02-Jul-2010 By The PMA Team
Orchid will open its first new Living Room venue later this year when it converts a Prohibition bar site at St Katherine Docks in East Smithfield,...
02-Jul-2010 By The PMA Team
Marston's chief executive Ralph Findlay has told City analysts that the "bar for long-term success" in the tenanted trade has been raised. He...
Pub becomes a part-time Post Office
02-Jul-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
A pub will be sending parcels as well as serving pints after beocming a part-time Post Office. The Three Horseshoes at Brimpton, near Reading, is...
02-Jul-2010 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Alan Parker, the outgoing head of Whitbread, is to lead a key gathering of senior pub sector executives this autumn. The FTSE 100 chief executive...
01-Jul-2010 By John Harrington and Lesley Foottit
A lessee has been hit with a £7,641 tax bill for live-in benefits at his pub — Greene King's Waggon & Horses in Maidenhead, Berkshire.
01-Jul-2010 By The PMA Team
It has been tough in the trade for the last couple of years, but retail excellence and innovation is the way to success, says The PMA Team.
01-Jul-2010 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
Pub Bitch: Is blonde the new black?
01-Jul-2010
The new black Product innovation, as any fule kno, is an integral, nay essential part of today's brewing game. Take Stella Artois Black, AB InBev's...
The hunt is on for Britain's Proudest Pub
01-Jul-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
The search is on to find Britain's proudest pubs and if your pub is bursting with pride you could win some unbelievable money-can't-buy prizes. We...
Tim Wilson: Examining alcohol admissions at A&E
01-Jul-2010
As part of our research programme at Wilson Drinks Report we observed admissions to A&E from 10pm to 2am. We estimated that fewer than 10 per...
New Brakes CEO takes over the reins
01-Jul-2010 By Hamish Champ
Philip Jansen has started in his role as chief executive of Brakes Group, the wholesale food supplier. Jansen's appointment was announced in October...
01-Jul-2010 By Ewan Turney
Anyone applying for a premises licence in Scotland will have to state what they've done to abide by disability discrimination laws, after an...
01-Jul-2010 By John Harrington
Searcys, which runs the famous Champagne bar in London's St Pancras Station, plans to roll out the concept following a management buy-out. The...
01-Jul-2010 By John Harrington
Charles Wells is letting selected tenants stock one beer out of tie if they pay a "corkage fee" of £65 per 36-gallon barrel and reach sales targets....
01-Jul-2010 By Ewan Turney & Martyn Leek
Greene King is to reduce the number of tenanted pubs in its estate from 1,584 to 1,200 through disposals and conversion to managed houses.
30-Jun-2010 By Ewan Turney
A new bill could protect pubs from being demolished without planning permission or changed into cafes without community consent.
30-Jun-2010 By The PMA Team
A number of Mitchells & Butlers franchisees are tabling bids to buy their freeholds as today's deadline for "full and final offers" arrives.
30-Jun-2010 By Ewan Turney
Eclectic Bars, the Sakura and Po Na Na operator, plans to continue its expansion after unveiling strong trading results.
30-Jun-2010 By Gemma McKenna
An Edinburgh-based pub group has launched a legal battle against the council over possible capacity restrictions.
30-Jun-2010 By Richard Pope
BII Licensee of the Year 2010 winner Richard Pope talks about his "Not Just..." way of doing business.
Admiral Taverns: looking for your next move?
30-Jun-2010 By Admiral Taverns
Admiral Taverns: looking for your next move?
29-Jun-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The Confederation of British Industry in Scotland (CBI Scotland) has "serious misgivings" over minimum pricing of alcohol.
29-Jun-2010 By The PMA Team
Industry sources have produced a revised value for the deal reported last week involving Realpubs buying three freeholds from Enterprise.
29-Jun-2010 By The PMA Team
Hertfordshire brewer and pub operator McMullen's has reported increased sales but operating profit down in its most recent financial year. Sales...
28-Jun-2010 By The PMA Team
Carlsberg UK and Punch have unveiled a new five-year agreement for the brewer to continue as the pubco's exclusive drinks distribution provider.
