A bit of crystal ball-gazing
17-Dec-2007 By Hamish Champ
Predicting the future is a mug's game. That said, I'll set aside common sense and take a punt on a few things I reckon will occur in the coming 12...
2007: A pig of a year?
14-Dec-2007 By Hamish Champ
It's fair to say that 2007 wasn't one of the UK pub trade's best years. Smoking bans, the worst summer for years and waning consumer confidence; all...
14-Dec-2007 By Ewan Turney
An Energy Performance Certificate could cost pubs up to £1,500. The MA broke the news in June that from 1 October 2008, all pubs that are sold,...
13-Dec-2007 By The PMA Team
Paul Salisbury has launched a new concept in Solihull called The Farm
13-Dec-2007 By John Harrington
Punch says it has acted on its commitment to be more transparent by abandoning a planned rent increase after it failed to follow procedure
Special Occasions: Music to licensees' ears
13-Dec-2007
IT'S THE soundtrack to our lives - and the soundtrack to pub profits. Get the music offer right in your pub, theme some special occasions around it,...
BBPA opposes ADZ discounts
13-Dec-2007 By James Wilmore
Best Bar None-accredited pubs in alcohol disorder zones (ADZs) should not be given a discount, a trade group has argued. The British Beer & Pub...
Punch sticks to new charter
13-Dec-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Punch says it has acted on its commitment to be more transparent with licensees by abandoning a planned rent increase after it failed to follow...
Blackpool pubs hit in pilot crackdown
13-Dec-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Blackpool police say two £80 fixed-penalty notices were issued to bar staff for serving drunks in a pilot crackdown and one outlet was closed for...
Criterion chases Bowes' ex-wife
13-Dec-2007
Ida Bowes owes £60,000 to Criterion Asset Management under a privity of contract deal she signed with her ex-husband. She talks to John Harrington...
BarTalk
13-Dec-2007
How was trade in 2007? Jessica Luke Brewery Tap Peterborough Cambridgeshire Trade pretty much matched 2006 so it hasn't been too bad - I think we got...
Bish: off-trade's in denial about its role
13-Dec-2007 By Tony Halstead THals22851@aol.com
Big supermarkets should review their alcohol advertising and marketing techniques to encourage more responsible retailing. That is the view of...
The Agents
13-Dec-2007
John William Managing director Sidney Phillips Despite the well-documented losses by US banks and other lending institutions in the sub-prime...
MyNewPub
13-Dec-2007
Sun Inn Feering, Essex Andrew Howard has become Shepherd Neame's youngest licensee, taking over the helm at the Sun Inn, in Essex, at the age of 20....
The Elite approach
13-Dec-2007
Since arriving from France, Martial Chaussy has built up the highly- successful Elite Pubs company with three food-led outlets in the south of...
Pivotal point in the top flight
13-Dec-2007 By Helen Bendell helen.bendell@william-reed.co.uk
Arsenal's hopes of going the whole league season unbeaten were proved to be premature last weekend - and their grip on the top spot is looking...
The alternative annual rewind
13-Dec-2007
A bar full of beds, toilet shenanigans and a drop of Blond Bitch - cheers to another crazy year for pubs January Thefts of beer glasses and ashtrays...
Where are they coming from?
13-Dec-2007
There has been much talk about "traceability" recently. This means being able to tell where a bottle of alcohol has come from. Obviously, in terms...
LETTERs
13-Dec-2007
Taking issue with prohibitionists Lord Krebs, of the Nuffield Council, has called for a probe into the "effect of extended opening hours on levels of...
Taking a creative approach
13-Dec-2007
Rosie Davenport reviews what's been hot and what to look out for in 2008 It's with a sense of collective trepidation that the trade waves goodbye to...
12-Dec-2007 By Ewan Turney
Drink-drivers face being banned from every pub in Newcastle-Under-Lyme for life under a tough new scheme. The 24 pubs in the town centre will be...
Pete Robinson: Down truncheons lads, we're on strike!
11-Dec-2007
But what would happen if the police really did go on strike? Frankly I don't think we'd notice much difference. They gave up chasing real criminals...
Francis Patton: Working together as an industry
10-Dec-2007
Twenty-two years ago, when I started as a graduate trainee with a vertically integrated brewer called Allied Breweries, the UK had around 60,000...
Profits warnings, price wars, share collapses. Ah, it's coming up to Christmas
10-Dec-2007
Though not the first from the group this year, was last week's profit warning from Regent Inns the first thunderclap of a storm which threatens to...
