27-May-2010 By The PMA Team
Saudagar Singh has joined Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) as group human resources, service and productivity director.
27-May-2010 By The PMA Team
Brewer and retailer Marston's has revealed plans to double the opening programme for new-build managed pubs to 135 in the next six years.
27-May-2010 By The PMA Team
Greene King is boosting capacity at its Belhaven brewery in Dunbar — the scheme is expected to be complete in February 2011.
27-May-2010 By Gemma McKenna
The speaker line-up for the next free Morning Advertiser seminar for members of our managed multiples club, MA200, has been unveiled. The meeting,...
27-May-2010 By Gemma McKenna
A pan-industry group has been formed to promote British Pub Week later this year. The week, which will run from Saturday 30 October to Saturday 6...
Paul Heaton: Pedalling for pubs
27-May-2010
What inspired the Pedals and Beer Pumps tour? I was cycling last summer and I saw a couple of pubs closed down round Macclesfield way. Macclesfield...
Party to show that you're Proud of Pubs
27-May-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
The countdown is on for Proud of Pubs Week 2010 and this year we're throwing a party! Once again it has been a tough year for the trade with duty...
Minimum pricing is only way to tackle supermarkets, says operator
27-May-2010 By James Wilmore
A high profile multiple pub operator has argued minimum pricing is the only way to tackle cheap supermarket deals - and called on licensees to spread...
Drop in underage pub drinkers
27-May-2010 By James Wilmore
The number of underage drinkers who consume alcohol in pubs and bars has fallen to less than one in 10, government figures have revealed. Among...
27-May-2010 By Tony Halstead
The Morning Advertiser's top 50 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
Now in its 9th year — The MA ranks the trade's movers and shakers on the impact they've had on the industry in the past 12 months.
27-May-2010 By John Harrington
Pub company boss Michael Kheng is urging immediate, united action by the pub trade to lobby for minimum pricing to curb cheap supermarket alcohol...
26-May-2010 By John Harrington
Licensees have criticised a local CAMRA branch for screening England's first World Cup game at a massive indoor beer festival.
26-May-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Edinburgh Council has been accused of "profiteering" after collecting more than £220,000 in charges from pubs for outside tables.
Mark Daniels: Going for a ride...
26-May-2010
On the morning of Monday 26th July I shall most likely wake up in bed, still caked in sweat and my muscles quivering with fatigue. This won't be a...
26-May-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Fifteen pubs and clubs in Leeds will receive a letter of congratulations from Leeds Council after passing underage sting tests on Saturday. Police...
26-May-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Pubs can get customer feedback and benchmark their service against the industry with the new Livebookings Barometer. The service reveals guest...
Punch Taverns clarifies its use of the word 'partnership'
25-May-2010 By Hamish Champ
Roger Whiteside, managing director of Punch Taverns' leased and tenanted pub operation, has clarified what the pubco means when it refers to a...
25-May-2010 By Ewan Turney
Former Mitchells & Butlers chief executive Tim Clarke has been appointed as a non-executive director at Hall & Woodhouse. The Dorset-based...
25-May-2010 By Ewan Turney
Ian Dyson will take over as chief executive of Punch Taverns on 6 September, the pub company has confirmed. Current boss Giles Thorley will remain...
Pub Bitch: Balloons and bubbles
24-May-2010
Balloons and bubbles I like a good marketing stunt as much as anyone, but the Champagne must have gone to the heads of those at Taittinger when they...
Greene King boss calls for government review on booze pricing
24-May-2010
Greene King's chief executive has weighed into the debate over alcohol pricing, calling for a government review. Rooney Anand has called on David...
24-May-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Enterprise Inns raised more than £7m from a sale and leaseback auction of six prime London pubs today. The tenanted operator sold the freeholds...
24-May-2010 By Ewan Turney
North West brewer and pub operator JW Lees has acquired two ex-Mercury Inns pubs out of administration. JW Lees bought the freeholds of the Red Lion...
