Punch Taverns set for shareholder mauling
12-Jan-2009 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns shareholders are expected to give senior executives at the UK's largest pub operator a rough time at the group's annual general meeting...
12-Jan-2009 By Ewan Turney
Best Bar None (BBN) has identified 50 further areas to establish the scheme, which rewards best practice in responsible retailing.
12-Jan-2009 By John Harrington
Conservative Party leader David Cameron is backing calls for the Government to scrap plans that could mean higher business rates for pubs. Cameron...
12-Jan-2009 By Ewan Turney
Private equity groups are "running down" the pub industry through "stupidity" and "greed" — that is the astonishing attack launched by JD...
'Punch Taverns to report tough Christmas trading figures'
11-Jan-2009
"Embattled pub company Punch Taverns is expected to report tough trading over the festive season, with like-for-like sales likely to be down about 5...
2008 - A Year To Forget?
10-Jan-2009 By Hamish Champ
Few in the pub and brewing sectors will forget 2008. Rising beer duty, higher energy bills and an economy headed for the U-bend merely fuelled what...
Hamish Champ: Will Wetherspoon's 99p pint herald the demise of the tie?
10-Jan-2009 By Hamish Champ
I might be wrong - let's face it, it wouldn't be the first time - but I reckon in years to come people might look back on JD Wetherspoon's 99p-a-pint...
Call to arms for Admiral Taverns tenants
10-Jan-2009 By Hamish Champ
The newly-appointed head of Admiral Taverns' new division of bottom-end pubs said he wants underperforming tenants to "grasp the opportunities" that...
09-Jan-2009 By Andrew Pring
With the downturn biting hard, the economic conditions are right for the evolution of the pub, says Andrew Pring.
Adam Withrington: Divide and Conquer
09-Jan-2009
Amongst the furore surrounding the Wetherspoons (JDW) 99p pint story from last week, one thing has gone unmentioned. Why is Alcohol Concern making...
Chris Maclean: Why I'm proud of pubs
09-Jan-2009 By Chris Maclean
Is a 40 per cent GP on £10,000 takings better than a 60 per cent GP on £5,000?I ask this, not as an exercise in accounting, but as a genuine...
Novus Leisure's Xmas boosted by Tiger Tiger shindigs
09-Jan-2009 By Hamish Champ
Parties and event nights helped Tiger Tiger bar operator Novus Leisure post uninvested like-for-like sales growth of 2.9 per cent over Christmas and...
More than 170 InBev sales staff face axe
09-Jan-2009 By James Wilmore
More than 170 InBev UK on-trade sales staff face being made redundant as part of a review of the business, The Publican understands. According to a...
09-Jan-2009 By Ewan Turney
Frustrated licensees are planning a protest march to highlight the plight of tenants outside the headquarters of Britain's two biggest pubcos —...
09-Jan-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Punch Taverns tenants are showing intense interest in buying the freeholds of the 500 pubs that Punch is offering them first refusal on, according to...
08-Jan-2009 By John Harrington
A panel of industry experts and top brass have spoken to the MA about their hopes and fears for 2009 — now we want your predictions.
08-Jan-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Enterprise Inns has sold 10 closed pubs for alternative use at an auction held by Breach Wood Ingram (BWI).
08-Jan-2009 By The PMA Team
Morning Advertiser managing editor The PMA Team makes some predictions about the year ahead. Managed operators death roll Managed operators have...
Interest rates cut to 1.5 per cent
08-Jan-2009 By Hamish Champ
The Bank of England has cut interest rates by half a percentage point to 1.5 per cent, the lowest rates have been since the bank was founded in...
Two Wetherspoons pubs miss out on 99p offer
08-Jan-2009 By James Wilmore
Two JD Wetherspoon pubs are missing out on its 99p offer to comply with a town's stance on minimum pricing, it has emerged. A police and council...
'Well-known pubs forced to shut'
08-Jan-2009
Two well-known Dundee pubs have closed leading to the loss of 25 jobs. The Nine Maidens in Laird Street and Doc Stewart's - officially called The...
08-Jan-2009 By Ewan Turney
A Lancashire pub has launched a 98p pint to highlight the "stupidity" of Wetherspoon's 99p a pint deal — the offer is the brainchild of well known licensee Nick Hogan.
08-Jan-2009 By MA Team
A better-than-expected festive period has given many operators and licensees a much-needed glimmer of hope in the economic gloom. The timing of the...
08-Jan-2009 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Latest accounts from Utopian Leisure Group, the North-East bar and club operator led by Bob Senior, show it breached its banking covenants, according...
08-Jan-2009 By Claire Elliott
Two pubs in Caversham, Berkshire are offering value meals for less than £2 in a bid to attract customers. The Prince of Wales has been operating a...
07-Jan-2009 By Tony Halstead
Award-winning business development manager Joe Smith is to leave Enterprise Inns to take up a new role with rival Greene King.
