04-Jul-2007 By The PMA Team
Even chief executive Rooney Anand hits the road to speak to licensees, staff and customers about the smoking ban
Project update 5: Barcena is born again
04-Jul-2007
It's 8.05pm on Thursday, June 28, and apprehension hangs in the air at Barcena, Sell More, Save More's high street bar. David Beckham is late.Five...
Project update 5: Build on the success
04-Jul-2007
THE HACK & Spade has come a long way since Sell More, Save More began at the beginning of the year. Sales at the pub are currently running at...
What the papers say - July 4, 2007
04-Jul-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
Pub-sector stocks frothed higher after the announcement by Greene King that it is planning to inject a tranche of its pubs into a property joint...
03-Jul-2007 By The PMA Team
Greene King is to offer more of its pubs on a leased basis to attract more entrepreneurial licensees. The company has traditionally let around 80%...
E-pub: the digital DJ
03-Jul-2007
In the space of a couple of years technology has transformed the way we listen to music. The ability to download a personalised selection of tracks...
Newcomers: a first venture into the pub trade
03-Jul-2007
Madnessnoun - the state of being mad; insanitySo what has possessed us to enter the licensed trade?A couple of years ago one of us (R) left the...
Two thirds of Greene King customers give smoke-free pubs the thumbs up
03-Jul-2007 By Hamish Champ
Greene King chief executive Rooney Anand participated in polling the brewer's pub-going customers last Sunday to hear their views on the smoking...
What the papers say - July 3, 2007
03-Jul-2007
One of Britain's biggest pub groups Greene King has dismissed concerns about the smoking ban and said that sales on the day it came into force were...
03-Jul-2007 By Mark Wingett of M&C Report
The Newport Pub Company has replenished its estate with the acquisition of Foden Inns, the four-strong, West-Midlands-based pub group, for an...
Hamish Champ: Day one of the smoking ban
02-Jul-2007 By Hamish Champ
So, how was it for you? After a very enjoyable day watching England trounce the West Indies at Lord's yesterday I entered a nearby licensed premises...
Loud pubs and clubs cause hearing damage in young
02-Jul-2007
Nine in 10 young people experience the signs of hearing damage after a night out, new research has revealed.The charity RNID found that 90 per cent...
What the papers say - July 2, 2007
02-Jul-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
Kraft, the maker of Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers, is understood to be in talks to buy the biscuit and cereal-products division of France's Danone,...
02-Jul-2007 By Jo Bruce
Don't miss the chance to gain the recognition your chef and pub deserve in the PubChef Food Excellence Awards 2008. The search is now on to find the...
02-Jul-2007 By Iain O'Neil
Nine out of ten people aged between 16 and 30 experience signs of hearing damage after a night out, according to new research. The charity RNID found...
What the Sunday papers said
01-Jul-2007
As the smoking ban in England drew nearer Tony Blows, landlord of The Dog Inn in Ewys Harold, near Hereford, said he was prepared to go to court as...
Top tables
01-Jul-2007
Licensees give tips on customer service. This month - a customer touches a member of staff in an inappropriate way. How do you handle the...
Damage limitation
01-Jul-2007
Richard Fox offers advice on handling drunk and disorderly customers We've all experienced that uncomfortable and dramatic lowering of the noise...
Good month bad month
01-Jul-2007
Good month for Organic produce: According to new research, organic food sales topped £1bn last year. Families: More parents and kids are expected...
News digest
01-Jul-2007
A round-up of the month's pub-food news High brand regard for JDW JD Wetherspoon (JDW) is the highest regarded brand name in the eating and drinking...
Greene King offer marks new era
01-Jul-2007
Greene King is marking the new era of smoke-free pubs from 1 July with a national advertising campaign offering consumers money-off food vouchers....
The future starts this weekend
01-Jul-2007
The big ban is almost here - an historic day for the trade. Whether you are for or against it, fear it or have already embraced it at your pub, it is...
29-Jun-2007 By The PMA Team
Punch Taverns is to recruit 25 Operations Managers for its tenanted division to create closer relationship with licensees.
29-Jun-2007 By The PMA Team
Whitbread wants to retain ownership of its freehold pub property, company bosses have told Morgan Stanley analysts at a meeting this week. In a...
Making sense of things...
29-Jun-2007
Comprehending modern day 'corporate speak' is never easy, especially a chairman's AGM speech. So given the importance of the boss's comments, an...
