16-May-2008 By Joe Lutrario
Marston's Pub Company has launched a training programme for its business development mangers and other senior operational staff
Marc Allinson: Losing the great in "Great Britain
16-May-2008
Everyone seems to remember how much better things were when they were young. Unfortunately I agree. We are now living in a state where life is more...
Award-winning pub opens shop next door
16-May-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
A couple that have won awards for the food and drink at their pub have opened a shop so customers can enjoy their ingredients at home. Chef TJ Drew...
Arkell's finance director blames red tape for early retirement
16-May-2008 By Hamish Champ
Ray Fisher, finance director of Swindon-based Arkell's Brewery, is retiring after 34 years at the company, blaming government red tape for his...
16-May-2008 By Ewan Turney
Greene King is facing a catalogue of charges against mis-labeling food items at its managed pubs in Warwickshire. Stratford magistrates heard that at...
15-May-2008 By The PMA Team
Marston's Inns & Taverns is planning to spend more than £50m on a major expansion of its accommodation
Under my umbrella
15-May-2008
Boarded up and in the hands of a property developer eager to knock it down and put 14 houses in its place, the Summer Cross in Otley, near Leeds, was...
Opus gives out pub's bank details
15-May-2008
An energy company that has been slammed for its high bills has now come under fire for the way it handled a customer's personal details. Gary Grant...
14-May-2008 By Ewan Turney
Labour peer says up to 30 ADZs in first year but supermarkets will be included
News update: Sell More pubs in action
14-May-2008
* With many licensees hoping that the brighter weather this month will herald a summer-long boost to their businesses, Paul Barden in Southampton is...
Crunch time
14-May-2008
Rural pub the Rose & Crown in Selling, near Faversham in Kent, is a typical, food-led, rural outlet catering for a wide customer profile - from...
Pete Robinson: Nu-Labour - a long road ahead
14-May-2008
Some say we need to state the licenced trade's case more loudly.That's already been tried. It's being shouted from the treetops with industry leaders...
13-May-2008 By Ewan Turney
Scotland suffering repeat of the SIA licensing delay fiasco in England
13-May-2008 By Ewan Turney
Enterprise Inns has recorded an 11% slump in profit before tax for the six months to 31 March
13-May-2008 By The PMA Team
Three-quarters of Enterprise Inns licensees are making profits in line with or ahead of this period last year, chief executive Ted Tuppen has...
BII chief makes rallying cry to industry
13-May-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
BII chief executive John McNamara has said the 'serious threat' the pub industry is facing is also a marvellous opportunity. Speaking to more than...
A quarter of Enterprise Inns pubs finding 2008 tougher
13-May-2008 By Hamish Champ
Nearly 2,000 Enterprise Inns pubs are finding trading more difficult than this time last year, as the smoking ban and tough economic climate continue...
Enterprise Inns sees profits fall as ban bites
13-May-2008 By Hamish Champ
The effects of the smoking ban, rising costs and the economic climate have predictably hit Enterprise Inns' profits in the six months to March 31...
Sunshine brings welcome boost to trade
13-May-2008
Record trading has been reported in the first weeks of May as glorious sunshine draws customers to pubs across the UK.Takings were up by as much as...
13-May-2008 By Jo Bruce
PubChef editor Jo Bruce speaks to David Hancock, editor of Alistair Sawday's Pubs and Inns guide. JB: Do you think many customers are not prepared to...
13-May-2008
MA forum regular Nigel Wakefield has been made a Companion Member of the BII at today's annual lunch. Wakefield, who aside from giving invaluable...
Time for a new model?
12-May-2008
The pub industry's prospects appear bleak and things are likely to get much worse if the UK economy goes well and truly into recession. Moreover, the...
Going Forth - Fast
12-May-2008
Steve Mallon, managing director of Scottish pubco Maclay Inns, is in a buoyant mood. Following a major investment programme across the group's...
Hamish Champ: Getting a bit of perspective
12-May-2008 By Hamish Champ
Like everyone sometimes I have a crap day at work. Sometimes this stretches to a crap week, such is the way my life occasionally goes. Either it's...
Doing the REIT thing
12-May-2008 By Hamish Champ
Until last week the likelihood of significant pub sector corporate activity in the near future was relatively low. Money - or rather debt - to fund...
