Peroni Nastro Azzurro
23-Feb-2009 By MA reporter
Why is Peroni Nastro Azzurro in the Hot to Stock list? Peroni Nastro Azzurro is the no 1. Premium beer from Italy and is one of the fastest growing...
Trade welcomes Tory campaign to save the pub
23-Feb-2009 By Ewan Turney
The British Beer and Pub Association has welcomed the launch of a campaign to save the pub by the Conservative party.
23-Feb-2009 By Ewan Turney
Work has begun on a new £700,000 bottling line at St Austell Brewery in Cornwall. The new bottling line will increase capacity to 100,000 bottles a...
20-Feb-2009 By The PMA Team
The line-up of speakers for the first free Morning Advertiser (MA) 150 club seminar for leading managed multiple pub operators has been unveiled.
'Pub binge may not be a bad thing'
20-Feb-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Binge-drinking may not be a bad thing according to a psychologist. A night on the town can help relieve the stress of the working week and is...
Pub to donate proceeds to charity
20-Feb-2009
A woman who runs a Nottinghamshire pub is planning to donate all of its proceeds to a charity dedicated to researching a rare genetic disease.Gail...
CAMRA Pub of the Year revealed
20-Feb-2009
The Campaign for Real Ale has revealed its pub of the year 2008 as Kelham Island Tavern in Sheffield.Licensee Trevor Wraith bought the semi derelict...
20-Feb-2009 By John Harrington
The Conservative Party has launched a campaign to save the pub. A new petition on the party's website calls for: • Cutting taxes on lower-alcohol...
20-Feb-2009 By Roger Protz
Why did the BBC edit out any sign of Camra from a programme about drinking in Britain?
20-Feb-2009 By Ewan Turney
The Kelham Island Tavern in Sheffield has been crowned Pub of the Year by the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra). The Kelham Island Tavern has been Camra...
20-Feb-2009 By Gemma McKenna
A local newspaper in Norwich is running a campaign to help save the city's pubs. The Norwich Evening News's Love your Local campaign aims to...
19-Feb-2009 By The PMA Team
Punch Taverns has had a new leased division boss, Roger Whiteside, in place since the end of November last year — The PMA Team met him.
19-Feb-2009 By The PMA Team
Enterprise Inns is offering a new lease agreement that means licensees earn a £150-a-barrel discount if they exceed barrelage targets. It's part of...
Can the pub trade be franchised?
19-Feb-2009
As an industry we're stuck. Stuck with nowhere to go - and no-one to pay the bills. The pub trade is the hospitality industry's very own Icarus....
Now's your chance
19-Feb-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
We need your help, now! That's the message from disgruntled licensees to Alistair Darling. Drinks trade groups have secured a meeting with the...
The Publican calls for meeting with supermarket chiefs
19-Feb-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
The Publican has gone on the front foot in the battle against loss-leading supermarket deals by requesting meetings with the big four retailers. A...
19-Feb-2009 By John Harrington
Youngsters employed to detect pubs that serve children will use genuine ID owned by someone over 18 — to catch bar staff who don't make proper...
19-Feb-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Only four of the 10 Spirit freeholds auctioned last week on behalf of British Land were sold, raising just over £6.1m. Three out of four pubs...
19-Feb-2009 By Robyn Lewis
Greene King has become the first brewer to gain Red Tractor accreditation across its entire beer portfolio. Beers including Greene King IPA, Old...
Everards staff give young Barnardo's carers a helping hand
18-Feb-2009
The money was handed over to Leicestershire Cares and will go towards the Barnardo's CareFree project in the county, which offers support services to...
18-Feb-2009 By John Harrington
A key figure behind plans to force more costly red tape on all licensees can't remember the last time he visited a pub. Home Office minister Alan...
17-Feb-2009 By The PMA Team
JD Wetherspoon has brokered a deal with Greene King that will see Ruddles Best replace IPA as the 99p-a-pint offer within its 715-pub estate. The...
Wetherspoons drops IPA from 99p offer
17-Feb-2009
Wetherspoons has dropped Greene King IPA from its controversial 99p a pint offer in a bid to appease the brewer. The pub chain confirmed IPA had been...
Centenarian Vera hailed as UK's oldest licensee
17-Feb-2009
A woman from Cornwall who has celebrated her 100th birthday has been declared the UK's oldest publican and shows little sign of wanting to call...
Fund launched to help campaigning licensee
17-Feb-2009
A campaigning licensee has spoken of her gratitude after discovering that a fund has been set up to help her avoid bankruptcy.Inez Ward, founder of...
