Punch gets World Cup plans in motion
22-Mar-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Punch Taverns is offering licensees a host of ways to ensure they score during the World Cup this summer. It's Profit Through Sport training course...
Brulines: "We'll work with government's weights and measures lab
22-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ
Brulines, which supplies beer flow monitoring equipment to the pub sector, said it would be happy to work with the government's weights and measures...
22-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney
Beer flow monitoring company Brulines is to seek clarification over what other protocols it must follow in regard to calibration of equipment. On...
22-Mar-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Cavendish Bars is opening its fourth Wahoo Bar & Grill site at the former Bar Risa, Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford. As the previous Wahoo sites, it...
22-Mar-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Singer Charlotte Church has built a pub at the end of her garden to escape the paparazzi and drink in peace. Church and long-term partner rugby star...
'Buy a pub and lose your life's savings'
21-Mar-2010
John Healey, the pubs minister, is encouraging potential investors to sink their pennies into pubs. As a publican's daughter I'm as keen as anyone to...
19-Mar-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Mitchells and Butlers (M&B), the embattled managed pub group, has revealed that it will release details of its latest strategic review next week.
Toby Carvery hits TV screens
19-Mar-2010 By Jo Bruce
Mitchells & Butlers has launched their first TV advertising campaign for Toby Carvery — a £2m campaign.
19-Mar-2010 By John Harrington
The ALMR has welcomed the Government's new measures to help pubs — but bemoaned the lack of action on cheap supermarket alcohol.
19-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney
The Campaign for Real Ale has vowed to press on with its Office of Fair Trading super-complaint on the beer tie.
Pub Bitch: Political shenanigans
19-Mar-2010
Can I phone a friend? Tory toff Tobias Ellwood (and licensing minister-in-waiting — Gawd help us) did 'imself proud at last week's lively...
Healey: I took a 'balanced' look at the industry
19-Mar-2010 By James Wilmore
Pubs minister John Healey has said he has taken a "balanced and intelligent look" at the trade and warned "the ball is in the industry's court now"....
ALMR 'disappointed' Healey has overlooked supermarket issue
19-Mar-2010 By James Wilmore
The Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) has welcomed John Healey's proposals for the industry - but hit out at the minister for...
19-Mar-2010 By John Harrington
Eleven pubs in two North Wales towns have been ordered to close en masse for 48 hours — or face prosecution — for multiple underage sales....
19-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney
The Pub is the Hub scheme will now be available on a national scale in both rural and urban areas, following the promise of a £1m grant from...
18-Mar-2010 By Becky Paskin, Restaurant
Sanzaru is launching its first venue — an Asian-inspired lounge and karaoke bar — in Clapham this week. Sanzaru, meaning three wise monkeys in...
18-Mar-2010 By The PMA Team
The latest rumour and gossip from the City.
Sheps reports first half profits up 16 per cent
18-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ
Recently acquired pubs and a booming food trade helped Shepherd Neame push its first half turnover up more than eight per cent and its operating...
Darts record breaker takes on pub
18-Mar-2010
A record-breaking darts player has taken over the pub where he held a marathon session. James Footitt, 23, took the helm at the Nags Head in...
18-Mar-2010 By John Harrington
Bosses of a pub digital jukebox firm that distributed copyrighted tunes without permission have been prosecuted. Gateshead-based Access All Areas,...
18-Mar-2010 By Gemma McKenna
A London lessee is angry that his new landlord — a university — is forcing him to share trading information with a competitor via a shared...
18-Mar-2010 By Peter Luff
In his second article for the Morning Advertiser, BISC chairman Peter Luff explains why he has set a deadline of June 2011 for change by pubcos —...
18-Mar-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Marston's Inns and Taverns, the managed arm of the brewer and pub operator, has engaged on a tail trimming exercise as it shifts focus to its new...
17-Mar-2010 By John Harrington
Minimum pricing might increase alcohol sales, according to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).
Robert Sayles: Pubcos v GMB Showdown - SOLD OUT!!
17-Mar-2010 By Robert Sayles Robert
The war of words between the BBPA and the GMB over the last few days suggests that a titanic heavyweight bout is imminent; the exchanges bore all the...
