Leading pub operators see summer boom
16-Aug-2010 By Hamish Champ
Leading pub and restaurant chains appear to be benefitting from UK consumers holidaying at home rather than abroad, new figures suggest. According to...
Brasserie Bar Co plans new pub-based concept
16-Aug-2010 By Hamish Champ
Brasserie Bar Company, an outfit run by the former management team behind Loch Fyne Restaurant Group, is planning to roll out a new pub-based...
16-Aug-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Marston's Pub Company's licensee training scheme has won recognition from the BIIAB Good Practice Recognition Scheme. The five-module scheme, called...
16-Aug-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Punch Taverns has paid out £3,000 in compensation to a girl who fractured her finger at one of it's Staffordshire pubs. Seven-year-old Caitlyn...
16-Aug-2010 By Ewan Turney
The UK's large managed pubs and restaurants are enjoying a good summer's trade with sales up in July. The Coffer Peach Business Tracker, which...
Portsmouth pubs urged to ditch shots
13-Aug-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Police are urging Portsmouth bars to stop selling shots after a spate of violence in the area.
13-Aug-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The Michelin-starred Star at Harome, North Yorkshire is hosting five guest chef nights featuring Michelin-starred chefs from 14 October. Chef/owner...
12-Aug-2010 By The PMA Team
M&B is to open its first Browns Brasserie in more than half a decade after deciding it wants to treble the size of the brand to 50 sites.
12-Aug-2010 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
12-Aug-2010 By The PMA Team
Greene King directors and senior executives are to have potential bonuses increased from 100% of annual pay to 150% of annual pay in the current...
12-Aug-2010 By The PMA Team
Greene King has claimed back £6.1m in overpaid VAT on gaming machines at its managed pubs. The money has been claimed from HM Revenue & Customs...
Punch appoints Bhs man as national ops director
12-Aug-2010
Punch Pub Company has recruited Bhs retail director Darren Topp as its national operations director. Topp previously joined Bhs from Marks &...
Cafes should open later as 'alternative to pubs', says report
12-Aug-2010
A leading trade figure has hit out at plans to encourage cafes and shops to open later in Edinburgh, as an "alternative to pubs". An Edinburgh City...
12-Aug-2010 By Ewan Turney
Punch Pub Company has appointed BHS retail director Darren Topp as national operations director. Topp's start date to join the 800-strong managed...
12-Aug-2010 By John Harrington and Ewan Turney
An influential pro-pub MP is to write to the Home Office asking for the short consultation into the planned overhaul of licensing to be extended....
Ken Livingstone: I'll save music pubs
12-Aug-2010 By John Harrington
Ken Livingstone has revealed a plan to save live music in pubs if he becomes London mayor again. Protecting venues through planning law, creating a...
12-Aug-2010 By Phil Mellows
Phil Mellows says the Government is going about the UK's drinking problem the wrong way and we need to tackle the conditions in which people live.
11-Aug-2010 By Nigel Anstead
Licensee Nigel Anstead describes how he has raised more than £22,000 for charity so far this year and how his pub has reaped the rewards.
Pub insolvency rates fall, but remain high
11-Aug-2010
Pub sector insolvency levels remain high in the second quarter of 2010, despite a slight fall in the first quarter of the year, new figures show....
11-Aug-2010 By Lesley Foottit
A Devon chef has been crowned South West Chef of the Year 2010 in a competition organised by food group Taste of the West. Three finalists competed...
11-Aug-2010 By Ewan Turney
Underage drinkers using fake IDs could be charged with fraud — that's the stark warning from Lincolnshire police. The force is warning under-18s...
10-Aug-2010 By John Harrington
The Great British Beer Festival defied gloomy expectations as visitor numbers jumped by 3,000 on last year, leading to a "record-breaking" event.
10-Aug-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) is investigating one of its Hampshire pubs that allegedly forced a group of mothers and babies to leave.
10-Aug-2010 By The PMA Team
Punch Taverns has revealed the dates and venues for its annual roadshow event for 6,000-plus licensees. Trade consultant Phil Dixon will be hosting...
Ken Livingstone attacks pubcos with launch of pub campaign
10-Aug-2010 By James Wilmore
Former London mayor Ken Livingstone has launched a campaign to help save the capital's pubs, laying the blame largely at the feet of pubcos for...
