'Alcohol abuse 'costs every Scot £900 a year'
12-Jan-2010
A study from York University economists has estimated that alcohol related problems cost every adult in Scotland about £900 a year, a figure...
11-Jan-2010 By The PMA Team
Convivial London Pubs, the operator of eight freehold pubs, has reported "outstanding" figures for the year to September 2009.
Sell More, Save More 3: It's a snack attack
06-Jan-2010
As 2010 gets underway the four must-stock pub categories in the spotlight at our Sell More, Save More pubs are moving ahead. The initial visits to...
'The economic cost of 48 hours of snow: £1 billion... and counting'
06-Jan-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Business groups have warned that the cost of absenteeism to the economy because of this week's snowfalls could reach £2 billion.The Federation of...
RBS considers retaining control of Merchant Inns
22-Dec-2009 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
The lead bank to Merchant Inns, the collapsed pubs-with-rooms operator, is understood to be considering retaining control of the six-strong group....
15-Dec-2009 By John Harrington
The cost of hiring doorstaff could rise under new Government plans to make "top-up" training compulsory when their licences are renewed. Government...
Industry gives Drinkaware £15m boost
14-Dec-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Pub companies and brewers are among the companies that have pledged £15m to fund alcohol education charity Drinkaware. A total of 50 companies in...
10-Dec-2009 By Ewan Turney
Diageo workers in Scotland have accepted a "much improved" redundancy deal — almost double previous offers.
MP attacks Fair Pint over 'discrediting' tactics
10-Dec-2009 By James Wilmore
A Labour MP has attacked the Fair Pint campaign for trying to "discredit" him after he suggested issues apart from the tie were to blame for the...
08-Dec-2009 By John Harrington
New guidance on rent setting should be made compulsory across pub companies, a senior figure at RICS has told MPs.
Debt collectors allowed to take cash from tills
24-Nov-2009
Pubs and clubs in Scotland that run into serious financial trouble can be raided by debt collectors, under UK law which became effective north of the...
Payne humbled by industry praise
23-Nov-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Outgoing trade leader Tony Payne has revealed his pride after receiving glowing tributes from across the industry. Representatives from across the...
20-Nov-2009 By Tony Halstead
Tributes flowed in for Federation of Licensed Victuallers chief executive Tony Payne as the trade veteran prepares to bow out next month.
17-Nov-2009 By The Morning Advertiser
Founders of Admiral Taverns the Landesberg and Rosenberg families have stepped down after Lloyds Banking Group wrote off £600m debt in return for equity in the 2100 site pub company.
10-Nov-2009 By Ewan Turney
Pub customers will soon be able to pay for a pint with Oyster style credit or debit cards without the fuss of entering a pin number. Compufix, whose...
09-Nov-2009 By John Harrington
The GMB Union says it will ballot members on the possibility of industrial action to secure a better deal for pub tenants. The union has agreed to...
06-Nov-2009 By The PMA Team
An unthinking approach to RPI rent increases will cause pressure in pub estates, particularly as inflation is likely to return next year.
02-Nov-2009 By Ewan Turney
Heavy drinkers are paying just 34p for a unit of alcohol — primarily from supermarkets — a new study has revealed. The study of 377 people, all...
30-Oct-2009 By The PMA Team
It's all eyes now on Lord Mandelson in the wake of the Office of Fair Trading dismissing Campaign for Real Ale's (CAMRA's) super-complaint. It's...
The OFT report: Business as usual?
29-Oct-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
The long-awaited Office of Fair Trading (OFT) response to CAMRA's 'super complaint' will have been greeted with sighs of relief in pub company...
29-Oct-2009 By John Harrington
British Gas says it has resolved more disputes over bombshell electricity bills after the Morning Advertiser intervened. Dave Foskett received a...
27-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
Controversial Scottish micro-brewer BrewDog is looking to appoint a financial director, following the news it is to expand.
'Coastal towns have highest levels of bankruptcies'
26-Oct-2009
Britain's coastal towns suffer from the highest level of bankruptcies as the decline in shipbuilding, fishing and seaside tourism takes its toll amid...
