08-Jul-2010 By Robyn Black
More than 500 freehold and free-of-tie pubs are trialling a scheme through cash and carry giant Booker on cheap drinks.
08-Jul-2010 By Ewan Turney
The Wine & Spirits Trade Association has hit back at on-trade proposals to create a level playing field with the supermarkets.
07-Jul-2010 By Philip Davison
Philip Davison describes how he helped a fellow licensee redecorate his pub on a budget for a 'wow factor' finish.
07-Jul-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The back garden of a Denbighshire pub has been turned into a £7,500 children's playground with Pub is the Hub funding. It was licensee Anna...
07-Jul-2010 By John Harrington
Two lucky licensees have won live music makeovers worth up to £5,000 at their pubs. Kirk Barclay, of the Prince of Wales in Tooting, south London,...
07-Jul-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Babysitters' fees are keeping people away from pubs, according to a licensee with 50 years' experience in the trade. Liz Jackson, now 74 and a...
07-Jul-2010 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Daniel Thwaites, the Lancashire brewer and pub operator, has revealed a halving of pre-tax profits. It comes on the back of a 14.7% drop in revenues...
07-Jul-2010 By Lesley Foottit
A Shropshire pub has lost hundreds of pounds worth of business after the council removed one of its A-boards. The Old Castle in Bridgnorth, a Punch...
06-Jul-2010 By Phil Mellows
BII and RICS representative Garry Mallen tells Phil Mellows what it's like to be a tenant, a landlord, a respected trade figure and a rent reviewer.
06-Jul-2010 By John Harrington
Multiple operators should use upcoming refurbishments at new sites as an opportunity to join a scheme to slash energy bills. That's according to...
05-Jul-2010 By Peter Cripps, The Grocer
The Government has put forward four options to ban below-cost selling of alcohol and is planning to take the proposals to a public consultation...
05-Jul-2010 By Lesley Foottit
A Sheffield pub, which once served Pete Doherty soft drinks all night, has been crowned the most responsible pub in the UK. The Frog and Parrot has...
05-Jul-2010 By Ewan Turney
Hobgoblin brewers are working overtime to meet increased demand after David Cameron gave Barack Obama a bottle of the beer. The Prime Minister and...
Lap-dancing club merger
02-Jul-2010 By The PMA Team
Three lap-dancing club tycoons are planning a £100m merger, it has emerged — the deal would create one of the largest chains.
02-Jul-2010 By The PMA Team
Orchid will open its first new Living Room venue later this year when it converts a Prohibition bar site at St Katherine Docks in East Smithfield,...
Pub becomes a part-time Post Office
02-Jul-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
A pub will be sending parcels as well as serving pints after beocming a part-time Post Office. The Three Horseshoes at Brimpton, near Reading, is...
02-Jul-2010 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Alan Parker, the outgoing head of Whitbread, is to lead a key gathering of senior pub sector executives this autumn. The FTSE 100 chief executive...
01-Jul-2010 By John Harrington and Lesley Foottit
A lessee has been hit with a £7,641 tax bill for live-in benefits at his pub — Greene King's Waggon & Horses in Maidenhead, Berkshire.
01-Jul-2010 By The PMA Team
It has been tough in the trade for the last couple of years, but retail excellence and innovation is the way to success, says The PMA Team.
01-Jul-2010 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
Pub Bitch: Is blonde the new black?
01-Jul-2010
The new black Product innovation, as any fule kno, is an integral, nay essential part of today's brewing game. Take Stella Artois Black, AB InBev's...
The hunt is on for Britain's Proudest Pub
01-Jul-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
The search is on to find Britain's proudest pubs and if your pub is bursting with pride you could win some unbelievable money-can't-buy prizes. We...
Tim Wilson: Examining alcohol admissions at A&E
01-Jul-2010
As part of our research programme at Wilson Drinks Report we observed admissions to A&E from 10pm to 2am. We estimated that fewer than 10 per...
New Brakes CEO takes over the reins
01-Jul-2010 By Hamish Champ
Philip Jansen has started in his role as chief executive of Brakes Group, the wholesale food supplier. Jansen's appointment was announced in October...
