Take precautions against scam advertisers
15-Nov-2007
While it is very good news that a couple more scam advertising firms have been wound up, the truth is that the practice will continue while there are...
Marketing Your Pub: Print media
14-Nov-2007
The UK has more bars per square mile than any other European country. This is good for consumers because it leads to more choice, but for the pubs...
Marketing Your Pub: Building trade
14-Nov-2007
Marketing is a relatively new idea for the independent pub sector. Usually it's a matter of encouraging licensees to be a bit more active in...
Marketing Focus: We're all text mad
14-Nov-2007
Britons are now sending a billion texts a week, the same figure as the whole of 1999 and 25 per cent up on last year. The sharp increase has even...
Laurel in talks with banks about debt
13-Nov-2007 By The PMA Team
Discussions are underway between Laurel Pub Company and its banks with a view to restructuring the company's borrowing facilities. The company made...
13-Nov-2007 By Ewan Turney
The BII believes better education is the best way to prevent binge drinking - not an increase in tax. In response to calls from the Alcohol Health...
12-Nov-2007
Beer is now just 22p a can in supermarkets and cheaper than cola and water
Back to Basics: Accessible menus
12-Nov-2007
There are currently more than two million people in the UK with serious sight problems, and many of them cannot read standard-size print. These are...
09-Nov-2007
Cumbria brewer Jennings hosts World's Biggest Liar competition
Security Focus: A new era for CCTV
09-Nov-2007
There is now little excuse for pubs and bars not to have CCTV systems that are of a high enough quality not only to deter violent and anti-social...
Security Focus: Self defence
09-Nov-2007
Sounds like a great pub trick - ejecting an unruly customer with just one finger. But no, it's not by pointing at the door but a genuine self-defence...
Security Focus: Keeping an eye on the till
09-Nov-2007
Rogue barstaff be warned: the eye in the sky is increasingly watchful. Whether it's staff occasionally ringing through voids when they're actually...
Security Focus: The professional face of door security
09-Nov-2007
Goodbye bouncer. Hello door supervisor. November 1 was a momentous day for the trade's 'greeters'. With Scotland coming on board that day, every pub,...
Moorhouse's unveils TV ad campaign
09-Nov-2007
Lancashire brewer Moorhourse's has announced the launch of a new TV advertising campaign.The advert, which will be shown in the Granada and Yorkshire...
City diary
08-Nov-2007 By The PMA Team
Learning by trial and PR When you've got a big new concept you're trialling and want to keep under wraps, it's not always easy. Spare a thought for a...
Project Update 9: Making the most of Christmas
08-Nov-2007
Hack & Spade licensees Anne and Alastair Dowson-Park are ready for a Christmas that could provide a valuable boost as they look to sell their pub...
Premier leaders ready for battle
08-Nov-2007 By Helen Bendell helen.bendell@william-reed.co.uk
The Premier League top spot remains tied between Arsenal and Manchester United, but Harry Redknapp's Portsmouth are only a couple of points adrift,...
Progressing with pride
08-Nov-2007
Despite being a traditional family-owned brewer, Arkell's isn't afraid of change. Adrian Tierney-Jones reports If the business of brewing and the pub...
07-Nov-2007 By John Harrington
A former Punch host whose pub showed Premiership football using a domestic card has avoided conviction. Ken Hadley was found not guilty of dishonest...
ePub: Card security
06-Nov-2007
Believe it or not, the UK's first Chip & PIN transaction was made way back in May 2003. Now, more than four years later, some 900,000 tills, 98...
ePub: Insurance on the internet
06-Nov-2007
News that three quarters of UK small businesses are breaking the law by not having the right insurance has prompted the launch of a website dedicated...
ePub: Online ordering for tenants
06-Nov-2007
Regular customers of the Jolly Boatman may not be aware that the licensee is now doing his ordering over the internet but they might well have...
ePub: The electronic eye
06-Nov-2007
Scottish bar and nightclub operator Castle Leisure Group (CLG) is already enjoying the fruits of new EPoS and back-office systems installed earlier...
Back to Basics: Age discrimination
02-Nov-2007
Recent media coverage of the resignation of Sir Menzies Campbell as leader of the Liberal Democrats should have brought age discrimination issues...
Alcohol education not taxation
02-Nov-2007 By Roger Protz
You couldn't make it up: a member of the committee set up in 1987 by the Royal College of Surgeons to recommend safe drinking limits said the figures...
