19-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team
Realpubs have acquired five freehold London pubs from Punch Taverns in a deal estimated to be worth under £10m. The company has bought the freehold of two Punch pubs it currently leases plus three more sites.
19-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team
JD Wetherspoon is now buying freehold pubs for a little as half the price of two years ago. The company is acquiring sites for as little as £1m for...
Realpubs snaps up three Punch Taverns freeholds
19-Jun-2009 By Hamish Champ
London pub operator Realpubs has bought three Punch Taverns freeholds for an undisclosed sum.In addition to the three sites private equity backed...
'Britons 'shun birthdays and pubs''
19-Jun-2009 By James Wilmore
The economic downturn is making Britons mean, with people ignoring friends' birthdays and refusing to buy rounds of drinks in the pub, a survey has...
19-Jun-2009 By Roger Protz
The GMB trade union should consider the overall impact before taking grievances over the tie to Europe, says Roger Protz.
19-Jun-2009 By Tim Martin
The industry must highlight the positive aspects of pubs to survive, says JD Wetherspoon founder Tim Martin.
Punch sells nine pubs to Charles Wells
18-Jun-2009 By John Harrington
The latest sell-off by Punch sees Charles Wells add 26 pubs to its estate in the past six weeks.
18-Jun-2009 By Ewan Turney
Brewer and pub operator Marston's hopes to raise £176m through the issue of 299m new shares to fund the opening of around 30 new build pubs. The company will use approximately £140m of the money to acquire and develop new build pubs.
18-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team
Globe Pub Company bond holders have been told that the company has had to grant rent concessions to another 11 hosts as it stays in default on key...
18-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team
Enterprise Inns believes it has already complied with most of the recommendations contained within the hostile Business & Enterprise Committee...
Who's backing Proud of Pubs Week?
18-Jun-2009
Find out more about how you can get involved in Proud of Pubs Week.If you'd like to join this illustrious group, email your picture and some text to:...
Getting into gear for Proud of Pubs Week 2009
18-Jun-2009
Whether it's with your own Proud of Pubs party, by engaging with a local MP or simply by selling Morrissey Fox Proud of Pubs Best Bitter, more and...
Crunch trade talks "encouraging
18-Jun-2009 By James Wilmore
Crunch industry talks between trade bodies, pubcos and campaign groups today in London have been described as "positive" and "encouraging". The...
'Pub landlord invents babygrow that glows if child has fever'
18-Jun-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
A pub landlord has signed a £12.5 million contract after inventing a baby grow that changes colour to indicate a child's temperature. Chris Ebejer,...
Marston's raises £176m via rights issue
18-Jun-2009 By Hamish Champ
Midlands brewer Marston's is to raise around £176m before costs via a rights issue, primarily to fund the acquisition and building of new pubs.The...
18-Jun-2009 By Ewan Turney
Today's crunch talks on the future of the pub industry are expected to be the first of many mediation meetings.
18-Jun-2009 By Gemma McKenna
A Punch host about to be kicked out of his pub for "trespassing" as his name was incorrect on the lease has won a reprieve. Roger Whiteside, MD of...
Broads Brewing buys site
18-Jun-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Norfolk Broads Brewing company, which trades as Humpty Dumpty, has bought the freehold of its brewery site. The firm bought outright the brewery...
17-Jun-2009 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Mark Stretton, editor of Morning Advertiser's sister title M&C Report, gives his views on the period of upheaval facing the trade.
Mark Daniels: What Freedom2Choose needs is a Joanna Lumley… but then again, don't we all?
17-Jun-2009
"Mark, you'll never be f****** rich," John says to me quite often, "because you're too f****** honest." (You'll have to forgive the swearing, but...
BII honours exceptional trainer
17-Jun-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
The winner of this year's BII Bill Hannon Award for an exceptional contribution to the industry has been presented with the prize. Mike Connell of...
Greene King pubs raise thousands for charity
17-Jun-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Customers and staff from 15 Greene King pubs across West Yorkshire have banded together to raise nearly £9,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support.The...
Pub hosts Rock Paper Scissors championship
17-Jun-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Pub customers battled it out in the first ever UK Rock Paper Scissors Championships last week. The event was held at Wetherspoons pub the Imperial in...
17-Jun-2009 By John Harrington
A Liberal Democrat peer is to table a Private Member's Bill to make it easier for pubs to stage live music. Lord Clement-Jones' Bill wants the...
