22-Oct-2009 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
Nine ex-Regent Inns leases up for grabs
22-Oct-2009
Christie + Co is looking for takers on nine ex-Regent Inns sites the bar operator relinquished as part of its pre-pack administration deal announced...
Enterprise: the "vast majority" of licensees support the tie
22-Oct-2009 By James Wilmore
Enterprise Inns has welcomed the Office of Fair Trading's (OFT) rejection of CAMRA's super-complaint saying the "vast majority" of its licensees...
Neil Morrissey gives up the Punch Bowl
22-Oct-2009
Celebrity publicans and brewers Neil Morrissey and Richard Fox have given up the pub made famous in their Channel 4 TV series last year. The lease on...
22-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
The Business and Enterprise Committee will re-convene to consider proposals put forward to provide a better deal for tenants.
22-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
Enterprise Inns has vowed to avoid complacency, despite the pubco model being given a clean bill of health by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). The...
22-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) will take no further action following the Campaign for Real Ale's super-complaint over pubcos and the beer tie. It found that the beer tie is not having an adverse impact on consumers.
22-Oct-2009 By Nick Bish
Pubs need the freedom to succeed — ALMR chairman Nick Bish looks at the pub world post-mediation. A lot of water has gone under the bridge in the...
22-Oct-2009 By Alastair Darby
Mediation achieved more than you might think. Here's the view of Alistair Darby, managing director of Marston's Pub Company. Fair Pint, the ALMR,...
21-Oct-2009 By Neil Morgan
The end of this year and the first six months of 2010 are still likely to be tough, says Christie + Co head of pubs Neil Morgan.
21-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
Greene King has vowed it will continue to work with others in the industry but will also focus on its own lobbying, following its exit from BBPA.
21-Oct-2009 By The PMA Team
Regent Inns has gone through a pre-pack administration with 60 sites emerging in a new company, Intertain, led by previous management. Three...
Janet Hood: How many more licensed premises does Scotland need to lose?
21-Oct-2009
Unlike the position in England and Wales no effective grandfather rights were vested in transition. Apart from premises not being able to be knocked...
Home Office backs pubs' right to seize ID
21-Oct-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubs have been given the green light to confiscate fake or borrowed ID after a Home Office minister stepped in to clarify the situation. Nick...
Regent Inns sold in management buyout
21-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
Regent Inns chief executive John Leslie has led a management buyout of 60 of the group's venues from administrators in a pre-pack deal. Leslie headed...
21-Oct-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Drinking in the pub is "potentially more explosive" than doing so at home, according to a senior Tesco lobbyist. Emma Reynolds spoke against pushing up the price of alcohol in supermarkets at a conference.
21-Oct-2009 By John Harrington
More pub operators will be encouraged to confiscate ID used fraudulently to buy alcohol underage after the Home Office gave a virtual green light to...
21-Oct-2009 By Gemma McKenna
The latest Punch tenant to become a freeholder says his bank turned the deal around in just eight days. Gary Kidd, with Dickie Cotterill and Tony...
21-Oct-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Foundation Inns is gearing up to open its sixth site, following a £500,000 refurbishment at a pub in Oxfordshire. The King's Head & Bell, at...
21-Oct-2009 By Gemma McKenna
The trend for selling pubs for alternative use will continue for another year, according to two of the country's largest licensed property agents....
21-Oct-2009 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
The board of 3D Entertainment (3DE), the late-night bar and club group, has appointed advisers to launch an official sale of the business.
20-Oct-2009 By John Harrington
The FLVA has defended its decision to back the BBPA's moves to compel pubcos to offer a better deal for tenants rather than give full support to more wide-ranging reform.
20-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
The Pub Revolution group, calling for a mass "beercott", claims it has had interest from 10% of the tenants in the country.
Sainsbury's guilty of underage sales
20-Oct-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Supermarket giant Sainsbury's has been slapped with a bill for nearly £45,000 after being found guilty of selling alcohol to under-18s. It was...
'Alcohol admissions top 860,000 in one year'
20-Oct-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Admissions to hospital due to drinking have increased by eight per cent in one year to reach more than 860,000, official figures have revealed. The...
