Friday July 13: Connect with your MP
27-Jun-2007
FROM THE Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell to Linda Riordan, the left-wing Labour member for Halifax, MPs from across the political divide...
CI Traders looks to sell up for £230m
27-Jun-2007 By Hamish Champ
CI Traders (CIT), which operates around 70 pubs throughout the Channel Islands, has agreed in principle to sell up to a private investment firm for...
What the papers say - June 27, 2007
27-Jun-2007
Scottish & Newcastle, Britain's biggest brewer, has promoted Tim Seager from marketing director of S&N UK to acting managing director of the...
Herefordshire licensee to defy ban
27-Jun-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
A Herefordshire licensee will flout the smoking ban by allowing customers to light up after July 1.Tony Blows, licensee at the Dog Inn, Ewyas Harold,...
27-Jun-2007 By Iain O'Neil
A Southampton licensee is hoping to get round the smoking ban by declaring his pub is 'foreign soil'. Bob Beech wants to turn his bar into an embassy...
London bar gets extra hours in landmark case
26-Jun-2007 By James Wilmore
A landmark licensing case has seen a London bar granted extended hours in the West End stress area. Fudge, on Bear Street, just off Leicester Square,...
Flooding hits Northern pubs
26-Jun-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
Pubs in the North have been fighting the flood waters with many being forced to tackle water ridden cellars while providing a haven for...
George Bateman dies
26-Jun-2007 By Hamish Champ
George Bateman, chairman of the Lincolnshire brewer that bears his name, has died after a long illness. According to a statement from the company he...
What the papers say - June 26, 2007
26-Jun-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes in Yorkshire today because of fears that a dam could burst after torrential rain caused...
26-Jun-2007 By Tony Halstead
Licensees in South Yorkshire are counting the cost of horrific flood damage caused by devastating floods this week. Scores of pub cellars were...
Comment: Pointless Exercise
25-Jun-2007
When I was about eight I was bought a replica shirt of my beloved football team, which is Watford (yes, Watford - you may have heard of them -...
Surveys, surveys, and more surveys
25-Jun-2007 By Hamish Champ
Against a backdrop of rising interest rates, shaky consumer confidence and the depressing prospect of there being another two months before the start...
Planes, trains and Geronimo Inns
25-Jun-2007 By Hamish Champ
Locating the Black Swan pub in the Surrey enclave of Ockham is easy - if you know where you're going. Horror film aficionados know it well, since in...
What the papers say - June 25, 2007
25-Jun-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
Sales of fine wines costing £20 or more continued to help drive growth at Majestic Wines last year. The wines and spirits retailer said that pre-tax...
Ultimate Leisure buys Living Room for £28m
25-Jun-2007 By Hamish Champ
Ultimate Leisure has acquired Living Ventures - which operates the Living Room bar and restaurant brand - for £28m.Ultimate said it hoped to create...
25-Jun-2007 By Ewan Turney
Scottish doctors have called for an end to cheap supermarket booze promotions. The pressure on the off-trade in Scotland has intensified this month...
What the Sunday papers said
24-Jun-2007
Tomorrow (Monday), market research firm Nielsen will publish a report showing that pub beer sales in Scotland dropped by 7 per cent, the equivalent...
22-Jun-2007 By The PMA Team
Highly rated Brunning & Price, the operator of freehold food-led pubs, has bought the freehold of Sutton Hall, a listed 16th-century manor house...
Scottish smoking ban hits Inspired Gaming Group sales
22-Jun-2007 By Hamish Champ
The Scottish smoking ban has hit Inspired Gaming Group's (IGG) earnings, the group announced this week.IGG, which provides analogue and server-based...
Elixir of youth
21-Jun-2007
Could allowing youngsters into pubs reduce social disorder while providing a new source of income? Andrew Jefford tunes in to the unheard voices of today's disaffected under-16s
Reading the smoke signals
21-Jun-2007
The imminent smoking ban in England presents a significant trading opportunity - despite licensees' fears that it will ruin their businesses -...
Liberal Democrat leader gets behind Proud of Pubs
21-Jun-2007
PROUD OF Pubs Week is continuing to capture the imagination of MPs and licensees - with Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell the latest...
21-Jun-2007 By John Harrington
Greene King is running a national ad campaign - with money-off vouchers - to get punters in the pub for the start of the English smoking ban. Under...
Creative challenges
21-Jun-2007
BII's chief executive John McNamara on food, the smoking ban and the BII's new food qualification Describe the BII's new Essentials in Catering...
