There’s some encouraging results from the Publican’s Morning Advertiser’s reader survey, with more than half of respondents reporting turnover on the increase, and almost the same number saying profits are also up year on year.
Following the rebranding of Molson Coors Wholesale last month, Robyn Black talks to its director of independent on-premise, Martyn Cozens, about his plans to make the business the ‘John Lewis’ for pubs
The PMA caught up with Sky Sports presenter Jeff Stelling, who has teamed up with Carlsberg UK in a quest to find ‘The People’s Pundit’, for a quick chat about all things football.
Tim Hulme has had a big task on his hands turning around the BII, but he’s adamant that progress has been made as he targets further reform and growth for the organisation. Hulme also has bold ambitions for the pub sector as a whole, as John Harrington...
In June Mike Benner left the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) after 20 years of campaigning, to take up his new post as managing director of the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA). He talks to Roger Protz about the value of a good beer.
BrewDog has grown to be the leading light of the UK’s healthy craft-beer scene and, with new funding and a new brewery, the company is setting its sights even higher. John Harrington spoke to co-founder James Watt
Would you believe that a man of John Hayes’ age — that is “39 and 319 months” — and status has been refused entry into a nightclub? It’s a little bit ironic when he’s been a driving force in lobbying for nightclubs for many years, and knows the mechanics...
Shepherd Neame boss Jonathan Neame tells Michelle Perrett what he, as the new chairman of the British Beer and Pub Association, sees as the organisation’s main aims, and how the industry should handle some of its major challenges.
"I don’t like football. It bores me to tears, sorry.” Coming from a landlady who successfully fought a six-year legal battle against the Premier League for the right to show cheap televised football in her pub, these words were somewhat unexpected.
It’s a toss-up as to who’s going to miss who the most when Tim Woodrow retires from Palmers later this year. With 45 years in the industry behind him, and the past quarter-century and more with the Dorset firm, Woodrow is going to have to play an awful...
Inventive Leisure has consistently expanded its business for more than 20 years. Chief executive Roy Ellis tells Lesley Foottit how he weathers the storms and keeps the brand fresh.
Mark Hunter is keeping a positive eye on the road ahead for beer and pubs — with no encouragement from Johnny Rotten. Phil Mellows meets the new British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) chairman.
After 25 years running bars and restaurants Tim Bacon, the founder and managing director of Living Ventures, has suddenly discovered pubs. And, as Phil Mellows discovers, there’s none so zealous as the converted.
He was the banker who funded Enterprise Inns as it grew to be the biggest pub company in the country. He advised on, backed and brokered countless deals during the industry’s M&A heyday.
Finally free of the corporate shackles and running his own pubs, Tim Bird, one of the pub industry’s foremost operations people, has been marshalling the skills and experience accumulated over decades to tackle one of the trade’s knottiest problems. Dog...
Pint of Guinness in hand, Andrew Cowan, the new country director for Diageo GB, wants to get more people to join him in the pub. Phil Mellows asks him how he’s going to do it.
Ten years ago John Longden launched Pub is the Hub, the scheme that’s helped hundreds of rural pubs deliver services to their villages. It’s the social impact that drives him, he tells Phil Mellows, not to mention the fear of the executioner’s axe.
The Lazy Cow is the latest, controversial, twist in the tale of Ross Sanders. Phil Mellows meets the entrepreneur at the steak-house-ale-house hybrid and chews the marbled fat.
Since his abrupt departure from JD Wetherspoon this time last year, Paul Harbottle has been knocking Atmosphere Bars & Clubs into shape. And he’s brought with him best practice from his old employer, as he tells Phil Mellows