24-May-2010 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Luminar, Britain's biggest nightclub group, has approached the majority of its landlords with a request for a significant reduction in rents — as...
24-May-2010 By Ewan Turney
Suffolk brewer and pub operator Greene King has come out in favour of a minimum price on alcohol. The Coalition announced last week that it would...
Offering the right deal...for everyone
23-May-2010 By Hamish Champ
There's still no clear indication of the new government's stand on the pub sector and given the small matter of billions of pounds of budgetary...
21-May-2010 By The PMA Team
Andy Harrison, the soon-to-be chief executive at Whitbread, has been heavily critcised by Sir Stelios HajiIoannou, the founder of easyJet, the...
Mark Daniels: Who needs to be responsible now?
21-May-2010
Since the British public sort of voted CleggOn in to power earlier this month, most of us in the pub trade have been sitting around, waiting to see...
David Bremner to join Frederic Robinson
21-May-2010 By Hamish Champ
David Bremner, former commercial operations director at Everards, is to join Cheshire brewer Frederic Robinsons in July. For the past two years...
21-May-2010 By Lesley Foottit
A new social network, which allows pubs to communicate better with their customers and suppliers, launched today. Each venue owns its own page on...
21-May-2010 By John Harrington
More pubwatch-style groups for doorstaff are set to be formed following the creation of a National Doorwatch steering group. Doorwatch sees...
20-May-2010 By John Harrington
But the trade group warns against increased regulation under the plans announced by the new Government today.
Friend or foe: the coalition
20-May-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Thirteen high-ranking members of the new Government signed up to a five-point plan to help pubs before the election.
20-May-2010 By The PMA Team
All the latest rumour and gossip from the City.
20-May-2010 By The PMA Team
Brewer and retailer Hall & Woodhouse (H&W) is set to open a £3m flagship development in Bath on Wednesday 2 June.
20-May-2010 By The PMA Team
New lease agreements from Enterprise Inns, offering free-of-tie pricing and more flexibility, mean "the market is well ahead of the politicians",...
Police reassure Newquay licensees over summer clampdown
20-May-2010
Police in a popular coastal party resort are reassuring licensees their life will be easier when a "ring of steel" is set up to clampdown on underage...
Licensee faces pub demolition threat
20-May-2010
A 64 year-old licensee has spoken of her shock after receiving a letter from her local council stating her pub could be demolished and replaced with...
Punch's new code of practice heralds "behavioural shift
20-May-2010 By Hamish Champ
Roger Whiteside, Punch Taverns' leased estate boss, believes the pubco's new code of conduct will drive a "fundamental behavioural shift" in the way...
20-May-2010 By John Harrington
A pubwatch group is using pictures from Facebook and Bebo to help members identify people with bans. Links to profile pages containing pictures of...
20-May-2010 By John Harrington
Punch has lodged appeals of new business rates levels at around 300 leased and tenanted pubs in under three weeks. As the Morn-ing Advertiser...
20-May-2010 By Isaac Sheps
I often get asked what I am a Dr of. Well, I have a PhD in economics. But my real area of professional focus and interest over the years has been in...
20-May-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Marston's has revealed a 1.4% increase in like-for-like sales at its managed pubs for the 26 weeks to 3 April.
19-May-2010 By The PMA Team
M&B chief executive Adam Fowle has invited the company's franchisees to put in offers to buy the freeholds of their pubs.
19-May-2010 By Tony Halstead
Trust Inns has confirmed the appointment of Lynne D'Arcy as its new managing director, replacing Brian King.
M&B to double number of key retail outlets
19-May-2010 By Hamish Champ
Managed pub group Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) plans to double the number of its key retail outlets it operates to around 1,900 sites as part of...
19-May-2010 By John Harrington
Four children in Shrewsbury have been reprimanded under the Fraud Act for using someone else's ID to try to buy alcohol in pubs in the past six...
19-May-2010 By John Harrington
The head of Punch's leased estate says he doesn't expect wholesale changes to the pubcos' new code of practice after consulting with licensees. The...
