Marston's changes tack on its new-build pubs
06-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
The current state of the UK property market is forcing Marston's, the Midlands brewer, to change tack when it comes to deciding where to build its...
05-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
Urban & Country Leisure founder Ross Sanders is to open a £2m celebrity hang-out nightclub in Soho, London. Sanders, who founded Urban &...
04-Feb-2010 By Emma Eversham, Restaurant
Emily Hodgson, owner of the Rose pub in Fulham, has opened her second pub — the Hillgate in Notting Hill. Hodgson, who worked for her father, Slug...
Pubs warned over fresh wave of scams
04-Feb-2010 By James Wilmore
Pubs are facing a fresh wave of scams, as perpetrators seek to exploit licensees' desperate efforts to deal with the economic climate. Firms...
Pub closures slow to 39 a week
04-Feb-2010 By James Wilmore
The tide is turning on the rate of pub closures, but 39 licensees a week are still shutting their doors for the final time, new figures reveal....
New publicans: The Next Generation
01-Feb-2010
Beer DUTY is crippling, breweries are pushing up prices, banks are closing their doors. Supermarkets and the smoking ban are keeping punters at home,...
01-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Ten East Midlands pubs will go under the hammer in a Nottingham auction on 16 February. The pubs, which will be auctioned by property consultants...
29-Jan-2010 By Jo Bruce
Derby-based Fat Cat Group has opened two gastropubs — the Crown Inn in Anstey, in Leicestershire, and the Queens Head, in Frodsham, Cheshire.
29-Jan-2010 By Jo Bruce
Marco Pierre White opened his second pub this week, the Swan Inn in Aughton, Lancashire,
Marston's on track to open 15 new pubs this year
29-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
Marston's, the Midlands-based brewer, said today it is on track to fulfil its target of building and opening 15 new food-led pubs in the current...
29-Jan-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Cambridge-based Milton Brewery has just opened its fifth pub — the Devonshire Arms in Cambridge. The brewery bought the pub's freehold for an...
29-Jan-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Punch has warned licensees of rogue traders who guarantee large reductions in rateable values and offer to carry out business rates appeals.
Greene King tenants benefitting from price support
27-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
Pricing support and disposals have helped bolster pub earnings across Greene King's tenanted pub estate, the Suffolk brewer said today. In a trading...
Mark Daniels: The Beer Mitten
26-Jan-2010
I often wonder if the furore we hear daily over the state of the pub industry and, most specifically, the Beer Tie would be lessened if the industry...
Albion Ventures unifies management of pub businesses
25-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
Albion Ventures, the venture capitalist owner of Bravo Inns and the Charnwood Pub Company, has brought the management of the two businesses under one...
Grooming your business for sale
22-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
There's no doubt that good pub industry operators who make a decent fist of things enjoy what they do. After all, what's not to like? Building up a...
S&N unveils BDM 'Academy'
22-Jan-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Scottish & Newcastle Pub Company has unveiled details of a programme designed to raise the standards business development managers (BDMs) after a...
Enterprise Inns: many licensees see "welcome uplift
21-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
Shares in Enterprise Inns rose 11 per cent this morning after the pubco reported what it described as "generally good Christmas trading" which...
18-Jan-2010 By The PMA Team
Enterprise Inns is planning to sell eight more London freehold pubs at a London auction for £15.5m.
15-Jan-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Pub property values plummeted 20% in 2009, compared to 11.6% in 2008 — that's according to Christie + Co.
Freehold pubs "never been so cheap", says agent
15-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
Despite the current economic environment now is as good a time as any for individuals with cash who are looking to buy freehold pubs, according to a...
15-Jan-2010 By John Harrington
Three high-profile pubco critics have been asked to give their input for revised guidance on setting pub rents. Licensee Simon Clarke and Surveyor...
14-Jan-2010 By Ewan Turney
The Orchid Group has taken on a lease at the Crown Point Inn in Sevenoaks, Kent after its sale to Quercus Partners. Quercus purchased the pub from...
13-Jan-2010 By Gemma McKenna
The scrapping of regulations on commercial land agreements means pubcos will now have to demonstrate that tied leases are not anti competitive.
13-Jan-2010 By Paul Wootton, Restaurant magazine
Tom and Beth Kerridge, owners of the Michelin-starred Hand & Flowers in Marlow, are to open a bar next door.
Pubs to benefit from land order ruling
13-Jan-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Following a consultation, the Department for Innovation, Business & Skills (BIS) concluded that it could "see no justification" for retaining the...
