Portman Group opens up its complaints panel
10-Jan-2011 By Hamish Champ
The Portman Group, the drinks industry watchdog, is offering the opportunity for people to apply to join its Independent Complaints Panel (IPC). The...
'Pub to become first in Scotland to use only toughened glass'
10-Jan-2011
A pub is to become the first in Scotland to serve all its drinks in toughened glass following an attack at the venue last month. The owners of the...
Scots pub flooded with sewage
10-Jan-2011 By Lesley Foottit
An Ayrshire pub lost a week of trade over Christmas due to an external sewage problem, which caused the pub to be flooded with excrement. Ongoing...
Tough decisions could see pub sector go either way
08-Jan-2011 By Hamish Champ
Happy New Year to y'all, but not everyone is in a cheery mood. For according to the TUC 2011 is going to be 'horrible'. A killer combination of job...
07-Jan-2011 By John Harrington
ALMR head of communications Kate Nicholls has been appointed as the group's strategic affairs director and deputy to the chief executive.
Marc Allinson: Are PPL charges fair?
07-Jan-2011
This week we have seen the contempt with which those at the PPL treat the licensees with a huge legally enforceable fine for late payment. I think...
John Hutson clocks up 20 years with 'spoons
07-Jan-2011 By Hamish Champ
JD Wetherspoon chief executive John Hutson has celebrated his 20th anniversary with the company. Hutson kicked off his career with the managed pub...
The Publican Pub Golf Tournament 2011: Playing with Pride
06-Jan-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
Tee time is fast approaching for the most popular amateur golf tournament in the UK. Thousands of players representing hundreds of pubs are...
Neil Robertson: We must talk more about open pubs than closed ones
06-Jan-2011
While I find much to agree with Pete on in his well-written article, I do read things slightly differently. Politicians are relentlessly pragmatic,...
Matt Eley: A united front is imperative in 2011
06-Jan-2011
VAT's up, one by one brewers are slowly revealing their own price hikes and extra pressures on consumers mean they will be more reluctant than ever...
06-Jan-2011 By John Harrington
Pubs have been given a fresh warning about the dangers of selling smuggled alcohol after 11 shops had their licences revoked or suspended en masse...
What's in store for licensees in 2011?
05-Jan-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
Bill Sharp is licensees at Enterprise Inns owned pub the King's Arms in Bankside near the capital's London Bridge. How was Christmas and New Year...
Paul Chase: 'There's no evidence of an 'alcohol epidemic' in this country'
05-Jan-2011
And they've had some success: the proposition that police recommendations at licensing review must be accepted isn't being taken forward; magistrates...
Arrests after £18k stolen in pub raids
05-Jan-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubs have been warned to be vigilant after burglars targeted tills and fruit machines in a series of raids. Five people have been arrested in...
05-Jan-2011 By Ewan Turney
Ex-Punch Taverns boss Giles Thorley is set to take up a role with the private equity firm TDR Capital, which backed the acquisition of 333 wet-led...
05-Jan-2011 By Lesley Foottit
Police have provided 1,500 Northumberland pubs with "refusal cards" that can be given to troublesome customers as a sign that they won't be served...
04-Jan-2011 By MA team
Pub operators have reported the poor weather badly affected the run-up to Christmas although the week between Christmas and New Year saw strong...
04-Jan-2011 By Ewan Turney
Bedfordshire-based Charles Wells Pub Company has appointed Craig Mayes to the board as operations director. The 30-year-old took up his position on...
04-Jan-2011 By John Harrington
Most groups and individuals who responded to a Government consultation on live music reform want to see licence exemptions for pubs and small music...
04-Jan-2011 By John Harrington
The Government is to consult next year on whether the use of restrictive covenants on pub sales, which force change of use, should be banned or...
Brewing figures get New Year's gongs
31-Dec-2010
Two brewing industry figures have been recognised in the New Year's Honours List for their achievements in the trade and elsewhere. Richard Everard,...
Campaigners step up pressure over live music in pubs
31-Dec-2010 By Hamish Champ
A group representing a variety of interests in the UK music industry has expressed its frustration over government inaction to exempt pubs from...
Fuller's recalls 320k bottles of its ales
29-Dec-2010 By Hamish Champ
London brewer Fuller Smith & Turner has recalled 320,000 330ml bottles of its ale after what it called "an isolated issue" at its bottle...
23-Dec-2010 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Geronimo Inns, the London group which recently agreed a £60m deal with Young's, has added the Surprise pub in Chelsea to its 26-strong managed pub...
22-Dec-2010 By Lesley Foottit
A Cornwall pub has built an "amazing" tiered 16-seat cinema and conference room attached to the bar.
