23-Jul-2009 By Gemma McKenna
The Campaign for Real Ale's Pub Design Awards, which reward high standards of design in refurbishing existing pubs and building new ones, open today....
Proud of Pubs Week 2009 - doing our trade proud
22-Jul-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubs, politicians and punters up and down the land have all been raising a glass to Proud of Pubs Week. The third year of the event proved the...
First pub in Oldham blanket review cleared
22-Jul-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
The first Oldham pub to have a full hearing as part of a controversial blanket review of 22 town centre venues has won its case. Earlier this year...
22-Jul-2009 By Tony Halstead
Oldham licensee Patrick Kelly has defeated an attempt to force hard-line restrictions on trading that are being sought throughout the town. Blanket...
We're all in this together
22-Jul-2009 By Andrew Pring
A few readers tell me they've got pubco-tie fatigue. They run freehouses so the issues don't affect them. Ditto licensees in the managed sector. The...
21-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team
Fair Pint has condemned a new freetrade prices deal from Marston's for not including a reform of the way in which rents are calculated. It has...
RBS urged to free pubs from tie and sell to tenants
21-Jul-2009 By James Wilmore
A campaign has been launched urging the government and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to free the bank's 1,000 pubs from tied agreements and allow...
21-Jul-2009 By MA reporter
The licensed trade must wait for a test case ruling on the legality of pubwatch bans. A judge at London's High Court has reserved judgment to give...
Indigo Leisure buys Punch freehold
20-Jul-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Brighton-based Indigo Leisure has bought the freehold of one of its Punch pubs. Barclays Commercial Bank provided funding of £700,000 for the purchase for the Star & Sailor.
20-Jul-2009 By Gemma McKenna
A Punch lessee from Buckinghamshire has bought her pub's freehold for 20% under its market value.
Simon Buckley buys remnants of Archers from administrators
20-Jul-2009 By Hamish Champ
Brewing entrepreneur Simon Buckley has acquired a number of assets including brand names previously owned by defunct Swindon brewer Archers for an...
Entrepreneur Buckley snaps up Archers of Swindon
20-Jul-2009 By John Harrington
Brewing entrepreneur Simon Buckley has bought the remains of Archers of Swindon for an undisclosed sum. Archers, which until March this year brewed...
C&C shares slide after trading data cock-up
19-Jul-2009 By Hamish Champ
Shares in Magners cider maker C&C Group slumped 16 per cent last week after it emerged it had published figures in a trading statement which did...
Advancing in the right direction, Marston's style
18-Jul-2009 By Hamish Champ
Marston's Pub Company (MPC) is to be congratulated for taking the bull by the horns and coming up with 'Advance', its new agreement that reflects the...
17-Jul-2009 By John Harrington
Trade chiefs hope heavyweight mediator Michel Kallipetis will help push forward reform within the tenanted pub trade and stave off Government interference.
17-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team
Marston's is trialling an innovative re-working of the pubco-tenant relationship in an effort to create more trust and transparency. The company is...
Charles Wells sells four out of ten pubs at auction
17-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team
Bedford brewer and retailer Charles Wells managed to sell only four of the ten pubs it placed in a Colliers CRE auction earlier this week. Of the...
17-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team
Managed operator JD Wetherspoon is re-opening the former Walkabout in Newport as a pub and hotel with 29 en-suite bedrooms today. The company has...
Chris Maclean: Are male licensees becoming obselete?
17-Jul-2009 By Chris Maclean
I suspect I deceive myself. In our relationship I like to think of myself as the businessman and my wife as the support crew. I make the decisive...
'£2m bar tab blow'
17-Jul-2009 By James Wilmore
Pub group giant Enterprise Inns is losing £2million in revenue a month as boozers go to the wall. The group tallied the grim bar bill yesterday as...
Luminar sees 'slight' improvement in tough market
17-Jul-2009
Luminar Group has sounded a cautiously optimistic note about trading conditions in the cut-throat town centre market. Updating shareholders at its...
There's still time for an upswing in 2009
17-Jul-2009 By Neil Morgan
You won't often hear me say this, but God bless America, for it has taken their First Lady to put the British pub on the front pages of the...
16-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team
Scottish & Newcastle Pub Enterprises is looking for a tenant for an historic inn it's re-building at a cost of £2.5m.
M&B gives Joe Lewis seat on board
16-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has acceded to pressure from investor Joe Lewis, who bought Robert Tchenguiz's R20 share in the company last October, by appointing Richard McGuire as a non-executive director of the company.
16-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team
Business failures among Enterprise licensees are running 50% ahead of last year at a rate of 25 a month compared to a figure below 20 a month a year...
