Hamish Champ: When will shares in pubcos finally turn?
01-Sep-2008 By Hamish Champ
I was having a chat with a friend the other day about when we thought share prices for the listed pubcos would turn for the better. We weren't...
'Supermarket alcohol to outsell pubs for the first time'
01-Sep-2008
Supermarket booze sales are about to outstrip pubs for the first time. The trend will inflict even further pain on pubs that have been hit by their...
29-Aug-2008 By John Harrington
The company will absorb the cost of cut-price drinks deals at around 200 mainly wet-led tenanted pubs
Restaurant Group posts half year profits hike
29-Aug-2008 By Hamish Champ
The Restaurant Group (TRG), which operates Frankie & Benny's and Garfunkel's eatery chains as well as a number of pub restaurants, has announced...
New Spirit Group boss to restructure company
29-Aug-2008 By Hamish Champ
Mike Tye, Spirit Group's newly appointed managing director, has announced sweeping changes to the organisation in an effort to reverse its flagging...
Cains licensees reveal distress of losing jobs
29-Aug-2008 By James Wilmore
Distraught ex-Cains licensees have told of their misery at losing their jobs and homes following the high-profile collapse of the company.Twenty-four...
29-Aug-2008 By Andrew Pring
Women have been the backbone of the pub trade for centuries. Their husbands and partners may have been the name over the door and played the...
28-Aug-2008 By Roger Protz
This brewing business, it's women's work. So, for that matter, is running top beer festivals.
28-Aug-2008 By The PMA Team
Punch Taverns has officially launched the latest batch of 50 pubs it is converted from managed to lease through agent Christie & Co. The pubs,...
A brief history of binge-drinking
28-Aug-2008
Binge-drinking, I hardly have to mention, is big news. Barely a day goes by without a politician or police force pledging to make a stand against...
'Deepening recession set to send GDP tumbling'
28-Aug-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Britain's economy is set to shrink over the next year as a deepening recession inflicts the first full-year fall in national income since 1991, a...
Pubs join in Olympic success
28-Aug-2008 By James Wilmore
Pubs across the UK have done their bit to mark Great Britain's "great haul of China" at the Olympics. After bagging a staggering 19 gold medals and...
City Pub Life to go national
28-Aug-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
A successful website that has helped pubs in the South East market themselves is going national. For the last seven years City Pub Life has helped...
Pub for sale, but not as a pub
28-Aug-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Pub campaigners have labelled Enterprise Inns "a disgrace" for trying to sell a historic pub on the condition that its use is changed. The Bell, in...
28-Aug-2008 By Tony Halstead
Trade concern is mounting at the way police and councils are targeting designated premises supervisors (DPSs) as a 'scapegoat' in tackling problem...
27-Aug-2008 By Ewan Turney
The Campaign for Real Ale has pledged financial support to help transform the closed Coors Visitor Centre into a National Brewing Museum.
27-Aug-2008 By Ewan Turney
Glasgow-based investment firm Marketing Management Services International has emerged as a surprise bidder to buy the Cains brewing operation and pub estate — and vows to keep the brewery open should it be successful.
CAMRA promises cash to boost museum bid
27-Aug-2008 By James Wilmore
Hopes of transforming the under-threat Coors Visitor Centre into a national brewing museum have been boosted thanks to the promise of a "significant"...
Pub plan could save landmark church
27-Aug-2008
The church of Scotland has given its blessing to what may be Britain's only "pub in a church" plan, in a bid to save a landmark A-listed place of...
French licensee looks to life across the channel
27-Aug-2008
A French licensee who is so obsessed with British culture he has just bought a London black cab is keen to expand his links in the UK. Alain Cauchon...
26-Aug-2008 By Lucy Britner
Pubs have endured another miserable summer as consumers look to save money and take advantage of cheap off-trade deals — on-trade sales volumes are down 8% on last year but up 3% in the off-trade.
Cains administrators close 24 pubs
26-Aug-2008 By Hamish Champ
Administrators to the collapsed Cains Beer Company have now closed nearly a quarter of the group's retail estate.PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said...
ALMR slams Sainsbury's over "giveaway" prices
26-Aug-2008 By James Wilmore
Supermarket giant Sainsbury's has been blasted for selling beer at "pocket money prices" over the bank holiday weekend. The Association of Licensed...
Economic woes force punters to cut pub visits
26-Aug-2008 By Hamish Champ
Accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) had more bad news for licensees today, claiming consumers were liable to significantly cut back visits to...
Punch licensees given online help
26-Aug-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Punch Taverns is attempting to help licensees drive trade at its 8,400 pubs by revamping the website it provides for them. The site has had a name...
