Punch Taverns is set to create a separate division to oversee the most economically challenged pubs across its estate.As well as the creation of the...
Mitchells & Butlers pubs appear to be weathering the storm as it announced a 1% rise in like-for-like sales for the 17 weeks to 24 January— chiefly driven by its value food offers and a rise in cask ale volumes.
A traumatised licensee who was attacked by balaclava-clad thieves has criticised police for failing to warn her gangs were targeting pubs. Around 50,...
Think of Newcastle and maybe you picture the Angel of the North, football fans desperate for Kevin Keegan to return once more and hardy souls wearing...
Greene King has reported that the "health measures" of its tenants remain broadly unchanged despite warning that they face "the most extreme trading...
For many months virtually all the debate on the forum, and elsewhere in the industry, has been focused on the difficult trading conditions licensees...
A delighted licensee has praised her hard-working staff for helping scoop a hat-trick of awards at a regional Best Bar None ceremony. Kerry Simpson,...
Pubs in Romford, Essex are most likely to beat the credit crunch with people spending three times the national average on food and drink. A survey by...
I had lunch with an old 'Fleet Street' journalist friend last Tuesday at a Wetherspoons pub located slap bang twixt our respective offices.The place...
A pub has become the first on the Isle of Wight to be fined for spirit tipping. At court today the owners of the Countryman in Brighstone were fined...
Pubs in the South East of England will prove to be the most resilient to the credit crunch, according to new research. Romford, in Essex, appears the...
Unsustainable rents and high beer prices are the main reason why pubs are being boarded up across the country, say licensees protesting outside Enterprise and Punch HQs.
Punch Taverns has stressed that the leased model does have a future despite a protest from licensees outside its HQ. Punch facilities director Steve...
Midlands brewer Marston's is the latest to highlight the impact of the recession on the pub sector, reporting profits across its tenanted and leased...
Frustrated licensees are to present an open letter calling for a fairer deal on rents and beer prices to the bosses of Britain's two biggest pubcos at a protest march on Monday.
The UK's managed pubcos are driving hard down the value route. The PMA Team looks at the key strategies being used to out-perform in 2009 Consumer sea change.
Enterprise Inns has reported an eight per cent fall in pub net income across its estate in the 16 weeks to January 17, 2009, with rental revenue down...
The award for best young chef at the 2009 Tatler Louis Roederer Restaurant Awards has gone to a pub chef. Dominic Chapman, of the Royal Oak in Paley...
The BII has announced the winners of the 2008 National Industry Training Awards (NITAs). The winners were announced via a live broadcast on its site....
