26-Jan-2011 By Lesley Foottit
A Norfolk pub operator is rebranding two of his sites and has launched a cake business to help boost trade.
26-Jan-2011 By John Harrington
Campaign group Justice for Licensees (JFL) is to survey present and former tenants about their views on pubcos and the tie.
25-Jan-2011 By The PMA Team and Mark Stretton
Novus Leisure is understood to be in exclusive negotiations to buy Balls Brothers, the London wine bar business currently in administration.
25-Jan-2011 By The PMA Team
The BII has signed a deal worth £300,000 to sell the intellectual property rights to its Induction Training certificate into China. Chief executive...
25-Jan-2011 By Lesley Foottit
A series of seminars will be held at the end of March to discuss a solution to test purchasing and the control of age-restricted products. The Local...
Caroline Nodder: Pubs ARE the Big Society
24-Jan-2011 By Caroline Nodder
There's a four-pack of own-brand Morrison's lager - 2 per cent ABV - sitting forlornly on the news desk at Publican Towers this week. Having had it...
24-Jan-2011 By Lesley Foottit
The Orchid Group's first Halo Awards took place last week at the Pacific Oriental in London where eight awards were presented. More than 500...
Hamish Champ: The joys of the 'pop up pub'
23-Jan-2011 By Hamish Champ
Some friends I was visiting in an unfamiliar part of South London recently took me to what I understand to be called a 'pop up pub'. I don't mean...
'Pub ban girl is back on the booze'
23-Jan-2011
A young woman barred from every pub in Britain is back on the booze - just days before the airing of a TV show on how she quit drinking. Jobless...
Score draw over Brulines - and what can consumers expect in 2011?
22-Jan-2011 By Hamish Champ
The report by the National Measurement Office (NMO) on Brulines' beer flow monitoring equipment was one of those strange beasts, being given the...
21-Jan-2011 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Simon Wilkinson, the former Kout Food Group (KFG) and Paramount Restaurants executive, is to take the helm at La Tasca.
21-Jan-2011 By Ewan Turney
MA 250 member Urban & Country Leisure plans to invest £20m over the next three years to rollout its Lazy Cow boutique hotel concept.
21-Jan-2011 By M&C Report
A new study has found 42% of drinkers are spending less in pubs than six months ago — there are falls across virtually all sectors.
21-Jan-2011 By Ewan Turney
The BII has offered an unreserved apology to high profile member Nigel Wakefield over the "negative impact" false allegations had on his reputation....
20-Jan-2011 By The PMA Team
Cloverleaf, the north-west operator of large managed pubs, has reported a five times increase in pre-tax profit.
20-Jan-2011 By The PMA Team
All the latest rumour and gossip from the City.
20-Jan-2011 By The PMA Team
Oakman Inns, the company headed by former Whitbread executive Peter Borg-Neal, has reported a sales increase of 118% in its most recent year to 4...
Consumer squeeze to continue throughout 2011
20-Jan-2011 By Hamish Champ
The squeeze on leisure spending seen in the second half of 2010 is set to continue throughout 2011, according to finance recovery specialists Zolfo...
Pub comes to school's rescue
20-Jan-2011
A couple of licensees have come to the rescue of a local school by setting up a classroom after burst pipes left it short of space. Dave Hutton and...
19-Jan-2011 By John Harrington
Licensees are invited to join a new body that promotes joint action locally to encourage safer and more profitable town centres at night.
See how much you could save on energy bills with The Publican Power Saver
19-Jan-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
What do food and drink costs, business rates and utility bills all have in common? Apart from all causing headaches for licensees, you can also...
Pub co-op's guide to success
19-Jan-2011
An enterprising pub-owning co-op has devised a novel way to boost trade - a walking and cycling guide that starts and ends at their pub. The...
19-Jan-2011 By John Harrington
Small pub companies, brewers and entrepreneurs could find it harder to buy and run pubs under Government plans to give communities greater powers to...
19-Jan-2011 By John Harrington
Opus Energy is trying to claim more than £22,000 from a licensee who stopped paying electricity bills after they soared from £319 to £2,200 per...
18-Jan-2011 By Lesley Foottit
The pub trade is furious at Government plans to introduce a ban on below-cost sales that would still allow 38p cans of lager to be sold.
ALMR: Below-cost plans are a 'fudged compromise'
18-Jan-2011 By James Wilmore
A trade leader has branded the government's plan to ban alcohol sales below duty plus VAT as a "fudged compromise". Nick Bish, the Association of...
