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GBPA 2021

Great British Pub Awards 2021: where in the UK are the winners?

29-Sep-2021 By Nikkie Thatcher

Last night (Tuesday 28 September) saw the winners in each category of this year’s Great British Pub Awards revealed.

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Having a blast on social media

29-Sep-2021 By Gary Lloyd

The Morning Advertiser looks at the social media activity of those involved in the Great British Pub Awards (GBPA) after the event and category winners were announced.

Property round-up

Opening date set for former O2 Newcastle Academy, City Pub Group takes site

29-Sep-2021 By Gary Lloyd

This week’s property round-up includes the former O2 Newcastle Academy, Cottage Tavern and the Savoy’s American Bar reopening.

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Best of the best celebrate in Great British Pub Awards 2021

28-Sep-2021 By Ed Bedington

Pubs across the UK have been celebrating after being named as winners in the industry’s leading pub award scheme.

Consumers increasingly use digital tools to choose a venue

28-Sep-2021 By Michelle Perrett

Digital reputation plays a central role in the customer journey for out-of-home leisure activities such as eating and drinking at pubs and bars, an exclusive study by CGA commissioned in partnership with Reputation, the reputation experience management...

Opinion

Pubs’ recovery under threat as supply chain issues escalate

28-Sep-2021 By Steve Alton, chief executive, British Institute of Innkeeping

Our sector relies upon an effective integrated supply chain linking raw materials, manufacturing and logistics to ensure our pubs can deliver a fantastic experience for their customers.

Opinion

Do people expect Tom Kerridge to cook for free?

27-Sep-2021 By Ed Bedington

Tom Kerridge has found himself under fire once again on social media for his steaks, with the knives out once more.

Opinion

Dealing with the staffing shortage

27-Sep-2021 By Dave Wall, head chef the Unruly Pig, Bromeswell, Suffolk

While working with a hangover isn’t a new concept for many from the world of hospitality, dealing with the aftermath of Covid and Brexit is the ‘day after’ on steroids, presenting a whole new torrent of tangles, issues and problems to battle with on a...

New products round-up

The latest new products to hit the market

24-Sep-2021 By Gary Lloyd

This week’s new products focuses on a variety of spirits, including gins from Boë and Foghouse, plus tea, coffee, beer and ginger ale variants.

MA Leaders Club

Time to go for new sites and diversify your model

23-Sep-2021 By Gary Lloyd

Operators have been urged to apply for new sites in a post-Covid world and appeal to local authorities to abandon their cumulative impact policies (CIPSs).

Pubs must unite for Cask Ale Week to help save the industry

23-Sep-2021 By Gary Lloyd

Cask ale beers and the breweries that make them will “only survive” if pubs shout about them – and there’s no better time to do so than Cask Ale Week.

Property round-up

Property round-up: the latest news on pub acquisitions

22-Sep-2021 By Gary Lloyd

Among the latest market moves, The New World Trading Company announces The Club House is coming to Wales and The Alchemist heads to Scotland.

BII unveils semi-finalists for this year’s Licensee of the Year

20-Sep-2021 By Michelle Perrett

The British Institute of Innkeeping (BII) has unveiled the semi-finalists for this year’s Licensee of the Year competition.

Industry event raises more than £20k for homeless charity

20-Sep-2021 By Michelle Perrett

More than £21,000 has been raised by the hospitality sector to support the industry charity Only A Pavement Away (OAPA).

Masterclass learning for GBPA garden finalists

17-Sep-2021 By Ed Bedington

A day of training and fun was on the cards for the finalists of the Great British Pub Awards Pub Garden category, courtesy of category sponsor Diageo.

Managed pubs and restaurants almost treble delivery and takeaways sales

17-Sep-2021 By Gary Lloyd

Delivery and takeaway sales for managed pub and restaurant groups in August were almost treble their pre-pandemic levels, the latest edition of the CGA & Slerp Hospitality at Home Tracker has revealed.

New products round-up

New products round-up: the latest products on the market, including UK music pioneer Kano’s tie-up with Duppy Share rum

16-Sep-2021 By Gary Lloyd

A multitude of new products has hit the market including non-alcoholic beverages from Drop Bear Beer Co and Scai, cocktails from Liberation, Signature Brew's new beer, Graham's ruby port, a chocolate orange gin liqueur by TW Kempton and Fete...

'The public now recognise that pubs are not only in the community but are the community'

16-Sep-2021 By Greg Mangham, founder & CEO of Only A Pavement Away

Greg Mangham, founder & and CEO of Only A Pavement Away, explains how the hospitality industry is helping homeless people, prison leavers and veterans, into employment.

