IRC appoints ex-Living Room director
13-Jul-2010 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Individual Restaurant Company has appointed a new operations director and added the role of commercial director to its board.
Summer sun and football a mixed blessing for pubs
13-Jul-2010 By Hamish Champ
Last month's half term holidays, international football festivities and sunny weather were a "mixed blessing" for the UK's leading UK pub and...
Luminar loses out to World Cup
13-Jul-2010 By Hamish Champ
Spain may be celebrating their first ever World Cup win but Luminar Group, the UK nightclub operator, will be glad to see the back of the month-long...
'Pubs endure stale taste of failure'
13-Jul-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
It's not easy being a pub owner. Drinking den insolvencies may be down nearly a third from their peak last year, but circumstances are conspiring...
13-Jul-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Luminar, the embattled nightclub operator, this morning revealed the full impact of the World Cup on its sales. In an interim management statement...
13-Jul-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Managed operator Orchid Group has appointed David Campbell as head of operations for the free house division from September. Campbell has worked in...
13-Jul-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Sales of pubs at auction jumped 38% in the first six months of 2010 compared to the same period last year. Experts say it's due to growing numbers...
13-Jul-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Diageo's search to find the UK's best bartender has ended with Erik Lorincz of the Connaught Hotel in London being named the winner. Lorincz and 13...
12-Jul-2010 By Jo Bruce
Mitchells & Butlers brand Toby Carvery is offering customers an unusual dessert option — a Yorkshire pudding ice cream.
Bianca Dexter-Burnell: Dealing with risk
12-Jul-2010
Sound risk management is clearly important during a recession. But experience shows that many companies actually run into financial difficulties...
To run managed or leased pubs... that is the question
12-Jul-2010 By Hamish Champ
Greene King's decision to boost its managed, brand-led pub estate over its tenanted one is a bold move. The Suffolk brewer, led by chief executive...
Hamish Champ: Why can't the UK be a bit more like France?
12-Jul-2010 By Hamish Champ
Travel, they say, broadens the mind and by golly they're right. I recently whizzed around Northern France on my motorbike and found the people in...
Barracuda Group celebrates 10 years in business
12-Jul-2010 By Hamish Champ
Barracuda Group, the privately-backed pub and bar operator, last week celebrated a decade in business with a lavish party in London's St Katharine's...
Surveys paint bleak picture for UK pubs
12-Jul-2010 By Hamish Champ
The immediate trading prospects for the on-trade appear grim, if two new surveys on business survival and consumer spending are to be believed. Pub...
12-Jul-2010 By John Harrington
Managed operator Orchid Group is to spend £100,000 a year on a scheme to improve customer service at its pubs. The Exceptional Hospitality Scheme...
09-Jul-2010 By Phil Mellows
Lord Bilimoria is inextricably tied in with his greatest creation, Cobra beer. And, as Phil Mellows found out the two are still closely yoked today.
09-Jul-2010 By John Harrington
The British Beer & Pub Association has backed calls for military ID to be accepted as proof of age in pubs.
09-Jul-2010 By The PMA Team
Greene King has bought the freehold of the Ashley Hotel in Worksop, Nottinghamshire from Whitbread for an undisclosed sum. The Ashley Hotel is a...
Mark Daniels: Exterior Decoration By Punch Taverns
09-Jul-2010
With only two weeks to go now until my charity bike ride, which conveniently coincides with the end of Proud of Pubs week, I'm spending quite a bit...
Pub jukebox scammers jailed
09-Jul-2010 By James Wilmore
A father and son who breached copyright law by selling illegal music systems to pubs and clubs have been jailed following a "landmark" legal case....
09-Jul-2010 By Jo Bruce
Gastropub the Cary Arms in Babbacombe, Devon, is offering a £40 baked potato on the menu called the "tuxedo of spuds". The potato, devised by the...
09-Jul-2010 By John Harrington
Bosses of a digital jukebox firm that distributed copyrighted tunes without permission to at least 200 pubs have been jailed. Gateshead-based Access...
09-Jul-2010 By Ewan Turney
Multiple operator Great Northern Inns has reopened the Cross Keys pub in Nottingham after buying the freehold from Enterprise Inns. The pub has now...
09-Jul-2010 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
JD Wetherspoon has issued a writ against a private property company in the latest installment of its pursuit through the courts of property firms.
