JDW to expand post-ban
13-Sep-2007 By The PMA Team
JD Wetherspoon is to step up its expansion programme after concluding that the smoking ban in the UK will broaden the appeal of its pubs. The...
Licensees positive about smoking ban
13-Sep-2007
So much for the theory tell us about the practice.After years of wondering about what impact the smoking ban would have on pubs in England,...
13-Sep-2007 By Ewan Turney
The Government is set to announce further details of its controversial Alcohol Disorder Zones (ADZs) in mid-October.
Pubs better now than '70s
13-Sep-2007 By Graham Ridout
More than 60% of pub-goers believe today's pubs are better than those in the 1970s - with the smoking ban and the better drinks selection among the...
MyShout
13-Sep-2007
When it comes to lease assignments, Peter Linacre reckons lessees should take far more care In the ongoing open warfare that describes the...
THE AGENTS
13-Sep-2007 By Graham Allman Managing director GA-Select
It is a little premature to pass judgement on the full effects of the smoking ban on the future valuations of licensed businesses. Also, the...
THE GUV'NOR
13-Sep-2007 By Bernard Brindley
It's time for the trade to give itself a pat on the back for the high standards being maintained in pubs, says the BII vice-president For once it is...
BarTalk
13-Sep-2007
Will you be screening the Rugby World Cup? Bill Skehan Skehan Free House New Cross London We are showing it at the moment, although there haven't...
Bournemouth may become first ADZ
13-Sep-2007 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
The Government is set to announce further details of its controversial Alcohol Disorder Zones (ADZs) in mid-October. The announcement is believed to...
NewsDigest
13-Sep-2007
Smoke-ban rebel Hamish Howitt has changed his name by deed poll to Hamish Guy Fawkes in protest over the smoking ban. The licensees of the Happy...
12-Sep-2007
CAMRA says more than 60% of pub-goers think today's pubs are better than those in the 1970's
Scotland intervention - a step too far?
12-Sep-2007
News that Scotland is to clampdown on alcohol drinks promotions was greeted with a cheer from licensees across the country. Finally someone is taking...
'Boy, 14 is an alcoholic'
12-Sep-2007
A teenage boy has been sent for rehabilitation care after becoming an alcoholic at the age of 14. Police revealed that the boy, from Harrogate, North...
Six out of 10 prefer the modern pub
12-Sep-2007
More than six out of 10 beer-lovers think that today's pubs are better than those in the 1970s, says the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). However,...
Rival calls for Brulines/Nucleus merger to be referred
11-Sep-2007 By Hamish Champ
Dispense monitoring company Cotec Technology has lodged a formal objection with the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to the proposed acquisition of...
Sky prosecutes nearly 50 licensees
11-Sep-2007
With only a month of the football season gone 46 licensees have already been hauled before the courts for showing soccer on Sky without the use of a...
Hamish Champ: Children and pubs
10-Sep-2007 By Hamish Champ
Families and pubs are a potentially combustible mix. Many people with children see the opportunity to pitch up at a pub with the kids in tow as the...
No plans to tenant out Honeycombe pubs, says Cains
09-Sep-2007 By Hamish Champ
Liverpool brewer Cains has rejected claims it is to transfer over to tenanted operations the 100-plus managed Honeycombe Leisure pubs it acquired via...
What the Sunday papers said
09-Sep-2007
Britain's big four supermarkets will be allowed to continue selling alcohol at rock-bottom prices despite complaints that they are driving pubs,...
Wetherspoon's Jim Clarke to join Countrywide
07-Sep-2007 By Hamish Champ
Jim Clarke, JD Wetherspoon's outgoing finance director, is to join estate agent Countrywide as group finance director.Clarke, who has been with the...
JD Wetherspoon 2007 profits up six per cent
07-Sep-2007 By Hamish Champ
Managed pubco JD Wetherspoon saw pre-tax profits rise six per cent to £62m last year, slightly below analyst's expectations, on turnover up five per...
NITAs finalists announced
07-Sep-2007
Five licensees have made it to the shortlist of the flagship Licensee Trainer of the Year award at this year's BII NITAs.Maggie Armstrong of the...
06-Sep-2007
Punch expects profits to be down because of dismal summer but says smoking ban has had no detectable impact
Greene King trials carvery
06-Sep-2007 By The PMA Team
Greene King is trialling a number of different carvery concepts in its managed division. One such trial is being undertaken at a pub in Dunstable,...
JDW sheds light on energy-saving pub
06-Sep-2007 By The PMA Team
JD Wetherspoon has revealed the range of energy-saving devices and design innovations being trialled at its first green pub, the Kettleby Cross,...