01-Jul-2010 By Ewan Turney
Anyone applying for a premises licence in Scotland will have to state what they've done to abide by disability discrimination laws, after an...
01-Jul-2010 By John Harrington
Searcys, which runs the famous Champagne bar in London's St Pancras Station, plans to roll out the concept following a management buy-out. The...
01-Jul-2010 By John Harrington
Charles Wells is letting selected tenants stock one beer out of tie if they pay a "corkage fee" of £65 per 36-gallon barrel and reach sales targets....
30-Jun-2010 By Ewan Turney
A new bill could protect pubs from being demolished without planning permission or changed into cafes without community consent.
30-Jun-2010 By Ewan Turney
Eclectic Bars, the Sakura and Po Na Na operator, plans to continue its expansion after unveiling strong trading results.
30-Jun-2010 By Gemma McKenna
An Edinburgh-based pub group has launched a legal battle against the council over possible capacity restrictions.
30-Jun-2010 By Richard Pope
BII Licensee of the Year 2010 winner Richard Pope talks about his "Not Just..." way of doing business.
Admiral Taverns: looking for your next move?
30-Jun-2010 By Admiral Taverns
Admiral Taverns: looking for your next move?
29-Jun-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The Confederation of British Industry in Scotland (CBI Scotland) has "serious misgivings" over minimum pricing of alcohol.
28-Jun-2010 By The PMA Team
Cornish brewer and retailer St Austell Brewery had reported a remarkably buoyant financial performance in the year to 2 January 2010. The company...
Smartcellar backs down over National Measurement Office claims
28-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
Smartcellar, the beer flow kit manufacturer, has backed down over initial claims the government's National Measurement Office (NMO) had concluded a...
28-Jun-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Three Gloucester pubs are being paid around £600 to let non-customers use their toilets as part of a year-long trial of a community toilet scheme....
28-Jun-2010 By Lesley Foottit
A former director of a leisure property consultants has bought a stake in a popular London pub. Retired director of Humberts Leisure Anthony Miller...
25-Jun-2010 By John Harrington
A best customer experience category is being added to Nottingham's Best Bar None (BBN) awards.
25-Jun-2010 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers is to convert its Scream student pub in Lincoln into a Harvester. The Scream site is located on the Brayford waterfront,...
Osborne's 'unavoidable Budget' could have been worse
25-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
So, as with the suggestion - premature at the time - that US author Mark Twain had shuffled off this mortal coil, recent reports that alcohol duty...
24-Jun-2010 By The PMA Team
Administrators have sold the Fabric nightclub for an undisclosed sum to a new company called Fabric Life.
24-Jun-2010 By The PMA Team
Oakman Inns, the operator founded by entrepreneur Peter Borg-Neal, is poised to double in size to six sites after securing £2.25m in bank debt.
24-Jun-2010 By The PMA Team
All the latest rumour and gossip from the City.
24-Jun-2010 By The PMA Team
Capital Pub Company is set to buy the two pubs owned by Tomahawk in a deal worth £5.03m. Tomahawk, which previously raised equity finance through...
Defoe's winner worth millions to pubs
24-Jun-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubs are celebrating with relief after Jermain Defoe's goal against Slovenia rescued the trade from a disastrous World Cup. Such was the suspected...
Capital Pub Group buys Tomahawk for £5m
24-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
Capital Pub Company, the London pub operator, is set to buy Tomahawk, a rival pub group, for £5.03m in cash. The deal will be part-financed by the...
'Publicans raise a glass as alcohol duties freeze'
23-Jun-2010
Publicans raise a glass as alcohol duties freeze Britain's publicans, brewers and distillers were toasting George Osborne yesterday after he promised...
Barter Inns backs Tap into WaterAid
23-Jun-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Pub company Barter Inns is the latest to sign up to a Publican-backed initiative to help provide clean water to the world's poorest people. All 25...
23-Jun-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The most "typically English" pursuit is a trip to a great British pub, according to a poll by Charles Wells. The Drink of England survey of 5,000...
22-Jun-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Whitbread has this morning unveiled strong comparable sales growth, with an increase in group like-for-like sales of 7.6%.
