28-Sep-2009 By Gemma McKenna
The Conservatives have warned of a "tax bombshell" for pubs that offer community facilities. Shadow Communities Secretary Caroline Spelman warned...
25-Sep-2009 By The PMA Team
London Town has come up with a new way to create hundreds of jobs out of pubs which it has not yet been able to re-open.
Enterprise Inns could sell and leaseback 100 more pubs
24-Sep-2009 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns could offload a further 100 pubs through sale and leaseback deals if the seven sites it is looking to sell and let back at next...
Dunedin Pub Company to cease trading
23-Sep-2009 By Claire Dodd Claire
Dunedin Pub Company is to cease trading and has put its two freehold sites, the Flotterstone Inn and the Bridge Inn, near Edinburgh, on the market...
23-Sep-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Scottish operator Dunedin Pub Company is selling both of its Edinburgh pubs for almost £1.8m, to focus on opportunities south of the border....
22-Sep-2009 By Martyn Leek & The PMA Team
Tenanted pub company Enterprise Inns is planning to sell seven of its top quality freehold pubs in a sale-and-leaseback deal at a public auction....
Enterprise to reduce debts with £14.7m sale and leaseback deal
22-Sep-2009 By Claire Dodd Claire
Enterprise Inns is to put seven of its top quality pubs on the market at a public auction in a sale-and-leaseback deal worth around £14.7m. Property...
Valuation Office urges licensees to check property valuation
22-Sep-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Business owners - including licensees - are being urged to check details of their property valuation to ensure they are paying the right rates. Over...
Pubco mediation deal due to be struck tomorrow
21-Sep-2009 By James Wilmore
A top barrister is due to have a legally binding agreement in place over how the pubco model should be operated by tomorrow (Tuesday). After weeks...
21-Sep-2009 By Gemma McKenna
A Brighton couple have snapped up a bargain Punch freehold in Lewes — paying £125,000 less than originally advertised. Dominic McCartan and Tony...
18-Sep-2009 By Ewan Turney
Lancashire brewer and operator Thwaites has confirmed the sale of the Stafford Hotel in London for £77.5m in cash.
Top music venue sold to tycoon
18-Sep-2009 By Gemma McKenna
London live music venue Parker McMillan has been sold to the man responsible for bringing Gold's Gym to the UK.
18-Sep-2009 By Jo Bruce
Four award-winning licensees have bought the freeholds to their food-led pub businesses from Enterprise and Punch. Ashley and Kelly Mc-Carthy, of Ye...
16-Sep-2009 By John Harrington
The Government's plan to let small firms borrow money from pension funds and insurance companies has been met with a cautious welcome.
Only eight Enterprise pubs are covered by recent High Court ruling
15-Sep-2009 By Hamish Champ
It has emerged that only eight Enterprise Inns pubs out of an estate of around 7,500 are covered by the kind of lease agreement that was the subject...
Bristol pub company Flatcappers acquires second site
15-Sep-2009 By Claire Dodd Claire
A Bristol-based pub company that recently won an award for the design of one of its sites is set to take on two new pubs. Flatcappers has acquired...
Crehan case on course for resurrection?
15-Sep-2009 By Hamish Champ
A former Inntrepreneur lessee is attempting to resurrect the 13 year-long challenge to the beer tie that effectively ended three years ago in the...
Enterprise says High Court rent review case does not set precedent
14-Sep-2009 By James Wilmore
Enterprise Inns has argued that a High Court ruling to allow a pub to pay £12,800 less rent than the company demanded does not set a precedent for...
Simon Eldon-Edington: California dreaming - about the smoking ban
11-Sep-2009
I'm knocking back my third vodka at mid-night inside the packed Tiki Bar in Los Angeles, and my British accent is dismally failing to pull. In the...
Hundreds of towns ripe for our pubs, says JD Wetherspoon
11-Sep-2009 By Hamish Champ
JD Wetherspoon has the potential to open pubs in hundreds of towns up and down the country, the group's chief executive John Hutson said today. The...
Award-winning licensees to open second pub
11-Sep-2009
Yorkshire licensees Ashley and Kelly McCarthy have taken on a second pub - on the same day as they bought the freehold of their existing business, Ye...
High Court rent ruling hailed by anti-tie campaigners
11-Sep-2009 By James Wilmore
A licensee couple have been successful in the High Court in getting a major reduction in the amount of rent being sought by their landlord,...
Licensee prosecuted for breach of planning laws
10-Sep-2009 By Claire Dodd Claire
A licensee is awaiting sentencing after being prosecuted for carrying out alterations to his Grade II-listed pub without obtaining planning...
07-Sep-2009 By The PMA Team
Property agent Christie & Co has been appointed to sell the assets of Dark Star, the leisure management business part-owned by the entrepreneur...
