There’s been an increased focus in recent months on making the trade more appealing as a career, and so it was refreshing to read the story of the Prospect Inn in Exeter.
Brits celebrating Easter by enjoying a meal out prompted a peak in leisure spending during April, according to the latest Greene King Leisure Spend Tracker.
The Licensed Trade Charity has launched new guidance to help prevent long-term sick and disabled people working in the licensed trade getting into financial problems.
In the third and final part of our series on the challenges of running a pub business, Glynn Davis looks at the problems and benefits of increasing the number of outlets in your estate.
Pub is the Hub has secured a £100,000 injection of funding from the Government for its Community Services Fund that will go directly to pubs that are looking to diversify.
Camden Town Brewery launched its Hells Raiser crowdfunding campaign to help finance a new brewery in February and has already over-reached its £1.5m target. Founder Jasper Cuppaidge talks about his reasons for going down the crowdfunding route and why...
In the second of our series on the challenges of running a pub, Glynn Davis looks at the practicalities of taking those first steps in expanding your horizons by running a large premises or more than one outlet.
Licensees have been urged to respond quickly to requests for information from the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) about their pub’s trading performance, if they want to avoid fines and unnecessary red tape.
Several hospitality operators have been named in the London Stock Exchange's list of 1000 Companies to Inspire Britain, celebrating some of the UK’s fastest-growing small and medium sized businesses.
Carmel Daly-Fletcher, BII Licensee of the Year 1998, has been widely recognised as being one of the top pub managers in the country. But when she made the transition from manager to leaseholder, even with her first-class credentials, she found it a challenging...
When John Cavanagh took up a five-year lease at the Hamilton Russell Arms, in Thorpe Thewles, County Durham, four years ago, it had lost much of its trade following a fire.
Pubcos always appear keen to reassure demands placed on licensees are both ‘reasonable’ and ‘fair’. However, these terms are vague and ambiguous - needless to say, there’s invariably a very good reason for this dearth of clarity, writes Robert Sayles.
Charles Wells is to automatically enrol all new tenants onto its Passport to Profit scheme following its success across selected sites in its pub estate.
The Pubs Independent Conciliation and Arbitration (PICA)-Service has ruled against Marston’s over complaints about poor communication and failure to provide regular business reviews.
Pub owners and operators should always ensure they have correctly covered themselves with insurance, lest they be caught unawares by one of life’s many random misfortunes, and left seriously out of pocket. In this article, insurance provider Business...
The drinks industry is on track to meet its target of removing one billion units of alcohol by 2015, having reached 25% of the target in the first year (2011-2012), a new report shows.
Tenanted pubcos should segment their estate according to trading types, according to a multiple operator frustrated by a lack of expertise among business development managers (BDMs).
Leading licensing lawyers have warned that new legislation tightening closure powers on the licensed trade could be “enormously damaging”, leading to increased police intervention and loss of trade.
More than two thirds (69%) of UK hospitality leisure businesses plan to increase wages in the coming year, according to a survey of 684 firms by Barclays.
Pubco CEO Roland Rodent is the latest in a long line of industry experts to claim an FOT option for tied tenants will have apocalyptic repercussions. Robert Sayles met up with him at one of his flagship pubs The Jolly Roger to find out more.
The results are in, and they don’t make for pretty reading. Licensees that responded to our survey on business rates delivered an emphatically damning verdict on the current system and the damaging impact it is having on their pubs.
The reaction in the PMA office when the news broke that Bramwell Pub Company had entered administration was mostly one of mild surprise rather than any great shock, writes Mike Berry.
