Hydes: profits drop sharply
22-Feb-2007 By The PMA Team
Manchester-based Hydes Brewery has reported a sharp drop in profits in its most recent year, after difficult times in its managed division and...
Creating a cash cow
22-Feb-2007
David Sax tells Ewan Turney how he transformed the run down Cow in Parkstone, Dorset, into the MA's Pub of the Year in just three years How I got...
08-Feb-2007
Admiral Taverns, the privately-owned tenanted pub company that runs 1,700 pubs, will have invested about £20m on capital schemes in its estate by...
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08-Feb-2007
Celebrate with lamb Now that Christmas turkey is well and truly banished from pub menus, attention turns to Easter, with lamb taking a seasonal star...
£10m makeover for Chicago Rock
01-Feb-2007 By The PMA Team
The iconic Chicago Rock Cafe brand is to get a complete makeover under new owner the 3D (drink, dine & dance) Entertainment Group. The company...
Fees rise is not a bad result
01-Feb-2007
Licensees struggling with one cost rise after another will be angry to learn that licensing fees are set to rise by 7%. They've a right to feel even...
Cheque-cashing service gets official go ahead
01-Feb-2007
A new service giving pubs the chance to offer a cheque-cashing service to customers officially launches today. Cheque Inns is the brainchild of...
Supermarket alcohol pricing to be investigated
25-Jan-2007
Licensees finally have their chance to make a stand against alcohol pricing in supermarkets. The Competition Commission (CC) has stunned the...
Sell More, Save More: the chosen ones
25-Jan-2007
Licensees Aaron Lynn and Anne and Alistair Dowson-Park are hoping for increased profits after being chosen for The Publican's Sell More Save More...
Calm after the storm spurs Laurel's growth
25-Jan-2007
It looks like a corner has been turned at Laurel Pub Company, the high-street operator with an estate of just under 400 venues. It's been a...
Pubs paying 'over odds' for insurance
18-Jan-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
An insurance broker has warned that pubs are paying over the odds for insurance because they are locked into long-term contracts while premiums are...
Value for money?
12-Jan-2007 By Hamish Champ
2007 is likely to be one busy year for the pub industry. Following hot on the heels of the roll-out of the Licensing Act, the introduction of...
Marston's directors' pay down by 20%
11-Jan-2007 By The PMA Team
The five executive directors of Marston's, formerly known as Wolves & Dudley, saw a drop of just over 20% in their total pay packages in 2006...
Welsh Dragon slain by trading standards
11-Jan-2007
Pubs who have had problems with their local trading standards officers will be interested to hear they are not alone.A smoked meat producer and pub...
Property boom is bust for pubs
11-Jan-2007
Why are so many rural pubs closing, at the rate of a dozen or more a month? Is it lack of consumer demand, or some new force at play in society? The...
Provence lets down unsecured creditors
04-Jan-2007 By The PMA Team
Unsecured creditors of failed pub company Provence will not receive any of the money they are owed by the firm, a report to creditors by receiver...
Fleurets says pub multiple of 3.67 is 'off the scale'
21-Dec-2006
The increasingly difficult trading climate has had a marked effect of the value of leasehold pubs sold over the past year. Leasehold prices increased...
Fees still in limbo as bills are issued
14-Dec-2006
What an irony! The very day after I finally received the first of three long-awaited licences from Westminster, another envelope landed on to the mat...
It always pays to nit-pick
07-Dec-2006
Yes, the editor is right: I am a nit-picker, and proud of it! It is, I hope, to the benefit of readers that my nerdish tendencies to leave no stone...
Hit back now at off-trade prices
30-Nov-2006
Licensees have been encouraged to rise above the supermarkets' latest Christmas price-cutting beer binge.With three weeks until Christmas,...
28-Nov-2006
Survey finds supermarket beer prices are lowest ever.
Plummeting profits reported by big two
23-Nov-2006 By The PMA Team
Two major UK brewers have filed accounts at Companies House that indicate how difficult the UK beer business has become. Both Carlsberg UK and Coors...
Pubs hit by stub-out should pay cheaper rent says Payne
23-Nov-2006 By Tony Halstead THals22851@aol.com
Pub companies are being urged to consider rent reductions for licensees whose pubs are hit worst by next year's smoking ban. Federation of Licensed...
Business as usual for City investors
23-Nov-2006
The consensus among analysts is that the small earthquake in licensing law has not caused any seismic waves in the City. Martyn Cornell reports For...
0.25% interest rate rise won't hit lending
16-Nov-2006 By Lucy Britner lucy.britner@william-reed.co.uk
Recent rises in interest rates will not affect lending, according to agents. Interest rates rose last week to 5% - the highest for five years. The...