Suburban Bar Co creates new group to run wet-led pubs
12-May-2008 By Hamish Champ
Suburban Style Bar has created a subsidiary company to manage the 10 freehold wet-led pubs it bought earlier this year. Beacon Pub Company will run...
12-May-2008 By Ewan Turney
A Lincolnshire licensee has received a visit from Alistair Darling - and told him he is barred. Unfortunately, Darren Cheesman of the Hit or Miss in...
09-May-2008 By Peter Coulson
MA legal editor Peter Coulson considers the OFT's role in investigating the beer tie
Pete Robinson: Pub killers get a bloody nose
09-May-2008
Without doubt they are 'Pub Killers', but more about that later.In reality there's very little that's 'new' about this Labour Government. Anyone my...
08-May-2008
The three-year deal starts this month
08-May-2008 By Ewan Turney
HMRC says Enterprise can convert to tax efficient Reit status
Mark Daniels: Pubs don't do cheap booze. But supermarkets do.
08-May-2008
Well, let's scrap that last one, shall we? Although I did find my missing safe keys and thirty five quid in a pair I dug out of the wardrobe on...
A spent force?
08-May-2008
Licensed Victuallers' Associations (LVAs), once a mainstay of the pub industry, are suffering shrinking membership lists. Many fear they could soon...
Back to Basics: Hosting comedy
08-May-2008
Heard the one about the pub that hosted comedy? It pulled in the punters and made a barrel (o' laughs) full of money.More and more pubs are turning...
Comment: A raw deal
08-May-2008
"Three bottles of Chablis for a tenner". The words are still ringing in my ears. A contact of mine just rang to chew the fat and mentioned the fact...
REITs could spark pubco deals
08-May-2008 By Hamish Champ
The tax authorities' decision to grant Enterprise Inns the right to convert into a real estate investment trust (REIT) could signal a new phase of...
Enterprise Inns given go-ahead to convert to a REIT
08-May-2008 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns' shares rocketed yesterday after the pubco confirmed it had been given the green light to convert to a real estate investment trust...
The Guv'nor Dennis Griffiths
08-May-2008
Let's stop this legal madness and talk A man saw a pig with two wooden legs. He asked the farmer why. "Well", said the farmer, "we quite like the...
British Gas error decimates trade
08-May-2008 By John Harrington John Harrington@william-reed.co.
Licensee takes action on 'appalling' bills A licensee suffered 18 months of hell after a billing blunder meant he couldn't afford to heat his pub...
My New Pub The Three Horseshoes
08-May-2008
Allensmore, Herefordshire Agent: Christie+Co Jason Ratcliffe has taken over the Three Horseshoes after four years as assistant manager. His parents,...
Steve Tucker, director, Humberstones
08-May-2008
Like many recent MA contributors, I have spent a lifetime in the licensed trade starting at the tender age of 19 as an off-licence manager for...
08-May-2008 By David Elliott
Enough moaning — let's have some action Reading the daily papers over the past few days, anyone in the licensed trade could be excused for thinking...
Bar Talk
08-May-2008
How was trade over the Bank Holiday weekend? Ian Rigg The Taps Lytham Lancashire Absolutely brilliant. We had the first decent weather this year...
Moves
08-May-2008
Brennan appointed to Hydes finance role Manchester-based Hydes Brewery has appointed Claire Brennan as financial controller. Brennan joins the...
My pub juke box
08-May-2008
Trade consultant Phil Dixon chooses his favourite tracks Christmas Day 1963 brought with it a Dansette record player, closely followed by The Buddy...
Digest
08-May-2008
Blanc's TV winners quit pub The winners of Raymond Blanc's TV series, The Restaurant, have quit the Thatch, in Thame, Oxfordshire. Jeremy and Jane...
Getting his kicks from life
08-May-2008
Never one to be in the passenger seat, Global Brands MD Steve Perez tells Noli Dinkovski how his single-minded approach to business drives him...
Live and let die
08-May-2008
There are too many pubs and bars and only the market can decide which will survive The father of free-market economics, Adam Smith set out in his...
Facts crucial for pub hours cut
08-May-2008
Earlier this week, judgment was delivered in an important case on the weight to be given to residents' fears over later hours for pubs. Those who...
Q&A
08-May-2008
Smoking at home Q. We have a freehold pub that we own and live in as our home. We have no staff. Could you please clarify the rules regarding smoking...