BrewDog looking to raise £2.3m from share sale
20-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
BrewDog, the maverick brewery responsible for producing the UK's strongest beer, is to invite the public to invest in the company via the internet....
Pubco boycott group gathers pace
20-Oct-2009 By James Wilmore
A group of disgruntled pubco licensees threatening to stage a mass rent and beer boycott have appointed "regional co-ordinators" to help promote...
20-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
Controversial micro-brewer BrewDog is hoping to raise £2.3m through a share rights issue to fund a carbon neutral brewery in Aberdeen.
20-Oct-2009 By John Grogan
The return of Parliament provides an opportunity for the friends of pubs and beer, both inside and outside the House, to adopt a fresh approach, says John Grogan.
MA helps to save licensee's house
20-Oct-2009 By Gemma McKenna
A licensee who was in danger of losing his house over a backdated electricity bill for £5,000 doesn't have to pay a penny after the Morning...
20-Oct-2009 By John Harrington
Best Bar None-accredited bars could have their status withdrawn if they don't adhere to best practice. That's one plan from BBN chief Neil...
Hamish Champ: "TV in sympathetic portrayal of pubs shock
19-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
In these times of heightened media interest in binge drinking and alcohol-related crime it's rare to see a portrayal of pub culture on TV that could...
Punch Taverns executives awarded millions of shares
19-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
Members of Punch Taverns' senior management team have been awarded millions of shares in the company to incentivise their performance in the coming...
Old Orleans could return to Punch Taverns
19-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns could find itself running a number of Old Orleans restaurants if Regent Inns is the subject of a pre-pack administration this week...
Alcohol consumption falling at fastest rate for more than 60 years
19-Oct-2009 By James Wilmore
Alcohol consumption in the UK is falling at the fastest rate for more than 60 years, new figures released today reveal. According to statistics from...
Marstons debuts cask beer festival
19-Oct-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Marston's is launching its first ever cask beer celebration with 23 different brews on offer at 425 of its pubs. The celebrations will kick off for...
19-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
Managed operator Barracuda is to refurbish 22 of its pubs between August and December 2009 as part of a multi-million pound investment. The...
19-Oct-2009 By Gemma McKenna
The UK's biggest supermarkets told MPs that off trade alcohol promotions were not responsible for "destroying traditional pubs". Asda, Sainsbury's...
19-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
Alcohol consumption is falling at its fastest rate for more than 60 years, according to new figures from the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA)....
19-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
Punch has launched a new website, eBusiness, to help its tenants place orders online at time of their convenience.
19-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
The newly formed Independent Pub Confederation (IPC) claims to represent 25,000 licensees and is not for the total abolition of the beer tie.
19-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
The major branded pub chains have now recorded six months of positive like-for-like sales growth, despite predictions that the eating and drinking...
BBPA set to try and persuade Greene King to remain in trade body
16-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) says it hopes to persuade Greene King to remain in the trade body, despite the Suffolk brewer giving...
Supermarkets reject claim they are "destroying" pubs
16-Oct-2009 By James Wilmore
Three of the UK's leading supermarket chains have rejected the idea that off-trade deals on alcohol are "destroying the traditional pub"....
16-Oct-2009 By Gemma McKenna
The RICS report will go a long way to resolving misunderstandings and misconceptions, the British Beer & Pub Association has said. Martin...
16-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
The BII is not sitting on the fence despite being the only group in support of both industry agreements. The BII has signed up to the British Beer...
15-Oct-2009 By The PMA Team
Marston's has reported that 30 tenants out of a group of 60 licensees offered one of its "Advance" leases has taken up the offer.
15-Oct-2009 By The PMA Team
The finalists for the Morning Advertiser 150 club awards for multiple managed operators have been unveiled. The short-listed finalists are: •...
15-Oct-2009 By The PMA Team
Four pub operators have returned to the UK after successfully climbing Mount Kilimanjaro — 5,895 metres high — for charity. Paul Salisbury, who...
15-Oct-2009 By The PMA Team
Earnings at brewer and pub operator Marston's for the year will be in line with expectations, the company said in a pre-close statement. Overall...
