30-Nov-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The FSA has today launched the roll-out of its pub and restaurant hygiene rating system that allows the public to see each score.
30-Nov-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Two trade lobby groups have written to business secretary Vince Cable this week over instigating a full market review of the sector. Lib Dem MP Greg...
30-Nov-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The Mustard Pot in Leeds has been crowned Marston's Pub of the Year 2010. The Chapel Allerton pub also scooped the top award in the entreprenuerial...
30-Nov-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
London pub company ETM Group, run by brothers Tom and Ed Martin, has appointed a new recruitment, training and staff development manager. Yvonne...
30-Nov-2010 By Gurjit Degun
The Foresters Arms has been named Pub of the Year at family brewer Hall and Woodhouse's Tenanted Awards. Karl and Linda Turrill, who were awarded...
29-Nov-2010 By Phil Mellows
Phil Mellows meets newly-elected Licensed Trade Charity chairman Annette King, who aims to make sure it's going for another 200 years.
29-Nov-2010 By John Harrington
A barmaid has successfully contested her fine for failing an underage sting after magistrates agreed the tester looked older than she was.
29-Nov-2010 By The PMA Team
Sceptre Leisure, the suppliers of amusement machines in the UK, has bought RV Smith (Leisure) Limited.
29-Nov-2010 By The PMA Team
Local Heroes Pub Company, which runs 18 pubs in the north-east, has collapsed into administration. The company, which ceased teading last week, ran...
Hamish Champ: Faith and the art of avoiding doorsteppers
29-Nov-2010 By Hamish Champ
Faith, I find, is a tricky concept to deal with. One can have faith in something concrete - like the ability of one's local pub to serve up a great...
What next for M&B?
29-Nov-2010 By Hamish Champ
Mitchells & Butlers' (M&B) skill at running pubs has long been regarded as among the best there is. If not the best. Even the highly public -...
Barmaid's fine overturned after failed underage check
29-Nov-2010
A barmaid who was caught in a sting operation serving underage customers has had her fine overturned. Adele Keenlyside, who works behind the bar at...
Wetherspoons makes top 100 companies
29-Nov-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Managed chain JD Wetherspoons has emerged as the only pubco to make it into a list revealing the UK's most customer friendly companies. In a survey...
Mitchells & Butlers fined £14,000 for asbestos failings
29-Nov-2010 By Hamish Champ
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has been fined £14,000 after building workers refurbishing one of its pubs were exposed to asbestos. Work was...
29-Nov-2010 By Tony Halstead
Heavy snow and arctic temperatures have hit hundreds of pubs across North Yorkshire, the North East and Scotland with scores of remote country inns...
29-Nov-2010 By Gurjit Degun
Luminar Leisure is launching dedicated karaoke rooms at its flagship Oceana nightclub in Milton Keynes. Running under the Go Go Karaoke brand,...
29-Nov-2010 By Ewan Turney
The 19-strong London based wine bar and restaurant operator Balls Brothers has gone into administration. Zolfo Cooper has been brought in to lead...
29-Nov-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Isle of Wight Pubwatch has announced a partnership with the NHS in a bid to reduce alcohol-related disorder. Two representatives from the Isle of...
29-Nov-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Underage pub goers in Portsmouth could be hit with a 12-month ban on their 18th birthday, if police proposals come to pass. Portsmouth police have...
29-Nov-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The January jump in VAT to 20% will cost one Greene King lessee £250 more every week at the worst time possible.
'Punch Taverns could hand 6,000 pubs over to bondholders'
28-Nov-2010
Punch Taverns, the UK's largest pub landlord, may give its bondholders ownership of as many as 6,000 pubs across the country in an effort to trim...
26-Nov-2010 By The PMA Team
Tom McMullen has joined McMullen & Sons as company secretary, marking a sixth generation commitment to the family business.
26-Nov-2010 By Gurjit Degun
Scottish & Newcastle Pub Company has spent £2.5m rebuilding a 15th century pub that was destroyed by a fire in 2008.
26-Nov-2010 By Ewan Turney
Direct Delivery Scheme (DDS) managing director Nick Stafford has argued that tied licensees must be freed up to operate as entrepreneurs.
26-Nov-2010 By The PMA Team
Whiting & Hammond, the award-winning south-east multiple led by Brian Whiting, has opened its sixth pub. The company has re-opened the Long Hop,...
