CAMRA's OFT beer tie appeal withdrawn
15-Feb-2011 By James Wilmore
CAMRA has withdrawn its appeal against the Office of Fair Trading's (OFT's) decision not to refer the beer tie to the competition authorities, The...
BBPA renews call to scrap tax escalator, in light of inflation rise
15-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has called on the government to scrap plans for what it calls "record-breaking" tax rises on beer....
Enterprise Inns raises its beer prices by 3.8 per cent
15-Feb-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
Enterprise Inns licensees are facing a 3.8 per cent increase on drinks supplied by the pub company. Letters have been sent to licensees confirming...
15-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
A group of Sunderland licensees has raised the idea of forming a "crime-watch group" to shop pubs that screen foreign satellite football. That's...
15-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
The first cases of pubcos being 'named and shamed' for breaching their codes of practice with tenants are to be published on-line in one month's...
15-Feb-2011 By Gurjit Degun
Lancashire brewer Daniel Thwaites has rolled out its pub concept, Beer Hero, focusing on raising the profile of ale, in a second pub. The brewer...
15-Feb-2011 By Lesley Foottit
An Oxfordshire pub will be the first pub to host a live TV broadcast of a national pub quiz on 22 February. The Blackhorse Hotel in Thame will host...
15-Feb-2011 By Lesley Foottit
A trio of men responsible for a spate of pub burglaries have been jailed thanks to the combined efforts of Hertfordshire Pubwatch and police. Lee...
14-Feb-2011 By Stephen Crawley
Stephen Crawley highlights Burns as an inspiration for the on-trade and for keeping pubs at the heart of the proposed Big Society.
Lending to small businesses. Or not.
14-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
The decision by UK banks to lend more money to small businesses was the first positive signal to come out of the Square Mile for a while - even if it...
Hamish Champ: London Calling?
14-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
According to legend or myth or whatever it was, Dick Whittington was persuaded by the peeling of bells to stick to his guns and return to seek his...
Punch Taverns ups drink prices by three per cent
14-Feb-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubco Punch Taverns has revealed it is to increase its drinks prices to licensees by an average of 3.3 per cent. Letters have been sent to 'Punch...
UK's leading banks say lending to pubs is not a problem
14-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
The UK's biggest banks have sought to reassure licensees there was no policy of 'not lending to the on-trade'. As the row over bankers' bonuses...
Mild January boosts managed pub chains
14-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
A milder January than last year made for better trading across the country's leading managed pub and restaurant chains, according to new research....
14-Feb-2011 By Ewan Turney
Enterprise Inns is to increase its drinks prices by an average of 3.8% to its tenants while Punch Taverns is to pass on an average 3.3% increase —...
14-Feb-2011 By Lesley Foottit
Thirteen semi-finalists have been named in the BII Licensee of the Year competition 2011. Judges are looking for individuals or partnerships who...
14-Feb-2011 By Lesley Foottit
Greene King is launching a training programme this month to help its licensees improve their customer service. The training, which is part of Greene...
14-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
Sunderland Football Club chairman Niall Quinn has attacked the use of foreign satellite systems to show football in pubs. In a strongly-worded...
14-Feb-2011 By Ewan Turney
Leading pub and restaurant chains have experienced a better start to the year than expected and clawed back some ground on December's snow hit...
11-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
Pubs are a big step closer to getting the automatic right to open later during the royal wedding. An order has been laid in Parliament that, if...
11-Feb-2011 By Phil Mellows
Nick Pring's campaign for 'real pubs' is reviving corner houses all over London. He talks to. Phil Mellows about the mission that he and business...
11-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
The pitfalls of banning troublemakers from pubs were laid out by barrister Steven Walsh at the National Pubwatch Conference.
10-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
Magistrates have refused to adjourn a prosecution for foreign satellite football screenings at a Humberside pub pending the European ruling.
10-Feb-2011 By The PMA Team
JD Wetherspoon has started to employ "spotters" to identify under-age drinkers that have slipped through the net at its pubs. They are being...
10-Feb-2011 By The PMA Team
Stonegate Pub Company is close to finishing the debranding of 78 sites trading formerly as Mitchells & Butlers brands.