LETTERs
21-Jun-2007
Crack down on the ID fakers I refer to the article by Ewan Turney on fake ID card holders (Morning Advertiser, 31 May 2007). Scunthorpe Pubwatch is...
21-Jun-2007 By Andrew Pring
Quality is the new watch-word for the trade today. Quality in everything you do as a licensee, be it quality of drink and food offer, quality of...
Watch those ID dates
21-Jun-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.
Test purchasers are using genuine ID that says they are a couple of months under 18 during the current national sting operation, the MA has learnt....
MyShout
21-Jun-2007
The necessity for a rational alcohol policy is finally getting through to ministers, says John Grogan Most ministers have cleared their diaries for...
Adams re-elected as LTC chairman
21-Jun-2007
Anita Adams, chairman of the Licensed Trade Charity (LTC) board of trustees, has been re-elected at a trustee's meeting and will serve another year...
InBrief
21-Jun-2007
Swindon's plan for the ban Swindon Borough Council is planning to pedestrianise half of Fleet Street in the New Town circuit to cope with the smoking...
BarTalk
21-Jun-2007
What would you buy Tony Blair for a leaving present? Fiona Horsby Thomas Rigby's, Liverpool Probably 200 Benson & Hedges and an ashtray! We're...
Families 'will enjoy the great indoors'
21-Jun-2007 By Tony Halstead THals22851@aol.com
A quarter of England's families are set to go to pubs more often once the country goes smokefree, new survey results from Cancer Research UK reveal....
NewsDigest
21-Jun-2007
Freetrade readers have just over a week to share their views on the industry in the MA's annual survey of the sector. Last week's MA contained a...
Consumer insight: Times are changing
20-Jun-2007
JUST IN case it¹s slipped your mind, next week sees the completion or, depending on how you look at it, the start of one of the most...
Punch tenant claims legal victory
20-Jun-2007 By James Wilmore
A former Punch Taverns tenant has claimed a legal victory against the pubco after a six-week delay in refunding his rent deposit. Ben Hope, former...
What the papers say - June 20, 2007
20-Jun-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
British distillers toasted victory over counterparts in the northern "vodka belt" yesterday after the European Parliament agreed that their brands...
Torex sells businesses for £204m
20-Jun-2007 By Hamish Champ
Torex Retail plc has sold its operating businesses to US private investment firm Cerberus European Investments for £204.4m.Torex, owner of pub tills...
20-Jun-2007 By Ewan Turney
Former Punch lessee wins legal battle over late return of deposit
Brulines sees profits leap
19-Jun-2007 By Hamish Champ
Brulines, the manufacturer of beer flow monitoring equipment, announced its maiden annual results today, with underlying pre-tax profit up 27 per...
Making sense of the numbers
18-Jun-2007
The dull 'thud' of a mighty tome hitting The Publican's City desk means only one thing; it's annual report time. Now, such documents aren't generally...
Still brewing for Britain
18-Jun-2007 By Hamish Champ
The year 1698 was peppered with some pretty colourful events. In France, a vintner by the name of Dom Pierre Pérignon was perfecting a special cork...
Pubcos offer concessions
18-Jun-2007 By Hamish Champ
It was unclear last week the extent to which rival pubcos were prepared to follow Admiral Taverns' lead and offer sizeable rent concessions to pub...
Fuller's ready to start acquiring
18-Jun-2007 By Hamish Champ
Fuller Smith & Turner is set to hit the acquisition trail, following the successful integration of Hampshire brewer Gales, which it bought 18...
What the papers say - June 18, 2007
18-Jun-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
Britain will be gripped by a liver disease epidemic within 15 years because of drinking, doctors will say on TV tonight. Experts tested the health of...
'Families to hit the pub after July 1'
18-Jun-2007
One in four families in England will go to pubs more often once the country goes smoke-free, according to Cancer Research UK.Finding a 'no smoking'...
What the Sunday papers said
17-Jun-2007
English publicans have been served notice that they can expect to see beer sales slump by four per cent after the introduction of next month's...
What the papers say - June 15, 2007
15-Jun-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
Motorists could find themselves over the alcohol limit after just one drink under a proposal to bring Britain's drink-drive law into line with the...
Pubs get advice on fighting terrorism
15-Jun-2007
Pubs are being provided with detailed safety guidance from the Association of Chief Police Officers to help them counter terrorism. Both a leaflet...
15-Jun-2007
The winners of Camden Best Bar None 2007 have been crowned at a glittering awards ceremony. Best Bar is University of London Union (Malet Street,...
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14-Jun-2007 By The PMA Team
Orchid Group, the managed operator set up last year by private equity company GI Partners, has sold 16 sites, including a number of Bar Room Bar...
