Get on the trail
05-Sep-2007
In many of the pubs around The Publican's Central London office, brown leaflets can be found dotted about on tables and scattered, half-read, on bar...
04-Sep-2007 By The PMA Team
The Portman Group to stop issuing Proof of Age Cards. 18 year-olds will no longer be able to get the Portman Group's Proof of Age Card from the end...
Portman Group calls time on PASS cards
04-Sep-2007
The Portman Group is to stop distributing proof-of-age cards due to the fall in demand. From the end of September 18 year-olds will no longer be able...
Venus rising
01-Sep-2007
Fly Pink, a new women-only airline, takes to the skies later this year from Liverpool's John Lennon airport. The launch follows a wealth of other new...
Call for more protection from violent customers
30-Aug-2007 By James Wilmore
A trade chief has reignited calls for the government to look at the protection the law offers licensees in dealing with underage sales and violent...
Wake up and smell the potpourri
30-Aug-2007
Bring back tobacco, says Adam Edwards. At least it doesn't reek as much as some customers In the mid-'60s it was said of soap opera Coronation Street...
Herald's Allcock joins Ultimate
23-Aug-2007 By The PMA Team
Kevin Allcock has quit Herald Bars and Inns to join nightclub company Ultimate Leisure as managing director of operations, the Morning Advertiser has learnt
Bulmers Original goes on draught over ice
22-Aug-2007
The latest blow has been struck in the cider war with news that Bulmers Original is to be served on draught over ice. Scottish & Newcastle UK...
Pub food: going from strength to strength
16-Aug-2007
As Greene King buys the Loch Fyne seafood restaurant chain, The PMA Team looks at developments in the past year within a key success story for the...
Trade advice for first timers
16-Aug-2007 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk
Property agent GA-Select is launching a new service that it claims could help save the average licensee £200,000 over 10 years. Select Consulting...
Rain helps Brains food sales leap 3%
09-Aug-2007 By The PMA Team
Food sales as a percentage of overall sales in the SA Brain managed estate have leapt by 3% to 29% in the three months since the smoking ban started...
BrandsBriefs
09-Aug-2007
Innis & Gunn at the Fringe Innis & Gunn oak-aged beer is sponsoring a series of gigs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival's Acoustic Music Centre...
Hamish Champ: What's in a glass?
03-Aug-2007 By Hamish Champ
I was drinking in the centre of London last night and witnessed what I can only describe as, well, a 'crime against branding'.Waiting to be served in...
02-Aug-2007 By The PMA Team
Wales's biggest brewer and retailer, SA Brain, has reported a slowdown in growth after a very challenging year. The company has reported a drop in...
Mighty marketing?
01-Aug-2007
Advertising is key to ale's growth - but are brewers getting it right? The dwindling marketing budgets afforded by some of the national brewers to...
Smirnoff ad takes to the waves
01-Aug-2007
Diageo is pumping £5m into its largest-ever integrated marketing campaign for Smirnoff. Breaking initially online this week, before hitting cinema...
Chinawhite club defends brand
01-Aug-2007 By Rosie Davenport rosie.davenport@william-reed.co.u
Fashionable London club Chinawhite is taking legal action to defend its trademark after a supplier launched an RTD using its name. In the latest...
31-Jul-2007 By John Harrington
Mark Jones of Ultimate Leisure urges other operators to ditch glass in favour of polycarbonate where necessary
In Season
27-Jul-2007
Claire Power, product marketing manager - fresh produce, Pauleys: From late July, super sweetcorn on the cob becomes available. We source this from...
Soft options
26-Jul-2007
Drinking trends are changing in the light of the smoking ban and other influences. So could we be ready for the Chinese tea-house? Andrew Jefford tests the water and tries beer in a bowl
Basking in success
26-Jul-2007
Philip Davison tells Ewan Turney how a marketing seminar helped him achieve £750,000 worth of sales at the Wadworth-owned Sun in the Wood, in...
Glass ceiling
26-Jul-2007
The cost of waste disposal has doubled in some pubs with the move to non-returnable bottles. Kelly Smith investigates ethical and cost-effective...
MARKETING MUSCLE
26-Jul-2007
A round-up of the latest campaigns Gaymers Gaymer Cider Company has thrown £4m behind Gaymers Original - the largest investment the company is...
C&C warns of lower first half profits
16-Jul-2007 By Hamish Champ
Wet weather and aggressive price competition from rival cider producers has prompted C&C Group to warn investors its first half operating profits...
