Pub prospers from travel offer
31-Oct-2007
The Bell at Alderminster in Warwickshire has branched out into the travel trade by offering its customers wine tasting package tours to France.Mike...
30-Oct-2007 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report
Nightclub operator Luminar Leisure reports a 1.8% increase in like-for-like sales
Luminar unfazed by smoking ban
30-Oct-2007 By Hamish Champ
Dance venue operator Luminar has reported that the smoking ban has had a "marginal impact" on first half trading performance.Announcing its figures...
30-Oct-2007
Punch has been hit with its third fine in as many years from the Environment Agency. The latest fine of £4,000 with costs of £1,685 was for failing...
26-Oct-2007 By The PMA Team
Orchid Group is stepping up its plans to open new carveries after "phenomenal success"
25-Oct-2007 By The Morning Advertiser
Licensees in the sleepy Leicestershire market town of Melton Mowbray had a right royal time last week when Prince William was spotted out and about.
Newmarket plans block on new pubs
25-Oct-2007 By The PMA Team
Newmarket looks set to become the latest town to adopt a cumulative impact policy as a block to new pubs and nightclubs opening. This would mean any...
Exclusive research: more pubs backing the ban
25-Oct-2007
Three out of four licensees say they would not overturn the smoking ban even if they could, according to research carried out for The Publican and...
Controversial doctor stands by alcohol consumption guidelines
25-Oct-2007
The doctor who hit the headlines last week for describing alcohol consumption guidelines as "plucked out of the air" has clarified his position in an...
MyShout
25-Oct-2007
The quest to go green could be a cause of concern for brewers across Europe, says Tony Jennings One of the most popular traditional names for an...
Marston's pushes coffee machines
25-Oct-2007
Marston's Pub Company has sourced a range of coffee machines, to help licensees broaden their daytime drink offering. The machines come with support...
LTC: 'we need pubco help'
25-Oct-2007 By Tony Halstead THals22851@aol.com
The big pub companies have been challenged to dig deep to boost the Licensed Trade Charity's (LTC) fund-raising, after a charity chief described...
THE AGENTS
25-Oct-2007
Trevor M Watson Director Davis Coffer Lyons It is now widely accepted that trading conditions in the leisure sector are likely to be more difficult...
S&N fury at rivals' secret takeover bid
25-Oct-2007 By Tony Halstead explores the maelstrom of issues sur
Furious bosses at Scottish & Newcastle (S&N), Britain's last independent major brewer, were frantically bolstering their defences this week...
Gunners set sights on Anfield
25-Oct-2007 By Essi Berelian essi.berelian@william-reed.co.uk
The post Rugby World Cup hangover may be lingering, but there's some consolation to be found in the feast of top football action to select from this...
Drop Marco: it's time to get 'Barred'
25-Oct-2007
As celebrity chefs take over the autumn TV schedules, Adam Edwards comes up with his own twist on the reality gastro genre This is the celebrity chef...
Underage double standards
25-Oct-2007
The debate about consumption of alcohol in pubs by 16-year-olds, so ably covered last week by my colleague Phil Dixon and the MA editor, highlights...
NewsDigest
25-Oct-2007
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) says it has held "constructive" talks with Chancellor Alistair Darling over plans to abolish taper relief on...
LETTERs
25-Oct-2007
Energy pressures for licensees A recent trend in the energy market puts further pressure on newcomers and those on the move between pubs - a more...
Brighton's zone will stifle pubs
25-Oct-2007
A consultation in Brighton is drawing to a close this week on whether the city should press ahead with the biggest saturation zone yet seen in this...
Greene King's St Edmunds ale breaks new ground
25-Oct-2007 By Rosie Davenport rosie.davenport@william-reed.co.u
Greene King is investing in a major ale launch it believes will take the category into new territory by combining the best attributes of leading...
23-Oct-2007 By Ewan Turney
A Surrey live music pub where bands such as Status Quo and Genesis once played has been forced to shut because it can only host one gig a week. The...
22-Oct-2007
MA editor and industry guru Andrew Pring urges the Government to act to stop loss leading on booze in supermarkets
22-Oct-2007
New anti-alcohol lobby group is set up with the aim of increasing tax on alcohol by 10%
22-Oct-2007
Wetherspoon named as the High Street Recycling Champion 2007
LETTERs
22-Oct-2007
Beware a rise in excise duty My recent remarks in the Morning Advertiser (15 November 2007) about the warnings from the brewing sector that beer...
