12-Aug-2010 By Phil Mellows
No-premium leaseholds and low rents are the two factors that have lured pub entrepreneur Martin Webb back onto the expansion trail, he has revealed....
11-Aug-2010 By Jo Bruce
A winner of the Morning Advertiser's Great British Pub of the Year is planning to double the size of his company. The Essex based Great Pub Company,...
11-Aug-2010 By Gemma McKenna
A pub finance expert has dismissed the new bank-led taskforce set up to stimulate lending to small businesses as a "talking shop". The British...
05-Aug-2010 By Phil Mellows
Glasgow pub and bar operator G1 Group is spending an unprecedented £5.7m on a dramatic transformation of the Corinthian.
05-Aug-2010 By Ewan Turney
Lincolnshire operator Kurnia Group is looking to downsize its seven-strong pub estate to concentrate on its property and training portfolio.
05-Aug-2010 By The PMA Team
Managed operator Mitchells & Butlers has accepted individual offers for 15 pubs from 13 franchisees. Franchisees who had submitted bids for...
05-Aug-2010 By The PMA Team
Multi-site operator TM Steaks has opened its third Brakspear pub — the iconic Chequers in Marlow, Bucks. The pub was formerly tenanted by Massive...
Low rent review activity likely to continue, says agent
05-Aug-2010 By Hamish Champ
A leading property agent is predicting further low levels of rent review activity as tenants, hit by the tough market conditions, continue to oppose...
Mark Daniels: Who wants to be a licensee?
04-Aug-2010
Donning, in a mildly puerile effort at tongue-in-cheekedness, a pair of cuff-links each broadcasting the slogan "My Official Drinking Arm," I headed...
03-Aug-2010 By Gemma McKenna
The economic downturn has meant a slowdown in the number of rent reviews being carried out — that's according to Fleurets annual rental survey....
02-Aug-2010 By Jo Bruce
Radio 2 presenter Chris Evans has sold one of his pubs to Celtic Manor Resort — the Newbridge Inn, at Tredunnock, near Usk.
30-Jul-2010 By Ewan Turney
Wiltshire-based brewer and operator Wadworth has acquired the Black Horse at Sowton, near Exeter — its first pub in Devon. The Black Horse will be...
Back bar focus: Behind every great barperson...
29-Jul-2010
Jelly Beans, Liquorice Allsorts, cashew nuts, Bombay mix and pistachios might not be regular features on the back-bar. But at the Jolly Cricketers...
US group looking to buy Highgate Brewery
28-Jul-2010 By Hamish Champ
An American brewery has apparently expressed an interest in buying the Highgate Brewery site in Walsall. According to a spokesman for Empire Star...
Managed pubs boost Hydes' annual results
27-Jul-2010 By Hamish Champ
Hydes, the Manchester brewer and pub operator, said a "solid" performance by its 14-strong managed pub estate helped boost its annual pre-tax...
Punch Taverns to roll out new letting initiative
26-Jul-2010 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns has announced it has radically altered the way it lets a pub that has been returned to it by a licensee who can no longer run the...
'Waitrose looking to convert boarded-up pubs into convenience stores'
25-Jul-2010
Boarded-up pubs could soon get a new lease of life as a posh supermarket chain snaps them up. Waitrose is targeting pubs throughout the UK as part of...
23-Jul-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Whitbread is to build its first new Brewers Fayre pub-restaurants in five years — two new builds and one conversion.
21-Jul-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The managing director of a Norfolk licensed trade agent turned down the offer to market a dilapidated pub due to the "totally unrealistic" price...
Trading is 'stabilising', says Enterprise Inns
20-Jul-2010 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns said today that trading across its pub estate was continuing to stabilise, aided by the help of "reasonable weather" and the recent...
Welsh licensees want it Just So
19-Jul-2010 By Hamish Champ
So hacked off were Simon Griffiths, Ian and Joanne Feeney-King with the decline of pubs in their part of Swansea that they have formed their own pub...
19-Jul-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Anti-tie campaign group Fair Pint has expressed confidence in the chance for "meaningful reform" of the relationship between tied tenants and their...
19-Jul-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Faucet Inn Pub Company has bought its 20th venue — Battersea gastropub the Prince of Wales. The freehold pub was acquired for an undisclosed sum...
15-Jul-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Capital Pub Company has received acceptances from shareholders representing more than 76% of the company's equity.
