Proposals for an early morning restriction order (EMRO) in Blackpool have been slammed by licensees who claim it would “devastate” the town’s night-time economy.
Pub operators have been encouraged to build relationships with their banks “before they need to” and make sure that the relationship is “multi-layered”.
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has extended its premium food and drink offer into a third London-based pub in its Castle estate, a year after it was first launched.
Licensees with Sky 3D can watch live coverage of Formula 1 across all four days of the third test from 28 February to 3 March at the Circuit de Catalunya.
Inventive Leisure, the Revolution Vodka Bar operator, has found that increasing the level of employee engagement in the business by just 1.5% helps reduce staff turnover by 10%.
Tennent Caledonian has said that it will not increase the wholesale selling price of its leading brands – Tennent’s Lager, Caledonia Best and Magners Golden Draught – for Scotland’s free on-trade this year.
St Austell Brewery has paid tribute to its pubs with 20 awards given out to reward team and individual achievements within the Cornwall-based brewery’s 170-strong estate.
Charles Wells, the brewer and pub operator, is to roll out a scheme whereby the company has access to tenants’ profit & loss accounts to help it identify more easily how to improve trade and margins.
Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Save the Pub Group, Greg Mulholland, has co-signed an EDM tabled condemning the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) for its decision to pursue a judicial review against Cambridge City Council’s supplementary planning...
Bowmark Capital, the private equity backer of Las Iguanas, the Latin American high-street restaurant chain, is one of the remaining bidders for Drake & Morgan, the highly-regarded bar-restaurant operator, M&C Report understands.
John Winder and Gary Douglas, former owners of pub-restaurant business Cloverleaf, which was sold to Greene King two years ago, are planning to stay in the industry after standing down from the board of Greene King recently.
Around 800 Enterprise Inns pubs are to receive investments in their external areas to improve their “kerb appeal”, chief executive Ted Tuppen has said.
Steve Benger is probably using a degree of understatement when he describes the recent period around WaverleyTBS’s demise as “fraught”.Few business collapses in this industry have had such a impact, and affected so many people so quickly, as that of Waverley.
Snifter is always first to tip his hat to anybody who has run a pub for 20 years, but when that person is a former Chelsea footballer, it calls for a special kind of recognition.
Bars and restaurants experienced the biggest increase in business distress of all industries in the final quarter of last year, according to new figure from Begbies Traynor.
Punch Taverns has teamed up with training provider Charnwood Training Group to deliver the BIIAB Level 2 Apprenticeship in Licensed Hospitality to its licensees.
Former BII (British Institute of Innkeeping) Licensee of the Year Phil Davison is hopeful of a visit from David Cameron after buying the only pub in the Prime Minister’s childhood village.
London publicans have backed Transport for London’s (TfL) proposals to extend Tube services until 2am on a Friday and Saturday night from 2015, with some suggesting they may look at longer opening hours.
Recriminations and infighting between pub industry representative bodies have been laid bare in 19 responses to the government’s call for evidence on the progress of self-regulation of the pubco-tenant relationship.
Enterprise Inns, the leased and tenanted pub company, has reported a 4.4% decline in like-for-like net income, equivalent to £5m, in the 17 weeks to 26 January in what the company called "exceptional trading conditions" including extreme weather...
Another subsidiary of Yellowhammer Bars, the bar and nightclub operator, has given notice of its intention to appoint administrators, M&C Report has learnt.
The outgoing chief executive of Punch Taverns, Roger Whiteside, has warned that pub disposals could increase if regulation forces pub-owning companies to offer more free-of-tie leases.
As if proof were ever needed that pubs are the savior of everything, two Bedfordshire licensees did the industry proud last weekend by providing a last-minute wedding reception venue to a stricken couple.
Managed pub company Orchid has created a new umbrella group of quality pubs called ‘Do Drop Inns’ which will replace its current Modern British pubs brand.
The Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) has signed up 15 new members already during 2013 bringing its total number of operator members to 121.
Punch Taverns has announced that Roger Whiteside has informed its Board of his intention to resign as chief executive to take up the position of chief executive of Greggs, where he is currently a non-executive director.
Joint MasterChef: The Professionals 2012 winner Anton Piotrowski’s Devon pub has been inundated with bookings and international interest since the televised final.
The former chief executive of failed drinks wholesaler WaverleyTBS has predicted more consolidation in the wholesale market in 2013, with a number of regional players set to "drop out".