'S&N plotting Russia sale to derail bid'
21-Oct-2007
Scottish & Newcastle, is planning to thwart a £7.5 billion hostile takeover by Dutch and Danish rivals by selling off Hartwall, the Finnish...
Marston's names new marketing managers
19-Oct-2007
Marston's Beer Company has appointed two new marketing managers as part of its drive to "capitalise on Marston's high profile sponsorship of the...
18-Oct-2007 By The PMA Team
A new pub company has been set up with a view to keeping the country pub alive in Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire
18-Oct-2007 By Tony Halstead
The Licensed Trade Charity has slammed the financial support it receives from the big pubcos as laughable
Regent aims for 100 Old Orleans
18-Oct-2007 By The PMA Team
Regent Inns still believes it can triple the size of the Old Orleans restaurant brand it acquired from Punch last year to around 100 sites - despite...
Faking It
18-Oct-2007
Last month industry watchdog the Portman Group announced that it would stop distributing its own proof-of-age cards.It cited falling demand as the...
Q&A: Glen Cooper
18-Oct-2007
Australian beers are largely seen in the UK as quite neutral thirst quenchers. How do the Coopers brands differ?It's chalk and cheese. The blandness...
Mixed message on measures for Scots
18-Oct-2007
Pubs in Scotland are reeling after being fined for selling short measures and then being slammed by trading standards officers for pouring too...
18-Oct-2007 By John Harrington
Three out of four pubs and other small businesses risk fines of up to £2,500 a day because they don't have the right insurance. That is the stark...
THE AGENTS
18-Oct-2007
Graham Allman Managing director GA-Select The great debates goes on. First off, are up-front fees ethical and professional, or just a ruse to take...
Pubs on the rural rollercoaster
18-Oct-2007
Rural pubs have been in decline, but there is cause for optimism for those that remain - as long as they get their hospitality right, says Noli...
Going by the book
18-Oct-2007
Learning from the experiences of others is crucial when it comes to raising standards. Steve Hemsley discovers books that continue to inspire...
Lowering the limit
18-Oct-2007
Phil Dixon wonders whether it's time the legal drinking age was brought down to encourage tippling teenagers off the streets and into pubs After the...
Responsible message gets across
18-Oct-2007
Diageo GB says that its responsible drinking message has been effective, with two in three people likely to consider drinking sensibly having seen...
LETTERs
18-Oct-2007
Political solution for tenant benefit I am sure you are aware of the Government's decision to abandon plans for taxing managers who live at pubs. I...
When enough is not enough
18-Oct-2007
The most important point to be made about saturation zones, such as the one proposed in Brighton, is that they do not form a specific part of...
MyShout
18-Oct-2007
The delay of the general election carries mixed implications for the trade, says John Grogan MP My late father's political hero Harold Wilson's...
THE GUV'NOR
18-Oct-2007
John Ellis Licensee of the Crown Inn, in Oakengates, Telford, says that differential rates of duty for draught and packaged products could be the...
Licensees' daughter in X Factor final
18-Oct-2007
The daughter of a licensee couple has made it to the finals of ITV's X Factor. Peter and Angie Southwick, of the Fox Inn, Dosthill, Tamworth,...
BarTalk
18-Oct-2007
Who would you rather have behind your bar, Jonny Wilkinson or Wayne Rooney? Scott Murray Bar Sport Cannock Staffordshire I'd have Jonny behind the...
NewsDigest
18-Oct-2007
Lord Clement Jones, the LibDem peer, has called for a review into the licensing of live music in pubs and other locations. His complaints centre...
Calls grow for debate on 16-year-olds drinking in pubs
18-Oct-2007
Trade leaders have joined calls for a debate on whether 16-year-olds should be able to drink in pubs and other on-licensed premises. They believe...
17-Oct-2007
The newly formed National Association of Licensees wants to hear from suffering licensees
17-Oct-2007
The Gun in Chiddingly has been crowned Calor Rural Pub in the Community for 2007. The awards scheme celebrates pubs which have diversified their...