Pub allotments: The Good Life
15-Jul-2010 By Katie Coyne
The idea of growing your own fruit and veg seems to conjure up surprisingly poignant memories for people. There's the historic collective memory of...
Admiral takes on squatting pirates
15-Jul-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubco Admiral Taverns has been successful in getting a pub back from a band of squatting pirates. The company went to court this week after seven...
15-Jul-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Mitchells & Butlers, Britain's biggest managed pub group, has announced the sale of 52 budget hotels for £91m. The deal, to Prupim includes the...
15-Jul-2010 By Lesley Foottit
JD Wetherspoon is opening a new pub in Hampshire on Friday following a £1.1m re-development. The renovation of the Red Lion site in Petersfield,...
14-Jul-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Ex-licensees who left to work abroad are returning to take on UK pubs, according to three tenanted operators. The UK's improving economy and more...
Award-winning operator launches new pub company
12-Jul-2010 By Hamish Champ
Michael Ibbotson, the man behind the award-winning North Yorkshire pub the Durham Ox, is forming a new pub and inns business called Provenance Inns....
12-Jul-2010 By John Harrington
Christie Finance tripled the number of pub buyers it secured funding for in the first half of 2010 compared to the previous year. The company said...
09-Jul-2010 By Ewan Turney
West Yorkshire based micro brewer Great Heck Brewing has bought its first pub — a freehold from Scottish & Newcastle Pub Company.
09-Jul-2010 By The PMA Team
Greene King has bought the freehold of the Ashley Hotel in Worksop, Nottinghamshire from Whitbread for an undisclosed sum. The Ashley Hotel is a...
09-Jul-2010 By Ewan Turney
Multiple operator Great Northern Inns has reopened the Cross Keys pub in Nottingham after buying the freehold from Enterprise Inns. The pub has now...
09-Jul-2010 By Ewan Turney
Enterprise Inns raised a further £3.91m at a Cushman and Wakefield auction on Wednesday — its second auction of the week. The freeholds of six...
RICS code delayed for months
08-Jul-2010 By Hamish Champ
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' (RICS) code of practice on pub rents is unlikely to be properly assessed by MPs before September,...
08-Jul-2010 By Ewan Turney
Fair Pint founding members Steve Corbett and Mark Dodds have taken over a famous jazz club in south London. The duo have taken on a free-of-tie...
07-Jul-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Bruce Bar, the multiple operator run by Michael Nicholas, has acquired the leasehold interest of the Pub On The Park in London Fields, off an asking...
Enterprise Inns raises £12.15m in latest pub auction
06-Jul-2010 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns has sold the freeholds to a number of its London pubs for £12.15m at another auction held in the capital. The sell-off, hosted by...
06-Jul-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Enterprise Inns has sold the freeholds of nine out of ten central London pubs at auction, raising around £12m.
05-Jul-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Nearly a third of UK children are scared when they see adults drunk or drinking, according to a survey carried out for BBC TV show Newsround.
05-Jul-2010 By Peter Coulson
The Performing Right Society tariff known as LP is for pre-arranged ticketed events and is not a pub tariff, says Peter Coulson.
02-Jul-2010 By The PMA Team
Entrepreneur Steve Wilkins, who runs Little Gems Country Dining, has taken on his third pub, the Charles Wells-owned Park, in Bedford. The Park is...
Greene King to shift focus towards managed houses
01-Jul-2010 By Hamish Champ
Greene King plans to slash the size of its tenanted pub estate over the next five years in a shift in focus towards its managed houses. The Suffolk...
01-Jul-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Pub property experts say the recent Emergency Budget should encourage banks to lend to the sector. Six agents remained positive on the 2.5% VAT...
30-Jun-2010 By Ewan Turney
Over a third of parents (36%) would give their children alcohol rather than leaving them to get it from an unknown source.
Serious rent disputes being reported at least once a week
30-Jun-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
More than 40 "serious" enquiries have been received since the industry launched an independent service to settle rent disputes. In the first six...
29-Jun-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Peter Dalzell, Marston's operations director of managed pubs, is to move to the tenanted arm to oversee the introduction of its new Retail Agreement.
McMullens well placed to add pubs to its estate
29-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
McMullens, the Hertford-based brewer and pub operator, hopes to bolster the size of its estate with a number of acquisitions in the coming months,...
'Booze-buying parents put teens at risk'
29-Jun-2010
Parents are fuelling underage drinking after admitting buying booze for their children, a leading alcohol charity warned yesterday. More than half -...
