17-Jul-2008 By The PMA Team
All the latest industry news and gossip.
Focus South East: View from the Top
17-Jul-2008
'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness… it was the spring of hope, it was...
Focus South East: Reading the ban
17-Jul-2008
Sitting in the stylish, slate-flagged garden of the Vine in Tenterden, Kent, under a sunny June sky it was easy to imagine that this was just how the...
Football Preview: Sky making it a rich man's game
17-Jul-2008
Like sir Alex Ferguson moaning at the ref and sports journalists bemoaning the scarcity of English talent, licensees' anger at Sky's prices come the...
Ignore 'use by' dates at your peril
17-Jul-2008
Proper storage of food is a critical part of keeping food-related illness - particularly food poisoning - at bay. And, as no food lasts forever,...
Sky-high prices
17-Jul-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Licensees have slammed Sky's latest deals on sports packages for 'giving with one hand and taking away with the other'. Last week The Publican...
Footfall fever
17-Jul-2008
The start of the premiership season is just a few short weeks away, so its time to prepare for those match days to lift your takings into the next...
The perfect consumer experience
17-Jul-2008 By MA reporter
Pub in the Park will play host to a fantastic range of competitions that you can sign up to for your pub and your customers. These range from...
Business boosters
17-Jul-2008
Ideas for driving food sales at your pub Takeaway pizzas Where: Puesdown Inn, Compton Abdale, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire...
Working lunch
17-Jul-2008
Ted Bruning discovers the trade secrets of Warwickshire's Merchant's Inn Some pubs are blessed with Michelin-standard kitchens. Others are cursed...
Following the trade winds
17-Jul-2008
The Cutter at Ely might have sunk without trace, but licensee Steve Haslam tells Graham Holter that the Enterprise pub has the wind in its sails once...
MA website relaunches
17-Jul-2008
MorningAdvertiser.co.uk has been unveiled with a fresh new look, packed full of additional features, but still delivering the latest news first,...
ALMR slams Sky's latest 'price freeze'
17-Jul-2008 By Paul Collins
Sky TV in pubs now costs £1,000+ a month
Back to Basics: Marketing your pub online
16-Jul-2008
In the year since the smoking ban it's become even more important for pubs to raise their profile and attract new customers, and the web provides a...
Football Preview: Fantasy footfall
16-Jul-2008
The inspired Skinner and Baddiel TV show Fantasy Football League may not be on telly any more but that hasn't stopped the game around which the...
Murphy case could carry on after Europe
16-Jul-2008 By James Wilmore
A landmark High Court foreign satellite appeal could drag on even after the matter has been heard in Europe. The full ruling from the second part of...
16-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney
The profit of the average tenant could drop to as little as £3,000 over the next year, a senior market analyst has warned. Mark Brumby of Blue Oar...
Councils forced to wait over compulsory hygiene scheme
11-Jul-2008 By James Wilmore
Plans by London councils to break away from the rest of the country and force the capital's pubs to display a food hygiene rating have been derailed....
10-Jul-2008 By Tony Jennings
Budweiser Budvar UK chief executive Tony Jennings says the trade must move with the times.
10-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney
Sky has announced a price freeze on its football packages for next year but some operators will see a large increase if they took advantage of last year's price freeze.
All things being equal...
10-Jul-2008
It is the lot of every solicitor that there will be a dinner party question folk cannot resist asking for every area of law. For the criminal lawyer...
Sky freezes price of sports packages
10-Jul-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Sky has announced a price freeze on its sports packages which could provide a boost to licensees struggling to make ends meet. Letters have been sent...
Interesting choice of logo
10-Jul-2008
Not surprisingly perhaps the July issue of Drinks Business runs quite a long article on the InBev bid for Anheuser Busch, brewers of Budweiser. Very...
South Africa set to test England
10-Jul-2008
Helen Bendell helen.bendell@william-reed.co.uk England's Test cricket side recorded a series victory against the visiting Kiwis during May and June,...
Business boosters
10-Jul-2008
Ideas for driving food sales at your pub 2-in-1 pies Where: Weighbridge Inn, Longfords, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire www.2in1pub.co.uk The idea:...
Whisky
10-Jul-2008
Whisky remains one of the least understood areas of the bar, but potentially one of the most profitable. Dominic Roskrow explains why These days...