Angry licensee bans school-run parents from car park
10-Feb-2011
An irate licensee has banned school-run parents from using her pub's car park and been forced to issue parking permits to her regulars. Tracy...
10-Feb-2011 By Gurjit Degun
Home Office minister James Brokenshire has defended the Government's decision to allow anyone to appeal against a licensing application. In a...
10-Feb-2011 By Ewan Turney
Net sales of Guinness in Great Britain dropped 2% for the six months to 31 December 2010 on last year as more pubs closed and the shift from on-trade...
Banks to lend £76bn to small businesses
09-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
The UK's leading banks have committed to lend £76bn to small businesses this year, as part of a package of new credit measures worth £190bn. The...
'Eric Illsley resigns over expenses scandal conviction'
09-Feb-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
Eric Illsley, the first MP to be convicted over the expenses scandal, has resigned. Treasury sources confirmed that Illsley had been granted the...
Licensed trade sees sharp rise in business collapses
09-Feb-2011
The Insolvency Service has reported a near-quarter rise in business collapses in the licensed trade for the last three months of 2010. The figures...
09-Feb-2011 By Ewan Turney
A voucher for a meal deal at a Nottingham pub, which appeared on the website Groupon, has been deemed misleading. A promotion on the voucher website...
09-Feb-2011 By Gurjit Degun
Marston's plans to roll out different pub concepts under its Retail Agreement, which sees licensees paid 20% of the pub's turnover, to focus on...
08-Feb-2011 By The PMA Team
M&B, the managed pub and casual dining operator, is to expand a breakfast trial at its Harvester brand, which has around 176 sites.
Top cop attacks supermarket alcohol prices
08-Feb-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
The UK's leading licensing police officer has today hit out at what he called 'pocket money prices' being charged by supermarkets for alcohol. Chief...
08-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
Licensees are being offered a way to claim money from troublemakers who damage their property or attack their staff, under a scheme being led by...
08-Feb-2011 By Gurjit Degun
Enterprise Inns has another raised £7.3m by only selling seven of the 11 pubs it put up for auction today. The pubs are offered as part of the...
08-Feb-2011 By Roger Protz
Dorset firm Palmers upbeat over cask ale's prospects, but urges Government to help traditional brewers, says Roger Protz. It was once a question on...
08-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
Don't hamper the effectiveness of local pubwatches by incorporating them into "business partnerships" — that's the message from National Pubwatch...
07-Feb-2011 By Lesley Foottit
The Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA) has appointed new public affairs executive Carlo Gibbs.
07-Feb-2011 By The PMA Team
No Saints, the company run by ex-Luminar boss Stephen Thomas, aims to open a site in a Berkshire town. The company is reported to have put in a...
Mark Daniels: Could Top Gear's antics trigger the demise of the pub?
07-Feb-2011
You might have noticed a story last week, tucked away in the bylines of a couple of small newspapers, in which Mexico appears to have declared war on...
Going clubbing with Punch Taverns
07-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
When Punch Taverns announced the launch of its online purchasing portal for lessees last year Andy Slee, director of the Punch Buying Club (PBC) and...
What does £20m buy you these days? Doom Bar, that's what
07-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
I've always been fascinated by the different values people give to things. In these hard economic times £20m would buy you less than half of a...
Hamish Champ: There's only one place to celebrate turning 50...
07-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
Holy. Mother. Of God. I knew that if I played my cards right it would happen eventually, but still, it was bit of shock when it finally rolled...
Make it easier to hire and fire staff, says IoD
07-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
A leading business group has called on the government to make it easier - and cheaper - for small businesses to hire and fire staff. The tough line,...
Pubs profits set to rise if satellite football case upheld
07-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
Pubs and pub companies could see their profits rise by more than three per cent if BSkyB loses its grip on televised football in the on-trade....
04-Feb-2011 By The PMA Team
A plan by No Saints to spend £500,000 on opening a burlesque club in the centre of Cardiff has been turned down.
Caroline Nodder: No industry is so heavily burdened by tax as the pub industry
04-Feb-2011 By Caroline Nodder
Tax is one of those words that immediately gets your back up. It reeks of unfairness, is synonymous with the state penalising the little guy, and is...
04-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
The ALMR has urged the Government to make sure supermarkets aren't granted the automatic right to open later.
