The government is planning to extend the deadline that a licence can be transferred if a premises licence holder dies, Gerry Sutcliffe has revealed....
Trade groups have slammed Alistair Darling's announcement today that he will raise alcohol tax eight per cent to cover a drop in VAT. Mark Hastings,...
For more than ten years before I bought in to my little pub I worked in what could generically be termed as the "internet industry".I understood what...
Suffolk brewer Greene King has split its leased and tenanted pub business into two divisions - some 18 months after adopting a similar approach with...
Making the most of weird and wonderful dates in the diary can help raise revenue, according a to a pair of licensees. Charlie and Carole Edgeler have...
The pubcos have taken another battering from the Fair Pint group in the wake of the first Business and Enterprise Committee hearing — the group appeared on Radio 4's You and Yours show.
Up to 7,500 pubs could close by 2012 because of a tidal wave of beer tax hikes, cheap supermarket booze and the general economic downturn. That's the...
London-based pub operator and brewer Young's put in a "resilient in increasingly challenging economic environment" for the half year to 27 September....
Carlsberg is "very disappointed" and "surprised" by Enterprise's decision to de-list the lager from its 7,763 pubs from 31 January — it says the pubco is restricting tenants choice.
Enterprise Inns is currently spending £1.3m a month on tenant support in the form of special discounts and rent concessions as the average level of licensee profitability fell by 4% to £45,000 for the year to 30 September.
The Business and Enterprise Committee inquiry into the pubco-tenant relationship gets underway today at 1030am — and the MA will bring you unrivalled coverage, starting with a preview of the action.
Twelve and a half per cent. Sounds simple enough. Seventeen and a half per cent is VAT. Fifty percent is the GP. We're used to percentages.So why is...
Last week I listened to two highly successful businessmen tackle the vexed subject of how businesses could cope in a recession. At The Publican's Pub...
The administrators of Cains Beer Company have placed 26 freehold pubs back on the market after talks with Calco Midlands — the preferred bidder — stalled, according to the M&C Report.
Pubs in Scunthorpe may be forced to switch to polycarbonate glasses after a spate of incidents in the town — police say there has been trouble over the last six weekends in the town.
JD Wetherspoon is suing its former property advisor Van de Berg for fraud and breach of contract. The PMA Team went along to watch founder Tim Martin...
