20-Aug-2010 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has sold 333 wet-led pubs to TDR Capital for £373m — in line with M&B's strategy to withdraw from drinks-led market.
Mitchells & Butlers sells 333 pubs to private equity firm
20-Aug-2010 By Hamish Champ
Mitchells & Butlers has taken another step in its strategy of selling off non-core, wet-led pubs by announcing it has agreed to dispose of 333...
12-Aug-2010 By The PMA Team
M&B is to open its first Browns Brasserie in more than half a decade after deciding it wants to treble the size of the brand to 50 sites.
10-Aug-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) is investigating one of its Hampshire pubs that allegedly forced a group of mothers and babies to leave.
09-Aug-2010 By Ewan Turney
Mitchells & Butlers has sold its 24 Hollywood Bowl sites to AMF Bowling for £39m as part of its move to dispose of non-core assets.
M&B sells Hollywood Bowl for £39m
09-Aug-2010
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has continued its sale of non-core assets with the disposal of its Hollywood Bowl chain for £39m. Rival chain AMF...
05-Aug-2010 By The PMA Team
Managed operator Mitchells & Butlers has accepted individual offers for 15 pubs from 13 franchisees. Franchisees who had submitted bids for...
22-Jul-2010 By Ewan Turney
Managed pub operator Mitchells & Butlers is making "good progress" on achieving the objectives laid out in its strategic plan.
22-Jul-2010 By Ewan Turney
M&B has yet to sell any of its 300 wet-led pubs on the market — as it decides how best to package up the pubs.
12-Jul-2010 By Jo Bruce
Mitchells & Butlers brand Toby Carvery is offering customers an unusual dessert option — a Yorkshire pudding ice cream.
30-Jun-2010 By The PMA Team
A number of Mitchells & Butlers franchisees are tabling bids to buy their freeholds as today's deadline for "full and final offers" arrives.
22-Jun-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B), the managed pub operator, has appointed Tim Jones to replace Jeremy Townsend as its finance director.
27-May-2010 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has given its franchisees until Wednesday 30 June to submit "full and final offers" to buy the freeholds of their pubs.
27-May-2010 By Tony Halstead
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27-May-2010 By The PMA Team
Saudagar Singh has joined Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) as group human resources, service and productivity director.
19-May-2010 By The PMA Team
M&B chief executive Adam Fowle has invited the company's franchisees to put in offers to buy the freeholds of their pubs.
M&B to double number of key retail outlets
19-May-2010 By Hamish Champ
Managed pub group Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) plans to double the number of its key retail outlets it operates to around 1,900 sites as part of...
19-May-2010 By Ewan Turney
Toby Carvery's Great British Roast Dinner Debate TV and radio ads have helped attract a new, less price conscious consumer to the outlets. The...
19-May-2010 By Ewan Turney
Managed operator Mitchells & Butlers has announced a 1.8% increase in like-for-like sales on last year for the 33 weeks to 15 May. M&B,...
14-May-2010 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B), the managed pub operator, has expressed regret for the sacking last December of four non-executive directors it...
M&B pays costs to settle row with former directors
14-May-2010 By Hamish Champ
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has settled a long-running legal row with a number of former directors. M&B has agreed to pay personal costs...
04-May-2010 By The PMA Team
Managed operator Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has hired boutique finance firm Sapient Corporate Finance to sell 300 or so wet-led pubs, according to reports.
M&B looking to raise up to £500m through pub sell-off
04-May-2010 By Hamish Champ
Private equity firms are understood to be lining-up to back operators who want to buy some of the hundreds of pubs being sold by Mitchells &...
04-May-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Managed operator Mitchells & Butlers has been fined £10,000 after a three-year-old boy suffered an electric shock at one of its Lancashire pubs....
29-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
London-based multiple operator Fiveeightzero is opening three more sites in partnership with Mitchells & Butlers.
15-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
Managed operator Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) is looking to triple the size of its Browns brand and to almost double its All Bar One chain.
