Great British Pub Awards 2010: photos
14-Sep-2010 By Ewan Turney
Re-live all the excitement from the Great British Pub Awards 2010 through our online gallery of pictures.
Bianca Dexter-Burnell: is M&B's sell-off the start of a new trend for the sector?
14-Sep-2010
Following Mitchells & Butlers' (M&B) sale of 333 premises for £373m to TDR Capital, the inevitable question is whether this is the beginning...
Welcome to Punch Taverns Mr Dyson
14-Sep-2010 By Hamish Champ
What are the odds that last week would have been the first in a long while that Giles Thorley enjoyed from start to finish? Having stepped down as...
Future of 279 ex-Marston's pubs in doubt
14-Sep-2010 By Hamish Champ
Speculation is growing that in a matter of weeks Piccadilly Licensed Properties is hoping to sell the 279 pubs its then-parent company, the...
'Irish pub trade sales down 14 per cent'
14-Sep-2010 By James Wilmore
The pub trade is experiencing a "meltdown" with sales down by more than 14 per cent in the first seven months of the year, the Drinks Industry Group...
Leading pub companies see August sales dive
14-Sep-2010 By Hamish Champ
Trading across the larger pub and restaurant chains fell more than 16 per cent in August, with poor weather and the fag-end of the World Cup...
14-Sep-2010 By Ewan Turney
More than 532,000 young teenagers have had to cope with a drunken friend who was sick, injured or unconscious over the past year, shocking new...
14-Sep-2010 By Ewan Turney
The Irish pub trade is in "meltdown" after suffering a 14.1% decline in sales for the first seven months of 2010. Mid-year market figures from the...
14-Sep-2010 By Ewan Turney
Leading managed pub and restaurant chains have reported like-for-like sales growth of 1.5% in August on last year. The Coffer Peach Business Tracker...
14-Sep-2010 By Ewan Turney
Last year's Pilsner Urquell UK Master Bartender champion is back to defend his title after being shortlisted for the finals. Chris Milner of Browns...
13-Sep-2010 By John Harrington
A support package has been promised to help communities that want to buy their local pubs, after the Government pulled the plug on funding.
Hamish Champ: Tripping down memory lane... in a pub, of course
13-Sep-2010 By Hamish Champ
I spent most of last Saturday drinking in pubs. All in the cause of reminding one's self as to the power and value of friendship, you understand. My...
Individual Restaurant Group in hunt for development cash
13-Sep-2010 By Hamish Champ
Individual Restaurant Group (IRC), which runs the Piccolino and Restaurant Bar & Grill eatery chains, is looking for ways to raise cash to expand...
13-Sep-2010 By Ewan Turney
The Government should set a lower duty rate on draught products to encourage customers back into the responsible environment of the pub — that's...
10-Sep-2010 By John Harrington
British Gas Business has been ordered to pay a £2,000 "goodwill" payment to licensees who received a "service shortfall" over several years.
10-Sep-2010 By Dave McNulty
Pubs could learn a lot from Apple, says Dave McNulty, Coca-Cola Enterprises trading director — on premise.
10-Sep-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
JDW has this morning unveiled record sales of £996.3m and a 7.3% increase in profit before tax and exceptional items of £71m, up from £66.2m.
10-Sep-2010 By Ewan Turney
The Battlesteads in Wark-on-Tyne, Northumberland, owned by Richard and Dee Slade, has been crowned Great British Pub of the Year. The couple also...
Coca-Cola workers' strike back on
10-Sep-2010 By James Wilmore
A strike by workers at Coca-Cola Enterprise's (CCE) North London bottling plant is now "likely" next week, trade union Unite has said. The union...
10-Sep-2010 By Ewan Turney
TV star licensee Jay Smith is working with Labour leadership hopeful David Miliband on his campaign to save the pub. Smith, who runs Monty's in York...
10-Sep-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Westminster has the most profitable on-trade of all UK towns and cities at £2bn a year, according to new research. Night-time economy specialists...
10-Sep-2010 By Jo Bruce
Whitbread brand Taybarns is celebrating its second birthday with an attempt to set a record for the world's largest simultaneous barn dance. On 25...
09-Sep-2010 By John Harrington
Pubs that make a "substantial contribution to the local community" should be exempt from the late-night levy, says the Campaign for Real Ale.
09-Sep-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Heston Blumenthal has hailed the hard work of his staff at his Hinds Head pub after being named Michelin Pub of the Year 2011.
09-Sep-2010 By The PMA Team
All the latest rumour and gossip from the City.
