29-Apr-2010 By Ewan Turney
The British Beer and Pub Association will meet with the Independent Pub Confederation for the first time.
29-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
London-based multiple operator Fiveeightzero is opening three more sites in partnership with Mitchells & Butlers.
Pub Bitch: The Publican Awards 2010 special
29-Apr-2010
A sale too far? I see Enterprise Inns is putting 10 more of its London pubs up for sale (and leaseback) in another auction to be held later this...
Election 2010: The Publican's guide to the political parties' pub policy
29-Apr-2010 By James Wilmore
Alcohol duty Labour's regime on alcohol duty has been a massive issue for the trade. In the past two years beer duty alone has been hiked by a...
Pubs gear up to be polling stations
29-Apr-2010 By James Wilmore
Pubs across the UK will be playing a major role during the voting process next week - with a host of outlets being used as polling stations for the...
BBPA and IPC to meet over pubco issues
29-Apr-2010 By James Wilmore
The two main trade bodies who have been at loggerheads over the future of the tied model for months are to meet to discuss the issues facing the...
29-Apr-2010 By Gemma McKenna
A row has erupted over plans to get Glasgow pubs to use only toughened glasses within six months. An initiative, launched in the city today with...
28-Apr-2010 By Ewan Turney
JD Wetherspoon founder tells MATV about being locked out, having the windows put in and where the name Wetherspoon came from.
28-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
Castle Rock Brewery, the Nottingham real ale brewer and pub operator, is to triple its capacity following a £600,000 investment in a new brewery.
28-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
Greene King has driven the food sales at its 437 Local Pubs from 14% of total sales to almost 19% of sales in three years.
28-Apr-2010 By Jay Smith
The best way to wake up the pubcos is to stop signing leases, says TV star and licensee Jay Smith.
28-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
Greene King has nearly doubled the size of its Old English Inns brand by clubbing together its characterful pubs and coaching inns in the estate....
28-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
Greene King has expanded its Hungry Horse brand by 51 sites in two years — around 50% — with a growth spurt of 26 new sites in the past five...
Greene King says it profits are on track
28-Apr-2010 By Hamish Champ
The economic downturn appears to have passed by Greene King's managed pub operation, which today reported like-for-like sales up nearly four per cent...
Hundreds already helped by Tap into WaterAid
28-Apr-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
The pub industry has been praised for helping transform hundreds of lives by getting on board with a Publican backed initiative. More than 100 pubs...
28-Apr-2010 By John Harrington
A new buying co-op has been formed by major wholesalers Palmer & Harvey and Makro. Independent customers will get access to the same scale...
28-Apr-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Over 700 JD Wetherspoon pubs opened at 7am this morning for the first time as it looks to ramp up its breakfast offer.
28-Apr-2010 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Novus Leisure, the late-night bar and club group, has appointed a new finance director to succeed Jane Holbrook, who is leaving the Tiger Tiger...
28-Apr-2010 By Ewan Turney
The average profit per leased pub in the Greene King estate fell 3.4% on last year but has begun to stabilise. The super regional brewer and pub...
28-Apr-2010 By Lesley Foottit
A West Midlands licensee is hoping to open five more pubs in as many years despite the difficult trading conditions. Balwinder Thukral has built up...
27-Apr-2010 By Ewan Turney
Pubs in Edinburgh have failed in a bid to open before 1230pm on a Sunday — the SBPA has slammed the decision.
Charles Dickens' favourite wins award
27-Apr-2010
A pub that used to be a favourite haunt of Charles Dickens has written its own success story by being named Shepherd Neame pub of the year. The...
Industry puts in marathon effort
27-Apr-2010
A woman in an Old Hooky outfit has broken the world record for the fastest marathon time for a female dressed as a bottle. Hook Norton resident Gill...
Enterprise Inns hopes to raise £13m in latest sale and leaseback auction
27-Apr-2010 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns hopes to raise nearly £13m in the latest sale and leaseback auction of some of its London pubs, including a former haunt of infamous...
27-Apr-2010 By Tim Martin
The Wetherspoon boss says he is concentrating on small improvements and urges Government to take a common sense approach to pubs.
