John Young slips the surly bonds of earth
07-Dec-2006
The great and the good of the brewing world and hundreds of friends came together last Thursday to bid farewell to Young's late chairman and industry...
Jonathan Webster set to leave Hardys & Hansons
06-Dec-2006 By Hamish Champ
Jonathan Webster expects to leave his role as managing director of Hardys & Hansons at the end of next month, once the Nottinghamshire brewer has...
Greene King sees 16 per cent hike in first half sales
05-Dec-2006 By Hamish Champ
Contributions from Belhaven and to a lesser extent Hardys & Hansons helped Greene King's first half results, the Suffolk brewer revealed...
Brulines sees turnover double in first half
05-Dec-2006 By Hamish Champ
Installing its equipment into thousands of Enterprise Inns' pubs helped boost first half turnover growth for Brulines, the manufacturer of beer flow...
05-Dec-2006
The Charity Commission has issued a warning to licensees to be wary of bogus charity collectors. It has listed its top tips to help publicans stop...
Wolves still wants to hunt down pub deals
04-Dec-2006 By Hamish Champ
Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries (W&DB) is still in the market to do acquisitions, despite announcing last week it was intent on returning at...
What The Sunday Papers Said
03-Dec-2006
Pub grub provider Brake Brothers is believed to be preparing for a stock market listing. According to sources CDR, the company's private equity...
01-Dec-2006
ALMR hits out at Government for announcing start date for the smoking ban but failing to give licensees the tools to prepare.
A right Royal Variety Performance
01-Dec-2006 By Hamish Champ
Until relatively recently, pub companies were seen as safe, reliable and ever-so-slightly dull investments. Aside from steady, cash-generative...
The REIT stuff?
01-Dec-2006 By Hamish Champ
It's hard to imagine Tim Clarke, the reserved chief executive of Mitchells & Butlers, dancing on the tables of one of his establishments. But...
Best of the bunch
01-Dec-2006
PubChef looks at new equipment launches and ask licensees and chefs to tell us about devices working well for them. My fab four Chris Bicknell, head...
Imitating art
01-Dec-2006
Susan Nowak steps back in time to sample a taste of 16th-century Flemish living. A huge pair of bloomers and other bits of laundry flap from a...
Corin Earland, head chef, the Fishes, North Hinksey, Oxfordshire
01-Dec-2006
A gammon joint was a new challenge for Corin Earland, but he enjoyed devising experimental dishes, including slow-cooked green gammon in Guinness...
John Rudden, chef director, White Hart, Lydgate, near Oldham, Lancashire
01-Dec-2006
Although White Hart chef/ director John Rudden's first attempt at creating a green gammon main course fell rather flat, he was pleased with his final...
New Inn of Michelin fame
01-Dec-2006
The New Inn, Chalkhouse Green Road, Kidmore End, Reading, Berkshire. Tel: 01189 723115. Just five miles from the centre of Reading, the New Inn is...
Haven in the hills
01-Dec-2006
Wellington Arms, Baughurst Road, Baughurst, Hampshire Tel: 0118 982 0110 The "Welly", formerly a hunting lodge for the Duke of Wellington, is...
30-Nov-2006 By The Morning Advertiser
A Punch licensee who appeared on Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares last week has hit out at his pubco after a huge rent rise five hours before the show was screened.
Fuller's looking for further acquisitions
30-Nov-2006 By The PMA Team
London brewer Fuller's would be happy to spend as much as £200m on another major acquisition after the successful integration of the Gale's estate....
Food for 400 Punch pubs
30-Nov-2006 By The PMA Team
Around 400 Punch licensees will be targeted for detailed help in launching a food offer in the coming year. The move is part of a far more pro-active...
New partner and site for Peach pubco
30-Nov-2006 By The PMA Team
Peach Pub Company, the innovative food-led multiple retailer, has signed up for its seventh property - the Old Mill, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, a...
Geronimo Inns set to double in size
30-Nov-2006 By The PMA Team
Private-equity firm Penta Capital has taken a controlling stake in Geronimo Inns, the multiple lessee founded by Rupert and Joanna Clevely that is...
Smartbox collapse leaves licensees locked in
30-Nov-2006
Hundreds of licensees have been left tied to hire purchase deals on equipment they cannot use following the collapse of controversial interactive TV...
Porters saved from demolition
30-Nov-2006
A MACCLESFIELD licensee who was turned into a virtual computer game hero to save her pub from demolition has been given an extra life after the...