09-Aug-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Ex-London mayor Ken Livingstone has become the second prominent Labour figure to launch a campaign to save the pub this month.
09-Aug-2010 By The PMA Team
Bay Restaurants is to embark on a two-year investment programme for its 70-strong La Tasca brand but will now sell Ha Ha Bar & Grill.
09-Aug-2010 By Lesley Foottit
A Greene King pub has lost £5,000 in trade and ruined stock after flash floods hit an East Sussex town.
09-Aug-2010 By Ewan Turney
Mitchells & Butlers has sold its 24 Hollywood Bowl sites to AMF Bowling for £39m as part of its move to dispose of non-core assets.
M&B sells Hollywood Bowl for £39m
09-Aug-2010
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has continued its sale of non-core assets with the disposal of its Hollywood Bowl chain for £39m. Rival chain AMF...
09-Aug-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Punch Taverns has launched an investigation after two children lost part of their fingers in one of its Staffordshire pub's doors. Last week...
09-Aug-2010 By Ewan Turney
The Government has ditched its £3.3m support package for community pubs and a further £1m grant for the Pub is the Hub scheme as part of its...
09-Aug-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Enterprise Inns is to install Games Media digital gaming technology at a further 250 of its tenanted pubs.
09-Aug-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Licensee Jay Smith's Save Our Boozer series featuring a number of pub revamps and reopenings will air again at the end of the month. The TV series,...
06-Aug-2010 By MA reporter
Campaign for Real Ale chief executive Mike Benner talks to MATV about the benefits of joining in CAMRA's Great British Beer Festival.
Penn Street Taverns to sell four pubs
06-Aug-2010 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Penn Street Taverns, the Birmingham-based pub group, is selling four freehold pubs in the West Midlands through agent Christie + Co.
06-Aug-2010 By Phil Mellows
Orchid chief executive Rufus Hall talks to Phil Mellows about the view from the box-car of the recession.
Glasgow pubs face 'unfeasible' clampdown
06-Aug-2010
A Scottish trade chief has slammed wide-ranging plans to crack down on the way pubs in Glasgow operate. In a report seen by The Publican, containing...
06-Aug-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Thieves recreated a scam shown on the Real Hustle TV show to steal a licensee's fruit machine from right under their nose. The Ring O'Bells in...
06-Aug-2010 By Ewan Turney
Greene King is hoping lager drinkers will see the light and switch to a pint of cask ale with a choice of "northern" or "southern" style head. The...
06-Aug-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Pub campaigners have announced a second push to measure a pub's community value in financial terms. Rick Muir, of the Institute for Public Policy...
06-Aug-2010 By Gemma McKenna
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has listed its top ten most cherished pubs in the country with the relaunch of its Pubs Heritage website.
05-Aug-2010 By Ewan Turney
Big pubcos have become "unwieldy beasts" who don't care for their tenants, according to one family brewer.
05-Aug-2010 By The PMA Team
Andy Slee, former head of on-trade for Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE), is to take a full-time role at Punch Taverns.
05-Aug-2010 By Phil Mellows
Glasgow pub and bar operator G1 Group is spending an unprecedented £5.7m on a dramatic transformation of the Corinthian.
05-Aug-2010 By Ewan Turney
Lincolnshire operator Kurnia Group is looking to downsize its seven-strong pub estate to concentrate on its property and training portfolio.
05-Aug-2010 By The PMA Team
With licensing reform on the cards, the trade will be hoping that Home Secretary Theresa May shows a sense of perspective, says The PMA Team.
05-Aug-2010 By The PMA Team
Managed operator Mitchells & Butlers has accepted individual offers for 15 pubs from 13 franchisees. Franchisees who had submitted bids for...
05-Aug-2010 By The PMA Team
Multi-site operator TM Steaks has opened its third Brakspear pub — the iconic Chequers in Marlow, Bucks. The pub was formerly tenanted by Massive...
Consumers split over VAT rise
05-Aug-2010 By Hamish Champ
Consumers appear split over whether next January's VAT hike will affect their spending habits. Research outfit Retail Eyes said that 52 per cent of...