28-Jun-2010 By The PMA Team
Cornish brewer and retailer St Austell Brewery had reported a remarkably buoyant financial performance in the year to 2 January 2010. The company...
Smartcellar backs down over National Measurement Office claims
28-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
Smartcellar, the beer flow kit manufacturer, has backed down over initial claims the government's National Measurement Office (NMO) had concluded a...
28-Jun-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Three Gloucester pubs are being paid around £600 to let non-customers use their toilets as part of a year-long trial of a community toilet scheme....
28-Jun-2010 By Lesley Foottit
A former director of a leisure property consultants has bought a stake in a popular London pub. Retired director of Humberts Leisure Anthony Miller...
25-Jun-2010 By John Harrington
A best customer experience category is being added to Nottingham's Best Bar None (BBN) awards.
25-Jun-2010 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers is to convert its Scream student pub in Lincoln into a Harvester. The Scream site is located on the Brayford waterfront,...
Osborne's 'unavoidable Budget' could have been worse
25-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
So, as with the suggestion - premature at the time - that US author Mark Twain had shuffled off this mortal coil, recent reports that alcohol duty...
25-Jun-2010 By John Harrington
Enterprise Inns has been fined £15,000 for failing to maintain adequate records of electrical certification at a pub after an injury from an explosion.
25-Jun-2010 By John Harrington
A Punch lessee has questioned why the pubco won't let him use a device to serve draught-quality Guinness in a glass from a can. Michael White said...
24-Jun-2010 By The PMA Team
Administrators have sold the Fabric nightclub for an undisclosed sum to a new company called Fabric Life.
24-Jun-2010 By The PMA Team
Industry sources report that Realpubs has bought three freeholds from Enterprise for an undisclosed price — estimates put the value at up to £10m.
24-Jun-2010 By The PMA Team
Oakman Inns, the operator founded by entrepreneur Peter Borg-Neal, is poised to double in size to six sites after securing £2.25m in bank debt.
24-Jun-2010 By The PMA Team
All the latest rumour and gossip from the City.
24-Jun-2010 By The PMA Team
Capital Pub Company is set to buy the two pubs owned by Tomahawk in a deal worth £5.03m. Tomahawk, which previously raised equity finance through...
Defoe's winner worth millions to pubs
24-Jun-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubs are celebrating with relief after Jermain Defoe's goal against Slovenia rescued the trade from a disastrous World Cup. Such was the suspected...
Capital Pub Group buys Tomahawk for £5m
24-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
Capital Pub Company, the London pub operator, is set to buy Tomahawk, a rival pub group, for £5.03m in cash. The deal will be part-financed by the...
'Publicans raise a glass as alcohol duties freeze'
23-Jun-2010
Publicans raise a glass as alcohol duties freeze Britain's publicans, brewers and distillers were toasting George Osborne yesterday after he promised...
Barter Inns backs Tap into WaterAid
23-Jun-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Pub company Barter Inns is the latest to sign up to a Publican-backed initiative to help provide clean water to the world's poorest people. All 25...
23-Jun-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The most "typically English" pursuit is a trip to a great British pub, according to a poll by Charles Wells. The Drink of England survey of 5,000...
22-Jun-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B), the managed pub operator, has appointed Tim Jones to replace Jeremy Townsend as its finance director.
22-Jun-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Whitbread has this morning unveiled strong comparable sales growth, with an increase in group like-for-like sales of 7.6%.
Licensee wins rent paid for a year
22-Jun-2010
A lucky licensee will have his rent paid a year after winning £30,000 in a competition run by brewers Shepherd Neame. Geoff Mountain, licensee of...
Licensees getting in the Proud of Pubs spirit
22-Jun-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubs across the country are gearing up to host a range of events and activities to mark Proud of Pubs Week 2010. This year's week runs from July 19...
22-Jun-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The charity single released last week to help raise funds to save the Great British pub has been picked up by an independent online jukebox company....
21-Jun-2010 By Jay Smith
Licensee Jay Smith gives a view on the challenges facing tenants in the wake of the Morning Advertiser's Tenanted Pub Company Summit.
