07-Nov-2006 By Lucy Britner
Reports that a 61-year-old woman was asked to remove her pink Marks & Spencer hoodie in a Kent pub are wrong, according to pub owner Barracuda....
Arsenal get the winter Blues
07-Nov-2006 By Richard Ross
Following their mid-week efforts on the European stage in the Champions League, Premiership giants Chelsea and Arsenal meet in the pick of the...
06-Nov-2006
Solicitor hits out at Sky and the FAPL for waiting until the "eleventh hour" to drop charges.
Geoff Newton: A year on, has the new licensing regime changed everything?
05-Nov-2006
CAST YOUR mind back 12 months to one of the biggest legal changes to affect the licensed trade industry in this country. Many operators spent days,...
City Comment
05-Nov-2006 By Hamish Champ
Research studies into business practices are part and parcel of the world we live in. But does anyone actually pay much attention to the findings? I...
03-Nov-2006 By The PMA Team
Two industry white knights have emerged from the collapse of Provence to save premises licences.
03-Nov-2006 By The PMA Team
David Whitehouse and Simon Wilson, partners at Kroll's Corporate Advisory & Restructuring Group, have been appointed joint administrative...
03-Nov-2006 By The PMA Team
An administrator has been appointed to collapsed pub company Provence, the Morning Advertiser has learnt. It is understood Kroll has been appointed...
Provence receivers issue statement
03-Nov-2006
Corporate recovery specialist Kroll has been appointed as administrator to Provence.The company has confirmed that Provence Commerical Properties has...
03-Nov-2006
Founder of Provence blames collapse on withdrawal of support by bank in wake of the London & Edinburgh.
02-Nov-2006
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) plans a week of action next February to save community pubs.
02-Nov-2006 By The PMA Team
Huge losses see the bailiffs move in and Provence ceasing to trade.
Camra trust to fund micro-breweries
02-Nov-2006 By The PMA Team
The Camra Investment Club (CIC) is looking at setting up a £10m venture-capital trust (VCT) to fund the expansion of micro-brewers, the MA has...
Cheap and nasty - Provence's downfall
02-Nov-2006 By The PMA Team
A Provence whistleblower has claimed that the company was charging licensees about double sustainable levels of rent. The whistleblower, who left...
02-Nov-2006 By The PMA Team
The collapse of Provence is not founder Paul J Kiely's first business failure. Before setting up Provence, he was a director of Kiely Developments,...
Macclesfield licensee fights to save pub
02-Nov-2006
A MACCLESFIELD licensee has been turned into a virtual computer game hero by a regular to aid her in the fight to save her pub from demolition.Plans...
Licensees face foreign satellite blitz
02-Nov-2006 By James Wilmore
Licensees who show Premiership football via foreign satellite systems face a national crackdown by police and trading standards officers. In an...
LandLord of the Rings
02-Nov-2006
A Cotswold licensee is preparing for an invasion of hobbits after his pub was christened the real life Prancing Pony from fantasy adventure Lord of...
Smartbox admits experiencing "growing pains
02-Nov-2006
Complaints from licensees of Smartbox are continuing to flood into The Publican following assurances from the company last week. Licensees claim they...
Reds on the comeback trail
02-Nov-2006 By Richard Ross
The theme of the next seven days is one of taking stock. On the football pitch the competitors in this weekend's featured Premiership matches have...
Cheers
02-Nov-2006
Unlucky for some Snifter's heart goes out to one unlucky punter at the Castle Inn, Holcombe, Devon. Ten pub-syndicate customers won £400,000 when...
ALMR goes wild in South Africa
02-Nov-2006
Following his eventful excursion to Bruges, accompanied by the sampling of many weird and wonderful Belgian beers, Snifter recently found himself at...
THE AGENTS
02-Nov-2006
James Grimes Director, AG&G, Chartered Surveyors, London Individual freehold pubs remain a relatively rare commodity and the market is strong. In...
Take in the sights of London
02-Nov-2006 By Richard Ross
The eyes of the sporting world are firmly focused on London this weekend. There are two Premiership derbies to enjoy, plus top-class international...
A breath of fresh air
02-Nov-2006
Since the Irish smoke ban, trade at pubs has picked up after an initial dip. The findings of MA's visit to Ireland will be reported over the next...
