10-Jan-2008
MA deputy editor The PMA Team looks back at 2007 in the City
Punch executives land double-digit pay rises
10-Jan-2008 By The PMA Team
Punch executive directors have been awarded double-digit increases in basic salaries and a 50% increase in the potential size of bonuses in the...
10-Jan-2008 By The PMA Team
Universal Beverages, the new joint venture between Scottish & Newcastle and Q Group, will create the largest cider facility of its type at new...
CAMRA concentrates on the community
10-Jan-2008
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is putting a new focus on its Community Pubs Week this year, as it steps up its efforts to save local pubs under...
Andy Slee
10-Jan-2008
Andy Slee, trading director, Coca-Cola Enterprises What is your corporate goal for the year ahead? Within the Licensed trade CCEs aim is to...
Sudarghara Dusanj
10-Jan-2008
Sudarghara Dusanj, chief executive, Cains Corporate goal for the year? To maximise our sponsorship of Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008,...
Paul Boggia
10-Jan-2008
Paul Boggia, licensee, the Kingston Arms in Cambridge Corporate goal for the year? We have two: a defensive, reactive goal (partly in anticipation of...
Maurice Breen
10-Jan-2008
Maurice Breen, marketing director, Magners Corporate goal for the year? As the leading player in the on-trade packaged long alcoholic drink market,...
John McNamara
10-Jan-2008
John McNamara, chief executive, BII Corporate goal for the year? As an organisation, BII's key goal for next year is to stand up for responsible...
Andrew Meadowcroft
10-Jan-2008
Andrew Meadowcroft, head of licensed trade, Barclays bank Corporate goal for the year? Helping our customers achieve their aims might sound like a...
Fred West
10-Jan-2008
Fred West, sales director, Wadworth Corporate goal for the year? To continue differentiating the character and individuality of our beers, pubs and...
Andy Wood
10-Jan-2008
Andy Wood, managing director, Adnams Corporate goal for the year? To continue to grow the Adnams brand. Adnams Spindrift allows us to put great...
Gary Whitlie
10-Jan-2008
Gary Whitlie, managing director, Miller Brands Corporate goal for the year? To continue the growth of our portfolio of brands by working closely with...
Paul Wells
10-Jan-2008
Paul Wells, chief executive, Charles Wells Corporate goal for the year? We will continue to grow our pub estate gently, with investment in the pubs...
Jeremy Allen
10-Jan-2008
Jeremy Allen, Partner, Poppleston Allen Solicitors Corporate goal for the year? To continue to expand in Nottingham and London within all areas of...
Paul Baker
10-Jan-2008
Paul Baker, managing director, Thwaites Corporate goal for the year? Our long-term focus has always been on investment in our people, pubs and brands...
Jeremy Blood
10-Jan-2008
Jeremy Blood, Managing director, S&NUK Corporate goal for the year? To introduce more innovative products and approaches that make an impact on...
Benet Slay
10-Jan-2008
Benet Slay, Managing director, Diageo GB Corporate goal for the year? Our main aim is to drive growth in our brands and their categories. To do this...
Michael Turner
10-Jan-2008
Michael Turner, chairman, Fuller's Corporate goal for the year? To continue to grow both our retail and brewing businesses and deliver excellent...
Bruce Ray
10-Jan-2008
Bruce Ray, Director of external affairs, Bacardi Brown-Forman Brands Corporate goal for the year? To demonstrate that the industry in which we work...
10-Jan-2008 By Tony Halstead
Difficult first quarter ahead with duty increase to follow
The shape of things to come
10-Jan-2008
Fears of recession or a chance for profit and growth? Industry bosses tell the MA what the future holdsJonathan Neame Chief executive, Shepherd Neame...
The Agents
10-Jan-2008
Stephen Taylor Managing director Guy Simmonds Well, there are many who will be glad to see the back of 2007, a year which brought natural disasters,...
MyNewPub
10-Jan-2008
Featherston Arms Kirkoswald, Cumbria Agent: Kings Business Transfer First-time pub buyers Jennifer and Glen Mossop have been very busy at the...
