18-Mar-2010 By Becky Paskin, Restaurant
Sanzaru is launching its first venue — an Asian-inspired lounge and karaoke bar — in Clapham this week. Sanzaru, meaning three wise monkeys in...
18-Mar-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Marston's Inns and Taverns, the managed arm of the brewer and pub operator, has engaged on a tail trimming exercise as it shifts focus to its new...
Linford Christie takes part in Drinkaware debate
17-Mar-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Olympic champion Linford Christie is encouraging youngsters to take up sport to prevent them falling into the trap of drinking too much alcohol. He...
16-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney
Enterprise Inns hopes to raise £1.175m by auctioning off 11 freehold pubs with vacant possession in the North East.
Health and Safety: What to expect when the EHO comes to give you your Score on the Door
16-Mar-2010
A shiver of apprehension runs through most establishments when a visit from an environmental health officer (EHO) is on the cards. Yet the visits are...
Admiral Taverns confirms pub sell-off
16-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ
Christie + Co, the property agent, has confirmed it is to sell 150 freehold pubs on behalf of Admiral Taverns. Prices for pub sell off - which was...
16-Mar-2010 By John Harrington
Councils have been urged to use £50m of new Government cash to increase rate relief for struggling small firms. The money comes from the...
16-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney
Admiral Taverns has broken its long silence and confirmed that it is selling 150 pubs, spread across England and Wales. The pubs are almost all...
16-Mar-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Multiple operator Salisbury Pubs has bought its fifth pub — the Black Horse in Fulmer, Buckinghamshire. David and Becky Salisbury have taken on...
15-Mar-2010 By The PMA Team
Scottish & Newcastle Pub Company (S&NPC) is putting 43 pubs across England and Wales up for sale this week through Fleurets.
Pubs are a bad bet, say a third of private equity firms
15-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ
A third of private equity firms think the leisure and hospitality sectors are a bad bet, according to new research. A survey by financial advisers...
Admiral Taverns set to sell up to 200 pubs
12-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ
Admiral Taverns, the 2,000-strong pub company bailed out by its bank late last year, is understood to be looking to sell up to 200 of its pubs....
Everard's Project William set for expansion
12-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ
Everards, the Leicester-based brewer, is set to add more pubs to its successful Project William stable. The scheme, started in 2007, sees the company...
Enterprise Inns grosses £8.4m in sale and leaseback auction
11-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns has raised £8.39m in the latest sale and leaseback auction of a number of its pubs. It had put eight London pubs up for grabs in the...
11-Mar-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Enterprise Inns sold the freeholds of five out of eight London pubs included in a Cushman & Wakefield auction yesterday, raising around £8.12m....
09-Mar-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Pubs should check the details of their rateable values now, before new bills come out at the start of April, warns the Valuation Office Agency (VOA)....
09-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney
A Fair Pint founding member is hoping to buy the freehold of his pub via a community buy-out. Mark Dodds leases the Sun & Doves in Camberwell,...
08-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney
A bid by Punch Taverns to convert a community pub into 13 houses has been halted following a BBC investigation. Planning for demolition and building...
05-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney
London brewer and operator Fuller's has admitted it has a number of "toxic leases" with unsympathetic landlords. In a letter to the Business...
04-Mar-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Anti-beer tie campaign group Fair Pint fears the BISC report's decision to give pubcos more time to self-regulate will only deliver "further misery"...
Chris Maclean: Dear Mr Healy, please find enclosed one low-energy lamp that no longer works...
03-Mar-2010 By Chris Maclean
To: John Healy MPMinister for PubsDepartment for Communities and Local GovtEland HouseBressenden PlaceLondon SW1E 5DU Dear Mr Healy, Please find...
03-Mar-2010 By John Harrington
A Government minister has defended the way in which business rates are calculated for pubs. It came in a letter to Conservative MP Chloe Smith, who...
02-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney
The TLC Group — run by award winning multiple lessee Steve Haslam — has taken on a temporary management contract for Enterprise Inns.
In defence of pre-packs
01-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ
The recent pre-pack administration of segments of London Town, the indebted pubco, has reignited concern surrounding this controversial method of...