09-Jul-2010 By Ewan Turney
Enterprise Inns raised a further £3.91m at a Cushman and Wakefield auction on Wednesday — its second auction of the week. The freeholds of six...
08-Jul-2010 By The PMA Team
All the latest rumour and gossip from the City.
08-Jul-2010 By The PMA Team
We have an increasing focus on business-building and encouraging licensees to move up the retail standards curve, says The PMA Team.
08-Jul-2010 By The PMA Team
The shortlisted finalists for the MA200 awards for multi-site managed pub companies have been unveiled. In the Best Food Offer category, Anglian...
08-Jul-2010 By The PMA Team
The Morning Advertiser has published its 500 edition this morning since it moved to William Reed Business Media ten years ago. We asked a range of...
Chris Maclean: Big barking dogs scare me
08-Jul-2010 By Chris Maclean
There wasn't a soul in the bar. Behind the bar was empty. Just me and, it later turned out, Bruno. Bruno is at my side barking and sniffing. Bruno...
Proud of Pubs: New ways to drive trade
08-Jul-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Ever wanted to try something new in your pub but not known how, or been too afraid to try? As part of this year's Proud of Pubs Week we are...
Marriage en masse at the pub
08-Jul-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
A freeholder is hoping her wedding plans go with at least 10 hitches as she bids to set a record for the most marriages in a pub in one day. Rebecca...
08-Jul-2010 By Robyn Black
More than 500 freehold and free-of-tie pubs are trialling a scheme through cash and carry giant Booker on cheap drinks.
08-Jul-2010 By Ewan Turney
The Wine & Spirits Trade Association has hit back at on-trade proposals to create a level playing field with the supermarkets.
08-Jul-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Four pub chefs have been crowned winners in EBLEX's Taste of England Challenge. Dishes entered had to be traditionally British and use cuts of beef...
07-Jul-2010 By Philip Davison
Philip Davison describes how he helped a fellow licensee redecorate his pub on a budget for a 'wow factor' finish.
07-Jul-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The back garden of a Denbighshire pub has been turned into a £7,500 children's playground with Pub is the Hub funding. It was licensee Anna...
07-Jul-2010 By John Harrington
Two lucky licensees have won live music makeovers worth up to £5,000 at their pubs. Kirk Barclay, of the Prince of Wales in Tooting, south London,...
07-Jul-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Babysitters' fees are keeping people away from pubs, according to a licensee with 50 years' experience in the trade. Liz Jackson, now 74 and a...
07-Jul-2010 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Daniel Thwaites, the Lancashire brewer and pub operator, has revealed a halving of pre-tax profits. It comes on the back of a 14.7% drop in revenues...
07-Jul-2010 By Lesley Foottit
A Shropshire pub has lost hundreds of pounds worth of business after the council removed one of its A-boards. The Old Castle in Bridgnorth, a Punch...
06-Jul-2010 By Phil Mellows
BII and RICS representative Garry Mallen tells Phil Mellows what it's like to be a tenant, a landlord, a respected trade figure and a rent reviewer.
Punch Taverns shares rise after "encouraging" trading update
06-Jul-2010 By Hamish Champ
Shares in Punch Taverns rose more than five per cent this morning after the UK's largest pubco said it was on track to hit its annual trading...
06-Jul-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Enterprise Inns has sold the freeholds of nine out of ten central London pubs at auction, raising around £12m.
06-Jul-2010 By John Harrington
Multiple operators should use upcoming refurbishments at new sites as an opportunity to join a scheme to slash energy bills. That's according to...
06-Jul-2010 By Ewan Turney
Punch has warned that profits from its leased and tenanted division remain under pressure due to lower drinks margins and reduced rental income....
05-Jul-2010 By Peter Cripps, The Grocer
The Government has put forward four options to ban below-cost selling of alcohol and is planning to take the proposals to a public consultation...
05-Jul-2010 By Lesley Foottit
A Sheffield pub, which once served Pete Doherty soft drinks all night, has been crowned the most responsible pub in the UK. The Frog and Parrot has...
05-Jul-2010 By Ewan Turney
Hobgoblin brewers are working overtime to meet increased demand after David Cameron gave Barack Obama a bottle of the beer. The Prime Minister and...
Lap-dancing club merger
02-Jul-2010 By The PMA Team
Three lap-dancing club tycoons are planning a £100m merger, it has emerged — the deal would create one of the largest chains.
