07-Feb-2011 By The PMA Team
No Saints, the company run by ex-Luminar boss Stephen Thomas, aims to open a site in a Berkshire town. The company is reported to have put in a...
Mark Daniels: Could Top Gear's antics trigger the demise of the pub?
07-Feb-2011
You might have noticed a story last week, tucked away in the bylines of a couple of small newspapers, in which Mexico appears to have declared war on...
What does £20m buy you these days? Doom Bar, that's what
07-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
I've always been fascinated by the different values people give to things. In these hard economic times £20m would buy you less than half of a...
Hamish Champ: There's only one place to celebrate turning 50...
07-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
Holy. Mother. Of God. I knew that if I played my cards right it would happen eventually, but still, it was bit of shock when it finally rolled...
Make it easier to hire and fire staff, says IoD
07-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
A leading business group has called on the government to make it easier - and cheaper - for small businesses to hire and fire staff. The tough line,...
Pubs profits set to rise if satellite football case upheld
07-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
Pubs and pub companies could see their profits rise by more than three per cent if BSkyB loses its grip on televised football in the on-trade....
04-Feb-2011 By The PMA Team
A plan by No Saints to spend £500,000 on opening a burlesque club in the centre of Cardiff has been turned down.
Caroline Nodder: No industry is so heavily burdened by tax as the pub industry
04-Feb-2011 By Caroline Nodder
Tax is one of those words that immediately gets your back up. It reeks of unfairness, is synonymous with the state penalising the little guy, and is...
04-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
The ALMR has urged the Government to make sure supermarkets aren't granted the automatic right to open later.
03-Feb-2011 By The PMA Team
All the latest rumour and gossip from the City.
03-Feb-2011 By The PMA Team
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has reported reduced losses despite a £157,000 drop in income.
02-Feb-2011 By Phil Davison
Customers are the lifeblood of our pubs and we need to communicate and stay in touch with them, says Phil Davison.
Paul Chase: All newspapers do is reinforce stereotypes
02-Feb-2011
The gist of the story was that among that minority of 11 to 15-year-olds who binge-drink (as opposed to just drink), girls are catching up with boys...
Nick Baker: Molson Coors is 'the right buyer for Sharp's'
02-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
Nick Baker, until today the co-owner of Cornwall's Sharp's Brewery, said the sale of the business to Molson Coors was the right thing to do and the...
Pub on quiet street shocked at 'crime hotspot' tag
02-Feb-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
A community pub in a quiet street was shocked when a new police website claimed the area was one of the most crime-ridden in the country. The...
02-Feb-2011 By Lesley Foottit
Police have asked pubs and bars in Luton town centre to voluntarily close ahead of a protest on Saturday. The English Defence League and a counter...
02-Feb-2011 By Gurjit Degun
Licensees have been given more time to abide by a requirement to advertise the energy efficiency of their pubs when selling them. The new regulation...
Chris Maclean: It's not 'where', but 'what' is the publicans' voice?'
01-Feb-2011 By Chris Maclean
The tragic answer to the question "Where is the publicans' voice?" must surely be "What is the publicans' voice?" The staggering truth reveals our...
Pubs looking for Olympic opening hours extension
01-Feb-2011
Pubs could be in for an Olympic boost with at least one London council looking to extend opening hours during next year's summer games. Westminster...
Ban on pub's outside drinkers stays after third appeal
01-Feb-2011 By James Wilmore
A London pub which was forced to ban people from drinking outside after 6pm has lost its third appeal against the decision. The Endurance in Berwick...
31-Jan-2011 By The PMA Team
Moorhouse's has enjoyed a buoyant start to 2011 with both increased sales and the first award wins for beer brewed in its new 'tower brewery'. Last...
Capital Pub Company: it's a London thing...
31-Jan-2011 By Hamish Champ
Aristotle had his epiphany in the bath. Sir Isaac Newton saw stars in an orchard. James Hargreaves watched his daughter Jenny knock over a spinning...
Fun times ahead...
31-Jan-2011 By Hamish Champ
The publication last week of the latest GDP figures showing the UK economy contracted by half a per cent in the final three months of 2010 came as a...
Caroline Nodder: Where is the publicans' voice?
31-Jan-2011 By Caroline Nodder
I've banged on about the general failings of trade associations a fair bit over the last few years, and I've no doubt put a few noses out of joint in...
Pub Bitch: Don't blame it on the (lack of) sunshine
31-Jan-2011
Arse appeal You've got to admire - and please accept my apologies for the pun - the bare-faced cheek of some people. Welsh brewer SA Brain is giving...