18-Jan-2011 By Robyn Black
Stephen Fry, Jimmy Carr, Al Murray and Frank Skinner are asking licensees to help them raise money for Comic Relief.
18-Jan-2011 By John Harrington
A group representing top policemen supports the plan to let pubs open later during the royal wedding weekend. The Government plans to let pubs open...
18-Jan-2011 By Roger Protz
The trade needs a helping hand from Government as it contends with the recent VAT increase, says Roger Protz. The airwaves are packed with...
18-Jan-2011 By Ewan Turney
Cougar Leisure, headed by Julian Sargeson, has gone into administration — Begbies Traynor has been appointed.
Fuller's appoints Lynn Fordham to board
18-Jan-2011 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Fuller's, the pub company and brewer, has appointed Lynn Fordham to its board as a non executive director. Currently chief executive of investment...
17-Jan-2011 By John Harrington
Many pubs could find themselves unable to host live music and other entertainment during their extended hours over the royal wedding weekend.
Miller Brands - brand master
17-Jan-2011 By Caroline Nodder
Being a brewer without a brewery has its advantages in the UK market. Miller Brands - the UK arm of global brewing giant SAB Miller - is a...
Interest rates: should we be worried?
17-Jan-2011 By Hamish Champ
I reckon by the summer, if not before, we will have seen the first increase in interest rates in ages. The Bank of England's Monetary Policy...
Confidence in small business sector hit by VAT rise and bad weather
17-Jan-2011 By Hamish Champ
Last year ended on a low note for many small businesses, according to a trade body representing 210,000 such firms. The Forum for Private Business...
Brulines claims tests show equipment is 'fit for purpose'
17-Jan-2011 By Hamish Champ
The National Measurement Office (NMO) has ducked claims made by Brulines that tests conducted in government laboratories on its controversial kit...
Snow freezes out trading across major pub operators
17-Jan-2011 By Hamish Champ
Last month's blizzards predictably kept swathes of pubgoers at home, judging by the sales figures of a number of large managed on-trade and...
17-Jan-2011 By Phil Mellows
Adam Marshall is a driven man and on the Fast Track 100 List with Grand Union. The branded pub is back, as Phil Mellows discovers. Ever tried...
Gay employee wins appeal against Realpubs
17-Jan-2011 By Lesley Foottit
A gay employee has won a case for unfair dismissal against Realpubs through the Employment Appeal Tribunal. Charles Lisboa joined the Pembroke Arms...
17-Jan-2011 By Lesley Foottit
A Surrey licensee has increased trade by 50% after an £80,000 revamp to make his pub look a century older. Tenant Robin Wheeler wanted to take the...
17-Jan-2011 By Ewan Turney
Leading managed pub and restaurant chains saw like-for-like sales drop 4.2% in December as the snow hit. The figures come from the Coffer Peach...
14-Jan-2011 By The PMA Team
All the latest rumour and gossip from the City.
14-Jan-2011 By Gurjit Degun
The Government's decision to phase out compulsory retirement could lead to more employment tribunals, the FSB has warned.
Pub Bitch: February retox anyone?
14-Jan-2011
Back on it There still seems to be a worrying amount of fruit, lo-fat yoghurt and alarmingly healthy soup being consumed in Publican Towers, but...
Keep tax records up to date or face £3k fine, warns FPB
14-Jan-2011 By Hamish Champ
Small businesses, including pubs, have been warned to ensure their tax records are up to date or else they could face fines of more than £3,000. The...
Elbow Room founder Carter joins Fuller's
14-Jan-2011 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Justin Carter, the bar entrepreneur who founded the Elbow Room chain, has taken a senior position within the managed pub arm of Fuller's, the London...
14-Jan-2011 By Lesley Foottit
Charles Wells has acquired its first pub since summer 2009 — the Knife and Cleaver in Bedfordshire. The Houghton Conquest 17th century pub will...
14-Jan-2011 By Dave McNulty
It's the new year, a time to reflect on the challenges and successes of the past 12 months and consider how to make the next even better. What...
14-Jan-2011 By Ewan Turney
Award winning multiple operator TLC Inns has secured funding to add a fifth pub to his estate in early 2011. TLC, founded and run by Steve Haslam,...
14-Jan-2011 By John Harrington
Three Buckinghamshire pubs are trialling a scheme that lets punters buy friends a drink from a pub remotely via text-message vouchers. Pint Drop...
