17-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
Leading pub and restaurant chains are trading positively thanks to an increased spend on marketing and promotions. The Coffer Peach Business...
14-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
The BBC's Panorama report on Oldham's binge-drinking problems pointed the finger at the supermarkets — but the on-trade isn't entirely blameless
14-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
Premium Bars and Restaurant administrator BDO has stated that bids for parts of the business will be assessed by the end of the month.
14-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
Loungers, the 10-strong neighbourhood café bar group based in the south-west, is set to add eight new sites by the end of 2010 as it expands away...
14-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
Former Barclaycard chief executive Seymour Fortescue has been named as the first external chairman of drinks industry watchdog Portman Group....
14-Aug-2009 By John Harrington
Coventry's licensing committee has been accused of 'big company favouritism' in its treatment of two pubs that twice failed test purchases. Separate...
13-Aug-2009 By John Harrington
A handful of licensees in south Wales are angry with Scottish & Newcastle UK (S&NUK) after reporting major problems with deliveries. Problems have occurred after S&NUK bought SA Brain's distribution service two months ago, say licensees.
13-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
InnBrighton, operator of 42 licensed premises in the city of Brighton and Hove, has acquired four freehold pubs from Punch Taverns. The operator...
13-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
Bravo Inns, the Northern England based pub group, has acquired two pubs from Punch Taverns, bringing its total estate to 21 pubs. The pubs, which...
Feargal Sharkey: 'If it wasn't for pubs the Undertones would never have existed'
13-Aug-2009 By James Wilmore
Former Undertones frontman and UK Music chief Feargal Sharkey says his band would not have had a career without pubs. He tells James Wilmore that he...
WSTA argues "majority" don't pre-load
13-Aug-2009 By James Wilmore
The Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA) has warned the government against giving councils the power to ban cheap supermarkets deals, arguing...
Locals bid to save popular pub from church group
13-Aug-2009 By James Wilmore
Pub regulars have been given a stay of execution in a bid to save their local from being sold off and turned into a church. Customers of the Lynton...
Pubs' recession struggles revealed in Publican Market Report
13-Aug-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
The true extent of the desperate difficulties pubs are facing to stay in business are revealed in this year's Publican Market Report. As recession...
13-Aug-2009 By John Harrington
Managers of three pubs have been granted out-of-court settlements of up to £50,000 after arguing a breach of working time regulations.
13-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
Enterprise Inns should review its valuation of its pub estate in light of declining rents and beer sales, according to one broker. Shares in...
13-Aug-2009 By John Harrington
A Government minister has promised to work with National Pubwatch on its Court not Caution campaign.
13-Aug-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Pub rating appeals have been delayed because valuation officials have been busy preparing the new rating list for 2010. Thwaites Brewery said some...
13-Aug-2009 By Jo Bruce
Independent hotel operator Thorpeness and Aldeburgh Hotels have opened a fifth site. The Suffolk company has opened 300-year-old freehold the Crown...
12-Aug-2009 By John Harrington
An agreement between a council-backed trade group and authorities in Newquay not to accept PASS-accredited ID cards is "misguided".
12-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
Nexum Leisure, the company run by Paul Kinsey, is considering its position on all-inclusive drinks offers.
12-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
The group installed ten brewing vessels at its site in Hartlepool which will increase beer production from 375,000 barrels a year to about one...
12-Aug-2009 By Jo Bruce
A Norfolk pub chef is inviting customers to use the pub's garden as an allotment to grow produce for the pub's menu. The Pigs at Edgefield has...
12-Aug-2009 By John Harrington
Punch is looking to recruit up to 100 people in its managed pubs division including chefs and kitchen managers.
12-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
Pubs in Wokingham, Berkshire are opening up their toilets to the public under a new scheme. The council has closed the public toilets and has...
12-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
Market research company Nielsen has taken an equity stake in on-trade consultancy CGA Strategy. Nielsen will now transfer its UK on-trade services...
12-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
Charles Wells has sold 11 pubs with a further four under offer of the batch of 24 it put up for sale. The rural and urban pubs range in price from...