Trade body submits alternative capital gains tax proposals
10-Dec-2007
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has come up with a series of alternative proposals to Chancellor Alistair Darling's plans to abolish the...
Bullish M&B tighten the screw
07-Dec-2007 By The PMA Team
In May, Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) boss Tim Clarke was talking about the mounting pressure on middle-class incomes.
Fighting for a slice of the pie
07-Dec-2007 By Hamish Champ
You'd have to have been living on the moon for the past couple of years not to appreciate that these are challenging times for brewers, be they...
Greene King celebrates top prize at the BII NITAs
07-Dec-2007
Greene King Pub Partners and Charles Wells Pub Company are among the pubcos celebrating after taking top prizes at the BII NITA training awards.The...
07-Dec-2007
Received opinion within the pub trade is that the buck for irresponsible drinking can be passed to supermarkets, based on super-low pricing policies....
Pubs warned over 'F gas' regulations
06-Dec-2007
New regulations to combat climate change mean licensees must carry out regular checks on cellar coolers and other refrigeration equipment.Nearly...
Punch Taverns lands Cable & Wireless MD as non-exec
06-Dec-2007
Punch Taverns has appointed two new non-executive directors, including the joint managing director of telecoms giant Cable & Wireless.Tony Rice...
Pubs to get Xmas boost, survey claims
06-Dec-2007 By James Wilmore
Pubs could be set for a Merry Christmas after a survey revealed that consumers will spend 18 per cent more than last year on going out. Despite...
Scots get tough on underage sales
05-Dec-2007 By James Wilmore
Scotland's efforts to get tough on underage sales were ramped up today with the launch of a country-wide test purchasing scheme. Under the scheme...
04-Dec-2007
Suffolk brewer and operator unveils jump in profits but faces tougher winter challenge
Heavy smokers still visit the pub, poll finds
04-Dec-2007 By Hamish Champ
More than half of all 'heavy smokers' visit their local pub as often as they did before the introduction of the smoking ban, a Greene King survey has...
Greene King cautious but confident
04-Dec-2007 By Hamish Champ
Acquisitions and strong organic growth helped push Greene King's half year turnover up six per cent to £445m and operating profits 11 per cent...
03-Dec-2007 By The PMA Team
The DJ spends around £950,000 on Welsh country pub
Stock & sauces focus: Taking stock
03-Dec-2007
HUBBLE, BUBBLE, toil and…trouble? New products from Knorr indicate developments in the stocks and sauces sector at the moment - developments which...
Geoff Newton: Industry needs to pull together
03-Dec-2007
The papers have been full of doom and gloom lately - volatile world stock markets, a global credit crunch, concerns over certain banks and their...
Créches trialled at Orchid pubs
03-Dec-2007 By Jo Bruce
The Orchid Group is trialling créches at two of its pubs. The aim of its Kids Club is that customers can enjoy a meal while their children are...
03-Dec-2007
Energywatch is urging pubs to campaign for a better deal on energy. The energy watchdog says small businesses should make their views heard on plans...
Hamish Champ: "The French, pubs and darts
02-Dec-2007 By Hamish Champ
A glass of claret or a pint of cask ale? Fois gras or bangers and mash? Arsene Wegner or Sam Allardyce? The stark differences between the French and...
To sell or not to sell
02-Dec-2007 By Hamish Champ
Has New Labour changed its spots with the departure of Tony Blair and reverted to Old Labour under Gordon Brown? One might think so, after the...
New pubs on the block
01-Dec-2007
Mark Taylor looks at some of this year's hottest new openings The Narrow Limehouse, London, E14 ?gordonramsay.com When Gordon Ramsay announced his...
Room for manoeuvre
01-Dec-2007
David Hancock, editor of pub guide Room at the Inn, offers advice on how to make a success of rooms at your pub Tips for licensees Don't do it...
Marston's cautious despite sales growth
30-Nov-2007
Marston's has reported strong sales growth in both its managed and tenanted estates, but sounded a warning note as consumer caution bites.The...
Tax experts warn: "Don't rush to sell your pub
30-Nov-2007 By Hamish Champ
A leading tax expert has warned pub owners not to rush into selling their businesses before the start of the new tax year, after the government said...
30-Nov-2007
Marston's, the brewer and pub operator, has reported a 3.4% drop in underlying pre-tax profit to £98.0m for the year to 29 September 2007. The...
MyShout
30-Nov-2007
The possibility that Scottish & Newcastle could be bought should concern us all, says John Grogan Last weekend's financial press reported that...
29-Nov-2007 By Tony Halstead
Grim predictions are that as many as 2,000 pubs could close their doors over the next two years if volumes continue to freefall