04-Sep-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Shepherd Neame has revealed details of plans for more flexible tenancy agreements as part of a new package of measures for licensee support. The...
03-Sep-2009 By Gemma McKenna
A "green guru" has issued tips to licensees on making changes to their property to save money. It follows news that the Carbon Trust is offering...
02-Sep-2009 By Ewan Turney
A pair of former Punch tenants believe they will be £30,000 a year better off after buying the freehold of their pub. Business partners Joe Cussens...
02-Sep-2009 By Gemma McKenna
A group of Welsh villagers have saved their local pub with the help of a TV production company. The Raven in Llanarmon-yn-Ial, near Mold,...
TCG sells leasehold of Hull pub
01-Sep-2009 By Claire Dodd Claire
Managed pub company the Tattershall Castle Group (TCG) has sold the leasehold of the Minerva Hotel in Hull for an undisclosed sum. The lease on the...
01-Sep-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Managed pub company Tattershall Castle Acquisitions has sold the lease of the Minerva Hotel pub in Hull, East Yorkshire, to local operator Phil Daly,...
How to... keep cask beer at the right temperature
27-Aug-2009
So you've worked out how to taste beer, how to look after it in the cellar, how to serve it and how to sell it your customers. But none of that...
Amber Taverns sells on four former Cains pubs
27-Aug-2009 By Claire Dodd Claire
Preston-based pub company Amber Taverns has sold for an undisclosed amount four of the pubs it bought from Cains in April. The pubs, which include...
Majority to see fall in business rates bill
27-Aug-2009 By Claire Dodd Claire
Sixty per cent of businesses will see a fall in their business rate bills next year, according to the Department for Communities and Local Government...
27-Aug-2009 By Gemma McKenna
More "distress" sales of pubs are taking place than ever and their relatively cheap prices mean they're being snapped up quickly. That's according...
26-Aug-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Pubs selling for alternative use are being snapped up by buyers from other commercial sectors such as retail operators and car dealerships. That's...
Punch Taverns to 'hospitalise' a further 450 struggling pubs
25-Aug-2009 By Hamish Champ
Sounding a cautionary note on future trading prospects, Punch Taverns said today it plans to transfer a further 450 of its struggling leased pubs to...
20-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
London Town has put another plank in the sector's recovery by creating a partnership with Commercial First.
Historic pub told to remove blackboards from wall
20-Aug-2009 By James Wilmore
A historic pub is being forced to take down two outdoor wooden menu boards because planning permission has not been granted. Tenants Jude Lever and...
20-Aug-2009 By John Harrington
A licensee has thanked the Morning Advertiser after HSBC agreed to loan her £20,000 following the bank's initial refusal. In a victory for the MA's...
20-Aug-2009 By Gemma McKenna
The trend for supermarkets snapping up pubs continues as Tesco plans to convert a Bristol venue while Aldi wants to demolish a pub in Cheshire....
BII to examine pubcos' codes of practice
19-Aug-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
The BII has refused to rise to calls from trade union GMB to strip Punch Taverns of its membership - but is set to take a close look at pubcos' codes...
Award-winning host Anthony Mears buys new pub
19-Aug-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Anthony Mears, award-winning licensee, has bought the freehold of the Beckford Inn in Gloucestershire. Acting on behalf of administrators BDO Stoy...
17-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
Red Mist Leisure, the Surrey-based group, has bought three pubs it leased from Punch Taverns for an undisclosed sum. Christie + Co's Winchester...
17-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
Men Behaving Badly star Neil Morrissey has vowed to pay back £2.5m he owes after his pub and hotel chain collapsed. Morrissey, who is now involved...
14-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
Loungers, the 10-strong neighbourhood café bar group based in the south-west, is set to add eight new sites by the end of 2010 as it expands away...
13-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
InnBrighton, operator of 42 licensed premises in the city of Brighton and Hove, has acquired four freehold pubs from Punch Taverns. The operator...
13-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
Bravo Inns, the Northern England based pub group, has acquired two pubs from Punch Taverns, bringing its total estate to 21 pubs. The pubs, which...
Joule's Brewery buys two pubs from Punch
13-Aug-2009 By Claire Dodd Claire
Joule's Brewery has bought two pubs from Punch Taverns bringing its total estate to 16. The new sites are the 16th century Castle Hotel on Wem High...
13-Aug-2009 By Tony Halstead
A pair of former Wetherspoon managers, who rescued two Enterprise Inns pubs from oblivion last year, are set for a third opening in October. Hosts...
17th century inn transformed into 'boutique townhouse inn'
12-Aug-2009 By Claire Dodd Claire
A run-down Suffolk pub has been transformed into a 'boutique townhouse inn' after being purchased by hotel group Thorpeness and Aldeburgh Hotels....