07-Jan-2009 By The PMA Team
Robert Cook, the boss of the exclusive Hotel du Vin chain, has confirmed his intention of rolling out a pub chain after success at his first site in...
Untangling the Matthew Clark/ Punch Taverns tie-up
07-Jan-2009
MATTHEW CLARK'S role in supplying UK pubs was already complicated enough before Punch Taverns took a 50 per cent stake in it in mid-2007. Acquired by...
Mark Daniels: My Andy Warhol moment
07-Jan-2009
If I had a pound for every time I'd managed to get either myself or the pub mentioned in one form of the media or other in the past twelve months,...
Wetherspoons hits back over 99p pint furore
07-Jan-2009 By James Wilmore
JD Wetherspoon has hit back at criticism over its 99p pint offer, arguing the promotion is "far from irresponsible". The pub chain launched the offer...
Chris Maclean: The pub really is the hub
06-Jan-2009 By Chris Maclean
There seems to be a consensus; it was killed by the Millennium. New Year's Eve simply isn't the same any more.I remember it well. For those of us who...
Peter Brook joins Admiral Taverns
06-Jan-2009 By Hamish Champ
Admiral Taverns has ring-fenced 400 of its most troubled pubs into a new operation and put former InDeed Group boss Peter Brook in charge.Brook, who...
06-Jan-2009 By Ewan Turney
Admiral Taverns has appointed industry veteran Peter Brook as managing director of 400 under-performing pubs, which require "additional support"....
Mark Daniels: Bring on more rubbish TV
05-Jan-2009
Waking up Christmas Day morning to discover mad Aunt Mildred had generously sent the children hundreds of pounds of Woolworths vouchers was only...
Hamish Champ: Look into my 2009 crystal ball. Murky, isn't it?
05-Jan-2009 By Hamish Champ
So how went your New Year celebrations? Really? Marvellous. As it happens I've never been so glad to see the back of a year as I was with 2008, but...
02-Jan-2009 By John Harrington
Greene King is "extremely disappointed" that Wetherspoon is selling its ale brand for 99p.
Globe risks covenant breach
02-Jan-2009 By The PMA Team
Robert Tchenguiz's tenanted pubco risks breaching its securitisation covenants, as sales fall 10.8% in the three months to 29 November.
JD Wetherspoon slashes price of Greene King IPA
02-Jan-2009 By The PMA Team
JDW will sell IPA for 99p per pint "indefinitely", while five meals are to be offered for £2.99 each.
Peninsula Inns placed in administration
02-Jan-2009 By The PMA Team
The boss of the Torquay-based company, which owned 18 pubs, blames the credit crunch, the smoking ban and rising utility costs.
M&B bosses get limited bonuses
02-Jan-2009 By The PMA Team
Limited bonus payments for Mitchells & Butlers chiefs resumed in 2008 despite the crystalisation of a near-£400m hedge fund loss last January.
No bonuses for Marston's top brass
02-Jan-2009 By Hamish Champ
Top executives at Midlands' brewer Marston's have missed out on bonuses in 2008 collectively worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.According to the...
Hamish Champ: The 'pub versus the front room' debate
29-Dec-2008 By Hamish Champ
Let's face it, there's no time like Christmas to highlight the 'socialising in a pub versus the living room' debate. Locked with the extended family...
Tchenguiz to hire consultants for Globe Pub Co
29-Dec-2008 By Hamish Champ
Property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz's Globe Pub Company (GPC) is to appoint a team of independent consultants to look at what it calls "operational...
Cock Inn is Adnams top pub
24-Dec-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Adnams' top pubs have been celebrated at the company's inaugural awards ceremony. The number one prize of Pub of the Year went to the Cock Inn at...
152 Orchid Group staff lose their jobs
23-Dec-2008 By Hamish Champ
More than 150 Orchid Group pub staff have been sacked after administrators failed to secure the future of more than a dozen sites of the collapsed...
'Drunken thugs to be given Asbos'
23-Dec-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Drunken thugs will be given booze Asbos from next summer in a crackdown announced today. Drinking Banning Orders that stop yobs going into pubs and...
23-Dec-2008 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Punch Taverns has taken back — and closed — 45 leasehold sites from administrators to the collapsed Orchid pub business, M&C Report has learnt.
22-Dec-2008 By Gemma McKenna
Punch Taverns new customer training package will incentivise trainees, who can get almost 50% of their money back, based on their success. Punch's...
22-Dec-2008 By Gemma McKenna
The Cock Inn in Clare, Suffolk has been named Adnams Pub of the Year at its inaugural Pub Awards. The awards were presented at a ceremony at the...
22-Dec-2008 By Gemma McKenna
A Somerset licensee has been barred from his local Wetherspoon pub after displaying a price comparison list in his pub window. John Bowles, licensee...
