15-May-2006 By The PMA Team
Tattershall Castle Group, the company that bought 178 high street sites from Sprit last August, has sold 18 leased sites to a new entrant, Free...
Sensible savings
15-May-2006
All the lights and 10 TVs were on when Honeycombe Leisure managing director James Baer visited one of his pubs recently. In a busy pub it's a cost...
Liability nightmare
15-May-2006
Violence against staff is an area of increasing concern across licensed retail. Most physical attacks are related to crimes such as theft and robbery...
R2O back on the prowl
15-May-2006
Despite being rebuffed by Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) last week Robert Tchenguiz's R20 is determined to secure a sizeable pub deal in the near...
Ease the burden
15-May-2006
In the opening evidence session of the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group's inquiry into the future of community pubs, a cross-party panel of MPs...
What the Sunday papers said
14-May-2006 By Hamish Champ
Undercover policemen pretending to be lager louts will be attempting to catch out licensees who sell to drunks. Anyone who ignores their 'condition'...
Test
12-May-2006
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Some tenancy agreements are only going to be signed by idiots
11-May-2006
Fleurets chairman Barry Gillham asks the trade to think about the lessee when considering tenancy deals
Licensees tricked by BII logo scam
11-May-2006
In the midst of The Publican's Scamwatch Month a string of licensees have come forward to tell us they have been ripped off by the Plymouth-based...
Scammed licensee comes up trumps
11-May-2006
Paul St. John Campbell, who runs the Queen Edith pub in Cambridge, said he had been left in limbo with no support or communication when rogue...
Smoking debate: 'licensees are not the bad guys'
11-May-2006
Speaking during the latest debate on the Health Bill, Earl Howe said the ban represented a "significant burden" on licensees, and described the...
11-May-2006 By Lucy Britner
After an exhaustive search the 2006 Punch Shine Award winners have been found - they are Colin and Emma Spry from Starz in Exeter. Speaking after...
11-May-2006 By Lucy Britner
A trade expert has blasted unfair tenancy and lease agreements - saying they would "only attract the attention of idiots". Barry Gillham, chairman of...
11-May-2006 By Iain O'Neil
Pubs n Bars chairman Seamus Murphy said the company had had a satisfactory year and could be well placed to take advantage of the smoke ban....
South West leaves in style
11-May-2006
During the last 12 years, the LTC's South West Fundraising Committee has raised the amazing total of almost £80,000 through fundraising events,...
Pubwatch chiefs plead for help to cut disorder
11-May-2006 By John Harrington
Police and the Government must do more to help licensees stamp out disorder at pubs by supporting local pubwatch schemes. That is the message from...
10-May-2006 By Lucy Britner
There's another reason blokes will be visiting the "little boys room" as a brand new pub game has just been introduced in time for the World Cup....
10-May-2006 By Lucy Britner
A west-country licensed victuallers association has launched a campaign to get convicted sex offender Gary Glitter's records off local pub jukeboxes....
08-May-2006
A pub landlord today defended his actions after a lesbian couple claimed they were banned from his bar because they'd openly kissed each other. Kelly...
08-May-2006 By Iain O'Neil
A new survey says there is roaring trade with £1billion pounds changing hands in Britain's pubs - trouble is the money is not going to licensees....
08-May-2006 By Iain O'Neil
Robert Tchenguiz' R20 investment group says it will not now be making an offer for Mitchells & Butlers. After months of specualtion the group...
What the Sunday papers said
07-May-2006
Having seen off a £4.6bn bid from R20 last week, managed pub and bar group Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) is considering snapping up Whitbread's...
The rise and fall of the managed pub company
06-May-2006
Punch Taverns' acquisition late last year of Spirit Group and its 1,800 or so pubs and the ongoing pursuit by Robert Tchenguiz's R20 of Mitchells...
M&B: Buyout proposal undervalues company
04-May-2006 By Iain O'Neil
M&B says Tchenguiz' 550pence a share proposal 'undervalues' the business.
Alchemy looks to Regent purchase
04-May-2006 By The PMA Team
Venture-capital firm Alchemy Partners is rumoured to be have approached Regent Inns in relation to a £180m buy-out of the Walkabout operator....