The Publican Food & Drink Awards 2010: And the winners are...
26-Nov-2010
The winners of this year's Publican Food & Drink Awards were announced last night at a ceremony at London's Intercontinental Hotel. The...
26-Nov-2010 By Lesley Foottit
A chef who gained a Michelin star working for Gary Rhodes has taken on a Northamptonshire pub. Adam Gray has bought half the lease of Charles Wells...
26-Nov-2010 By MA reporter
Enterprise Inns chief executive Ted Tuppen provided City analysts with his state-of-the nation perspective last week as the company reported...
25-Nov-2010 By The PMA Team
Contrasting results at Enterprise Inns and Punch Taverns highlight the pubcos' differing challenges, says The PMA Team.
25-Nov-2010 By The PMA Team
All the latest rumour and gossip from the City.
Enterprise to auction four more freeholds
25-Nov-2010 By The PMA Team
Enterprise Inns is hoping to raise around £3.6m by selling the freeholds of four pubs at an Acuitus auction in London on 9 December. The pubs are...
Oldham cleans up its act
25-Nov-2010
Controversy submerged Oldham last year when the local council reviewed the licence of every single pub, bar and nightclub in the town centre as part...
London's economy gives Capital a lift
25-Nov-2010 By Hamish Champ
A resilient London economy helped Capital Pub Company post an 18 per cent rise in first half sales and boost pre-tax profits by more than a third....
Pubco BDMs to get trained in 'negotiation' and 'persuasion' skills
25-Nov-2010 By James Wilmore
Pubco business development managers will get trained in 'negotiation and persuasion skills' and 'communication' as part of a new BII qualification....
25-Nov-2010 By Ewan Turney
The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) is to open up membership to licensees as part of a five-point plan to ramp up the profile of local brewers. SIBA hopes to help establish a direct link between brewers and retailers.
25-Nov-2010 By Ewan Turney
Capital Pub Company has reported sales growth of 22% for the 33 weeks to mid-November on last year as the London market remains "strong". The...
25-Nov-2010 By Ewan Turney
JW Lees has promoted Simon Cross to the board as finance director — the first non-family director in 30 years. Cross joined JW Lees as director of...
24-Nov-2010 By Jo Bruce
Whitbread is to spend over £7m this year on a sustainability programme to boost its environmental performance.
Pub closures slow to 29 a week
24-Nov-2010
Pub closures have slowed to a net figure of 29 a week in the first half of 2010, according to CGA Strategy chief executive Jon Collins. But Collins...
BBPA: Licensing Act works well
24-Nov-2010 By Hamish Champ
Five years ago today the Licensing Act 2003 came into force, allowing pubs to stay open longer. Deemed in certain quarters of the media as the...
24-Nov-2010 By Gurjit Degun
Hundreds of pubs will benefit from automatic business rate relief under new Government plans. Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles today...
24-Nov-2010 By John Harrington
The pub closure rate has slowed to 29 per week for the first six months of 2010, according to CGA. Meanwhile, one in 10 nightclubs have also shut in...
24-Nov-2010 By Ewan Turney
Enterprise Inns has been unfairly tarred with the same brush as other pub companies when it comes to promoting routes to market for micro brewers —...
24-Nov-2010 By David Elliott
The BBC's Children in Need is a great opportunity to increase profits, attract customers and put a smile back on a lot of faces, says David Elliott.
24-Nov-2010 By Ewan Turney
The Licensing Act has "worked well" and proved the 24-hour pub to be a myth, according to the British Beer and Pub Association. Chief executive...
23-Nov-2010 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) is planning to open "at least" 50 new-build pubs a year in the coming years.
23-Nov-2010 By John Harrington
The Licensed Trade Charity (LTC) is appealing for donations from local Licensed Victuallers Associations that have folded.
23-Nov-2010 By Ewan Turney
Anti-beer tie campaign group Fair Pint has challenged Enterprise Inns to answer six key questions on its use of beer flow monitoring equipment. It has written to Enterprise asking for answers on its use of Brulines and Smartcellar.
23-Nov-2010 By Ewan Turney
M&B reported like-for-like food sales up 4.7% in the year to 25 September and up 6.9% in the most recent eight weeks.
Mitchells & Butlers posts 26 per cent profits rise
23-Nov-2010 By Hamish Champ
High profile TV ad campaigns for a number of its pub brands have helped managed pub operator Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) post a 26 per cent...