Proud of Pubs Week: shouting to the top
16-Jul-2009
MPs, peers and licensees came together in Parliament this week to kick-off celebrations for Proud of Pubs Week. Licensing minister Gerry Sutcliffe...
M&B appoints key shareholder's lieutenant to board
16-Jul-2009 By Hamish Champ
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has appointed Richard McGuire, a representative of one of the managed pub group's leading shareholders Joe Lewis to...
Enterprise Inns claims trade is "stabilising
16-Jul-2009 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns said today the underlying trading performance of its 7,000-plus pubs "appears to be stabilising", despite financial support for...
Water way to run a country
16-Jul-2009 By Andrew Pring
Here is a Morning Advertiser health warning. Please take notice: it may prevent you having a heart attack. Any day now, as you walk along the high...
15-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team
JD Wetherspoon is set to open 39 pubs by the end of its financial year in September - the highest number in years. It has already opened 33 and has...
Pete Robinson: Pete's Pub Newsround
15-Jul-2009
CAMRA awards diluted by lack of pubs CAMRA can't find enough candidates for prizes as public houses close at record rate. For the first time in more...
Punch boss: 'Make us work harder'
15-Jul-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
The man in charge of 1,600 Punch Taverns pubs in the North East of England has urged licensees to demand more from their relationship with the...
'Neil Morrissey pledges support for Proud of Pubs Week in The Sun'
15-Jul-2009 By James Wilmore
Men Behaving Badly star Neil Morrissey is hoping to pull punters to pubs across Britain - with his own-brew bitter. The actor, 47, is one of dozens...
Wetherspoon bullish about future prospects
15-Jul-2009 By Hamish Champ
Managed pub group JD Wetherspoon said it was "optimistic" about the outlook for the next financial year, as it reported fourth quarter like-for-like...
Pubs turn to coin tossing promotion
15-Jul-2009 By John Harrington
Pubs and bars are offering to double customers' rounds if they win a coin toss. A number of venues have implemented a version of the promotion, it...
14-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team
Racing UK (RUK) has opted to freeze its pubs and clubs subscription for the next 12 months.
14-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team
A City analyst has estimated that Punch Taverns has raised around £220m from disposing of 298 pubs so far this year. Geof Collyer, of Deutsche...
Mitchells to open Eric Morecambe pub
14-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team
Lancaster-based pub operator Mitchells is to open a new seafront pub and leisure complex devoted to locally-born comedian Eric Morecambe. The...
Mark Daniels: Leave the Papadums to the experts
14-Jul-2009
I love a good curry. If I get the chance to have a night out, and friends say where shall we go tonight, I'll undoubtedly cry "Newmarket Indian...
Comment: Look, we are responsible!
14-Jul-2009
It's been a bad few weeks for alcohol advertisers, and it's got me thinking about the appropriate way for the drinks industry to respond to...
13-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team
The Cornish brewer and retailer has reported a drop in pre-tax profit to £7.417,000 in the year to 27 December 2008, compared to £8,448,000 the year before.
13-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team
The former Spirit pubs are all in London and the deal brings Geronimo's estate to 27 sites.
13-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team
Punch Taverns is enjoying improved managed division margins and should be able to reduce its overall debt by at least £1.3bn in the coming two...
Proud of Pubs Week is up and running
13-Jul-2009
The Proud of Pubs message is resounding around the pub trade as The Publican's week of positive action for pubs gets fully underway. A Proud of Pubs...
Hamish Champ: How many days have I got left???
13-Jul-2009 By Hamish Champ
A friend of mine sent me one of those 'find out your life expectancy' survey things last week. It was one of those online doo-dahs, seemingly from...
Pub darts team in word record bid
13-Jul-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
A pub darts team is claiming to have broken a world record after playing continuously for nearly two days. Four players from the Wadworth-owned...
Geronimo Inns buys six pubs from Punch Taverns
13-Jul-2009 By Hamish Champ
In a long-awaited deal London pub operator Geronimo Inns has acquired six sites from Punch Taverns for an undisclosed sum. The pubs, currently part...
Greene King: Fit for the future?
12-Jul-2009 By Hamish Champ
A passing remark from Greene King chairman Tim Bridge in the brewer's results announcement - that the Suffolk brewer had made no acquisitions during...
Going to the pub industry mediation ball. Or not, if you're the GMB
12-Jul-2009 By Hamish Champ
Thinking about it, that the GMB point blank refused to attend the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailer's latest mediation shin-dig came as no...
'Massive pub blaze claims life of firefighter'
12-Jul-2009
"A firefighter was killed and another injured after a floor collapsed while they fought a blaze in an Edinburgh pub, a fire service spokesman said....