Getting to the heart of Cognac country
01-Nov-2007
Cognac can be a daunting spirit category, but Rémy Martin's new Coeur de Cognac aims to change punters' perceptions. The PMA Team finds out how...
Runway success
01-Nov-2007
Nigel Huddleston explores the renaissance of a Kent pub, based on the theme of early aviation pioneers The Aviator, Queenborough Corner,...
Prudence pays
01-Nov-2007
Paul Davey, managing director of Davey & Co, advises careful business planning in forecasting property values My experience as a business agent...
The right path
01-Nov-2007
Following recent redundancy, Mr R is keen to fulfil his dream of running a pub with his wife, but the way forward is confusing. How viable is the...
Developing a keen nose for your back bar
01-Nov-2007
Acquiring the salient facts about the spirits you sell can make all the difference when it comes to coaxing customers to trade up to premium...
The industry perspective
01-Nov-2007
Andy Rose, on-trade business manager, Beam Global UK "Staff can have a significant impact on a customer's decision to purchase, purely by...
MARKETING MUSCLE
01-Nov-2007
A round-up of the latest campaigns Robert Mondavi Constellation Europe has put £3m behind its first UK advertising campaign for Californian wine...
Newcomers: Scammers paradise
31-Oct-2007
I've been unable to make any time over the past few weeks to sit down and document what's been happening with the pub. Suffice to say that its been...
Top Scots crowned at SLTN Awards
31-Oct-2007
Scotalnd's champion pubs, bars, and nightclubs have all been honoured at the Scottish Licensed Trade News Awards.The country's biggest city, Glasgow,...
Hamish Champ: Sailing the stormy seas of business partnerships
28-Oct-2007 By Hamish Champ
Partnerships of all kinds - friends, families, marriages - go through rocky patches, some to come through stronger, others never to recover. In...
25-Oct-2007 By John Harrington
Foreign satellite suppliers set up a new company to investigate alleged Sky screenings in Europe
London regional focus: Capital gains
25-Oct-2007
THE SAYING goes that when you're tired of London, you're tired of life. And it would appear that many members of the brewing fraternity have, at some...
Insurance warning
25-Oct-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Three out of four pubs and other small businesses risk fines of up to £2,500 a day because they don't have the right insurance. That is the stark...
S&N: make your voices heard
25-Oct-2007
It's "what if" time again. What if Carlsberg and Heineken are successful in their bid to take over Scottish & Newcastle (S&N)? What will the...
Inside story
25-Oct-2007
After last winter's pre-ban rush to equip outdoor spaces, licensees are now looking to spruce up their indoor bar and dining furniture In the...
Tapping in to net power
25-Oct-2007
Trade is tough, but the internet can help. Noli Dinkovski looks at how beerintheevening.com is changing to assist pubs Type your pub's name into any...
Group probes Sky screenings
25-Oct-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
A group representing foreign satellite suppliers has set up a new company to investigate alleged screenings of Premiership games in mainland Europe...
TRG acquires B&P for £32m
25-Oct-2007
The Restaurant Group (TRG), the casual-dining company, which operates Frankie & Benny's, Chiquito and Gar- funkel's, has acquired Brun-ning &...
Trade fearful of lowest ever festive prices in supermarkets
25-Oct-2007
Fears are growing that the UK's supermarket chains are preparing to pack their store shelves with some of the lowest Christmas alcohol prices ever...
The Efficiency Factor: half time report
24-Oct-2007
Halfway through our competition to find the UK pub that can make the biggest improvements in energy efficiciency over the course of six months, and...
Back to Basics: Waste management
24-Oct-2007
The latest piece of red tape is set to trip up pubs at the end of this month when new rules come into force for the treatment of commercial waste....
The truth about troncs
24-Oct-2007
In the latest instalment of the troncs saga, an employment tribunal has ruled that tips paid to employees count towards the minimum wage. To update...
World Cup winners count their takings
24-Oct-2007
Takings rocketed across pubs on the rugby world cup final Saturday proving that while the England team may have been runner-up, pubs were the...
City diary
18-Oct-2007 By The PMA Team
JDW's cut-price law work JD Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin's unique mixture of determination and frugality has struck again. You'll remember he's...
Final scrumdown for England
18-Oct-2007 By Helen Bendell helen.bendell@william-reed.co.uk
While the thoughts of the nation will undoubtedly be preoccupied by the prospect of England's rugby union heroes retaining the World Cup, there's...