M&B plan provides food for thought
15-Apr-2010
Mitchells & Butlers ability to deliver on its latest food-led strategy under new chairman John Lovering has been questioned by pub industry...
'Mitchells & Butlers rebuffs offers for chains of pubs'
13-Apr-2010
Mitchells & Butlers has turned down several early approaches from private-equity firms for its All Bar One and Browns chains. One insider said if...
12-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
Managed operator Mitchells & Butlers has rebuffed preliminary approaches from a number of private equity firms keen to buy its Browns and All Bar...
'Mitchells & Butlers rejects suitors'
12-Apr-2010
Mitchells & Butlers, the pub and restaurant operator, has rebuffed preliminary approaches from a number of private equity firms keen to buy its...
31-Mar-2010 By The PMA Team
Managed company Mitchells & Butlers unveiled a new business strategy last week. The PMA Team looks at the plan. Welcome to the brave new world...
24-Mar-2010 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers is likely to sell between 10 and 15% of its estate — 200 to 300 wet-led pubs — to fund investment in growing key food-led brands.
Mitchells & Butlers to exit wet-led pubs
24-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ
It could be open season on many of Mitchells & Butlers' (M&B) wet-led pub businesses after the managed operator announced plans to focus its...
24-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney
Mitchells & Butlers is to "rapidly reshape" into a food-led business and plans a withdrawal from the more price sensitive drinks-led business....
23-Mar-2010 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has evolved 36 Harvester sites into a more modern Harvester format it calls "salad and grill".
19-Mar-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Mitchells and Butlers (M&B), the embattled managed pub group, has revealed that it will release details of its latest strategic review next week.
Toby Carvery hits TV screens
19-Mar-2010 By Jo Bruce
Mitchells & Butlers has launched their first TV advertising campaign for Toby Carvery — a £2m campaign.
09-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney
Drinks logistics firm Tradeteam has signed a five-year extension to its deal with pub group Mitchells & Butlers (M&B). The new deal will...
05-Mar-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Jeremy Townsend, finance director, of the managed pub operator Mitchells & Butlers has resigned to join Rentokil Initial,
Musical chairs at M&B finally comes to a halt - for now
06-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Annual general meetings (AGMs) tend to be relatively prosaic affairs. Presentations are given by the company's management on trading; votes on...
05-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Gemma McKenna reports on the mood in the room at Mitchells & Butlers' volatile annual general meeting last week. It bore all the hallmarks of an...
M&B's executive merry-go-round
01-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Anyone following the row between Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) and its expat billionaire shareholder Joe Lewis in recent weeks could be minded to...
Rebel shareholders succeed in ousting M&B chairman
29-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
Dozens of ordinary Mitchells & Butlers' (M&B) shareholders used yesday's annual general meeting (AGM) to voice their anger at the behaviour...
28-Jan-2010 By M&C Report
Simon Laffin has been voted out of the Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) boardroom this afternoon and will be replaced by John Lovering as chairman.
28-Jan-2010 By The PMA Team
High noon in the on-going battle of wills between M&B management and rebel shareholders is set for the company's annual general meeting today.
28-Jan-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Smaller shareholders in Mitchells & Butlers have aired their grievances at the company annual general meeting this morning.
M&B shareholder has "no confidence" in group's chairman
27-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
Days before its crucial annual general meeting a significant minority shareholder in Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has indicated it has "no...
M&B chairman orders sweep for bugs
25-Jan-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
The Observer has claimed M&B chairman Simon Laffin had his home swept for bugs in the latest twist in the boardroom row led by Joe Lewis.
Lewis representative lists M&B grievances
25-Jan-2010 By The PMA Team
Activist M&B investor Joe Lewis has called on the company to change its banking advisors, concentrate on bottom-line profits and improve disclosure.
M&B shareholder offers olive branch in board row
25-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
In a crucial week for Mitchells & Butlers (M&B), shareholder Joe Lewis has apparently offered a compromise to the pub group's senior...
