Festive season
18-Sep-2006
While the Campaign for Real Ale has been doing an increasingly good job of marketing the Great British Beer Festival, it still loses out when it...
15-Sep-2006
The drinks industry has defended its sponsorship of major events after a call for the government to ban brewers from sponsoring live music and...
Drink ad accused
14-Sep-2006 By James Wilmore
Health officials have hit out at drinks advertising for undermining the Drinkaware Trust's message on responsible drinking. A WKD advert which...
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...
SELL MORE, SAVE MORE: Let us help you grow profits
14-Sep-2006
The Publican is launching a major project to help pubs boost their sales and save costs during one of the most momentous years the trade has ever...
14-Sep-2006 By John Harrington
A training course teaching doorstaff to use handcuffs has been launched, reputedly for the first time in Britain. However, doorstaff regulator the...
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...
The art of mixing and matching
14-Sep-2006
The British used to be great mixers of beer. At the start of my journalistic career - neatly coinciding with my drinking career - I regularly ordered...
SIA advises against handcuff training
14-Sep-2006 By John Harrington
A training course teaching doorstaff to use handcuffs has been launched, reputedly for the first time in Britain. However, doorstaff regulator the...
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%...
Listening to your staff can help boost sales
14-Sep-2006
When Tom Fisher and partner Rebecca Chapman took over the Crispin in Harwell, Oxfordshire, they decided to ask their staff for ideas to improve the business. Two years on, writes Ewan Turney, the pub is now selling an extra 300 pints a week and wine
14-Sep-2006 By Jo Grobel
Christmas family gatherings will more often than not be centred around eating, so pubs need to ensure they're making the most of the opportunity by...
Make the most of Christmas: advice from five perspectives
14-Sep-2006
The licensee Elizabeth Wood, The White Swan, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire "Our Christmas celebrations start two weeks before the day, with something...
Branding on the brain
14-Sep-2006 By Pete Brown
Strong brands guarantee quality and ultimately good profit. Pete Brown looks at the ethos surrounding them and why, more than ever, pubs need them....
14-Sep-2006
It is not just expensive footballers who have employment problems when they transfer. Staff in pubs are often very much in the same position. A new...
New demands for barstaff breaks
13-Sep-2006
Barstaff will be banned from working more than six hours without a break after Europe's highest court said current guidelines did not comply with...
E-pub - The joy of text
12-Sep-2006
Mobile phone proliferation and the accidental discovery of the power of texting - technically known as the short message service or SMS - has opened...
E-pub - is e-learning on your menu?
12-Sep-2006
Is e-learning on your pub's training menu? Robert Duprey makes out the caseIncreasingly intense competition, high customer expectations and the need...
Listening to their customers
11-Sep-2006
"To a large degree, consumers have now taken control of the on-trade market and are not prepared to simply accept what is put before them. The...
E-pub - Going wireless
11-Sep-2006
Wireless technology. It's the best thing since the wireless. Which seemed to have loads of wires. But it enabled human beings to communicate across...
Back to basics: Branding drives sales
11-Sep-2006
BRANDING IS about much more than expensive advertising and pub chain logos. It's about communicating what makes your business individual and...
Ready to fight back?
11-Sep-2006
How important is new product development (NPD) for the market?Stuart Davis: I think to keep the category stimulated a degree of NPD is necessary...
The new drinking occasion…
08-Sep-2006
AGE WAITS for no brand. Certainly not RTD brands anyway. Becoming unfashionable is always the danger when you align a product so completely with a...
Trade blasts "binge" website
07-Sep-2006 By James Wilmore
Licensees have blasted a controversial website which they claim promotes binge-drinking and lists their premises without their consent. Pissed.co.uk...
BII Nita finalists announced
07-Sep-2006
Five licensees have made it to the shortlist of the flagship Licensee Trainer of the Year award at this year's BII NITAs. Andrew Cannon of the...
07-Sep-2006
Pubgoers across the country will breathe a sigh of relief to hear that although Wetherspoon's strongly opposed the introduction of the euro a few...
Preparation is key
07-Sep-2006
. Get ready for market Before putting your lease on the market, check it for any obligations or constraints it places upon you in order to assign...
07-Sep-2006
Peter Coulson and a team of industry experts try to answer the "closed period" football screenings battle that's raging
The MA Brands Report
07-Sep-2006
Stocking the right brands is vital to a pub's success so we've compiled a snapshot of what sells well across the market in the MA's first Brands...
07-Sep-2006 By Peter Coulson
Contempt of court is a serious matter — you can be banged up overnight for having the temerity to argue with a man in a wig and a red robe....
03-Sep-2006
Pairing beer with food is a great idea, says ADAM EDWARDS, as long as traditional British grub is on the menu. Beer with Food week is almost upon us,...
01-Sep-2006
The summer heatwave has tested pub kitchen refrigeration systems to new limits. Bob Gledhill
01-Sep-2006 By Fiona McLelland
Christmas is coming and the goose is just beginning to fatten, but preparation time for the biggest event of the year is already short. Fiona McLelland thinks ahead
01-Sep-2006
We ask licensees to share their top tips on providing good customer service
01-Sep-2006
Mark Taylor talks to Paul Mason took over a five-year Punch lease on the Green Jackets in Shoreham-by-Sea
01-Sep-2006
We take a look at Brighton's first non-smoking gastropub
01-Sep-2006 By Fiona Wells
A golden opportunity for pub profits
01-Sep-2006
Egged on A plate inspired by identical twins is among a number of new products from Figgjo through Continental Chef Supplies (CCS). The original...
01-Sep-2006
To cater for the growing demand of consumers for healthier options, Heinz has launched a light French dressing and a light salad cream. With at least...
Rock the week
01-Sep-2006
As winter approaches, why not make the most of promotional events in the calendar to keep the punters coming through your doors whatever the weather
Pathfinder curtails Sky to save £1.5m
31-Aug-2006 By Lucy Britner and The PMA Team
Pathfinder, Wolves & Dudley's managed arm, is set to save more than £1.5m on subscription fees after removing Sky from 130 of its pubs. The move...
Live music - band aid for pubs
31-Aug-2006
There was a time when licensees could take a casual approach to live music - but that was last year. Since the new licensing regime came in, putting...
Over-valuing 'lowers' prices
31-Aug-2006
Over-valued pubs are a massive problem for the industry, according to agents. GA-Select managing director Graham Allman said that excessive...
Bite the bullet on contracts
31-Aug-2006
In spite of the encroachment of red tape, which has led many licensees to spend more time in the office than in the bar, some backwaters still appear...
BrandsBriefs
31-Aug-2006
Tanqueray gin has top taste Tanqueray has been voted the best-tasting gin in a survey which questioned 127 bartenders in 100 bars nationwide. The...
Why Birdcage will be model business
31-Aug-2006
A model is set to breathe new life into a notorious old pub. Lauren Gregory, 24, aims to transform the old Pottergate Tavern into a bohemian...
Host fined record £9,000 for spirit substitutions
31-Aug-2006 By John Harrington
A Leicestershire host has been fined a record £9,000 for selling cheaper spirits as well-known brands of gin, vodka and rum. The Bell Inn at Market...
29-Aug-2006
Famous chef Fanny Cradock's son Christopher Chapman is selling his pub after 40 years. Jane and Christopher Chapman have spent four decades behind...
Liable for violence
25-Aug-2006
Longer licensing hours and the perceived binge-drinking culture mean the role of the door supervisor and the licensees who employ them are firmly in...
Guide for doorstaff on the way
25-Aug-2006
Standards in physical intervention for door supervisors and barstaff are being set for the first time by guidelines due to be published this autumn....
