Manor House goes local to find success
22-Apr-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Going local has helped a Leicestershire pub pick up a host of happy customers as well as a cabinet full of awards. After several years working in the...
Marston's hits the road to find new talent
22-Apr-2008
Marston's has launched a series of roadshows to meet existing licensees and recruit new people to the trade. Around 25 suppliers are exhibiting at...
22-Apr-2008 By Ewan Turney
MSP hits out at off-trade following test purchase failures
21-Apr-2008 By Ewan Turney
A new trade association for lap dancing clubs is launched in a bid to distance the industry from the sleazy image of drugs and prostitution
Andrew Meadowcroft: So much to focus on
21-Apr-2008
The gods have not been smiling on our pubs since I last wrote. The Budget did the industry no favours, the weather across the UK over the Easter...
GI Partners tight-lipped on Spirit bid speculation
21-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ
GI Partners, the private equity firm which owns Orchid Group, has remained tight-lipped over reports it is interested in buying the managed Spirit...
Marston's rolls out energy saving initiative
21-Apr-2008
Following the success of energy-saving initiatives across managed estate, Midlands brewer Marston's is introducing a similar programme throughout its...
Two years of gloom beckons for consumers
21-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ
Consumers are likely to feel the impact of the economic squeeze well into next year, according to a leading firm of accountants.Poorer households...
Hamish Champ: It's gloom. It's doom. It's despondency with a capital 'D'
20-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ
What do you think is the 'final nail in the pub industry's coffin'? Is it cheap booze at the supermarket? Is it the smoking ban? Is it the tie? Is it...
Shareholder value, anyone?
20-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ
I've noticed a strange 'shishing' noise recently. It's probably my knees, but I wondered if it was critics of the pub operator model à la Enterprise...
'Don't become a licensee, says Scot pub trade boss'
20-Apr-2008
The pub industry's much-publicised problems including the smoking ban mean Scots should not to join the trade, says Paul Waterson, chief executive of...
Euro 2008: knock-out stages
19-Apr-2008 By Helen Bendell helen.bendell@william-reed.co.uk
The Euro 2008 contenders have been whittled down to the last eight and play for a place in the semi-finals this week. The quarter-finals were the...
18-Apr-2008 By The PMA Team
Punch Taverns has rebuffed an approach by M&B to buy Spirit
M&B's coded rebuke to Punch
18-Apr-2008 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers has issued a coded rebuke to Punch for not exploring properly the possibility of a sale of its Spirit managed division. The...
Food & Group Group shares dive on profits warning
18-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ
Shares in the Food and Drink Group (F&DG) slumped nearly 50 per cent today after the bar and restaurant operator admitted profits for 2008 would...
SIA: 'We are still letting you down'
18-Apr-2008
Applicants for SIA licences are still facing delays in their renewal applications, the return of their documents and getting through to the SIA call...
'Punch ends talks with rival M&B'
18-Apr-2008
The board of Mitchells & Butlers is set to come under renewed shareholder pressure after Punch Taverns abruptly ended all contacts with its UK...
Punch rejects M&B move for Spirit
18-Apr-2008
Punch Taverns has firmly rejected the approach by Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) for the managed Spirit pub operation.Punch, the UK's biggest...
18-Apr-2008 By John Harrington
The SIA says progress has been made but delays still occur in processing licences for pub doorstaff
17-Apr-2008 By The PMA Team
Punch begins eight week support drive to help licensees
17-Apr-2008 By Tony Jennings
Our Gov't needs more beer, less carrot juice
S&NPE aims at up to 500 more pubs
17-Apr-2008 By The PMA Team
S&NPE nears single-site acquiaition target Scottish & Newcastle Pub Enterprises (S&NPE) is looking to add between 300 and 500 pubs over...
M&B eyes Punch's Spirit pubs
17-Apr-2008 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has turned the tables on Punch Taverns by suggesting it buys its managed-pub division, Spirit. The company is in...
Punch on full alert
17-Apr-2008 By The PMA Team
Eight-week support drive underway Staff told to focus on what's vital to hosts Punch Taverns has begun an intensive eight-week "support drive" to...
Licensees ordered out after £20,000 refurb
17-Apr-2008
A pair of licensees are refusing to quit the pub they have spent £20,000 renovating despite impending legal action by owner Enterprise Inns. Stephen...
Luminar sells 26 sites to new company
17-Apr-2008
Luminar has agreed the transfer of 26 units to a new operator, Cavendish Bars.The disposal, which will see Luminar make a net loss on disposal of...
