Pete Robinson: Truth or consequences
30-Jan-2008
Meanwhile any tobacco related item which could be detrimental to their cause is carefully censored. To read their garbage you'd think pubs were...
Labour MP tables EDM over Scottish & Newcastle bid
30-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
Labour MP Tony Lloyd has put down an early day motion calling for Heineken to set out its plans for the UK arm of Scottish & Newcastle...
30-Jan-2008 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Punch Taverns is to reduce the number of regions within its leased business from 12 to eight. The move means that it will lose four regional...
29-Jan-2008 By The PMA Team
M&B's Karim Naffah resigns after the company closed a hedge position at a cost of £274m
Tim Clarke says M&B could hit the acquisition trail
29-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
In spite of announcing losses of £274m today, Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) believes it can exploit the recent poor run of trading from its...
ADZs delay drags on
29-Jan-2008 By James Wilmore
The Home Office has been forced to backtrack on its promise that alcohol disorder zones (ADZs) would be in place this month. A spokeswoman told...
M&B now a takeover target, says City
29-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
Shares in Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) rose five per cent today despite the group revealing more than a quarter of a billion pounds-worth of...
Top chefs praise pub grub
29-Jan-2008
Pubs are driving a revival of interest in fresh, local food, according to two of Britain's best known chefs.Michel Roux Jr and Anton Edelman told...
29-Jan-2008
A leading analyst has called the £274m post-tax loss incurred by Mitchells & Butler from the closure of its controversial hedge fund a...
28-Jan-2008
ALMR says CGT reforms should go further to help serial entrepreneurs vital to the pub industry
Best Bar None rewards Doncaster pubs
28-Jan-2008
Richard and David McIvor picked up the top prizes at Doncaster's Best Bar None awards for the second year running.The brother's town-centre venue,...
Massive Pub Company calls in the administrators
28-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
Massive Pub Company, the London-based multiple operator, has put 34 of its 46 sites into administration.It is understood the pub operator called in...
Food & Drink Group looks for a partner
28-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
The Food & Drink Group (FDG) is shelving all "non-essential" capital expenditure for the time being and is looking for what it calls "a...
Best Bar None awards launch in Birmingham
28-Jan-2008
Birmingham City Council is to launch a Best Bar None awards scheme to recognise the city's best pubs. The awards will assess premises on criteria...
ALMR pushes for further CGT changes
25-Jan-2008
The Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) will push for further amendments to the watered down capital gains tax (CGT) announced by...
Marston's warns on outlook for 2008
25-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
Marston's has reported lower drink and machine income across its estate as the impact of the smoking ban and consumer confidence pressures...
25-Jan-2008
Punch Taverns has signed a new three-year contract worth £150m with leading gaming group Gamestec. Gamestec has been responsible for the management...
24-Jan-2008 By Andrew Pring
MA editor Andrew Pring considers the impact of the latest price rises
The search for the country's best bar teams is on
24-Jan-2008
The hunt for the nation's top bar teams is now on!The frontline of pub retailing, the people who customers are most likely to deal with face-to-face,...
Pub raises £66,000 for charity
24-Jan-2008
A pub and its customers have raised a staggering £66,000 for charity with a downhill Wacky Races-style soapbox dash.The race, which took place...
Floods put pubs under threat again
24-Jan-2008
Publicans who fell victim to the summer floods have been dealt a further blow by the latest stormy weather, as previously devastated areas were...
Charles Wells profits hit as costs take their toll
24-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
Reorganisation costs and rising raw material prices combined to dent Charles Wells' profitability in 2007.But despite a 17 per cent drop in pre-tax...
Punch pub themed as 'hunting lodge'
24-Jan-2008
A £60,000 investment by the licensees has seen a rural Punch pub in Herefordshire transformed with a Scottish hunting-lodge theme. Hosts Keith and...
Admiral closes smoke-rebel pubs
24-Jan-2008 By John Harrington
An Admiral Taverns pub where the host allowed smoking has been closed - because it had no registered licensee. The pubco has publicly condemned...
Close shave for flood pubs
24-Jan-2008
Licensees in the Midlands and Yorkshire are breathing a sigh of relief after narrowly escaping a repeat of the floods that devastated Britain last...