Nielsen takes a stake in CGA
11-Aug-2009
Global market research giant Nielsen and CGA Strategy, the specialist on-trade research house, have announced a strategic partnership which will...
Pubs improve in proof-of-age tests
11-Aug-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubs are getting better at asking youngsters for ID, according to a leading test purchasing company. Figures from Serve Legal show that between...
'Alcohol link to huge rise in oral cancers among people in their 40s'
11-Aug-2009 By James Wilmore
Alcohol is behind a huge rise in oral cancers among people in their 40s, experts said yesterday. The number of men getting tumours of the mouth,...
Paul Smith: The real truth about happy hours
11-Aug-2009
Most of those reviewed premises to date have not (and will not) sign up to these conditions. At Noctis in consultation with the council, when we sat...
Pubs unite against charity box thieves
11-Aug-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
A pub that had its charity boxes stolen in a raid by burglars is fighting back with a day of special events. Heartless thieves broke into the Seven...
11-Aug-2009 By John Harrington
Authorities in Newquay are "urgently investigating" the idea of an Alcohol Disorder Zone in the Cornish resort.
11-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
The on-trade performed better than the off-trade in asking young people for ID for the first time in the second quarter of 2009. The figures come...
10-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
The Government needs to do more to break the high street banks' monopoly on finance for small businesses, according to the FSB.
Pinstripe: Is the smoking ban the industry's biggest headache?
10-Aug-2009
Hamish Champ is away on his hols and has asked if I would step into the breach and pen a few words for the next couple of Mondays in his absence. I'd...
10-Aug-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Joule's Brewery has bought two more pubs from Punch Taverns, bringing its estate to 16 sites. Joule's has now acquired five pubs from Punch. The...
10-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
Darts legends Eric Bristow and John Lowe have voiced their support for National Pub Week. The Week, running from 31 October to 7 November, is the...
07-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
A St Helens pub has been ordered to take down its A-board sign — 10 years after it was first placed outside — because it poses a danger to road...
07-Aug-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Industry experts hope that a further £50bn of new money being pumped into the economy will benefit pubs.
06-Aug-2009 By Stephen Oliver
Every rain cloud has a silver lining if you can just turn your mind to it, says Stephen Oliver.
06-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
Pre-pack administrations might be perfectly legal, but they don't seem very fair — to unsecured creditors or to other companies, says The PMA Team.
06-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
Punch Taverns could sell as many as 3,000 pubs by the end of 2012, a top City analyst has forecast. Douglas Jack, of Numis Securities, says that he...
Reuben brothers see £52m bid for Premium Bars & Restaurants rejected
06-Aug-2009 By Hamish Champ
Multi-millionaire siblings David and Simon Reuben today claimed they tabled a £52m bid for Premium Bars & Restaurants (PBR) to the group's...
Pub manager reveals horror of samurai sword attack
06-Aug-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
A pub manager has revealed how he thought he was going to die at the hands of robbers who attacked him with a samurai sword, a saw and baseball bat....
06-Aug-2009 By Jo Bruce
Former Ritz executive chef Giles Thompson has taken on a second Enterprise pub. Thompson, who was executive chef at the Ritz from 1997 to 2003, has...
05-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
The Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) wants the Government to introduce a "People's Pint" by abolishing duty on all beers below 2.8% abv.
05-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
The administrator for Premium and Bars Restaurants has reported that there are several parties interested in buying parts of the business. Dermot...
Man jailed for pub worker attack
05-Aug-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
A campaign group has welcomed the three year jail term given to a man who attacked a pub worker with a lump of wood with nails driven through it....
Reduced exposure to pubs boosts Nichols' figures
05-Aug-2009 By Hamish Champ
Cutting back its exposure to the pub sector has boosted sales and profits at Nichols, the dispense system and drinks distributor revealed today....
05-Aug-2009 By MA reporter
The relationship between Admiral Taverns and our pub landlords is mutually beneficial. We have a selection of pubs to let that we're keen to turn...