09-Sep-2010 By The PMA Team
Ian Dyson arrived at Punch Taverns this week to take over as chief executive. The PMA Team looks at the challenges facing the company.
Mark Daniels: When the cotton wool starts to itch...
09-Sep-2010
Once upon a time, we were able to drive cars without wearing seatbelts and race up the M1 at mind-boggling (for the time), unrestricted speeds....
Police issue closure threat to pubs over toughened glass
09-Sep-2010
Scotland's largest police force is warning licensees they could face a premises licence review, leading to possible closure, if they don't come up to...
09-Sep-2010 By John Harrington
Police have warned Strathclyde pubs to ditch glass "as soon as reasonably practical" - or risk licence reviews if attacks occur on-site or nearby....
08-Sep-2010 By Roger Protz
Stockport's Arden Arms is packed. Even on a wet Monday. So what's the brewer's secret? Roger Protz reports.
08-Sep-2010 By Jo Bruce
Heston Blumenthal's Hinds Head in Bray-on-Thames, Berkshire, has been named as Pub of the Year in the new Michelin Eating Out in Pubs guide.
GMB steps up pubco pressure with tenant meetings
08-Sep-2010 By Hamish Champ
The GMB trade union is to step up its pressure on the UK's pubcos next week when it hosts three meetings to discuss what it calls the overcharging of...
BBPA chiefs to meet Diageo over tax plan controversy
08-Sep-2010 By James Wilmore
British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) chiefs have called a meeting with the UK managing director of Diageo - a BBPA member - next week to discuss...
Union suspends Coca-Cola strike action
08-Sep-2010 By Hamish Champ
Workers at Coca-Cola Enterprise's (CCE) North London bottling plant have called off two six-hour strikes that were due to take place today. The...
08-Sep-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The Hampshire town that was "too posh" to have an Argos store has now flagged up more than 40 reasons for not having a Wetherspoon's pub. JD...
07-Sep-2010 By Ewan Turney
An increase in alcohol tax will accelerate a rise in alcohol abuse fuelled by cheap supermarket alcohol, says Tim Martin.
07-Sep-2010 By John Harrington and Lesley Foottit
Guernsey pubs have been ordered to return police data after the island's data protection watchdog said police had too much control in the Pubwatch.
07-Sep-2010 By Ewan Turney
Greene King has unveiled a 4.4% like-for-like sales increase at its managed pubs division for the 18 weeks to 5 September.
Faucet Inns snaps up six M&B pubs
07-Sep-2010 By Hamish Champ
South East pub operator Faucet Inns has acquired six pubs from Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) for £17.5m, thepublican.com understands. The sites...
BII names new head of membership recruitment
07-Sep-2010 By Hamish Champ
The BII has named Graham Threader as its new head of membership recruitment, which the trade body describes as a new position. Threader, who has...
Greene King in confident mood, despite gloomy economy
07-Sep-2010 By Hamish Champ
Brewer and pub operator Greene King believes that despite growing pressure on household spending it expects to deliver "another successful year" for...
ALMR to urge off-trade crackdown
07-Sep-2010 By James Wilmore
Supermarkets and off-licences should be banned from using price in alcohol adverts, a major trade body is set to tell the government. The...
07-Sep-2010 By Ewan Turney
A trade body is "extremely dismayed" that the planned licensing overhaul fails to fully recognise the effect of cheap supermarket booze on disorder....
07-Sep-2010 By Lesley Foottit
UK food and drink wholesaler Booker is launching a Back to College promotion from tomorrow to help pubs and bars tap into the student market. A...
07-Sep-2010 By Ewan Turney
The BII has appointed former Waverley TBS director Graham Threader as head of membership development. Threader, who began his career at Coca Cola...
07-Sep-2010 By Ewan Turney
Pubs and restaurants issuing discount vouchers could be wasting their time, according to a new study revealing that only 17% of customers take...
06-Sep-2010 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) chairman John Lovering has suggested that the company may have set itself too restrictive a strategy.
Hamish Champ: When haven't we Brits drunk too much?
06-Sep-2010 By Hamish Champ
You can't open a newspaper these days without reading about how badly society is being affected by alcohol abuse. Calls from the media to 'do...
BBPA: Act overhaul would threaten thousands of well-run pubs
06-Sep-2010 By James Wilmore
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has urged the government to "think again" over its licensing shake-up as it will seriously threaten...
06-Sep-2010 By Phil Mellows
Simon Clarke is a uniquely powerful voice in the pubco debate. Phil Mellows meets the chartered surveyor turned pub tenant.