Keen and Rogers join Laurel pubco
02-Nov-2006
Laurel Pub Company, Robert Tchenguiz's high-street pub business, has announced the appointments of Chris Keen as its new chief financial officer and...
02-Nov-2006 By M&C Report
Lewis & Clarke, the bar-restaurant business owned by entrepreneurs Steve Wilkins and John Connell, has been sold to Balls Brothers, its larger...
Whitbread's new plan to pursue pub diners
02-Nov-2006
Whitbread's position in the pub restaurant market reminds me a little of Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) before it was mercifully cut free from its...
MyShout - John Grogan
02-Nov-2006
The critical issue of off-trade pricing is galvanising the entire industry, says John Grogan For the first time in a generation, the supermarkets are...
The GUV'NOR
02-Nov-2006
Yvonne Cleminson Pubcos must do more to help licensees with growing red tape and spiralling costs says the licensee of the Cherry Tree in Farnham,...
Fake internet ID puts pubs off PASS
02-Nov-2006 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Licensees across Somerset are choosing not to accept genuine PASS-accredited proof-of-age cards because of the proliferation of fake IDs, the MA has...
01-Nov-2006 By M&C Report
Report shows badly designed and over-crowded bars, poorly trained staff and rivalry between customers lead to pub violence.
01-Nov-2006
Beverley Callard, who plays Liz McDonald in Coronation Street, will be adding her backing to the Best Bar None Awards in Manchester this week....
Kent licensee aims to fly tourists to his pub
31-Oct-2006
A Kent licensee has come up with a novel way to get more tourists in his pub - create his own holiday package.John Freeman, owner of the Black Horse...
Finance: tax returns deadline looms
30-Oct-2006
The annual tax return is due by January 31 each year and is based on the profits you make in the 12 months to April 5 the previous year. Payment is...
Finance: have you got it covered?
30-Oct-2006
Pubs sometimes fall down over not having the right insurance cover for what is an increasingly complex business. Here are the most common issues that...
Finance: bond scheme aims to release cash
30-Oct-2006
An innovative scheme has been launched that avoids the usual need for individual publicans and pub operating companies to produce a quarter of a...
Laurel Pub Company managers hit Rio
30-Oct-2006
A group of Laurel Pub Company managers are setting off for the trip of a lifetime to the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.The 14 managers have won all...
Ford's Focus
29-Oct-2006
It's now more than a year since Alchemy Partners' purchase of 178 managed pubs from Spirit Group formed the Tattershall Castle Group (TCG), but it's...
What the Sunday papers said
29-Oct-2006
An effigy of Greene King chief executive Rooney Anand may be placed atop the famous Lewes Bonfire next weekend after a row between a pub in the...
27-Oct-2006 By The PMA Team
Provence is closing its managed house division, Countrywide Inns, after heavy losses, the MA has learnt. The division has been running an estimated...
27-Oct-2006 By The PMA Team
A survey by the Morning Advertiser has found that Provence has sold more than 200 pubs at public auctions in the five years since it was founded....
Lack of investment hits Honeycombe Leisure
27-Oct-2006 By Hamish Champ
Announcing its annual results for the year to April 30, 2006 pub management group Honeycombe Leisure has painted a bleak - and frank - portrait of...
27-Oct-2006
A Punch host plans to make his pub the first in England to go "carbon neutral". Solar panels, a wind turbine and more recycling are among the ideas...
27-Oct-2006 By Ewan Turney
Laurel Pub Company has appointed Chris Keen as chief financial officer and Steve Rogers as managing director of Ha! Ha! Bar & Canteen. The...
27-Oct-2006 By John Harrington
An MA investigation has shown how easy it is to order realistic-looking fake ID from the internet. Last week trade leaders hit out at the fake ID...
26-Oct-2006 By The PMA Team
Novus. the bar operator that was called Urbium before being taken private, has reported trade in London is "booming". The company - which has just...
ePub: online ordering takes off
26-Oct-2006
As the internet becomes an integrated part of everyone's lives, the publican - that most technophobic of breeds - is gradually becoming more...
Pubs to be proud of: The Three Crowns Inn
26-Oct-2006
Tucked away at the end of a mile of narrow, winding country road sits the Three Crowns Inn. Stepping onto the cobbles leading up to the redbrick...
Youth and experience
26-Oct-2006
"We've had our ups and downs," says Martin Roberts, who has run the Royal Oak at Leigh Sinton, near Worcester, for the last nine years. "But the...