Chalk-up and grab the triangle - Foster's are offering you the fantastic opportunity to win a pool refit for your pub
01-Mar-2010
Foster's will kit you out with a pool make-over, whether you're catering for the local pool league or just very enthusiastic amateurs. Transform your...
David Smithers: 'Piece of the Action' tax or 'Fair Maintainable Trade'?
26-Feb-2010
It is outrageous how the police, the local councils and parliament in general are continuosly harping on about the "evils of binge drinking" on our...
26-Feb-2010 By Becky Paskin, Big Hospitality
G1 Group is to open a new flagship pub and live entertainment venue in Edinburgh in March, following a multi-million pound investment. The...
Pubco cast-offs creating surge in interest, say property agents
25-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Research suggests more wannabe licensees - as well as experienced operators - are showing an interest in buying pubs, thanks in part to the current...
24-Feb-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Tailor Made Steaks (TMS), the pub operator that specialises in steak, has opened a small hotel in Nettlebed, Oxfordshire.
23-Feb-2010 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Scottish & Newcastle Pub Company, the 2,000-strong tenanted and leased group owned by Heineken, is to market for sale up to 100 pubs this spring.
Agents begin job of finding buyers for London Town's pubs
22-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Christie + Co is today beginning the task of finding buyers for the 44 leasehold pubs formerly owned by GRS Inns, one of the London Town subsidiaries...
19-Feb-2010 By Mark Stretton & The PMA Team
Speculation is rife that Punch Taverns and Enterprise Inns will be major victims of the pre-pack adminstration planned by London Town.
19-Feb-2010 By The PMA Team
Gingerman Restaurants, the East Sussex-based pub and restaurant operator, has acquired its fourth site, a freehold in Brighton, for an undisclosed...
It's official: London Town goes into administration
19-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
After months of speculation London Town, the indebted property developer turned pub operator, has gone into administration. In a complicated deal...
19-Feb-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Award-winning Ossett Brewery is opening its first Leeds pub the Hop at Granary Wharf development on 26 March. The brewery already has 13 pubs in...
18-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Fuller's recruitment manager Louise Lawler has been recruited herself, this time by Punch Taverns. Lawler, former tenanted and leased recruitment...
17-Feb-2010 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Fuller's is conducting a tail-trimming exercise of its pub estate, selling six properties from its tenanted division.
17-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Cumbrian microbrewer Hesket Newmarket opened its first pub, the Shepherd Inn, at Melmerby, last June, but has announced plans to quit. The...
17-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
Enterprise Inns has reminded tenants they can take advantage of a free ratings appeal service. Many licensees are facing crippling rises in business...
16-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Enterprise Inns hopes to raise a further £12.6m through the auction of eight more of its prime London pubs.
16-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
Over half (53%) of under-18s who drink alcohol say they are given it by their parents, a new study has revealed.
Enterprise Inns puts more pubs in sale and leaseback auction
16-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns is hoping to raise more than £12m next month when it sells and leases back another eight London pubs. The latest auction is being...
11-Feb-2010 By Matt Saunders
The tied pub model — the root of all evil or an inexpensive route to market? The Fat Cat Group boss Matt Saunders defends the tie.
Hall & Woodhouse to roll out new tenancy agreements
11-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Dorset brewer Hall & Woodhouse (H&W) is to introduce a new three-year tenancy agreement supported by a 12-month support package. Following a...
10-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Enterprise Inns has sold seven London freehold pubs at an Allsops auction for around £12m.
10-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna
A year ago one Cumbrian pub was on the verge of closure, but following a TV intervention, the local community is gearing up to buy it.
Enterprise Inns sells seven pubs in latest sale & leaseback deal
10-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns today sold seven more of its London pubs via a sale and leaseback arrangement, grossing at least £10.15m in the process. Six of the...
09-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Experts have warned against illegal energy performance certificates, which are being offered at cut-price rates by assessors who don't visit pubs.
Pub saved from change of use
09-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna
A village pub in Buckinghamshire will not be converted into a private dwelling after plans were rejected at a public meeting last week. The Bull in...
New deal to help pub sales
06-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Acorn Commercial Finance, the property finance broker, has teamed up with a specialist lender to offer funding to people looking to buy pubs that...