THE GUV'NOR
24-Jan-2008
John Baldwin One of the main problems affecting our society is the lack of alcohol education, says the licensee of the Big 6, in Halifax,...
Host's hygiene penalty
24-Jan-2008
A former Greene King pub manager has received a 12-month conditional discharge after pleading guilty at Crown Court to failing to comply with...
The Agents
24-Jan-2008
Tim Martin Sales associate Fleurets I am often asked by potential vendors for advice on the best time to put a pub on the market. The answer can...
MyNewPub
24-Jan-2008
Zephyr Bar and Club Exeter, Devon Agent: Christie+Co Exeter businessman Ali Anvari is planning a high-profile re-launch at his new bar - enlisting...
InBrief
24-Jan-2008
Carlsberg may shut Alloa depot Carlsberg may shut its Scottish distribution centre in August this year. Workers at the site are said to be "shocked"...
Licensees targeted in dry-cleaning scam
24-Jan-2008
Tricksters are attempting to con cash from licensees using a spilled drinks dry-cleaning scam. Hosts are being asked to pay cleaning bills sent...
Dual drama at Theatre of Dreams
24-Jan-2008 By Helen Bendell helen.bendell@william-reed.co.uk
Sir Alex Ferguson's plan is finally kicking into action. Manchester United are inching ahead of Arsenal at the top of the Premier League table. They...
Educating the future generation
24-Jan-2008
High-quality education for the children of those in the licensed retail sector is high on the LTC's list of priorities this year Many people in the...
BarTalk
24-Jan-2008
What are your plans for raising beer prices at your bar this year? John Ellis Crown Inn Oakengates Shropshire I only change my prices once a year,...
The spirit of New Orleans
24-Jan-2008
Rosie Davenport explores the inspiring US home of Southern Comfort as it gets ready to bring the energy of Mardi Gras to UK pubs Firing like flash...
NewsDigest
24-Jan-2008
Pub operator Young's is to de-list Stella Artois and replace it with "genuinely imported lagers". This includes Heineken, Amstel and Pilsner Urquell....
LETTERs
24-Jan-2008
The downturn is already here Your editor's Morning Advertiser opinion piece (17 January 2008) initially drew my interest because of its inference...
Enterprise tenants holding up well
24-Jan-2008
Enterprise Inns has reported that its licensees are showing no "material deterioration" in performance despite tough financial conditions. The...
Pubs face £3 pint
24-Jan-2008 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Licensees facing above-inflation costs may be forced to add 20p to price of a pint The pub trade is facing up to the prospect this year that the...
23-Jan-2008
The Sportsman in Seasalter and the Goose in Britwell Salome rewarded
23-Jan-2008 By Lucy Britner
Michelin star is "stamp of approval" for team's hard work at the Goose in Britwell Salome, Oxfordshire
23-Jan-2008 By Joe Lutrario
Changes to the empty property relief-rate system will come into effect in less than two months. The new bill penalises licensees who close to...
22-Jan-2008 By The PMA Team
Enterprise Inns is recruiting its third batch of six associate regional managers after the successful completion of the training programme for the...
Licensee cleared over smoke ban breaches
22-Jan-2008 By James Wilmore
A former Gloucestershire licensee has been cleared of charges relating to breaches of the smoking ban. Andy Hemming, previously licensee of the Black...
'Pubs could close if licensing law changes, warn licensees'
22-Jan-2008
Pub bosses in Scotland have warned that the price of a pint will rise by 2p if MSPs approve controversial changes to licensing laws today. They made...
JD Wetherspoon cautious as sales fall
22-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
Managed pub operator JD Wetherspoon has added its own note of caution about pub trading to those of other operators as it updated the market on...
22-Jan-2008
Independent Dorset brewer Hall & Woodhouse has sold its free trade to Marston's. The brewer said its free trade business had become squeezed...
Hall & Woodhouse sells its free trade business to Marston's
21-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
Dorset brewer Hall & Woodhouse has sold its direct free trade business to Marston's for an undisclosed sum.The brewer, whose brands include...
'Motorists facing random breath-testing'
21-Jan-2008
The surge in the price of food will continue for at least a further two years, the chief executive of one of the world's biggest food companies has...
Everards' Bremner excited by new challenges
21-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
Everards commercial operations director David Bremner has revealed that his departure from the Leicestershire brewer, announced earlier today, has...
