Wetherspoon sounds cautious note
02-Mar-2007
JD Wetherspoon has warned the City that rising costs and sluggish consumer demand could put the brakes on its growth.Reporting like-for-like sales...
18-Jan-2007 By The PMA Team
The pub company has lodged a writ at the High Court against its former consultant
'Racism' claim against JD Wetherspoon rejected
16-Jan-2007
An employment tribunal has thrown out a claim of racial discrimination brought against JD Wetherspoon by a chef who worked at one of its pubs in...
Bristol bar calls for apology from Wetherspoon
07-Dec-2006
A Bristol bar which claims a rival Wetherspoon pub has published false pricing and serve temperature comparisons on window posters is demanding an...
JDW's stunning sales surge secrets revealed
09-Nov-2006
It's rare indeed for a pub operator to report a 9.2% rise in its like-for-like sales. JD Wetherspoon (JDW) amazed the sector last week when it...
Wetherspoon shares reach all-time high
02-Nov-2006 By Hamish Champ
Shares in JD Wetherspoon (JDW) rose to an all-time high this morning as the group revealed details of first quarter trading.At 595.25p its shares...
JDW to build first 'green' pub
28-Sep-2006 By The PMA Team
JD Wetherspoon is set to build the greenest pub in the UK. The company wants to use a wind turbine to power a pub that is planned in Melton Mowbray....
Mood brightens as JDW sales momentum grows - Comment
14-Sep-2006 By The PMA Team
Last Friday's JD Wetherspoon press conference was the most bullish results briefing held by the company in a number of years. I remember a...
14-Sep-2006 By The PMA Team
JD Wetherspoon has set its sights on ramping up its opening programme once the impact of the English smoking ban has settled down in a couple of...
07-Sep-2006 By The PMA Team
Every pub in the JD Wetherspoon estate is closing for two or three days as the company installs a £15m beer-dispense system. A total of 150 pubs...
Wetherspoon's slashes cost of proof of age
04-Sep-2006
JD Wetherpoon's responsible drinking campaign has taken a step forward as half-price CitizenCard proof of age cards have made available in all of its...
01-Sep-2006 By The PMA Team
The legal action between JD Wetherspoon and its former property advisor Van de Berg began after the property company was allegedly involved in...
21-Aug-2006
JD Wetherspoon has taken the unusual step of issuing a statement in response to a story published in the Sunday Express. The story related to the...
03-Aug-2006 By Lucy Britner
Pubco claims Van de Berg dishonestly used information from its position as exclusive advisor.
29-Jun-2006 By The PMA Team
JD Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin has blasted the Govern- ment's crackdown on under-age drinking as "over-the-top". Martin claimed pubs were having...
06-Jun-2006 By John Harrington
J D Wetherspoon has overturned a ban on England shirts after a high-profile case involving a two-year-old boy. The High Street pub chain got a bit of...
02-Jun-2006 By The PMA Team
U-turn for England - but sound will go off again for other matches.
JD Wetherspoon's diploma makes sound economic sense
01-May-2006
Some 40 of the group's managers and area managers are in their second year of the course and the first are due to complete it in March 2007, when...
JD Wetherspoon halts non-smoking pubs' roll-out
03-Mar-2006
JD Wetherspoon is calling a halt to its roll-out of no-smoking pubs until the government brings in the full smoking ban next year.Wetherspoon...
03-Mar-2006 By Iain O'Neil
Pubco will not convert anymore existing pubs but all new premises will be smoke free
JDW bids to lure trade with jazz music move
09-Feb-2006 By John Harrington
First it was plasma screens and now JD Wetherspoon is bringing in live jazz and movies to attract the punters. The chain has been granted a licence...
Wetherspoon sounds downbeat note
12-Jan-2006
JD Wetherspoon is taking a cautious view of trading prospects in the face of the Scottish smoking ban.With most of its pubs TV-free, the high street...
Wetherspoon's non-smoking pubs' sales down
01-Nov-2005
Sales at JD Wetherspoon's non-smoking pubs have continued to fall, according to a trading statement released by the pub operator today.The group said...
JDW recruitment policy wins recognition
20-Oct-2005
JD Wetherspoon has become the first pub company to be recognised for employing a mixed age workforce by the Department for Work & Pensions. The...
Wetherspoon's recognised for mixed-age workforce
14-Oct-2005
JD Wetherspoon has become the first pubco to be recognised for employing a mixed-age workforce by the Department for Work and Pensions.The company...
JDW beefs up burger
06-Oct-2005
range with Northern Ireland meat JD Wetherspoon has launched a new range of lamb and beef burgers using fresh meat from Northern Ireland. The...