Licensee's fury over outdoor glass ban
17-Apr-2008 By James Wilmore
A frustrated licensee has branded an outdoor glass ban at his bar as "completely unfair". Rob Bates, licensee of the Rhu Bar, in Basingstoke,...
Administrators start marketing ex-Laurel pubs
17-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ
Kroll, the administrators of the 90-site rump of the old Laurel Pub Company, has appointed property agents Colliers CRE to market the sites to...
17-Apr-2008 By John Harrington
National Pubwatch writes to every MP stressing how pubwatches help reduce crime
17-Apr-2008 By Ewan Turney
Luminar Leisure has sold 26 nightclubs for 19p each to Cavendish Bars. Cavendish has agreed to buy the leaseholds via the sale of five disposal...
Forging ahead
17-Apr-2008
Amanda Wragg finds out how Mark Wilson and Alexandra Warricker, chef/proprietors of the North Yorkshire Anvil Inn, have made their business a success...
The agent
17-Apr-2008
Andrew Coulter, Redwoods Dowling Kerr The image of the Great British Pub is changing. Lifestyles, the economy, trends, the smoking ban and continuing...
Batham & Son toasts first XI
17-Apr-2008
Snifter is pleased to report that at a time of closures and administrations all is not doom and gloom for one brewery. Swimming against the tide is...
My New Pub
17-Apr-2008
The Golden Boar Inn Freckenham, Suffolk Agent: Christie+Co The Golden Boar is set to be a true family business under new owner Vaggy Spyrou. Front of...
The agent
17-Apr-2008
Graham Allman, managing director, GA Select I have been privileged in being involved with the licensed trade all my working life — it's been an...
Moves
17-Apr-2008
Marston's appoints new marketing execs Marston's Pub Company has appointed Amelia Cree as its new marketing executive. Her role is to support the...
My pub juke box
17-Apr-2008
David Elliott, the managing director of Greene King Pub Partners chooses his favourite tracks 1. Lean on Me Bill Withers Reminds me of my first date...
Kop resolves not to sing Blues
17-Apr-2008 By Helen Bendell helen.bendell@william-reed.co.uk
The all-English Champions League semi-final clash between Liverpool and Chelsea guarantees that at least one Premier League side will reach the final...
Full marks for the Allmarks
17-Apr-2008
A pub dedicated to real ale is a worthy CaskForce winner, the Marston's beer-quality initiative supported by the MA For Les and Wendy Allmark,...
Q&A
17-Apr-2008
Bereavement rights Q. A local pub near here has been closed down by council officials because the family failed to apply for a transfer of the...
Your say
17-Apr-2008
Britain's brewing heritage at risk Burton-on-Trent is quite simply one of the greatest brewing towns in the world. Within it is the Coors visitor...
Diary
17-Apr-2008
Jamie lease story not quite true There have been suggestions that chef Jamie Oliver is taking on a Young's lease at the Cock & Camel in Oxford...
Five Après on the cards
17-Apr-2008
Town & Country Inns, the bar business led by entrepreneur Keith Williams, is to open at least five new Après Bar sites before the end of the...
Profit boost for Thorley
17-Apr-2008
Thorley Taverns, the Kent-based pub and hotel operator, has reported a return to profit in its most recent financial year. The company, which...
Licensees to get help to identify fake ID cards
17-Apr-2008 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
£20,000 to get ID check scheme going Pubs will be sent "crib cards" to help staff identify genuine proof-of-age ID. A total of 175,000 cards have...
The Guv'nor Godfrey Page
17-Apr-2008
Mayhem on the streets? Don't blame the pubs I would like to start by saying that the future of pubs is looking good. But I can't. In 2005 when the...
Bar Talk
17-Apr-2008
Has the big rise in raw materials meant a review of menu prices? Alan Vaughan Countryman Inn Shipley West Sussex We are having to think about...
16-Apr-2008 By Joe Lutrario
CGT changes and effects of economic downturn are taking hold of the pub property market, say agents
M&B steady as Tchenguiz mulls stake sale
16-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ
Shares in Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) remained steady today as press reports spoke of a move by Robert Tchenguiz to sell his 23 per cent...
Pub plays host to Citizens Advice Bureau
16-Apr-2008
Pubs could become venues for Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) clinics if a pilot scheme proves popular.The information service is holding drop-in...
