Albion Ventures unifies management of pub businesses
25-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
Albion Ventures, the venture capitalist owner of Bravo Inns and the Charnwood Pub Company, has brought the management of the two businesses under one...
M&B shareholder offers olive branch in board row
25-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
In a crucial week for Mitchells & Butlers (M&B), shareholder Joe Lewis has apparently offered a compromise to the pub group's senior...
Staff record single in bid to buy pub
25-Jan-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Staff fighting to keep their pub open have recorded a single in a bid to raise £100,000 to buy the freehold. 'The Torrianos' are calling on 200,000...
Host has noise abatement order overturned
25-Jan-2010 By Gemma McKenna
A licensee in East Sussex has succeeded in having a noise abatement order overturned. Tim Whitehouse of the White Hart in Lower Horsebridge, said...
Principle Leisure buys Sunderland site
22-Jan-2010 By The PMA Team
North-east multiple Principle Leisure, which runs ten pubs and restaurants, has bought Aspire in Sunderland's Low Row for an undisclosed amount....
Grooming your business for sale
22-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
There's no doubt that good pub industry operators who make a decent fist of things enjoy what they do. After all, what's not to like? Building up a...
Pubs reminded of free PRS dispute system
22-Jan-2010 By James Wilmore
Licensees who feel they have been unfairly treated by music fee collection firm the Performing Rights Society (PRS) are being reminded they can...
22-Jan-2010 By John Harrington
Scottish pub and restaurant operator Maclay Inns plans to open five new venues in 2010 after reporting strong sales over the Christmas period....
22-Jan-2010 By John Harrington
Licences of 54 venues were suspended for up to 48 hours over a 12 month period for persistently selling alcohol to children. A further 12 had their...
21-Jan-2010 By John Harrington
According to a trial carried out by Marstons Pub Company, gaming machine income is 10% higher at pubs where units are managed by the pubco. The result is now being used to justify the existence of the AWP tie.
21-Jan-2010 By John Harrington
Enterprise Inns has reshuffled its executive team following news that Colin Pedrick, MD of operations for the eastern division, is leaving the pubco.
21-Jan-2010 By John Harrington
If you think the trade's failed to get its act together to present a unified front, take a look along the corridors of Westminster, says John Harrington.
Pete Robinson: Mandatory madness
21-Jan-2010
Consultation, in Nu-Labour parlance, means "we'll pretend to listen to you then we'll do whatever the hell we want". If you're lucky you may even get...
Mark Daniels: Water water everywhere...
21-Jan-2010
The Government's new Mandatory Code appears to have got Publicans in to a bit of a lather and the histrionics have reached new levels not even seen...
New pubco code promises "transparency
21-Jan-2010 By James Wilmore
Current and would-be licensees are being promised more "transparency" from pubcos, after an agreement on industry best practice was reached. The...
21-Jan-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Urban & Country Leisure, the managed multiple operator headed up by Ross Sanders, has taken on a new site, bringing its estate to 14 pubs. The...
21-Jan-2010 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Mitchells & Butlers, the pub and restaurant operator, has this morning unveiled plans to double six key brands within its business. In a...
21-Jan-2010 By Tamara Sender, M&C Report
Enterprise Inns has reported a 4% decline in average net income per pub for the 16 weeks to 16 January 2010, compared with an 8% fall the previous...
20-Jan-2010 By John Harrington
Marston's Pub Company (MPC) has launched a DVD welcome pack for potential new tenants.
20-Jan-2010 By Peter Linacre
Peter Linacre asks why the wholesale price of beer in the UK doesn't decrease as the demand for beer declines.
BII boss looks forward after "challenging" first year
20-Jan-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Considering the year the industry has just endured, you couldn't blame Neil Robertson if he admitted to regretting taking on the role of BII chief...
Piedmont agrees to compromise with M&B - up to a point
20-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
Piedmont Inc., the investment vehicle in dispute with Mitchells & Butlers (M&B), said today it is not seeking to control the managed pub...
Flood victims get boost from CAMRA
20-Jan-2010
CAMRA will be holding a charity auction this Friday at the National Winter Ales Festival, Manchester, to raise money for the victims of the Cumbria...
