Guinness scores record pub market share
11-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Diageo boss Paul Walsh said he believed the economic environment is in the "early stages" of recovery, as the drinks giant announced Guinness had...
New threat to darts in London pubs
11-Feb-2010
The days of darts in London pubs could be numbered according to the new Capital Arrows darts pub guide. And that's despite the apparent national...
11-Feb-2010 By John Harrington
Giving tenants a 67% share of machine profit and greater discounts are also promised in the new three-year Business Partnership Agreement.
10-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Enterprise Inns has sold seven London freehold pubs at an Allsops auction for around £12m.
Inez Ward: United we stand, divided we fall
10-Feb-2010
There are many aspects that are detrimentally affecting the Great British Pub, from supermarket pricing, to government legislation and red tape, to...
Enterprise Inns sells seven pubs in latest sale & leaseback deal
10-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns today sold seven more of its London pubs via a sale and leaseback arrangement, grossing at least £10.15m in the process. Six of the...
Job swap vicar boosts pub takings
10-Feb-2010
A vicar fulfilled her part of a job swap with a licensee when she pulled pints for an evening - and boosted bar takings by 35 per cent! The Reverend...
Community acts to leash the Greyhound
10-Feb-2010
A community group that stepped in to save a pub from closure is now battling to raise enough funds to buy the place. The Greyhound Inn in Grizebeck,...
BBPA warns of £85m cost of SWP tax
10-Feb-2010
Government plans to change the taxation of popular quiz and games machines like Clued and Monopoly, will cost the industry £85m, the British Beer...
10-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney & John Harrington
Trade chiefs speak highly of the man appointed as the first pubs minister, but what impact can John Healey really have? Ewan Turney and John...
10-Feb-2010 By Tony Halstead
Pubwatches could face legal problems defending banning orders if police are found to have exercised undue influence on decision-making.
Birmingham's best - bar none
09-Feb-2010
Birmingham City Council believes the number of pubs accredited by its Best Bar None scheme will leap by half this year. The local authority hopes 150...
09-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
National pub poker and quiz specialists Redtooth has revealed a 20% uplift in turnover for 2009 to over £2m. The growth was fuelled by a 47%...
09-Feb-2010 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Pubs 'n' Bars, the collapsed managed and tenanted pub operator, is being run by a temporary management firm set up by Oxford Hotels & Inns (OHI),...
09-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
A new training scheme to help bar staff recognise and handle alcohol excess before it gets out of hand has been launched today. The training course...
09-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
Tied licensees who take part in industrial action are putting their businesses and homes at risk, one pubco has warned. The pubco hit out after trade union the GMB announced a series of 16 national roadshows to ballot on industrial action.
08-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
The Campaign for Real Ale's (CAMRA) fight against the beer tie is "illogical", one city analyst has claimed.
08-Feb-2010 By The PMA Team
Slug & Lettuce brand is to be transferred out of Bay Restaurants into sister company Town & City amid private equity interest in Bay.
Mark Daniels: The Marmite Theory
08-Feb-2010
If I were the owner of a gambling website business, right about now I'd be starting to get very, very worried. I shall explain: I have deduced this...
David Smithers: Every pub has a Colin
08-Feb-2010
It beggars belief how many Colins there are in the world, the bloke that suffers with the most extreme version of verbal diarrhoea and who knows...
Hamish Champ: Old age is a-creepin' up on me...
08-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
I've been wheezing a lot lately, and not just in my editorial copy (shome mistake, surely. Ed). I mean my breathing has become somewhat laboured...
Punch awards Best in business
08-Feb-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
The top managers at Punch pubs have been rewarded at an awards dinner with company directors. The Best Awards event was held at Hotel Du Vin in...
CAMRA's beer tie stance "illogical", says City analyst
08-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
A leading City pubco analyst has condemned CAMRA's appeal against the beer tie for "lacking substance and logic". Noting the decision by the Office...
Paul Symonds to leave Bay Restaurant Group
08-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Bay Restaurant Group (BRG) has ring-fenced its La Tasca and Ha Ha Bar & Grill brands and is effectively being lined up for sale after chief...