Wind of change
10-Jul-2008
The Windmill looks and feels like a wine bar/coffee shop and yet it is still being run by Ron and Sonia Colbron like a boozer. Ali Carter reports Not...
Mix and match
10-Jul-2008
The standard G&T may still dominate the gin serve, but premium varieties and classic cocktail recipes offer more adventurous possibilities As...
Keep cards for the football pitch
10-Jul-2008
I have not yet commented on the new red and yellow-card scheme for "backsliding" licensees because it seems to me to be yet another Home...
Electric supply cut before funeral wake
10-Jul-2008 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Scottish Power fails to transfer host's name A licensee's electricity supply was cut off hours before a funeral wake. This followed a dispute with...
BII calls for entries to training awards
09-Jul-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
The industry's top training providers are being invited to celebrate their achievements by entering the 2008 BII NITAs. The awards recognise training...
'Inspired Gaming shares tumble'
08-Jul-2008
Inspired Gaming shares plummeted yesterday after the ailing company announced plans to raise £40million through a discounted share placing. Plans...
Trainers join together to offer better opportunities
08-Jul-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
An important training course will be more widely available to newcomers to the trade after two leading licensed trade trainers joined forces....
08-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney
Homeless charity Thames Reach has slammed the Portman Group for not banning super strength lagers. The charity complained that 500ml cans of Skol...
Fair tips protest moves to Parliament
07-Jul-2008
The union-backed fair tips campaign has been taken to Parliament, with waiting staff calling on the government to change the law to stop tips and...
Bar work as tough as being an athlete
04-Jul-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Working in a bar is as "as mentally draining as being a barrister and as physically demanding as being an athlete" according to research by Red Bull...
Tuesday July 15: That's entertainment
03-Jul-2008
From a tug of war to crowning a local beauty queen, there are some great events in the offing in pubs up and down the country during Proud of Pubs...
Monday July 14: Find the energy
03-Jul-2008
Go green, and save money.If you only take one message away from Proud of Pubs Week, make it this one - and make Monday July 14 the day you take a...
Pubs could be left without gaming machines
03-Jul-2008
Thousands of pubs could find themselves without machines when Inspired Gaming quits the industry, the independent machines supplier's organisation...
Murphy case goes to European court
03-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
MPS: we will pursue prosecutions for Sky Karen Murphy has had her foreign satellite appeal referred to the European Court of Justice (ECJ). But...
Can Nadal derail Fed express?
03-Jul-2008 By Helen Bendell helen.bendell@william-reed.co.uk
Two weeks of top-quality tennis come to an end this Saturday and Sunday with the Wimbledon finals. With Venus and Serena Williams in opposite sides...
Business boosters
03-Jul-2008
Ideas for driving food sales at your pub Produce trade-in Where: Red Hart, Kington, Worcestershire The idea: Last summer customers at the Red Hart...
Credit coercion
03-Jul-2008
Making business transactions with personal credit cards is illegal. Cookseys managing director David Morgan explains how new regulations affect who...
True to its roots
03-Jul-2008
The historic Anchor on London's Bankside has been brought bang up to date while preserving its much-loved traditional atmosphere. Simon Creasey...
Developing a broader offer
03-Jul-2008
Only 4% of pub customers bought a hot drink and only 2% bought crisps. Both are woefully low when you consider the potential opportunity for both...
RDR 2007 winners' quotes
03-Jul-2008
Bill Donne, secretary of Reading Pubwatch — winner of Pubwatch of the Year "The RDR award reflects the effort all partners have put into the...
Enough of the competition — let's hear it for co-operation
03-Jul-2008
It's far from being a dog-eat-dog world among craft brewers. Combined effort is the way forward I must be the only person on the planet who wasn't...
Mark Daniels: So the football's over. Well done, Spain.
02-Jul-2008
But I have to say that, more importantly, it's been quite nice not having the pressure of trading through a major football tournament and I question...
Authorities aim to stop Facebook beach party
02-Jul-2008 By James Wilmore
Torbay Council says it is working hard with police to stop the all-weekend Facebook beach party which could see 10,000 revellers invade the resort....
02-Jul-2008 By MA reporter
Police are set to use unprecedented powers to stop every shop and pub in a town selling alcohol - in a bid to halt an illegal beach party organised...