'Arson attack pub to be demolished'
17-Feb-2009
A pub which was severely damaged when a suspected arson attack ripped through Blackpool town centre, will be demolished. Yates's Wine Lodge, a pet...
Northumberland pubs become radio active
17-Feb-2009
Pubs in a Northumberland town will be on the same wavelength after staff were supplied with radios to help them keep tabs on troublemakers and warn...
17-Feb-2009 By Ewan Turney
Licensees across the country are clubbing together to raise money to stop high profile licensee Inez Ward from going bankrupt. Ward, Enterprise...
16-Feb-2009 By Ewan Turney
Hartlepool brewer and operator Camerons has installed beer-flow equipment Brulines in a further 27 tenanted pubs.
Mark Daniels: People's Livelihoods Are at Stake, Mr Darling!
16-Feb-2009
One of the traits I despise most in a person is somebody who simply won't listen. Everybody is entitled to their own opinion, and I truly admire a...
Drink Talking: Paul Smith, Noctis
16-Feb-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
I spend a great deal of my life travelling the country meeting operators, police officers and politicians. Visiting different towns and cities I find...
Fat cats, noses in troughs and executive pay
16-Feb-2009 By Hamish Champ
The issue of 'fat cats' is on everyone's lips again. Bankers with their 'noses in the trough' - if that's not overdoing the ol' animal kingdom...
'Pub destroyed in arson attack'
16-Feb-2009
A bar favoured by MPs at party conferences in Blackpool was destroyed in a suspected arson attack early yesterday. A 21-year-old man was held on...
'Enterprise Inns pub on sale for £1'
15-Feb-2009
"A Midland pub has been put up for sale for £1 - less than half the cost of a pint. Wannabe landlords are being offered the chance to purchase The...
Pubco CEOs may see pay frozen in 2009
14-Feb-2009 By Hamish Champ
A number of leading pubco bosses are expected to miss out on a basic pay increase in the coming year as the companies they run batten down the...
13-Feb-2009 By Roger Protz
It seems obvious that rising prices and duty do no one any good in the long term — neither brewers nor Brown & Co — so why do they persist, asks Roger Protz.
Peach Pub Co appoints its first ops director
13-Feb-2009
Multiple pub operator Peach Pub Company (PPC) has appointed ex-Barracuda North of England & Scotland head of operations Paul Cutsforth as its...
Pub tackles recession with hats and handbags
13-Feb-2009
A Liverpool pub has stepped up its efforts to beat the crunch by launching a hats and handbag evening to attract more female customers.Laura King,...
Marston's names new finance chief
13-Feb-2009 By Hamish Champ
Marston's, the Midlands brewer, has appointed Andrew Andrea to the position of group finance director, with effect from the end of March. Andrea,...
Punch Taverns commits to RPI-related rent decrease
13-Feb-2009 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns has guaranteed it will match any move by the retail prices index (RPI) into negative territory with a reduction in rent for its...
13-Feb-2009 By Ewan Turney
The BII has launched a new business support helpline for its licensee members. The new service will is designed to complement the BII's existing...
13-Feb-2009 By Andrew Pring
In a dramatic extension of its sell-off programme, Punch is inviting any of its 7,560 licensees to make an offer for the pub they currently run. The...
12-Feb-2009 By Ewan Turney
The Campaign for Real Ale has urged MPs, councils and the public to throw their full weight of support behind the Sustainable Communities Act to help stop pubs closing.
National Pubwatch Conference 2009
12-Feb-2009
The Victorian splendour of the Majestic Hotel in Harrogate was the setting for this year's National Pubwatch Conference.But the topics on the agenda...
Solar roof panels added to Punch Tavern's green building
12-Feb-2009
Punch Tavern's development of its new eco friendly headquarters has taken a step further with the installation of solar thermal roof panels on the...
Licensees' stories to be heard at Darling meeting
12-Feb-2009 By James Wilmore
Licensees will have their voices heard at a potentially groundbreaking meeting with Alistair Darling before the Budget. For the first time in at...
Pub wins in dispute over marquee
12-Feb-2009 By James Wilmore
A determined licensee has been victorious in a year-long fight with his local council to keep a marquee, used as a changing room by the pub's...
'Greene King to sell 100 pubs despite improving profits'
12-Feb-2009
The pub operator and brewer, Greene King, told analysts that while its top 1,000 tenanted pubs are improving profits, it has accelerated corrective...
12-Feb-2009 By John Harrington
Banking giant Santander has apologised to a licensee after she was reportedly told by the group it won't lend to any pubs. Santander, which owns...
12-Feb-2009 By Ewan Turney
Guinness volumes fell 8% in Great Britain during the six months to 31 December with net sales down 2% on last year, Diageo has reported.
