Publican Live: smoking solutions
13-Mar-2007
There is little doubt as to the main issue on the minds of licensees across the UK in the spring of 2007: the smoking ban.While it is a challenge for...
A pig of a task?
13-Mar-2007
AT THE risk of sounding cynical, years of journalistic experience teach you never to look a gift horse - or pig - in the mouth. So when Pub Food's...
Pub chief fights back over darts
13-Mar-2007 By James Wilmore
A pub group chief is fighting back over claims that the popularity of darts in pubs has been hit by gastropubs. The Save Our Darts campaign was...
Pubs - going, going, gone
13-Mar-2007
Gordon Brown seems to agree with Joseph Stalin. One death is a tragedy, one million a statistic, said the Russian dictator as he explained why he...
Alan Bowes declared bankrupt
12-Mar-2007 By Hamish Champ
Alan Bowes, the former head of collapsed pub business London & Edinburgh Swallow Group, has been declared bankrupt.Records on the Individual...
What the Sunday papers said
11-Mar-2007
The number of teenagers receiving medical treatment after drinking binges has risen nearly 15 per cent in the year the new 24-hour licensing laws...
09-Mar-2007 By John Harrington
Trade leaders write to Tony Blair to save the Crown symbol on pint glasses
08-Mar-2007 By John Harrington
Punch chooses not to inflict 140% rent hike on a licensee who appeared on Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
'The industry needs a price adjustment''
08-Mar-2007
OVER THE past few years the pub industry has lost some great, traditional, family-owned regional brewers. Hardys & Hansons, Burtonwood, Jennings,...
In the hands of the pub companies...or the gods?
08-Mar-2007 By Hamish Champ
As I was boarding the Buzz Lightyear Laser Blast ride in Disneyland Paris with my seven-year-old son last week (for the umpteenth time), my colleague...
The other side of the story
08-Mar-2007
Theme magazine found what it believes is the Rolls-Royce of smoking areas on a fact-finding trip to Ireland - where smoking has been banned since...
The Publican Live..add to taste...
08-Mar-2007
With food becoming more important than ever to pubs, visitors to Publican Live will find a wide range of menu and equipment ideas from exhibitors....
Pubs targeted by money laundering criminals
08-Mar-2007
More than £370m in cash is being laundered through the pub trade every year, says a leading investigator of organised crime. Roger Wilson from the...
Chorley Pubwatch gets tought on violent offenders
08-Mar-2007
PUBLICANS IN Chorley, Lancashire, are getting tough on violent offenders by banning them from their premises for five years.The decision follows...
Pubs continue to complain over Opus
08-Mar-2007
Energywatch says almost half of the complaints it has received about Opus Energy this year have come from publicans.The energy watchdog says it has...
MyShout
08-Mar-2007
It's time to see the good in the smoking ban and get drinkers to rediscover their local, says Barry Gillham With Community Pubs Week just past, am I...
THE GUV'NOR
08-Mar-2007
Ali Carter Selling your pub can be very stressful, says the licensee of the Bay View Inn, Widemouth Bay, Cornwall Someone at a BII seminar asked me...
Rising star
08-Mar-2007
Ale brands are behaving more like lagers and upping the ante on the the marketing front. Nigel Huddleston reports Just when it seemed that ale...
International flavour
08-Mar-2007
Take customers on a magical mystery tour through a world of new beers, says Punch Taverns marketing director Geoff Brown For a long time now, it has...
Rising to the challenge
08-Mar-2007
As the beleaguered beer market emerges from another demanding year, Nigel Huddleston looks at the key trends and brand developments Saying that...
BarTalk
08-Mar-2007
What kind of a licensee do you think Jose Mourhino would make? Peter Gatling Merry Harriers Clayhidon Devon I think he would make a terrific...
Fruits of the Kiwis
08-Mar-2007
In the first of our new fortnightly Wine Seller series, Fiona Sims gives the lowdown on what's hot in New Zealand New Zealand wines aren't exactly...
NewsDigest
08-Mar-2007
Marston's has become the official beer of England's test match grounds, with a deal to supply its beers. It will have exclusive rights to perimeter...
LETTERs
08-Mar-2007
Between a rock and a hard place I agree entirely with John Morrey's letter in 22 February issue of the Morning Advertiser which argued that, while...
Time to restore alcohol's status
08-Mar-2007
The latest scare facing the drinks trade, say Whitehall-watchers, is that the Home Office wants to target drunks. Not the anti-social drunks we still...
