was stunned when the invite...
22-Feb-2011 By Gurjit Degun
Pubwatches are urged to be cautious about publishing names of banned individuals on social networking sites. One pubwatch in Scotland has taken to...
22-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
A council has launched a "landmark" fast-track, low-cost system to let isolated rural pubs advertise themselves on signs by main roads. South...
22-Feb-2011 By Lesley Foottit
The licensee of Kate Middleton's favourite pub will be going to the royal wedding. John Haley, who owns the Old Boot Inn in Stanford Dingley,...
Street ambassadors for Nottingham's nightlife
22-Feb-2011 By Tony Halstead
Street ambassadors are to appear in central Nottingham as part of ongoing plans to energise the night-time economy. The number of taxi marshalls are...
Barracuda bites back
21-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
Heading a company that posted a near-£19m loss in its latest financial year might upset the equilibrium of many a chief executive. But Barracuda...
Demanding consumers in a tough economy
21-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
The latest jobless figures - nearly 2.5m out of work in the last three months of 2010 - made for depressing reading last week. That youth...
Pub Bitch: Spot the difference - trademark wars
21-Feb-2011
Spot the difference Protecting a trademark is all well and good, but I reckon it can go too far. Artisan Brewery, based in Cardiff, has been making...
Hamish Champ: Well, you've gotta laugh, haven't you?
21-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
I spent much of this past weekend going 'mystery visiting' some of The Publican Awards' Freehouse of the Year finalists, and what a fine bunch of...
18-Feb-2011 By The PMA Team
All the latest rumour and gossip from the City
18-Feb-2011 By Lesley Foottit
An award-winning vegetarian pub, Red Lion in Great Bricett, Suffolk, has scooped an award from an animal rights group.
18-Feb-2011 By The PMA Team
Yellowhammer Bars, the 25-strong bar operator led by James Spragg, has opened its sixth site branded as Bliss Bar & Clubroom. The new opening...
Caroline Nodder: CAMRA had its own reasons for super-complaint
18-Feb-2011 By Caroline Nodder
The fact that CAMRA wasn't exactly up front about the decision to withdraw its appeal over the beer tie says a lot about how it thought the move...