Security: SIA accredits contractors
10-Nov-2006
Safeguarding people and premises should be top of the agenda for the pub industry, but sadly the procurement of private security services is too...
Smartbox debt enrages hosts
09-Nov-2006 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
Furious hosts have rounded on interactive TV service Smartbox, demanding to know exactly when and if they will be paid. The Morning Advertiser has...
08-Nov-2006
Diversity is key to improving Britain's night-time economy, according to the Civic Trust's new Nightvision report. The report recommends more...
02-Nov-2006 By Tony Halstead
All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group chairman calls on brewers and pub companies to join the fight against rock-bottom supermarket beer prices.
Sell More Save More launches
02-Nov-2006
THIRTEEN ELITE category champions. Three freehouses. One profitable future for the nation's pubs.This is the thinking behind Sell More, Save More,...
Tales from the riverbank
02-Nov-2006
Hampshire's Peat Spade Inn serves excellent food and is popular with locals and visitors. Its owners tell David Hancock about achieving a perfect...
Should we be made to pay for dilapidations?
02-Nov-2006
Ian Parker, now of the Three Kings in Sleaford Lincolnshire, asks if Punch acted legally when it deducted money from him to fund the dilapidations on...
City Briefs
02-Nov-2006
Wellington shows drop in profit Wellington Pub Company, the tenanted pub company owned by the Reuben brothers, which runs around 800 free-of tie...
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26-Oct-2006
The pies have it Brakes has launched two contemporary-style fully-baked square pies, made with a luxurious, butter-enriched pastry. Brakes square...
Back to basics: save your energy
18-Oct-2006
How do pubs rate when it comes to energy efficiency? Are licensees conscious of green issues?There's a difference between being green and being...
12-Oct-2006 By The PMA Team
Geordie football legend Malcolm Macdonald devotes eight pages of his autobiography, Super Mac, to how he was forced into bankruptcy through dealings...
Trade welcome for £35 AWP payout
12-Oct-2006 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
The Government has agreed to raise the maximum stake and prize money for AWP machines from 27 October. Following a sustained campaign spearheaded by...
Credit where credit is due
09-Oct-2006
Alongside the endless press releases, invitations, bad jokes and offers to solve erectile dysfunction (or is that just me?) that fall into my inbox...
06-Oct-2006 By The PMA Team
Uncertainty surrounds whether Carlsberg may still be liable to pay the head rents on around 120 pubs tenanted by its Winlease joint venture with London & Edinburgh Swallow Group (LESG).
Talks to sell end as Laurel restructures
05-Oct-2006 By The PMA Team
Laurel Pub Company has signalled the end of talks to sell as many as 150 sites by re-structuring its business. The company had been involved in...
Farmers' market
01-Oct-2006
Where: Three Crowns, Ullingswick, Herefordshire How it works: The pub took its commitment to using local produce one step further by hosting its very...
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28-Sep-2006
Chips with everything McCain Foods has launched its new Signatures range, using chips made from British potatoes. The range includes McCain Rustic,...
Pay up or you'll lose pub, LESG hosts told
28-Sep-2006 By Tony Halstead
Tenants of the collapsed London & Edinburgh Swallow Group (LESG) have been told to keep up rental and insurance payments or risk seeing their...
The Lovat, near Clydebank
28-Sep-2006
Pub profile A two-roomed community pub on the main road between Clydebank and Glasgow, this Punch outlet is surrounded by high-rise local-authority...
Cash in on the trend
26-Sep-2006
The recent wave of consolidation among regional brewers appears for some observers to signal the beginning of the end of this breed. Speculation is...
20-Sep-2006
The Association of London Government (ALG) wants pubs, bars and late-night clubs to pay more for their licence fees than other venues. NEW COMMENT
18-Sep-2006 By The PMA Team
The Flodrive Group has acted quickly to buy the fixture and fittings on 240 hotels and pubs leased to London & Edinburgh Swallow Group (LESG)....
Fake Lloyds No 1 spotted in Crete
14-Sep-2006 By Hamish Champ
We all know imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but some people go too far. On holiday recently in Malia on the Greek island of Crete, JD...
14-Sep-2006 By John Harrington
Licensee Darren Apps' amazing ability to overcome aching feet and a dramatic car-jack to complete his epic 944-mile charity walk shows that pubs do...
TUC slammed over £6 minimum wage
14-Sep-2006 By Tony Halstead
Trade leaders have condemned union calls to raise the minimum wage to £6 per hour over the next two years. Licensee and pubco groups say the 12%...