21-Dec-2010 By Ewan Turney
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has published its final guidance on pub valuations, which offers some hope to tenants who feel they pay too much rent, although concerns have been raised about some sections.
Foxman Pubs opens its first site
20-Dec-2010 By The PMA Team
A new pub company Foxman Pubs is hoping to open six freeholds as it takes advantage of distressed conditions. The company has already opened the...
Pubwatch groups warned of outside influence
20-Dec-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
The integrity of Pubwatch schemes could be called into question if staff from the emergency services have too much influence over groups, according...
'NI pub trade 'critical' after weather wipeout'
20-Dec-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
The chief executive of a major hospitality body in Northern Ireland has said the situation for the local industry is "critical" after trade was badly...
Orchid: 2011 will be the year of simplicity
20-Dec-2010 By Ewan Turney
Simple high quality ingredients and authentic drinks will be the key to making 2011 a success for pubs, the 300-strong Orchid Group believes. The...
20-Dec-2010 By Phil Mellows
Price is only one factor in a multiplicity of determinants that cause people to develop alcohol problems, says Phil Mellows.
Licensees have a 'tough job', pubs minister admits
17-Dec-2010 By James Wilmore
Community pubs minister Bob Neill has acknowledged licensees do a "tough job with long hours" and said the coalition wants pubs to "succeed"....
'High income households among biggest alcohol drinkers'
17-Dec-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Top earners are more likely to drink alcohol frequently than adults in poorer households, a survey says. The Health Survey for England 2009 found...
16-Dec-2010 By Gurjit Degun
A Lincolnshire pub is offering kids the chance to meet Santa whilst parents relax with a drink. Batemans pub the Bricklayers Arms in Boston has set...
Pub group collapses up 31 per cent in third quarter
15-Dec-2010 By Hamish Champ
The number of on-trade businesses going belly-up rose by nearly a third in the third quarter of 2010, prompting fears that the much-heralded economic...
Sceptre Leisure sees profits slump by a third
15-Dec-2010 By Hamish Champ
UK-wide pub closures were partly to blame for a 33 per cent slide in first half profits for Sceptre Leisure, which supplies amusement machines to the...
15-Dec-2010 By Ewan Turney
AWP supplier Sceptre Leisure believes it is in a strong position despite revealing a 33% drop in profit before tax to £0.6m for the six months to 31...
14-Dec-2010 By Gurjit Degun
The Yorkshire Bridge Inn in Bamford, Derbyshire, has won gold again at the East Midlands Tourism Excellence Awards 2010. It is the second year...
14-Dec-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Drinks wholesaler Matthew Clark has signed a deal to supply a range of Elgood's Brewery ales to its customers in the Midlands and East Anglia. In...
The Great British pub faces a critical year
13-Dec-2010 By Greg Mulholland
The rise in VAT next January and low-cost supermarket alcohol will make 2011 a critical year for the pub trade, says Greg Mulholland.
An interesting few months to come
13-Dec-2010 By Hamish Champ
This time last year I wrote about the inaugural Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) select committee hearing, held at Westminster, which put a...
Pub Bitch: Santa loses his head
13-Dec-2010
Rocking the Kasbah You have to hand it to those BrewDog guys, they are such rebels. At its AGM the other week the PR-hungry indie brewery outlined...
Chris Maclean: Pubs are a force for good
13-Dec-2010 By Chris Maclean
I have long believed that the demonisation of alcohol is the single greatest threat to the licensed industry. It is the systematic removal of any...
Hamish Champ: Who needs footy on the pub telly when there's a riot goin' on?
13-Dec-2010 By Hamish Champ
I never watch televised sport in pubs as a rule. I might latch onto a game of football or rugby if a pub I'm in is showing one, but I haven't made a...
Top end trading slows in November
13-Dec-2010
Pub industry experts are warning that following a sluggish November, the trading picture for December is likely to be badly affected by the current...
13-Dec-2010 By Ewan Turney
Communities will get the right to buy their pub and other community assets under new plans to shift power back to local communities. Groups of...
10-Dec-2010 By John Harrington
Pay for extra police or we'll object to your temporary event notice (TEN) - that's the message from police to licensees in Watford.
10-Dec-2010 By Phil Mellows
He's had his ups and downs, but through it all Phil Dixon has spoken up for pubs and the people who run them. Phil Mellows catches up with him.
10-Dec-2010 By Paul Smith
As Paul Smith leaves his role as executive director at Noctis, he reflects on his time at the organisation and predicts the future of the industry.
09-Dec-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Liverpool brewery Cains is taking its range of beers and lagers across the pond to America after linking up with Win-It-Too of Boston.
