20-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
17-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
Small businesses could now wait up to four months to be paid by Danish brewing giant Carlsberg. The brewer has come under fire from the Forum of...
14-Aug-2009 By Barry Gillham
What would be the true cost of removing the tie? Fleurets chairman Barry Gillham takes an in-depth look at the pros and cons.
14-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
City Diary
06-Aug-2009 By Gerry Price
Gerry Price at the Inn at West End considers whether there are green shoots of recovery.
06-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
03-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has held a series of meetings with pub company chiefs in the wake of the Campaign for Real Ale submitting a super-complaint.
31-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
Property dispute expert joins pubco mediation process
30-Jul-2009 By James Wilmore
A legal expert in landlord and tenant disputes has been recruited to help with the industry's pubco mediation process - which formally kicks-off...
'Coroner blames cut-price alcohol for soaring number of drink deaths'
28-Jul-2009
A coroner has hit out at Britain's binge-drinking culture after presiding over a run of inquests into alcohol-linked deaths. William Armstrong,...
Darling challenges banks over lending to small firms
28-Jul-2009 By James Wilmore
Hopes that banks will change their attitude over lending to licensees were raised yesterday after Alistair Darling met with banks urging them to make...
City & Business Diary
24-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team
City & Business Diary
Mark Daniels: Hypermiling my electricity bill
21-Jul-2009
I've recently purchased a new car. I'm not saying this because I feel I have bragging rights, nor did I do it because I've got plenty of cash to...
City Diary 16 July
17-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team
City Diary 16 July
17-Jul-2009 By John Harrington
Business Minister Ian Lucus has promised to raise the issue of banks not lending to pubs in Government. It followed a question in Parliament by Greg...
16-Jul-2009 By Ted Tuppen
Enterprise chief Ted Tuppen explains his pubco's approach to setting rents and supporting in-coming licensees. The current debate surrounding rents,...
Industry's £100m responsible drinking drive
16-Jul-2009 By John Harrington
The drinks industry is spending £100m on a responsible drinking campaign, which is set to run for five years. It initiative represents the largest...
Tattershall Castle reports £48.4m loss
14-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team
Tattershall Castle Group (TCG), the managed pub company owned by private equity firm Alchemy and headed by David Ford, received a further £15m in loans
09-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
09-Jul-2009 By Gerry Price
Gerry Price, leaseholder of the Inn at West End, Surrey says the hot weather is not so great for him and gives his view on the BII rent review...
09-Jul-2009 By John Harrington
A trade leader says the industry and authorities should re-think which ID pubs should accept to avoid underage sales. Tony Payne suggested...
08-Jul-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Bosses of a small brewery have had their fortunes transformed after business mogul Sir Gerry Robinson chose to invest in their firm. Liz and John...
02-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team
Enterprise boss says his company would happily pay a levy of £100,000 or more to set up a body to represent individual licensees.
Bailiffs demand cash over old pub debt
02-Jul-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
A licensee is furious with his council after bailiffs demanded payment from the evening's takings for an eight-year old debt racked up by the pub's...
01-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
01-Jul-2009 By Ewan Turney
Tenanted and leased operator London Town Taverns made a loss of £24.7m last year and is in breach of its bank loans.
25-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
Pubcos move to remove machine income from rent calculations
25-Jun-2009 By Hamish Champ
As the country's pubcos try to fend off a referral of the industry to the Competition Commission, Bedford brewer Charles Wells became the latest...
22-Jun-2009 By Gerry Price
Gerry Price, Enterprise leaseholder, The Inn, West End, Surrey harks back to a rent review from his past. Sweet memories! I had a rent review in 1995...
19-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
15-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team
Lloyds Bank has been looking for a new equity investor to take a stake in Admiral Taverns, the tenanted pub operator.
'Lloyds Bank facing £450m loss on Admiral Taverns'
14-Jun-2009
Lloyds Bank will lose an estimated £450m on Admiral Taverns, the pub giant, in what is believed to be one of the biggest write-offs it will be...
12-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
09-Jun-2009 By Ewan Turney
Brulines is working with Trading Standards to establish steps to improve the calibration of its equipment, the beer flow monitoring company has said....
04-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
'Small firms suffer as lending drops by £5bn'
03-Jun-2009 By James Wilmore
Getting bank loans is still a 'lottery' after lending to cash-strapped companies plunged by £5billion last month, small firms told MPs yesterday....
Economic case for minimum pricing on alcohol is "weak", say finance experts
03-Jun-2009 By Hamish Champ
Leading economists have claimed that minimum pricing on alcohol products will not deter 'problem drinkers' from drinking excessively and will simply...
'Irreplaceable' Tony Payne not slowing down as retirement nears
27-May-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
At the age of 75, with retirement approaching fast and the industry in the state it's in, you could forgive Tony Payne for easing up a little. But...
15-May-2009 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
15-May-2009 By John Harrington
Three major banks have written to the Morning Advertiser to stress that they don't have a blanket policy of denying loans to pubs. Lloyds TSB, HSBC...
12-May-2009 By Ewan Turney
Magners producer C&C Group has reported an 11% decline in sales and an operating loss of €59.2m for the year to 28 February. The group blamed...
08-May-2009 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
08-May-2009 By Andrew Pring
Taking ever longer to pay suppliers is a short-sighted policy and potentially disastrous for the industry, says Andrew Pring.
08-May-2009 By Tony Halstead
The widening drinks price gap between tenanted and managed pubs grew further this week as the real effect of the Budget duty hike became clear. The...
08-May-2009 By John Harrington
Plans to charge licensees deposits on kegs have "hit a brick wall" and brewers will now focus on other measures of preventing thefts.
'Markets bet that the worst is over'
07-May-2009
The UK outlook brightened after companies including clothing retailer Next, pub group JD Wetherspoon, and software company Sage said prospects were...
07-May-2009 By Ewan Turney
High profile tenant rights campaigner Inez Ward has been made bankrupt this morning. Ward, lessee at Mavericks in Newquay, Cornwall owed Enterprise...
30-Apr-2009 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
24-Apr-2009 By The PMA Team
The PMA Team takes a look at some of the detail from JDW's recent fraud case victory over Van de Berg.
24-Apr-2009 By The PMA Team
All the latest rumour and gossip from the City.
