Deals are down, but by no means out
16-Jun-2008 By Hamish Champ
Given the ongoing kerfuffle regarding the credit crunch, you could be excused for assuming that corporate activity in the pub sector had all but...
InBev faces rival bid for Anheuser-Busch
16-Jun-2008 By Hamish Champ
The battle for Anheuser-Busch (A-B) was ramped up at the weekend with InBev warning the US brewing giant not to do a deal with a rival company.In a...
Recession not a foregone conclusion, says CBI
16-Jun-2008 By Hamish Champ
Richard Lambert, director-general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), has warned against the business community talking themselves into a...
Hamish Champ: Not taking kindly to a takeover bid
15-Jun-2008 By Hamish Champ
I noted with interest last week the growing campaign in the US to block InBev's takeover bid for Anheuser-Busch.There's no guarantee the approach...
Well placed
15-Jun-2008 By Hamish Champ
Fuller, Smith & Turner chairman Michael Turner's recent warning that 2008 was likely to be the toughest year the pub sector could remember sent a...
Fuller's positively negative on REITs
15-Jun-2008 By Hamish Champ
London brewer Fuller, Smith & Turner last week poured cold water - and a degree of scorn - on those pub operators looking to become real estate...
12-Jun-2008 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) activist investor Robert Tchenguiz has upped his total holding in the company to 29.77%
12-Jun-2008 By Ewan Turney
Inbev has made an unsolicited $46bn bid for US brewer Anheuser-Busch
12-Jun-2008 By Andrew Pring
MA editor discusses the joys of youthful licensees
12-Jun-2008 By Jon Collins
Hot on the heels of the smoke ban looms the fresh hell of legislation banning provocative music
12-Jun-2008 By Peter Linacre
Peter Linacre ponders whether pubs are going the same way as petrol stations
12-Jun-2008 By The PMA Team
JD Wetherspoon has added a fifth site to the four it has already acquired from the 90 or so Laurel Pub Company sites in administration. The company...
Darts could be a bullseye for your pub
12-Jun-2008
Darts legend Phil 'The Power' Taylor never did accept an invitation from Geronimo Inns boss Rupert Clevely to challenge him to a game in one of the...
Punch licensees abandoning Sky
12-Jun-2008
Licensees have been increasingly abandoning Sky TV, a survey of more than 4,000 Punch Taverns licensees has revealed.The poll shows that between 2003...
Molson Coors names new top team
12-Jun-2008 By Hamish Champ
US brewer Molson Coors has appointed a former University of Wales graduate as its global president/chief executive.Peter Swinburn's appointment will...
Taxi ban for pub
12-Jun-2008
Licensees are being warned that offering a free taxi service to customers could lead to prosecution.The warning has come after a Gloucestershire...
Enterprise Inns to sell 82 pubs
12-Jun-2008 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns, which was recently given the go-ahead to become a real estate investment trust, is selling more than 80 of its pubs as part of a...
12-Jun-2008 By Ewan Turney
Molson Coors Brewing Company has appointed Peter Swinburn as president and chief executive. Stewart Glendinning has also been appointed as global...
Snifter
12-Jun-2008
Turner's take on M&B's Reit Fuller's chairman Michael Turner, below, has waded into the debate about Mitchells & Butlers' (M&B) future....
Blackpool to tighten policy
12-Jun-2008
Blackpool Council is reportedly trying to "beef up" its saturation policy after JD Wetherspoon (JDW) was granted a new licence in the saturation...
Bar Talk
12-Jun-2008
What do you think of the Local Government Association's calls for more detailed health information on menus? Claire Alexander Ebrington Arms Chipping...
Moves
12-Jun-2008
New BDM for Punch hosts in Warwickshire Punch Taverns has appointed a new BDM to support its licensees in Warwickshire. Mark Henderson takes on this...
My pub juke box
12-Jun-2008
Roger Protz, MA columnist and Good Beer Guide editor, chooses his favourite tracks Music has always been an inspiration. My parents, with me in tow,...
Grandness of inn George
12-Jun-2008
The Furbanks family has rescued a historic coaching inn in Cambridgeshire and brought it right up to date with a well-heeled brasserie, says Ted...
Local connection
12-Jun-2008
Midlands drinkers prefer ales from their home turf — good news for breweries focusing on provenance Whether there's something in the water or it's...
Marriage of convenience
12-Jun-2008
Its brewing tie-up with London-based Young & Co is working well for Charles Wells of Bedford Charles Wells began life as a brewer in 1876, but...