Waste plant battle for pub
30-Nov-2006
REGULARS AT a pub in North Yorkshire are leading the fight to block plans to build a waste composting and shredding site next door.More than 100...
Beadle foils Bond's undercover exposé
30-Nov-2006
As marketing stunts go, JDW's "Mission to Mock" seemed to rank among the best: First, take an area manager from Cardiff with the name Bond - that's...
THE AGENTS
30-Nov-2006
Timothy Meek Agency Director James A Baker At any one time, the number of freehold pub sites on the market with development potential has never been...
Crunch time for Europe's best
30-Nov-2006 By Richard Ross
The final matches of the Champions League group stage are coming up and there are spots in the next round to fight for, with Premiership clubs in...
Giving dry a try
30-Nov-2006
Setting up a food offer needn't cost the earth or tax your culinary abilities. Andrew Burnyeat shows you how to avoid those sleepless nights as you...
Tread warily over pub poker
30-Nov-2006
Pub gaming has always been fraught with difficulty, because of the severe limitations and restrictions placed upon it. There has been a long-held...
LETTERs
30-Nov-2006
LESG has finished u s We took on a pub three years ago called the Queen's Head in Horton, Telford, Shropshire. When we bought it we were under the...
Greene King right to object
30-Nov-2006
The issue of who pays for residents' objections to licence applications is quite straightforward legally - yet anything but straightforward when it...
'DON'T QUOTE ME ON THAT'
30-Nov-2006
Each month a senior buyer from our panel talks anonymously and candidly about the latest brand developments It was when my contact at InBev started...
MyShout
30-Nov-2006
Invading hordes are adopting a new guise in modern-day York, says Stephen Oliver Every time I travel to York I pack my waders and inflatable canoe,...
Wrong music tariffs cost licensees dear
30-Nov-2006 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Many pubs and clubs are paying far too much for licences to play recorded music because they have been put on the wrong tariff. That is the claim of...
The GUV'NOR Graham Rowson
30-Nov-2006
Proper planning prevents poor performance says the licensee of the Plungington Tavern in Preston, Lancashire Imagine looking around one of your bar...
Act is changing pub habits says survey
30-Nov-2006 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Drinking habits are evolving due to licensing reform, with people more likely to stay longer in community pubs. This is according to a survey of...
BarTalk
30-Nov-2006
In an ideal world, what would you like for Christmas? Dave Daly Cahoots Blackpool The smoking ban to be partially lifted - we want to have the right...
Pubcos face severe underage penalties
30-Nov-2006 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
Pubcos could face fines of £10,000 if one of their pubs persistently serve underage drinkers under new laws. With much of the focus from the Violent...
DESPAIR OF Smartbox COLLAPSE
30-Nov-2006 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
Company's failure leaves licensees with massive debts and onerous leases Controversial screen media company Smartbox has collapsed leaving hundreds...
Changes are on the cards
29-Nov-2006
Pub poker has grown in 2006 like the smile on a novice player's face who knows he holds a good hand. But anyone familiar with the game will know...
Smoking ban will slow growth at Mitchells & Butlers
29-Nov-2006 By Hamish Champ
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) expects sales growth in an English non-smoking environment to be "significantly lower" than its track record of the...
Pub food pays off for Mitchells & Butlers
29-Nov-2006 By Hamish Champ
Mitchells & Butlers' switch towards food-led pubs has paid off with the managed pubco's latest financial results, according to the...
29-Nov-2006
Pubs in Glasgow look set to face a midnight glass ban if they plan any extended hours this Christmas. Licensing officials have told pub operators...
29-Nov-2006
Pub operator Mitchells & Butlers says it is confident about its future prospects after seeing its emphasis on food sales pay off. It said pre-tax...
24-Nov-2006
British Beer and Pub Association survey goes against doom-mongers' 24-hour drinking predictions.
Plummeting profits for two major brewers
24-Nov-2006 By The PMA Team
Two major UK brewers indicate current difficulties facing beer business
Smoking out a bargain?
24-Nov-2006 By Hamish Champ
Ted Tuppen's comments that the sale of Enterprise Inns' entire 137-strong Scottish estate was strategically driven should be taken at face value,...
Fuller's sizing up rival family brewers
24-Nov-2006
Fuller & Co aims to fuel expansion by courting rival family brewers with shareholders looking to cash in their assets.Speaking as the...
24-Nov-2006
Fuller's has reported 'excellent' results for the six months up to the end of September. The London brewer and pub operator announced its results for...
23-Nov-2006 By John Harrington
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) is to ask Government to let pubs host small-stakes poker games.