27-Apr-2010 By Peter Coulson
It was interesting, but not new, to hear of the national ban on a woman drinker under the new Drinking Banning Orders legislation, says Peter Coulson.
26-Apr-2010 By Peter Coulson
Few people even in the trade understand the double-edged sword of the new legislation on test purchasing, says Peter Coulson.
26-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
Multiple pub operator Heartstone Inns has boosted turnover to nearly £3m in its most recent financial year. The company made a pre-tax loss of...
26-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
Enterprise Inns is hoping to raise around £13m by placing ten London pubs in an Allsops auction on 17 May. This will the largest number of pubs...
Mark Daniels: Saturday morning phone calls...
26-Apr-2010
Picture the scene, if you will. It's Saturday morning, 9:00 a.m., and it was a late finish the night before. The children are away and there's no...
Punch's new lease deals are a step in the right direction
26-Apr-2010 By Hamish Champ
Some will doubtless view Punch's new lease agreements and renewed appeal for entrepreneurial types to run its pubs as a complete waste of time. Never...
Hamish Champ: Punch Taverns and its 'chief executive replacement' conundrum
26-Apr-2010 By Hamish Champ
Succession planning is a thorny issue for any organisation, especially so if the main man has been in situ for a long time. Heaven knows - though...
'Tesco planning four 'mini-villages' complete with supermarkets'
26-Apr-2010 By James Wilmore
Tesco already provides everything you need to stock a home, from groceries to garden furniture. Now it is going to build the house as well. The...
Shep's Operation Landlord offers pubs a chance to win £30k
26-Apr-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Spitfire stockists will all be in with a chance of winning the top prize - rent for a year up to £30,000. And freeholders who enter can spend the...
26-Apr-2010 By Sonya Hook
One lucky pub will have its rent paid for a year courtesy of Shepherd Neame's Spitfire Ale via Operation Landlord.
26-Apr-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Giles Thorley, the outgoing chief executive of Punch Taverns, has set up a new company under the name Anthrop Capital. Thorley, who announced last...
26-Apr-2010 By Ewan Turney
Rene Klein and Alison Saul of the Great Western in Aynho, Oxfordshire have been named Hook Norton's Best New Licensees. The pair were crowned at the...
26-Apr-2010 By Ewan Turney
The Royal Albion in Broadstairs, Kent has been crowned Shepherd Neame Pub of the Year, following a £1m refurbishment. The hotel — a former...
23-Apr-2010 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
A leading City analyst has claimed a wave of new senior management in the pub sector could lead to a resurgence of M&A in the industry.
23-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
A City analyst, who has been bearish on the prospects for quoted tenanted operators, has re-iterated a cautious view on Punch Taverns after...
The Publican Awards 2010: Winners brochure, photos and reaction
23-Apr-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Winners in the 19 categories included Ashley and Kelly McCarthy, licensees at Ye Old Sun Inn in Colton, North Yorkshire, who were named Publicans of...
Thorley's departure the 'elephant in the room' at Punch's City meeting
23-Apr-2010 By Hamish Champ
Giles Thorley's imminent departure from Punch Taverns was the "elephant in the room" at the group's results presentation to analysts earlier this...
'Not all pub operators are toasting the sector's revival'
23-Apr-2010
A poster plastered outside the JD Wetherspoon in Denmark Hill, South London, gives a good idea of why fortunes are diverging in the UK pub sector.The...
23-Apr-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Magistrates have banned a man from bars in Manchester's Gay Village for three years after he threatened a female door supervisor. Under the ASBO...
23-Apr-2010 By Lesley Foottit
TV chef Simon Rimmer has teamed up with Stockport brewer Robinson's to take on the region's best chefs in the Great Northern Cook Off. The brewer is...
22-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
Licensees can be put off by the way pubcos grab their profits through rent. Punch has a new plan to retain good operators, says The PMA Team.
22-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
The PMA Team takes a looks at JD Wetherspoon's past and future as founder Tim Martin starts to ramp up openings again. As milestones go, it's...
22-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
Punch has claimed that by the end of this year 220 pubs will have been "fixed" by conversion to new concepts or investment.
22-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
22-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
Punch Taverns is to trial new leases in September that offer licensees free-of-tie prices and a free-of-tie option on cask ale produced by smaller...