Back to Basics: Pub poker
06-Sep-2007
Poker is the new karaoke. Walk down any high street, even before tournaments were officially legalised on September 1, and you'll see that pubs have...
Supermarkets face action in Scotland
06-Sep-2007
Irresponsible alcohol promotions by supermarkets and off-licences are to be banned by the Scottish government. Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny...
Punch Taverns profits hit by bad weather
06-Sep-2007 By Hamish Champ
Shares in Punch Taverns soared this morning despite the group warning that its pre-tax profits for the year will be up to three per cent below...
Undercover cops in pubs
06-Sep-2007 By Tony Halstead THals22851@aol.com
Police are to plant under- cover officers in pubs to catch bar staff who serve drunken customers. Licensees in Blackpool have been warned that staff...
MyShout
06-Sep-2007
As underage drinking is blamed for social ills, the pub needs to assert itself, says Ken Lupton I was horrified by the recent murder of Garry Newlove...
JDW boss criticises joint drink promos
06-Sep-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
JD Wetherspoon CEO John Hutson has criticised police attempts to harmonise drinks promotions at bars in Grimsby, Lincolnshire. Police asked four...
THE AGENTS
06-Sep-2007
Adam Wyn Griffiths Director, Humberstones It's the beginning of September again, the summer seems to have passed us by this year, and children are...
THE GUV'NOR
06-Sep-2007 By Paul Clerehugh
Watch out for rogue recruitment companies when it comes to hiring a chef, says the licensee of the Crooked Billet in Stoke-on-Rowe, Oxfordshire Page...
InBrief
06-Sep-2007
Licensees risk smoke-ban charge Licensees of a Norfolk pub could be the next to face prosecution for allegedly flouting the smoking ban. Nigel...
Raising the Russian standard
06-Sep-2007
The arrival of new brand Russian Standard looks likely to shake up the battle for supremacy in the vodka market. Nigel Huddleston reports The...
BarTalk
06-Sep-2007
Is there a need for another licensees' trade body? Graham Rowson Plungington Tavern, Preston, Lancashire I cannot believe there is scope for another...
Know your rights - and other people's
06-Sep-2007
It seems that this summer, in particular, the question of discrimination appears to be making the headlines, yet again. The worrying trend for the...
Police unfair on licensees
06-Sep-2007
The issue of underage drinking won't go away. In spite of some suggestions from informed sources that the Home Office was taking the pressure off,...
LETTERs
06-Sep-2007
A great deal from Energywatch Something truly wonderful and amazing has happened that I'd like to share with the MA and its readers. Having obtained...
Time to take pub PR seriously
06-Sep-2007
Good to see the script writers on The Archers know there's more to bar-tending than serving your mates a sloppy pint. In last Sunday's episode -...
Licensee in battle with Provence boss
06-Sep-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Smoke-ban rebel host Nick Hogan is battling the former boss of collapsed pub company Provence, who owns the freehold of Hogan's pubs, to stay in...
NewsDigest
06-Sep-2007
Edinburgh's licensing board has passed a policy which will mean bars must provide seats for at last half of their customers. It will also see pub...
£10m investment for 240 LESG pubs
06-Sep-2007 By Tony Halstead THals22851@aol.com
Oxford Inns & Hotels (OIH) is making a £10m investment in the former London & Edinburgh Swallow Group (LESG) pubs it took over following the...
Pressure mounts to punish violent thugs
06-Sep-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Trade uniting behind calls to protect licensees from attack Pressure is mounting on the Government and police forces to ensure thugs who attack...
Scotland faces paid-for-policing
05-Sep-2007
Scottish pub and club licensees have joined with trade groups to condemn a plan by Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill to impose a controversial...
Pete Robinson: Workers banned from using pubs
05-Sep-2007
Health and safety zealots at the Welsh Assembly are banning thousands of civil servants from lunchtime pub visits, even for a swift half or a glass...
04-Sep-2007
Like-for-likes up despite the terrible summer and the introduction of the smoking ban
04-Sep-2007 By Mark Wingett
Tattershall Castle Group (TCG), the managed pub operator owned by Alchemy Partners, the private equity firm, has launched a new concept called Oasis under the banner "classic pubs with a twist".
04-Sep-2007
A senior manager with 20 years' experience in retailing has returned to his first love, the hospitality sector, and joined leading pub company the...
04-Sep-2007
Brulines has announced it is to buy rival cellar volume monitoring company Nucleus Data for £3,800,000. A further consideration of up to £700,000...