'Brits are more into getting drunk in the pub than eating well'
26-Aug-2008 By James Wilmore
Jamie Oliver has attacked his fellow Brits as a nation of beer-swilling, uncivilised materialists who no longer care about food. He rants that our...
26-Aug-2008 By Ewan Turney
The majority of responsible drinkers are not willing to pay more tax to help deal with the irresponsible behaviour of the minority. That is what the...
22-Aug-2008 By Tony Halstead
Several licensees at Cains pubs have told of their heartbreak as they face losing their jobs following the company administrator's decision to close...
22-Aug-2008 By Ewan Turney
A BBC documentary revealed serious hygiene breaches at Yates's in Reading last night. The Rogue Restaurants programme revealed that staff had been...
East Anglia: All in it together
21-Aug-2008
Suffolk is a very rural, close-to-the-land sort of place which has heavily influenced the way we at Aspall have chosen to continue to run our...
Can pubs learn from cinema's revival to keep their doors open?
21-Aug-2008
Going to the cinema in 1984 was pretty rubbish. Years of neglect had left many auditoriums dank and rundown with seats so uncomfortable they could...
21-Aug-2008 By Andrew Pring
Amidst some rather bizarre human-rights legislation, it's refreshing to see common sense protecting licensees and customers from troublemakers, says MA editor Andrew Pring
21-Aug-2008 By Ewan Turney
Thousands of pub sales could be delayed by months from 1 October as the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) farce slips into chaos with just 41 accredited inspectors and no official transition period in place.
21-Aug-2008 By Tony Halstead
Cains administrators are closing down a number of pubs it considers to be unviable. Licensees in Punch-owned sites, leased to Cains, have been told...
21-Aug-2008 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Lucky Voice, the style bar and private-room karaoke concept, is to open a bar in Islington next week and another in Brighton in 2009. The bar in...
20-Aug-2008 By John Harrington
John McNamara reflects on his time in charge at the BII and the challenges that lay ahead.
Back to Basics: To the rescue
20-Aug-2008
What with all the current pressures on licensees, from falling sales to increased legislation, it would be no surprise if some of the more basic...
InBev is feeling the pressure
20-Aug-2008
THE WORLD'S biggest brewer, InBev, reported revenue growth of 4.5 per cent to €3.71bn during the second quarter of 2008, but admitted that it was...
Welcome to Wadworthshire
20-Aug-2008
ONLY FOUR years to go to the London Olympics and they're in training for their share of gold amid the verdant dells and thatched roofs of...
Trade plummets at one in five pubs
20-Aug-2008 By James Wilmore
Licensees' woes have been brought into sharp focus by gloomy figures revealed in this year's Publican Market Report. One in five pubs responding to...
'Firefighters call for derelict pubs to be demolished'
20-Aug-2008
Local firefighters have called for derelict pubs to be demolished to stop them being targeted by arsonists, making their presence a waste of...
20-Aug-2008 By Paul Collins
The co-ordinator of Liverpool Pubwatch has denied the "gentleman's agreement" by licensees not to sell drinks below set prices is a cartel. More than...
19-Aug-2008 By John Harrington
Council bosses want to ban new late-night DJ events in the City of London and have tabled plans where no new promoted events would be allowed between 11pm and 7am without the "express written consent" of the local police commissioner.
Licensees pull the plug on Sky
18-Aug-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubs are increasingly switching off Sky to save money according to the findings of latest research. The Publican's Market Report this week reveals...
Drop in tourists hits pubs
18-Aug-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubs suffering from the 'perfect storm' conspiring against them have been dealt another major blow. Figures released by the Office for National...
18-Aug-2008 By Ewan Turney
Kent brewer Shepherd Neame has joined beer quality monitoring scheme Cask Marque. The brewer said that being part of the scheme would send out a key...
15-Aug-2008 By Ewan Turney
Punch Taverns is to provide Energy Performance Certificates (EPC) for 800 of its leased pubs in a bid to cut carbon emissions by 17% by 2010.
15-Aug-2008 By David Elliott
Greene King's Public Housewives campaign celebrates women going it alone, says David Elliott, managing director of Greene King Pub Partners.
Mark Daniels: I'd Want My Name On It!
15-Aug-2008
I was curious to know their response, having just read a report on Carlsberg's latest customer survey that apparently shows 37 per cent of their...
Punch agrees deal for greener future
15-Aug-2008
Punch Taverns has inked a multi-million pound deal to help reduce the carbon emissions across its portfolio of pubsThe company has teamed up with a...