Budda is reborn
29-Jun-2007
With its recent purchase of the Bar Budda chain - which had been in administration since August last year - Glasgow-based hotels firm the McKever...
The smoking ban: a buying opportunity?
29-Jun-2007 By Hamish Champ
An affront to democracy or the best health and safety legislation ever introduced? We've heard many views on the smoking ban, my favourite coming...
Website to launch promoting career in pubs
29-Jun-2007 By James Wilmore
A website developed by leading pubcos to promote the pub industry as a viable and exciting career is being launched on Sunday (July 1)....
What the papers say - June 29, 2007
29-Jun-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
Diageo, the owner of Johnnie Walker whisky and Smirnoff vodka, warned of a slowdown in the US spirits market but reiterated its forecast that it...
North East bar group to double estate
29-Jun-2007 By Hamish Champ
North East pubco Centro Pub Company is to plough nearly £4m into doubling its estate of bars.The group, which has been trading for five years and...
28-Jun-2007 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) is rolling out a new trading concept called Cornerstone after successful trials.
What the papers say - June 28, 2007
28-Jun-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
Sales of anti-smoking aids, such as nicotine patches and gum, in the UK are set to break through the £100m mark this year, says a new report. The...
MyNewPub
28-Jun-2007
Three Horse Shoes Inn, Ironsbottom, Surrey Agent: Fleurets Rob Martinez and Jenny Ladell have just moved into the Three Horse Shoes Inn, near...
Three key steps towards stub-out
28-Jun-2007
You've sweated blood in the planning, but now the ban is here what do you do if someone lights up in your face. Peter Forshaw, partner at national...
Shepherd Neame
28-Jun-2007
George Barnes Property & tenanted trade director How many pubs do you operate? 378. How many of those outlets are already smoke free? 12. How...
Robinsons
28-Jun-2007
William Robinson Director How many pubs do you operate? 405. How many of those are already smoke-free? 50. How much have you invested in preparing...
Regent Inns
28-Jun-2007
Simon Kaye Commercial director How many pubs do you operate? 100. How many of those outlets are already smoke-free? 10. How much have you invested in...
Punch
28-Jun-2007
Francis Patton Customer services director How many pubs do you operate? Approximately 8,400 in England, Wales and Scotland. These are a combination...
Marston's
28-Jun-2007
Andrew Andrea Operations director Marston's Pub Company Peter Dalzell Operations director Marston's Inns & Taverns How many pubs do you operate?...
Everards
28-Jun-2007
David Harrison Operations director - tenanted How many pubs do you operate? 162. How many of those outlets are already smoke free? Six. How much...
Reflecting on the end of an era
28-Jun-2007
It's the biggest thing to hit pubs since the introduction of the drink-drive laws. Licensees tell Noli Dinkovski what the smoke ban means to themAlan...
MyShout
28-Jun-2007
As Gordon Brown takes over, the time is right to make the industry's voice heard, says Jon Collins Am I the only person to feel a growing sense of...
THE GUV'NOR
28-Jun-2007
Peter Eveleigh The licensee of the Riverside Inn in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, ponders the Yin and Yang of the smoking ban Out of the ashes of...
BarTalk
28-Jun-2007
Are you ready for the smoking ban? John Ellis Crown Inn Oakengates Shropshire We haven't got everything in place yet, but we're confident. We held...
NewsDigest
28-Jun-2007
Tony Hughes, aged 59, managing director of Mitchells & Butlers restaurant division, is to retire at the end of the year. Hughes, regarded by many...
27-Jun-2007 By The PMA Team
Greene King and Punch Taverns shares should be bought on a long-term basis, according to Panmure Gordon analyst Douglas Jack. He said: "Overall,...
Tuesday July 10: Tonight's the night
27-Jun-2007
Entertainment is at the heart of pubs. Whether it's putting on a fully fledged quiz night, or simply providing a space for customers to meet and...
Wednesday July 11: Analyse this
27-Jun-2007
If you only take the time to do one thing during Proud of Pubs Week then take the opportunity to stand back from the coalface of your business, even...
Thursday July 12: Toast your team
27-Jun-2007
The frontline of pub retailing the people who customers are most likely to deal with face-to-face are the nation¹s barstaff.That¹s why, on...
Learn from experience
27-Jun-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
From 6am Sunday, all enclosed public places in the UK will become smoke-free zones. Cigarettes will be banished from pubs, bars and nightclubs in...