Ideas to inspire
12-Jul-2007
Whether it's cocktails, shots or long drinks with mixers, the beauty and appeal of spirits is their flexibilityTraining to help pubs make spirits...
11-Jul-2007
A 22 year-old Marston's licensee is recognised for her humanitarian work in Sierra Leone
Camerons Brewery sells free on-trade business
06-Jul-2007 By Hamish Champ
Tough market conditions have forced North East brewery Camerons to sell its free on-trade business to Coors for an undisclosed sum.The business...
E-pub: new online marketplace
03-Jul-2007
A new online marketplace aims to help smaller businesses source food and drink.Inquirex.com tackles one of the big challenges facing independent pubs...
Ultimate acquires Living Room brand
28-Jun-2007 By The PMA Team
Ultimate Leisure, the north-east nightclub and bar company headed by Mark Jones, has bought the 13-strong Living Room brand from Living Ventures in a...
Campaigners urge end to live music red tape
21-Jun-2007 By James Wilmore
The battle to save live music in pubs has been stepped-up following the final submission of an 80,000-signature petition to the Prime Minister. The...
21-Jun-2007 By Andrew Pring
Quality is the new watch-word for the trade today. Quality in everything you do as a licensee, be it quality of drink and food offer, quality of...
BrandsBriefs
21-Jun-2007
Cellar Trends builds range Cellar Trends is beefing up the range it offers pubs after winning the rights to a new tranche of brands. Gruppo Campari...
MARKETING MUSCLE
14-Jun-2007
A round-up of the latest campaigns Mateus Rosé Mateus Rosé has invested £1.5m in a new TV advertising campaign for the summer. To drive home the...
Plan of action
07-Jun-2007
The long-awaited revised Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy has received tentative backing from the trade. Pubs and the drinks industry have gone...
New Coors ale in Scottish market
07-Jun-2007
Coor Brewers is set to take on the established heavyweights of the Scottish ale market with the surprise launch this summer of Maclachlan's Best, a...
04-Jun-2007 By Iain O'Neil
Heineken UK announced today full details of its new multi-million pound marketing campaign and the launch of 'Continental Draught'. Heineken hopes...
Pubs taking share of tougher food market
01-Jun-2007
Pubs are still gaining share of the eating out market, despite consumers being more cautious overall, according to new market data.The latest figures...
BrandsBriefs
31-May-2007
Father's Day ads for Coors Coors is to launch a series of posters in Yorkshire for its 3.7% abv Stones ale. In an advertising campaign designed to...
Reassurance needed
30-May-2007
THE PUBCO boss points at the fonts for Stella Artois, Artois Bock and Peeterman Artois, InBev's 'famille Artois', in one of his pubs. "What are they?...
BrandsBriefs
24-May-2007
HA! HA! calls the shots HA! HA! Bar & Canteen is serving up a range of tennis-themed drinks as the season gets going with the Artois...
In Season: As nature intended
23-May-2007
Claire Power, product marketing manager - fresh produce, Pauleys: Now is the optimum time for buying English asparagus. Grown more slowly than its...
21-May-2007
Scottish & Newcastle is putting £7m behind this year's 'Biggest Round' initiative - where it buys punters an S&N brand drink to try. It aims...
Make the most of outdoors
18-May-2007
Marston's Pub Company is running roadshows aimed at giving its licensees ideas to maximise the al-fresco potential of their pubs. Lucy Britner went...
THE GUV'NOR
17-May-2007
Peter Gatling Be professional in your promotion, says the licensee of the Merry Harriers in Clayhidon, Devon Text-book marketing wisdom talks about...
BrandsBriefs
10-May-2007
Red Bull pilots take flight Red Bull is bringing a new type of motor sports to London for the first time this summer. The Red Bull Air Race World...
MARKETING MUSCLE
10-May-2007
A round-up of the latest campaigns Pimm's Pimm's is to receive its first national advertising campaign as Diageo ploughs £3.5m into the summer...
In Season: Something special
09-May-2007
Claire Power, product marketing manager - fresh produce, Pauleys: Summer is nearly here and with the start of the UK season just around the corner,...
Don't judge a book by its cover
03-May-2007
I'm known as someone who is prone to making outlandish statements. For example, I still stand by my belief that Premiership footballer of the year...
Flushed with success
01-May-2007
While every Tom, Dick and national newspaper has been writing about the incredible growth in the cider market, rosé wine has been enjoying a...
Glass war
26-Apr-2007 By Gareth Iacobucci
"We've had no deaths, but we've had a couple of throat slashings, and if we can prevent one death, it's worth doing."In the face of emotive comments...