04-May-2006 By The PMA Team
More and more private owners of freehold pubs are selling them through public auctions, a leading auctioneer has claimed. John Barnett, of...
Scamwatch: Spot that scam
04-May-2006
The problem with experienced scamsters is they are very good at what they do. They are generally offering you something that is just far too good to...
Club doorman facing jail
04-May-2006
Blue Kinane, 37, of Cippenham, Berks, was found guilty of causing actual bodily harm on April 27. He was cleared of a more serious charge of assault...
Licensee wins hours appeal against Westminster
04-May-2006
Dave Haseldine, owner of Bradley's Spanish Bar, had applied for extended hours but Westminster refused to give him a hearing as his bar is in the...
04-May-2006 By Ewan Turney
Wayne Rooney's broken metatarsal won't shatter pub takings over the summer says the trade. Licensees, city analysts and top execs all agree that...
04-May-2006 By Iain O'Neil
Punch Taverns is hoping to help its licensees make the most of this summer's World Cup extravaganza. The pubco is offering licensees a Profit Through...
04-May-2006 By Iain O'Neil
A Westminster licensee is celebrating a rare court victory over the city council - and calling on others to follow his lead. David Haseldine withdrew...
04-May-2006 By Lucy Britner
Food critic and media mogul Michael Winner has been banned for life from Novelli's White Horse pub in Harpenden. The Death Wish film director - now...
Blubeckers gobbles up rural pub sites
04-May-2006
Blubeckers, the pub-restaurant format bought by the Restaurant Group last year, has acquired two new sites and targeted four more by the end of the...
Licensee bids to raise profile of pubs
03-May-2006
A Kent licensee is set to walk from John O'Groats to Lands End in a bid to raise the profile of the great British pub.Darren Apps, from Tonbridge,...
FA Cup quiz
03-May-2006
The FA Cup final between Liverpool and West Ham next weekend could be a great chance to rehearse your strategy for the World Cu
03-May-2006 By Iain O'Neil
A Shropshire licensee whose local MP called for a zero drink drive limit was compelled to refuse honourable gentleman a drink in his pub - unless he...
03-May-2006
Responsible drinking initiatives implemented by the trade are having a positive impact on anti-social behaviour according to the BBPA. Initiatives...
03-May-2006 By Iain O'Neil
Punch has denied it is about to make staff at the recently acquired Spirit Group reapply for their jobs to cut out duplication. The pub company...
03-May-2006 By John Harrington
The much-loved White Horse in Parson's Green, London, has become the first pub to achieve the highest honour in an awards scheme for pubs that serve...
02-May-2006 By Iain O'Neil
Greene King has reported 'positive' trading across all four of its businesses. It said its debt refinancing had improved flexibility and lowered...
02-May-2006 By Iain O'Neil
The British Beer and Pub Association has launched a Challenge 21 poster campaign aimed at stamping out underage drinking in pubs. The idea is to say...
Michelin man
01-May-2006 By Fiona McLelland
John Burton Race has won a Michelin star at every restaurant he's opened. Now, Fiona McLelland finds, he hopes to do the same at a gastropub.
Pub Review - The Beehive
01-May-2006 By Mark Taylor
The Beehive, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Drink talking
01-May-2006
Last night in Strangers' Bar, a regular haunt of many an ale-loving MP, I was pondering which real ale to choose from the guest ales on offer. After...
Family ties seal Wells and Young's merger deal
01-May-2006 By Hamish Champ
While for Young's the not-insignificant matter of realising between £80m and £100m from the sale of the brewery site played its part, the close...
JD Wetherspoon's diploma makes sound economic sense
01-May-2006
Some 40 of the group's managers and area managers are in their second year of the course and the first are due to complete it in March 2007, when...
Back to the floor
01-May-2006
Writing about business trends, M&A activity and general goings on in the licensed trade as one does, it is easy to forget the nuts and bolts...
Learn from style bars
01-May-2006
Traditional publicans used to practise a kind of inverse snobbery when it came to the "trendy bars" that started springing up on Britain's high...
Who shares wins
01-May-2006 By Richard Fox and Fiona McLelland
The British love affair with a shared eating experience - be it finger snacks, combos, tapas or joints of meat - is starting to take the pub world by...