10-Jan-2008
Things are looking up at the Wadworth brewery, says Roger Protz
Gold award for 'most improved' pub
10-Jan-2008
A Punch pub labelled "the worst in Warwickshire" by its council one year ago has won a top award for cleanliness from the local authority. This...
MyShout
10-Jan-2008
The time is now ripe to develop a new language to describe beer, says Tony Jennings A couple of years ago the lads' mag Maxim ran a review of the...
THE GUV'NOR
10-Jan-2008
John Ellis The licensee of the Crown Inn, Oakengates, Shropshire, is sure he has hit upon a positive suggestion to help the trade - and please the...
Storm risk: the forecast for 2008
10-Jan-2008
Along with economic worries, Tony Halstead picks out some of the key themes set to shape the year ahead Beer Prices The threat of a substantial...
BarTalk
10-Jan-2008
How was your festive trade this year? Nick Green Stansfield Arms Apperley Bridge North Yorkshire We had a good Christmas here - we're well up on...
Punch to boost partnerships
10-Jan-2008
Punch business relationship managers (BRMs) will hold one-to-one workshops with hosts about running pubs for the first six months of lease...
NewsDigest
10-Jan-2008
Scottish & Newcastle could achieve synergies of £100m by taking full control of Baltic Beverage Holdings (BBH) from Carlsberg, the brewer says....
09-Jan-2008
Michael Bridger, who is responsible for pubs in the West Midlands, is named the pubco's best business relationship manager
09-Jan-2008
Punch BRMs will hold one-to-one workshops with hosts for the first six months of lease agreements
Comment: A turning point
09-Jan-2008
The recent British Beer & Pub Association figures showing that beer sales in November fell by 10 per cent year-on-year were alarming. But the...
Pete Robinson:...A new one just begun
09-Jan-2008
My apologies in advance for sounding such a doom merchant but I've racking my addled brain and still can't make any positive predictions in the...
The Restaurant Group sees 'subdued' growth in final quarter
09-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
The stock market value of The Restaurant Group (TRG), whose operations include the Frankie & Benny's and Bluebeckers pub restaurant chains, fell...
08-Jan-2008
ALMR urges licensing minister to take action on cheap supermarket booze
Living Room sees record sales in December
08-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
Premium Bars and Restaurants (PBR), formerly known as Ultimate Leisure, has reported that its sites "performed well" in December, with total group...
08-Jan-2008
Reading Pubwatch is not about to enforce a ban on Gangsta Rap music, despite media reports to the contrary. Venues in Reading have come under close...
Pete Robinson: Another year over...
07-Jan-2008
Our industry leaders and spokesmen joined hands with the politicians and antis to reassure us of the "new opportunities" to come. You were all going...
Hamish Champ: Shock, horror! A Daily Mail reader calls for a return to the 'good old days'
07-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
Reading recent press coverage of Christmas and New Year festivities you'd think public wrath is once again being summoned against the Great British...
07-Jan-2008
A JD Wetherspoon pub is to close for three days after it served underage drinkers on two separate occasions. The Lynd Cross in Horsham, Sussex will...
04-Jan-2008
Pubco share prices plummeted yesterday in the wake of a 9.7% decline in beer volumes for November compared to last year. Shares in Punch Taverns...
02-Jan-2008 By John Harrington
Another bar operator has won an appeal against the council's controversial policy of restricting open hours in busy areas
02-Jan-2008 By The PMA Team
Punch executive directors also get a 50% increase in the potential size of bonuses in the current financial year
Punch Taverns to build new multi-million pound HQ
02-Jan-2008
Punch Taverns has secured planning permission to build a new three-storey, multi-million pound office building in Burton on Trent.The pubco said it...
John Sands appointed chairman at London Town
02-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
Pub industry veteran John Sands has been appointed non-executive chairman of London Town after the AIM-listed pubco acquired independent operator GRS...
Wadworth gets behind anti-drink drive campaign
20-Dec-2007 By Hamish Champ
Devizes-based brewer Wadworth is supporting the government's anti-drink drive campaign over Christmas with a pair of fake hand pumps installed in its...
Free drink-drive posters for pubs
19-Dec-2007 By James Wilmore
Free posters are being made available to pubs this Christmas to re-enforce the dangers of drink-driving. A range of posters are being offered to...