Whisky producer clarifies job loss claims
17-Mar-2010
A leading whisky producer has backtracked over claims that minimum pricing would result in hundreds of job losses. John Beard chief executive of...
Licensees warned over rates appeal accuracy
17-Mar-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Licensees are being warned that even the slightest error in information provided about their business rates could effect their chance of a successful...
16-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney
Enterprise Inns hopes to raise £1.175m by auctioning off 11 freehold pubs with vacant possession in the North East.
Admiral Taverns confirms pub sell-off
16-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ
Christie + Co, the property agent, has confirmed it is to sell 150 freehold pubs on behalf of Admiral Taverns. Prices for pub sell off - which was...
16-Mar-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Karaoke specialists Lucky Voice are licensing their equipment for use in pubs — so far they have had interest from several pubcos. Lucky Voice,...
16-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney
Admiral Taverns has broken its long silence and confirmed that it is selling 150 pubs, spread across England and Wales. The pubs are almost all...
16-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney
TV star licensee Jay Smith is hoping to convince pubcos to write off a group of tenants' debts. The star of UKTV Blighty's Save our Boozer series,...
16-Mar-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Multiple operator Salisbury Pubs has bought its fifth pub — the Black Horse in Fulmer, Buckinghamshire. David and Becky Salisbury have taken on...
16-Mar-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Punch Taverns has been earmarked as "one to watch" by the Sunday Times' Best 100 Companies to Work For survey. Punch was just 20 points short of...
15-Mar-2010 By The PMA Team
Scottish & Newcastle Pub Company (S&NPC) is putting 43 pubs across England and Wales up for sale this week through Fleurets.
Pub Bitch: Pub haircare, parts I and II
15-Mar-2010
One man's meat... Hearty congratulations to the Orchid Group gang for entering the Sunday Times Best 25 Big Companies to work for at number 20. An...
Geoff Newton: Pre-packs do have plus points
15-Mar-2010
It seems that these days, whenever a business gets into difficulties it is all too easy to go to an insolvency practitioner, put the business into...
That ol' rumour mill, it keeps on a-grindin'...
15-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ
Rumours surrounding the impending demise of the country's large pub operators are two-a-penny these days. Barely a day goes by that one doesn't hear...
Sunday Times names Punch Taverns as 'One To Watch'
15-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns has been named as 'One To Watch' in a Sunday Times company survey. The newspaper's accolade for the UK's largest pub operator comes in...
Pubs are a bad bet, say a third of private equity firms
15-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ
A third of private equity firms think the leisure and hospitality sectors are a bad bet, according to new research. A survey by financial advisers...
15-Mar-2010 By Peter Coulson
Westminster City Council has been rubbished by a judge for its inability to draw a circle around the Albert Hall, says Peter Coulson.
15-Mar-2010 By Paul Wigham
Bar Group went through a pre-pack administration last month. Boss Paul Wigham reflects on the sometimes harrowing experience. We had two pub...
12-Mar-2010 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
12-Mar-2010 By The PMA Team
So where are we after last week's pubco/tenant report? More than half of the UK's pubs are subject to a supply agreement called the tie, says The PMA Team.
Admiral Taverns set to sell up to 200 pubs
12-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ
Admiral Taverns, the 2,000-strong pub company bailed out by its bank late last year, is understood to be looking to sell up to 200 of its pubs....
12-Mar-2010 By Peter Luff
Business Innovation & Skills Committee chairman Peter Luff writes exclusively on his follow-up report on the pubco/tenant relationship. As I...
12-Mar-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Luminar, the embattled nightclub operator, is to start a rigorous cost reduction exercise after revealing it had seen no upturn in recent trading and...
Enterprise Inns grosses £8.4m in sale and leaseback auction
11-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns has raised £8.39m in the latest sale and leaseback auction of a number of its pubs. It had put eight London pubs up for grabs in the...
Molson Coors to open sales office in Northern Ireland
11-Mar-2010
Molson Coors has announced plans to create a sales and marketing operation in Northern Ireland. The brewer is to open an office in South Belfast and...
Wetherspoons reinstates dividends to shareholders
11-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ
Managed pub group JD Wetherspoon has reinstated its dividend after more than a year of holding back payments to investors. Announcing its half year...