16-Jun-2009 By Ewan Turney
The Orchid Group has acquired 10 sites back from Bar Room Bar — it originally sold the sites in 2007.
Pete Robinson: The pubco disease
16-Jun-2009
Where did it all go wrong?The entire sorry saga can be summed up in three words - Suits, Greed and Smoking Ban. Okay, that's four words.Punch was...
Pubs get to grips with new £70-jackpot games machines - includes video
16-Jun-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubs across the country have been making the most of new laws that now allow amusement with prizes (AWP) machines to have £70 jackpots. The top...
Pubs in line for fruit machine tax windfall
16-Jun-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubs could hit the jackpot after a court ruling paved the way for huge rebates in overpaid VAT on games machines. At the High Court earlier this...
Punch Taverns invites bond holders to sell up
16-Jun-2009 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns has invited holders of its 2010 convertible bonds to sell their holdings back to the company for 97 per cent of their par value, plus...
Scam artists targeting pubs with letting rooms
16-Jun-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubs with rooms to let are being warned to be on guard against a scam that could cost them thousands of pounds. Craig Henry, tenant at Fuller's pub...
16-Jun-2009 By Ewan Turney
Value meal deals sparked a 2% like-for-like sales increase at Whitbread's pub restaurants for the 13 weeks to 28 May. Whitbread, which owns the...
15-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team
The number of individual Punch licensees who end up buying their pub is likely to end up well in excess of 300. This morning, Punch said there were around 300 deals either complete or going through legals.
15-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team
Lloyds Bank has been looking for a new equity investor to take a stake in Admiral Taverns, the tenanted pub operator.
15-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team
Punch has confirmed that it will be backing a range of recommendations contained within the highly critical BEC report.
15-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team
Punch Taverns has reported that it has stabilised performance in both its leased and managed division for the 40 weeks to 30 May. Like-for-like...
Adam Withrington: Bickering while Rome burns...
15-Jun-2009
Whatever you think of Fair Pint, the group has served a valuable purpose in this current political climate. They have shamed our industry and our...
Hamish Champ: Will Bish's bash help solve the industry's woes?
15-Jun-2009 By Hamish Champ
As news filtered through of the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailer's (ALMR) forthcoming mediation shindig - the pub industry equivalent of a...
UK economic recovery unlikely before 2010
15-Jun-2009 By Hamish Champ
The UK economy may be stabilising, but according to industry body the CBI it will not show real signs of recovery until next year.The organisation...
Enterprise will not attend industry crunch talks
15-Jun-2009 By James Wilmore
Enterprise Inns will not be attending this week's industry mediation meeting, the company's chief executive Ted Tuppen has confirmed. Tuppen told The...
Punch Taverns to raise £350m via rights issue
15-Jun-2009 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns has announced a proposed £350m rights issue, aiming to use the funds to help pay down debt.Precise details of the rights issue, which...
15-Jun-2009 By MA reporter
The legality of Pubwatch bans face further examination as a second legal challenge got underway in the High Court today. Drinker Francis James Boyle,...
15-Jun-2009 By Ewan Turney
Punch Taverns has announced its intention to raise £350m via a firm placing and an open offer of new ordinary shares and use the cash to make a...
Fuller's: Better the devil you know
14-Jun-2009 By Hamish Champ
Government interference in the pub industry following publication of the Business & Enterprise Select Committee (BEC) report should be avoided at...
Tough times are with us for a while
14-Jun-2009 By Hamish Champ
There is a growing sense that far from 2009 proving to be the nadir for the pub sector, it will be next year when the brown stuff really hits the...
'Lloyds Bank facing £450m loss on Admiral Taverns'
14-Jun-2009
Lloyds Bank will lose an estimated £450m on Admiral Taverns, the pub giant, in what is believed to be one of the biggest write-offs it will be...
12-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team
Industry expert Phil Dixon has told tenanted pub company chiefs that the pubco/tenant relationship must change in ten areas.
12-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team
A senior executive at Enterprise Inns has stated that there are recommendations within the BEC report, which was highly critical of pubco/tenant relations, that "are difficult to argue with".
12-Jun-2009 By Roger Protz
When Arthur Guinness signed the lease on a brewery in 1759 it was the start of a legend, says Roger Protz.
12-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team
Major tenanted companies are now trying to put together a unified response to the hostile Bec report. The PMA Team looks at what might happen.
12-Jun-2009 By Peter Linacre
Two unrelated news events in this weekend's press made me ponder the continuing saga of the beer tie, says Peter Linacre.