08-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
New Minister for Pubs John Healey has promised to table a package of measures to help pubs within weeks. Prime Minister Gordon Brown appointed...
08-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
The GMB has announced a series of 16 dates for its roadshows to gain support for a national ballot on industrial action by tied pub tenants. As a...
08-Feb-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Punch Pub Company has recognised its top 10 pub managers with Best Awards at a ceremony at the Hotel Du Vin in Birmingham. Winners were selected...
To 'buy' or 'sell' the pub sector
06-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Another week, another set of conflicting assessments as to the economy's prospects. It seems that everywhere one looks these days there is an...
Musical chairs at M&B finally comes to a halt - for now
06-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Annual general meetings (AGMs) tend to be relatively prosaic affairs. Presentations are given by the company's management on trading; votes on...
05-Feb-2010 By The PMA Team
Manchester brewer and pub retailer Hydes managed to renegotiate its bank borrowing last year after a cash squeeze caused a covenant breach.
05-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna
British Beer & Pub Association boss Brigid Simmonds denied that tied pub tenants are financially worse off than free of tie tenants in a live radio debate. In a heated discussion, Simmonds clashed with Paul Maloney of the GMB.
05-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Gemma McKenna reports on the mood in the room at Mitchells & Butlers' volatile annual general meeting last week. It bore all the hallmarks of an...
200 jobs to go at WaverleyTBS
05-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Drinks wholesaler Waverley TBS is to make more than 15 per cent of its workforce redundant after a revamp of its logistics network and telesales...
Fuller's chairman calls for an end to 'industry in-fighting'
05-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Michael Turner, chairman of London brewer Fuller, Smith & Turner, has called for an end to what he described as the "unbelievable in-fighting"...
05-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
Urban & Country Leisure founder Ross Sanders is to open a £2m celebrity hang-out nightclub in Soho, London. Sanders, who founded Urban &...
05-Feb-2010 By Lesley Foottit
A blanket ban on 24-hour opening could cause a return to pre-Licensing Act street violence. That's the warning from Noctis executive director Paul...
05-Feb-2010 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Andrew Knight, the former managing director of Spirit Group — Punch's managed pub division — has joined Weightwatchers as managing director of...
04-Feb-2010 By Emma Eversham, Restaurant
Emily Hodgson, owner of the Rose pub in Fulham, has opened her second pub — the Hillgate in Notting Hill. Hodgson, who worked for her father, Slug...
04-Feb-2010 By John Harrington
A new campaign has been launched to combat keg thefts, which cost the trade £50m per year. The Keg Aware campaign, backed by the British Beer &...
04-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney & Lesley Foottit
Greene King IPA ambassador Lawrence Dallaglio gives his view on the Six Nations as he launches the rugby pub supporter network.
04-Feb-2010 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
04-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
New Enterprise managing director east Nick Light tells Ewan Turney his views on the thorny topics of beer ties, rents and transparency.
04-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
London brewer and pub operator Fullers claims it has ridden out the recession well but still remains cautious about the year ahead.
04-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
Pub giant JD Wetherspoon has joined the Institute of Licensing — it said it represents a chance to share best practice.
04-Feb-2010 By The PMA Team
Two more tenanted pub companies have pledged to help licensees by keeping a lid on price rises. Marston's tenanted division boss Alistair Darby...
04-Feb-2010 By The PMA Team
Batemans, the Lincolnshire based independent brewer and retailer, has enjoyed record beer sales during 2009. The brewery benefited from a 5%...
Nick Bish: Mr Mediator
04-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
As the last round of Westminster hearings into the pub sector loomed, the much-publicised industry mediation process, helmed by Association of...
Pub trading likely to get tougher, warns Fuller's
04-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Rising taxes and inflation are likely to make life even tougher for the pub sector in the coming months, warned Fuller, Smith & Turner, the...
04-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
Pub closure rates have slowed from the high of 52 a week to 39 a week but remain at historically high levels, the British Beer and Pub Association...
04-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
The Campaign for Real Ale is urging MPs to back "radical reform" of the beer tie and to speak up for community pubs, local brewers and consumers.