'DON'T QUOTE ME ON THAT'
08-Mar-2007
Each month a senior buyer from our panel talks anonymously and candidly about the latest brand developments Like so much of life the answer is that...
Licensees urged to host stop smoking courses
06-Mar-2007
Pubs are being urged to come forward and run stop smoking courses with the NHS after the success of a scheme in Bath. Following courses at the...
06-Mar-2007
An Edinburgh licensee who claims he has been forced out of business by the smoking ban has warned that more bars will follow. James Hickman said he...
A market adjustment or the beginning of the end?
05-Mar-2007 By Hamish Champ
There's a saying that when America sneezes the rest of us catch a cold. When Alan Greenspan, former head of the Federal Reserve - the Yankee...
What the Sunday papers said
04-Mar-2007
Alcohol and tobacco could be ranked as more dangerous than the class-A drug ecstasy if the government adopts recommendations to reclassify drugs...
02-Mar-2007 By Iain O'Neil
The Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers and Westminster Licensees Association call for late night tubes in London.
Project update 1: our rural pub
02-Mar-2007
Residents of Whashton, the tiny Yorkshire village that is home to the Hack & Spade, already know all about the pub's involvement in Sell More,...
Project update 1: our community pub
02-Mar-2007
If you want to be a great community boozer, you've got to connect with your customers. On their visits, the category champions visiting the Forester...
Back to basics: racing on TV
02-Mar-2007
Excitement is mounting among students of the turf as the most eagerly anticipated week in the racing calendar approaches. With the Cheltenham...
Project update 1: our high street pub
02-Mar-2007
Ex-insurance analyst Richard Podesta has only been running Barcena in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, since the end of January. And he's already been...
Leading politician praises pub trade
02-Mar-2007
A leading politician has praised the British pub and British brewing as the prime examples of everything that is good about responsible drinking.Greg...
Senior savages his Ultimate successor
01-Mar-2007 By The PMA Team
Former Ultimate Leisure chief executive Bob Senior has launched a scathing attack on the record of his successor Mark Jones in the 18 months he has...
Trust and Herald face mixed fortunes - again
01-Mar-2007 By The PMA Team
The pair of pub companies owned by leisure magnate Trevor Hemmings have again reported mixed fortunes. Hemmings' tenanted company, Trust Inns, has...
Pubs face responsibility for drink-drivers
01-Mar-2007 By James Wilmore
Government plans could force licensees to take responsibility for drink-drivers. The Department for Transport (DfT) is to consider giving licensees...
Licensee lambasts Londis litter louts
01-Mar-2007 By Gareth Iacobucci
A licensee has called on his local council to act over "irresponsible promotions" by the off-trade in his area.David Stocken, licensee of the Dolphin...
MyShout
01-Mar-2007
An MP's mail can be a useful barometer of parliamentary and public opinion, says John Grogan My parliamentary mailbag this month has been dominated...
Reds gear up for Uefa clash
01-Mar-2007 By Essi Berelian
There's no debating the top sports attraction on offer this week, with both Manchester Utd and Arsenal gearing up for the return legs of first...
Minds of their own
01-Mar-2007
Two former M&B executives left the pubco and became some of the first operators to try its new franchise deal. Tony Halstead reports on their...
Treasure trove
01-Mar-2007
Ewan Turney discovers how a £1.1m investment transformed the Hand & Spear in Weybridge, Surrey from a rock-music pub to an eye-catching venue...
BarTalk
01-Mar-2007
Would you ever consider undergoing cosmetic surgery? Catherine Bown The Crown Rotherham South Yorks Yes, and I've actually had some done! Two years...
From dreams to reality
01-Mar-2007
Leadership is all about vision, inspiring your team of well-trained staff and delivering results through them, says Ann Elliott of marketing...
In praise of the black stuff
01-Mar-2007
Despite the Irish abandoning their iconic national pint, the Cheltenham Festival just wouldn't be the same without the traditional Guinness village,...
McManus reports 8% sales increase
01-Mar-2007
McManus Pub Company, the Northampton-based pub company privately owned by Gary and Paul McManus, has reported a rise in turnover and house Ebitda for...
'Confident' Jones shrugs off attack
01-Mar-2007
Ultimate Leisure chief executive Mark Jones shrugged off the attack this week from his predecessor (see above). He said that latest half-year results...
Senior figure who shoots from the hip
01-Mar-2007
It's not often you find a senior industry figure attacking a peer's management record. The scathing attack by Bob Senior this week on his successor...