Just what the doctor ordered
12-Jun-2008
Professor Ian Gilmore is no teetotaller — but as Graham Holter finds out, the Alcohol Health Alliance chairman is all for limiting the damaging...
Q&A
12-Jun-2008
Review and cancellation of personal licence Q. Can a licensing officer call in a personal licence for review and can it be cancelled, like a driving...
Don't fall prey to the scammers
12-Jun-2008
You will know that some topics have a habit of recurring time and again. From my point of view, scams against licensees never really go away, or...
Your say
12-Jun-2008
Conflict of opinion on system open to abuse With reference to Clive Williams's article in the 29 May issue of the Morning Advertiser, has he got it...
12-Jun-2008 By Jo Bruce
From bloggers to pubco booses, Whitbread's all-you-can-eat Taybarns is the concept everyone is talking about, with estimated food takings of around...
What's happening at Fuller's?
12-Jun-2008
Freeholds are the way forward Fuller's was stressing the importance of owning its own freeholds on results day last Friday. Chairman Michael Turner...
Publican takes to the airwaves
11-Jun-2008
A licensee is entertaining listeners across the North West after securing a regular slot on a regional radio station. Darren Tingle, of the Old...
Top MP to meet licensee campaign group
10-Jun-2008
A pub campaign group has been granted an audience with shadow licensing minister Tobias Ellwood to discuss its concerns over issues affecting the...
10-Jun-2008 By Ewan Turney
A Lancashire licensee has warned his fellow hosts to be on the alert for a new scam hitting the trade. Michael Baines of the Eagle pub in Child...
Back to Basics: Surviving a terror attack
09-Jun-2008
The explosion at the Giraffe bar-restaurant in Exeter on May 22 was a sharp reminder that the hospitality industry, including pubs, is a potential...
Facing up to reality in the pub trade
09-Jun-2008
The smoking ban, the credit crunch, poor weather and steeply rising costs are regularly cited as contributing to the pub industry's ills. Whether pub...
Hamish Champ: Arguing the case for pubs
09-Jun-2008 By Hamish Champ
Everyone's been bemoaning falling beer sales recently. Brewers, for obvious reasons, have been bemoaning them. Pubcos, for example Mitchells &...
A smart move
09-Jun-2008 By Hamish Champ
In the words of its chief executive Stephen Goodyear, Young & Co's controversial decision to sell its famous South London brewery site now looks...
Solving the industry's woes, or: 'There's got to be a Plan B'
09-Jun-2008 By Hamish Champ
Listening to executives gathered in Oxfordshire at The Publican Industry Leaders' Forum last week was a bit like being in Harold Ramis' wonderful...
Soaring energy costs prompts sector downgrade
09-Jun-2008 By Hamish Champ
The impact of soaring cost of gas and electricity prices on managed pub operators has prompted a leading City analyst to downgrade his profit...
06-Jun-2008 By Ewan Turney
But operator warns that that the smoking ban has taken its toll across its 106-strong estate
It's not easy being green
06-Jun-2008
Tim Robinson and Vanessa Grove from the Rose and Crown near Faversham in Kent have one goal in 2008: to go green. The traditional grade two listed...
News update: Sell More pubs make progress
06-Jun-2008
* Sometimes businesses have to take one step back in order to take two steps forward. The White Hart, Hull, is planning a relaunch as a rebranded...
McManus Pub Co sails off with Estuary Pub Company
06-Jun-2008
McManus Pub Company, the Northampton-based operator has acquired full control of the six-site Estuary Pub Company after buying the outstanding 50 per...
Coming year likely to be "toughest ever", predicts Fuller's boss
06-Jun-2008 By Hamish Champ
The coming year will be the toughest the pub and brewing industries have seen in living memory, according to Fuller, Smith & Turner chairman...
Pubs 'n' Bars facing up to smoking ban
06-Jun-2008
Pubs 'n' Bars more than doubled profits in the year to the end of December 2007, with its community-focused pub offer appealing to cash-strapped...
Fuller's positive despite "challenging circumstances
06-Jun-2008 By Hamish Champ
Fuller Smith & Turner chairman Michael Turner said that despite challenging circumstances the group had delivered another good set of results in...
06-Jun-2008 By Ewan Turney
London brewer and operator reports 4% jump in adjusted profit before tax
05-Jun-2008 By Joe Lutrario
Buyer plans two mixed-use sites