'European judge casts fresh doubt over SNP plans for minimum alcohol prices'
23-Oct-2009 By James Wilmore
The Scottish government's plans to introduce a minimum price for alcohol have suffered a setback with a move by the European Court to block similar...
Rents, not the tie, the main issue for tenants, says leading accountant
22-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
In the wake of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) report on the pub industry a leading accountant has said it was unsustainable rents rather than the...
PPL forced to pay back up to £20m to pubs - and current fees to be cut in half
22-Oct-2009 By James Wilmore
Pubs that play recorded music are in line for a share of refunds totalling up to £20m from royalties collection firm PPL after a ruling from the...
FLVA: It was important to 'bank benefits' from mediation
20-Oct-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Trade group the Federation of Licensed Victuallers Associations (FLVA) has explained its decision to support for the British Beer & Pub...
Banks wouldn't pull the plug on rent strike-hit pubcos. Would they?
19-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
The threat by a small group of licensees to withhold rent payments from their pubco landlords could fizzle out like a rocket firework on a damp...
16-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
The tied tenant should be financially no worse off than the free of tie tenant — that is the key finding of the Royal Institute of Chartered...
16-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
The newly formed Independent Pub Confederation (IPC) has welcomed the findings of the report into the fairness of rent setting.
15-Oct-2009 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
09-Oct-2009 By Gemma McKenna
A former Punch lessee, who has just bought his pub's freehold, believes banks are becoming more helpful to the sector. Jeremy Hague, who along with...
08-Oct-2009 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
08-Oct-2009 By The PMA Team
Lord Karan Bilimoria has pledged to clear money owed to Cobra Beer's unsecured creditors out of profits from his joint venture with Molson Coors, the...
08-Oct-2009 By Tim Martin
Wetherspoon's (JDW's) former retained agents Van de Berg (VdB) were paid £14m in fees between 1996 and 2005, and located about 600 pubs for us....
Carlo Platia: Improve your business in 30 minutes
06-Oct-2009
Send an SMS message to your customers offering a special deal or advertising an event. Clean your pub front until it sparkles. Locals will notice....
City Diary - 2 Oct
02-Oct-2009 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City
25-Sep-2009 By The PMA Team
Enterprise licensees Charles and Leslie Brooker have won a rent review case against the company. The PMA Team looks at the judgement.
24-Sep-2009 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City
Making the point on pricing
24-Sep-2009 By James Wilmore
Trade union the GMB is showing no signs of letting up in its fights against the pubcos. Figures released earlier this month about the price of a...
24-Sep-2009 By John Harrington
Another host has been sent a bombshell electricity bill — this time for £8,900 — after British Gas admitted under-estimating consumption. An...
18-Sep-2009 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
10-Sep-2009 By John Harrington
British Gas has vowed to help a licensee hit with a 'bombshell' £11,868 electricity bill after the MA intervened.
04-Sep-2009 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
'Brits spend £40,000 on rounds of drinks in lifetime''
04-Sep-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
The average pubgoer spends £39,480 in a lifetime getting their round in. Each drinker can expect to shell out around £840 a year keeping...
Trade body shake-up due to Payne departure
01-Sep-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
The Federation of Licensed Victuallers Associations (FLVA) has revealed changes to its management structure due to Tony Payne stepping down as chief...
26-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
Lloyds Banking Group is likely to swap its debt in Admiral Taverns for equity, according to Companies House documents filed several months late by the tenanted pub company. Admiral has debts of £855m with Lloyds.
Carbon Trust offers pubs cash-saving tips
24-Aug-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubs and other hospitality businesses are to be given tips on how to make major cash savings by the Carbon Trust. The Big Business Refit is to...
21-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
Suffolk brewer and pub retailer Adnams has reported a "much-improved" first six months of trading. Turnover rose 6.8% and operating profit was...
'£100m tax blow for small firms'
21-Aug-2009 By James Wilmore
A £100 million tax bombshell threatens to put thousands of Britain's smallest firms out of business, the Tories claimed last night. Up to 100,000...
