09-Jun-2010 By Ewan Turney
Beer flow monitoring company Brulines wants to establish "some form of approval" for its equipment regardless of whether its services fall under the...
Orchid Group to buy 150 pubs over next two years
08-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
Orchid Group, the privately-backed managed pub operator which recently acquired the Premium Bars & Restaurants business, is looking to add a...
Proud of Pubs Week to be a flipping record breaker
08-Jun-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Proud of Pubs Week 2010 is set to get off to a flipping brilliant start with a triple World Record attempt. This year we want licensees across the...
07-Jun-2010 By The PMA Team
Town and City Pub Company has converted a former Hogs Head in Liverpool and a Litten Tree in Old Street, London, into two traditional style pubs....
Mark Daniels: Can they do it?
07-Jun-2010
It's no secret amongst my customers, friends or family that I have very little time whatsoever for football. I don't understand the tribal religion...
Getting to grips with insolvency
07-Jun-2010
It is now more than a year since it was reported that outspoken TV chef and pub owner Gordon Ramsay had breached the terms of a £10.5m loan and had...
Bianca Dexter-Burnell: What have we learned from the recession - and can we prevent it happening again?
07-Jun-2010
It has been a serious time for the licensed trade. The sector is battle-weary from the recession and the fight towards a recovery. However, it is...
Managing success... literally
07-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
A recent report has concluded that managed pubs, especially branded ones, have performed marginally better in recent times than their independent...
Many recruits to pub sector lack necessary skills
07-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
The UK's pub and restaurant sectors are experiencing a 'talent hole', despite the recession making it easier for companies to hire and retain staff,...
Punch apologises after homophobia row
07-Jun-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Punch Taverns has offered an "unreserved apology" after accusations of homophobia were levelled at staff at one of its London pubs. Around 100...
07-Jun-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Punch will reward 100 tenants and lessees for outstanding pub management through its Pub Excellence Awards, launched last month. Each month for four...
07-Jun-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Punch Taverns has launched an investigation after allegations that a group of customers were refused service at a London pub due to their sexuality.
07-Jun-2010 By John Harrington
The Government's privacy watchdog has urged pubs not to let the public see pictures of banned troublemakers. It follows concerns about...
'Pub group collapses double in first three months of 2010'
06-Jun-2010
The number of bar and pub firms going out of business in the first three months of the year was more than double the number in the same period last...
Spurs to turn pub into a ticket office
04-Jun-2010 By Gemma McKenna
A pub popular with Spurs fans has been closed down by the club to make way for a ticket office.
04-Jun-2010 By Gemma McKenna
A Punch lessee has had his rent reduced by 60%, after a judge said an earlier rent review was not valid. George Scott has been involved in a...
04-Jun-2010 By Phil Mellows
CAMRA has become a real force for change. And much of that is down to chief executive Mike Benner, reports Phil Mellows.
03-Jun-2010 By The PMA Team
Nightclub company Tokyo Industries has announced the acquisition of two new venues - Manchester venue 'South' and the historic 'Fibbers' in York.
03-Jun-2010 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Young's has this morning announced a 1.4% rise in pre-tax profits to £19.4m, with like-for-like sales flat on last year.
03-Jun-2010 By The PMA Team
Punch Taverns will be more than halfway through its plan to invest £20m on 450 leased sites by the start of the World Cup next week. The company,...
100 barstaff change their name to Wayne Rooney
03-Jun-2010
Pubs have been pulling out the stops in their final preparations for the big World Cup kick-off in South Africa next week. But one pub company has...
Cops hire 'drunk' actors in pubs sting
03-Jun-2010
Licensees have raised questions over the police's attitude towards them after a sting operation which used "drunk" actors to catch out staff....
S&P downgrades Enterprise Inns rate notes
03-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
Standard & Poor's (S&P), the global ratings agency, has downgraded a number of Enterprise Inns' securitisation vehicles. S&P said it was...
03-Jun-2010 By John Harrington
The Government's review of business regulation is an opportunity to remove burdens on pubs, including the mandatory alcohol retailing code. That's...