JDW boss named pub personality with most impact
22-Sep-2005
Tim Martin has been voted as the individual from the pub trade who has made the biggest impact on the industry in the past 30 years.In a poll of...
JDW moral lone ranger
08-Sep-2005
the abandonment of discounted doubles will have cost jdw spirit volume and sales The PMA Team, Deputy Editor One remarkable fact emerged from the...
Drink sales drop at smoke-free JDWs
08-Sep-2005
by The PMA Team JD Wetherspoon will review its non-smoking pub experiment in the new year after a 7% drop in sales in August at the first 36 pubs to...
Wetherspoon sales down across summer
02-Sep-2005
Wetherspoon has seen its like-for-like sales decline further across the summer, as competition from supermarkets and public concern about...
JDW spices up curry offer
28-Jul-2005
by Tony Halstead JD Wetherspoon has expanded its Thursday night Curry Club menu with the addition of seven new dishes. The extra choice will mean up...
Buxton keeps JDW out of its pubwatch group
23-Jun-2005
by John Harrington JD Wetherspoon has failed to win readmission to Buxton Pubwatch despite dropping price comparisons with local pubs in the...
JDW gives its Welsh pubs a local flavour
09-Jun-2005
JD Wetherspoon pubs across Wales are now serving a range of food and drink produced in the country in an initiative backed by the Welsh Development...
JDW in 7am bid to catch the early bird
12-May-2005
by The PMA Team and Ewan Turney Managed operator JD Wetherspoon is hoping to spark sales growth by taking full advantage of the new licensing regime...
JDW delays conversion of pubs to no-smoking
05-May-2005 By The PMA Team
The plan to open 60 non-smoking pubs at JD Wetherspoon will be delayed by a couple of months as the company "learns lessons" on the non-smoking pubs...
Wetherspoon sales decline continues
29-Apr-2005
JD Wetherspoon has reported a further slide in sales across the past three months.The high street pub group is also stepping up the roll-out of its...
Former JDW managerloses case
28-Apr-2005
A former JD Wetherspoon manager, who didn't take action after a female pub worker reported being sexually harassed, has lost his claim for unfair...
JDW festival features 50 ales
21-Apr-2005
Managed operator JD Wether-spoon is to run its largest-ever beer festival next month. The festival, which runs between 9 and 22 May, will see many...
JDW axes jobs in cost-cutting move
24-Mar-2005
Managed operator JD Wether-spoon has axed Egon Ronay's inspections team as part of cost cutting that will also see several jobs disappear at head...
JDW stubs out 5 smoking pubs
17-Mar-2005
by The PMA Team The first five "smoking" JD Wetherspoon pubs have been converted to non-smoking on the same day national non-smoking day (9...
JD Wetherspoon profits drop 20%
10-Mar-2005
by The PMA Team Managed operator JD Wetherspoon saw profits drop by 20% to £22.3m in its first half-year, after increased costs and a cut-price...
Martin: visionary or gambler?
10-Mar-2005
JD Wetherspoon profits have dropped by 20% in its first six months. But the company is determined to push ahead with its smoking ban widely...
Pubwatch ban on JDW outlet is wholly unfair'
10-Mar-2005
by John Harrington JD Wetherspoon has accused licensees in Buxton, Derbyshire, of using the pubco as a "scapegoat" after the town's JDW outlet was...
Troubled Wetherspoon denies possibility of MBO
04-Mar-2005
As JD Wetherspoon announced its interim results to the City this morning the company did what it does best and kept the analysts and financial hacks...
Tim Martin gets it right on customers' gripes
03-Mar-2005
A new survey suggests that Wetherspoon's boss Tim Martin is firmly in touch with the views that matter - those of his customers.Pub customers put...
City down on Wetherspoon results
28-Feb-2005
The City is predicting a slump in JD Wetherspoon's half year profits when they are announced this Friday.A slow down in expansion, shadowed by a...
Wetherspoon's pushes on with smoking ban
10-Feb-2005
by The PMA Team JD Wetherspoon is making an early start on its plan to open 60 non-smoking pubs in May of this year prior to a complete ban at all...
Smoke-free roll-out boosts Wetherspoon's shares
04-Feb-2005
Reports that JD Wetherspoon is planning to move upmarket continue to oscillate through the press with all the 'oh yes it is; oh no it isn't' flummery...
JDW's out to woo a more upmarket clientele
03-Feb-2005
by The PMA Team JD Wetherspoon is to trial a lightly branded pub in an attempt to attract a more upmarket clientele. The Draper's Arms pub, which...
JDW's rise in sales fails to impress City
27-Jan-2005
by The PMA Team Managed operator JD Wether-spoon has reported a slight improvement in trading during its 12-week second quarter with like-for-like...