Hamish Champ: Fancy a ride aboard the de-tox bus?
31-Jan-2011 By Hamish Champ
For some the excess of Christmas and New Year is inevitably followed by a January of abstinence, when bodies are given time to recover and regroup....
28-Jan-2011 By Lesley Foottit
The British Beer and Pub Association has created a guide for pubs and brewers to encourage them to take part in British Tourism Week.
Pub lays claim to smallest cinema
28-Jan-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
Is this the smallest public cinema in the country? Staff at the Old Fighting Cocks in Telford, Shropshire, seem to think so. They have transformed...
27-Jan-2011 By The PMA Team
The BII's dynamic approach to tackling the issues of the trade has laid the foundations for a more ambitious direction in the future, says The PMA Team.
27-Jan-2011 By The PMA Team
A detailed report by administrator Zolfo Cooper shows 12 offers were received for the company or most of it with a further 20 offers for multiple sites or single sites.
Finalists for The Publican Awards 2011 announced
27-Jan-2011 By Caroline Nodder
Bar Person of the YearSusan Lane, The Famous Woolpack, Weston-super-Mare, AvonHayley McGrath, The Admiral Napier, Cardiff, South GlamorganRebecca...
26-Jan-2011 By Lesley Foottit
A Norfolk pub operator is rebranding two of his sites and has launched a cake business to help boost trade.
26-Jan-2011 By John Harrington
Campaign group Justice for Licensees (JFL) is to survey present and former tenants about their views on pubcos and the tie.
25-Jan-2011 By The PMA Team and Mark Stretton
Novus Leisure is understood to be in exclusive negotiations to buy Balls Brothers, the London wine bar business currently in administration.
25-Jan-2011 By The PMA Team
The BII has signed a deal worth £300,000 to sell the intellectual property rights to its Induction Training certificate into China. Chief executive...
25-Jan-2011 By Lesley Foottit
A series of seminars will be held at the end of March to discuss a solution to test purchasing and the control of age-restricted products. The Local...
Caroline Nodder: Pubs ARE the Big Society
24-Jan-2011 By Caroline Nodder
There's a four-pack of own-brand Morrison's lager - 2 per cent ABV - sitting forlornly on the news desk at Publican Towers this week. Having had it...
24-Jan-2011 By Lesley Foottit
The Orchid Group's first Halo Awards took place last week at the Pacific Oriental in London where eight awards were presented. More than 500...
Hamish Champ: The joys of the 'pop up pub'
23-Jan-2011 By Hamish Champ
Some friends I was visiting in an unfamiliar part of South London recently took me to what I understand to be called a 'pop up pub'. I don't mean...
'Pub ban girl is back on the booze'
23-Jan-2011
A young woman barred from every pub in Britain is back on the booze - just days before the airing of a TV show on how she quit drinking. Jobless...
Score draw over Brulines - and what can consumers expect in 2011?
22-Jan-2011 By Hamish Champ
The report by the National Measurement Office (NMO) on Brulines' beer flow monitoring equipment was one of those strange beasts, being given the...
21-Jan-2011 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Simon Wilkinson, the former Kout Food Group (KFG) and Paramount Restaurants executive, is to take the helm at La Tasca.
21-Jan-2011 By Ewan Turney
MA 250 member Urban & Country Leisure plans to invest £20m over the next three years to rollout its Lazy Cow boutique hotel concept.
21-Jan-2011 By M&C Report
A new study has found 42% of drinkers are spending less in pubs than six months ago — there are falls across virtually all sectors.
21-Jan-2011 By Ewan Turney
The BII has offered an unreserved apology to high profile member Nigel Wakefield over the "negative impact" false allegations had on his reputation....
20-Jan-2011 By The PMA Team
Cloverleaf, the north-west operator of large managed pubs, has reported a five times increase in pre-tax profit.
20-Jan-2011 By The PMA Team
All the latest rumour and gossip from the City.
20-Jan-2011 By The PMA Team
Oakman Inns, the company headed by former Whitbread executive Peter Borg-Neal, has reported a sales increase of 118% in its most recent year to 4...
Consumer squeeze to continue throughout 2011
20-Jan-2011 By Hamish Champ
The squeeze on leisure spending seen in the second half of 2010 is set to continue throughout 2011, according to finance recovery specialists Zolfo...
Pub comes to school's rescue
20-Jan-2011
A couple of licensees have come to the rescue of a local school by setting up a classroom after burst pipes left it short of space. Dave Hutton and...