Licensee swaps pub for pulpit
20-Jan-2010
A licensee is set to be let loose on a different crowd of punters when he takes part in a job swap with the local vicar. Lee Bartlett, licensee at...
JD Wetherspoon rules out rights issue
20-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
JD Wetherspoon boss John Hutson has scotched speculation in the City that the managed pub group might launch a rights issue in the near future to...
19-Jan-2010 By Ewan Turney
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has reiterated that it is willing to reach a compromise with its largest investor Piedmont.
Mark Daniels: Politicians v The Pub
19-Jan-2010
When I was in my youth - and, for the purposes of this example, we'll say up to the age of 27 - I never considered myself to be a politically...
M&B offers compromise in board appointments row
19-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has offered disgruntled shareholders a compromise in its efforts to end to a damaging row which threatens the...
'All-you-can-drink pub offers facing ban'
19-Jan-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Pub and club promotions that encourage binge drinking will be banned within months in a government retreat from its policy of liberalising licensing...
18-Jan-2010 By The PMA Team
Enterprise Inns is planning to sell eight more London freehold pubs at a London auction for £15.5m.
What now for Mitchells & Butlers?
18-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) probably thought it was out of the woods two years ago when it waved good-bye to shareholder Robert Tchenguiz, who...
Christmas proves profitable for leading pub operators
18-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
The UK's leading pub operators had a bumper Christmas, according to the latest survey tracking the fortunes of the licensed sector. According to the...
Brulines founder buys Smartcellar
18-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
Derrick Collin, founder of beer flow monitoring group Brulines, has bought Smartcellar for an undisclosed sum. Speaking about the deal, Collin, who...
Grogan calls for resolution to M&B investor row
18-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
John Grogan, Labour MP and chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Beer Group, has called for certain Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) shareholders...
18-Jan-2010 By Roger Protz
Support for pubs will help preserve a uniquely British institution, as well as redirect the fight against alcohol abuse, says Roger Protz.
18-Jan-2010 By Jo Bruce
Gordon Ramsay's pub the Narrow in Limehouse, London, has lost its Michelin Bib Gourmand in the Michelin Guide 2010.
18-Jan-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat shadow chancellor, is writing to the chairman of the Financial Services Authority over the M&B saga.
16-Jan-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
The battle for control of Mitchells & Butlers has taken another twist after it was revealed that the Takeover Panel has dismissed the pub group's...
15-Jan-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Lesley Foottit talks to Bath Ales retail operations manager Robin Couling about the company's new concept, Graze.
15-Jan-2010 By MA reporter
The year ahead — the industry's movers and shakers predict what 2010 will hold for our battered trade.
15-Jan-2010 By Jo Bruce
A Punch licensee is making a visit to his bar an emotional experience for customers with the help of new technology.
15-Jan-2010 By The PMA Team
Trade creditors of Regent Inns, which was restructured via a pre-pack administration in October, are owed £4.05m, according to documents filed by...
City watchdog rejects M&B takeover claims
15-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
City watchdogs have rejected claims by managed pub operator Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) that certain shareholders were acting together - or "in...
City broker: don't rule out a Wetherspoons rights issue
15-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
Investors should not rule out the possibility of managed pub operator JD Wetherspoon launching a rights issue in the near future, according to a City...
15-Jan-2010 By Jo Bruce
Three pubs have been awarded the prestigious Michelin star in the new Michelin Guide Great Britain & Ireland 2010. This brings the total of pubs...
15-Jan-2010 By Jay Smith
Pub operator Jay Smith set about galvanising community spirit in five UK villages to save their local pub as part of a TV series called Save our...
14-Jan-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Gemma McKenna looks at how licensees coped with the recent snow, ice and sub-zero temperatures.
14-Jan-2010 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
14-Jan-2010 By Phil Mellows
Predictions ahead of Christmas were cautiously optimistic, but the economic climate combined and poor weather produced patchy performances.
14-Jan-2010 By John Harrington
John Harrington looks at what went wrong with the Pub in the Park festival, which was cancelled at the last moment.