Punch licensee wins insurance for a year
12-Jan-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Tora Kaines, licensee of the Bear in Brighton, has won a year's worth of free business insurance from Punch Taverns worth over £2,000. The...
11-Jan-2010 By Ewan Turney
Nottingham businessman David Elphick has secured a franchise to open a new Jongleurs Comedy Club in Nottingham.
07-Jan-2010 By Gemma McKenna
West Bromwich Albion Football Club has bought a freehold pub next to its grounds. The football club bought the pub for an undisclosed sum from an...
06-Jan-2010 By The PMA Team
Revolution vodka bar operator Inventive Leisure could open as many as a dozen new sites in 2010 as it re-starts its property pipeline. Chief...
05-Jan-2010 By Emma Eversham, Restaurant
Pub operator Charlie McVeigh has announced plans to roll out his Draft House concept to more sites in London this year following the launch of his...
04-Jan-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
JD Wetherspoon is expected to shortly confirm the acquisition of 12 late-night venues from 3D Entertainment (3DE) for an estimated £4.3m.
04-Jan-2010 By John Harrington
London brewer Fuller's has bought a grade II-listed pub in Hampstead from a private owner for an undisclosed sum. The deal for the Holly Bush, which...
17-Dec-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Some nine out of 10 tenants at Cornish family brewer St Austell are happy with their area manager, according to a new survey.
17-Dec-2009 By Lesley Foottit
A new report has blasted parents for allowing their children alcohol when underage, claiming it can lead to alcohol-related problems later in life.
Parents warned over giving alcohol to children
17-Dec-2009 By James Wilmore
Children should not drink alcohol before the age of 15, according to England's Chief Medical Officer. In a five-point guidance published today, Sir...
17-Dec-2009 By Lesley Foottit
Manchester brewer and pub operator Joseph Holt has spent almost £500,000 on refurbishing two pubs — the Cheadle Hulme in Cheadle and Heaton...
Orchid buys Premium Bars & Restaurants venues
15-Dec-2009 By Hamish Champ
Orchid Group, the private equity-backed pub operator announced today it had bought 43 venues from the administrators of Premium Bars &...
Buffalo Joes up for grabs
14-Dec-2009
Buffalo Joes, a nightclub and bar operation in Tyneside, is on the market after going into administration. The freehold interest in the venue,...
Yesteryear Pub Company boss in buyback bid
14-Dec-2009 By Hamish Champ
Tony Callaghan, founder of Wigan-based pubco Yesteryear, is close to buying back some if not all of the company's assets after it went into...
11-Dec-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Food-led pub and hotel group J&G Inns has bought its third site, the Lord Crewe Arms in Northumberland, for an undisclosed sum. Acting on behalf...
10-Dec-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Suffolk-based Mauldons Brewery has bought a second pub — the Cottage at Norwich, which has been closed since August 2009.
Blue Sky thinking
10-Dec-2009
Rising energy costs - the bane of many a publican's life. You should have already taken steps to tackle them…through ensuring you are on the best...
10-Dec-2009 By Gemma McKenna
A chain of pubs and hotels across East Anglia and Essex has gone into administration — it has 13 pubs.
Drake & Morgan acquires third pub
09-Dec-2009 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Drake & Morgan, the fledgling bar-restaurant group led by Jillian MacLean and John Connell, has acquired its third site. The Anthologist, a...
04-Dec-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Brewery Everards has bought three new pubs under its Project William banner — which allows the tie to be relaxed on cask ale. The pubs will be run by micro-brewers and real ale enthusiasts in the area.
04-Dec-2009 By Lesley Foottit
Ripley-based brewer Amber Ales has purchased its first pub — owner Pete Hounsell has acquired the Talbot Inn on a temporary leasehold.
Geronimo Inns opens pub in Westfield shopping centre
03-Dec-2009 By Hamish Champ
Award-winning managed operator Geronimo Inns has unveiled the first pub to open its doors in the Westfield shopping centre in Shepherd's Bush, west...
Punch tenant hits out at eviction
02-Dec-2009 By James Wilmore
An award-winning pubco licensee has voiced his anger at being forced to quit his pub, claiming he has transformed the business. Brian Forgie, of the...
02-Dec-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Property agents say the pub market will be flooded with between 1,000 and 2,000 pubco disposals in 2010. Robin Mence, managing director of Sidney...