02-Jun-2010 By Sonya Hook
A beer which celebrates the work of the Cotswold Conservation Board is returning to pubs — it was first brewed in 2006.
02-Jun-2010 By Peter Coulson
Peter Coulson explains the ins and outs of delegation by the designated premises supervisor under the current law.
Mark Daniels: NICE is the new Nasty
02-Jun-2010
No sooner has our new coalition government announced that it's going to take all the money away from Nu-Labour's quangos, than one strolls along and...
Pub offers shelter to terrified customers during Cumbria shootings
02-Jun-2010
A licensee has revealed how he sheltered around 45 terrified customers behind locked doors during the shooting spree that left 12 people dead in...
02-Jun-2010 By Ewan Turney
Orchid has bought the freehold of the Peeping Tom in Coventry and plans to convert the site to its Value Carvery format. The Peeping Tom, a former...
02-Jun-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Managed operator Barracuda has launched its sixth South-African themed Cape pub, this time in Reading. This opening is part of Barracuda's ongoing...
02-Jun-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) has released 23-step guidance to help pubs operate smoothly throughout the World Cup.
What's in a word?
01-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
Last week I emailed Roger Whiteside to ask him what Punch Taverns, whose tenanted and leased pub operation he runs, means when it uses the word...
Cougar Leisure looks to sell off 11 sites
01-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
Cougar Leisure, the bar operator created when Herald Inns & Bars went into administration in 2008, is selling 11 of its properties for a total of...
01-Jun-2010 By Ewan Turney
Brannigans owner Cougar Leisure is selling off 11 of its 14 pubs and bars for a combined total of £5.7m.
Play your cards right with poker... or else
31-May-2010
The cautions dished out recently by the Gambling Commission to three men as a result of illegal poker being played in the function room of Cheshire...
Hamish Champ: Finding the pub equivalent of the Crown Jewels
31-May-2010 By Hamish Champ
There is considerable pleasure to be had from crossing the threshold of a familiar pub. For a start, one knows how the door opens - in or out - thus...
Pub Bitch: The Theatre of Dreams... for some
28-May-2010
Fortune favours the brave With football mania now reaching fever pitch, US brewer Budweiser is pulling out all the stops to be the beer of the...
Caroline Nodder: We need practical solutions and we need to get results. Fast
28-May-2010 By Caroline Nodder
Hearsay. Not just a really bad reality show pop band, but also a dangerous thing to believe. And within the pub sector hearsay has been prevalent in...
28-May-2010 By Gemma McKenna
The British Beer & Pub Association has called on police and local authorities "not to invent unnecessary regulations" around the World Cup.
28-May-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Enterprise Inns has launched two websites to recruit newcomers and existing licensees, focusing on incentives, training and cask ale....
28-May-2010 By Phil Mellows
Phil Mellows dicusses why alcohol-related deaths and diseases are on the rise, depsite general alcohol consumption being down.
28-May-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The BII has reported an increase in enquiries and booking from tenanted pub operators who want their codes of practice accredited for clarity.
27-May-2010 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has given its franchisees until Wednesday 30 June to submit "full and final offers" to buy the freeholds of their pubs.
27-May-2010 By John Harrington
The AMLR is backing a united lobbying effort to ensure there's no "wriggle room" for supermarkets in the crackdown on cheap alcohol deals.
27-May-2010 By Tony Halstead
The Morning Advertiser's top 50 most influential people in the pub industry.
27-May-2010 By Tony Halstead
The Morning Advertiser's top 50 most influential people in the pub industry.
27-May-2010 By Tony Halstead
The Morning Advertiser's top 50 most influential people in the pub industry.
27-May-2010 By Tony Halstead
The Morning Advertiser's top 50 most influential people in the pub industry.
27-May-2010 By Tony Halstead
The Morning Advertiser's top 50 most influential people in the pub industry.
27-May-2010 By The PMA Team
The latest gossip and rumour from the City.