Recruiters concerned labour shortages are putting economic recovery at risk

16-Sep-2021 By Michelle Perrett

Nine in 10 recruiters (88%) say that labour shortages are one of their biggest concerns for the remainder of 2021, while skills shortages are a major concern for two in three (65%).

Top 50 Boutique Hotels to launch later this year

14-Sep-2021 By The Morning Advertiser

Following huge success in highlighting and promoting the best in the business when it comes to gastropubs and cocktail bars, the Top 50 brand is now expanding further into hospitality with the launch of the definitive guide to boutique hotels.

Hospitality job vacancies soar by 75%

14-Sep-2021 By Nikkie Thatcher

Job vacancies in the sector increased by 57,600 in the period of June to August 2021, according to official figures.

MA Leaders Club

How do I become a member of The MA Leaders Club?

13-Sep-2021 By The Morning Advertiser

Want to join the biggest group of multi-site pub owners and operators you’re ever likely to see in one place? Well look no further – our comprehensive guide to the MA Leaders Club awaits below…

The premium food league season has begun

13-Sep-2021 By Gary Lloyd

As the country begins the crawl out of the pandemic, pubs need a point of difference to attract customers, and elevating your food offer is one way to differentiate your business from rivals.

Sports pubs urged to back first net-zero carbon football match

13-Sep-2021 By Gary Lloyd

With the growing emphasis on tackling climate change, sports-focused pubs are being urged to lend their support to the first ever net-zero carbon football match.

Changes at the top

10-Sep-2021 By Ed Bedington

In a management reshuffle at William Reed, Lorraine Hendle, managing director for retail and manufacturing which includes several brands including The Grocer, will now welcome The Morning Advertiser and Big Hospitality brands into the division.

New products round-up

New products round-up: The latest products to hit the market, including a rebrand for Vocation’s entire range

10-Sep-2021 By Gary Lloyd

The latest new products include Vocation, Crodino, Nuet, Lost Boys Brewery, Tomatin and Beavertown.

Property round-up

Property round-up: The latest activity in the pub property market

08-Sep-2021 By Gary Lloyd

The latest property news includes Banwell House Pub Company, The Manor Reborn group, London Cocktail Club, Blame Gloria and The Castle Hotel.

Pubs urged to celebrate Cask Ale Week

07-Sep-2021 By Michelle Perrett

Pubs are being urged to celebrate Cask Beer Week, which runs from 23 September to 3 October, to help boost trade in the wake of the pandemic.

Average eating-out spend increases at pubs as restrictions ease

02-Sep-2021 By Gary Lloyd

The average spend per customer on eating out as restrictions have eased has increased by 3.9%, according to the Lumina Intelligence UK Eating Out Market Report 2021.

Real Living Wage: Best operators have ‘little to fear'

27-Aug-2021 By Michelle Perrett

Increasing pressure on hospitality operators to pay the Real Living Wage (RLW) is likely to prove to be an irresistible force for those who want to employ the best staff, workforce management specialist Bizimply has predicted.

Westons Cider enters partnership to offer discounted Sky Sports subscription

24-Aug-2021 By Michelle Perrett

Westons Cider, the Herefordshire-based cider maker, is partnering with Molson Coors and Sky Sports to offer pubs savings of up to 50% on their Sky Sports subscription.

117,000 job vacancies in hospitality sector

18-Aug-2021 By Nikkie Thatcher

There are currently 117,000 vacancies in the accommodation and food service sector – up from 16,000 for the same period (May to July) in 2020, according to official figures.

Is cashless culture 'killing tips'?

12-Aug-2021 By Nikkie Thatcher

More than a third of Brits won't tip when paying on a card because they are unsure if it will go to the right person, a new report has found.

Amazon-style launch for pubs aims to disrupt traditional wholesale market

11-Aug-2021 By The Morning Advertiser

A new initiative has been launched which claims to be creating an Amazon-style service for free-of-tie pubs and aims to disrupt the traditional wholesale sector.

Spending in pubs up by almost a third compared to 2019

10-Aug-2021 By Nikkie Thatcher

Pubs, bars and clubs saw a rise of 30.5% in consumer spending in July 2021, compared to the same period two years, new research has found.

MA Leaders Club

Full MA Leaders Club Leeds event agenda confirmed

09-Aug-2021 By Nikkie Thatcher

The recently rebranded MA Leaders Club will be hosting its first event, and the first face to face event for the club in a year and a half, later this year.

£750m insurance scheme for events revealed by Government

09-Aug-2021 By Nikkie Thatcher

The Government and Lloyds have teamed up to provide , which will see the Government act as a ‘reinsurer’.

Opinion

Stop blaming the industry for the hospitality staff crisis

04-Aug-2021 By Sarah John, director, Boss Brewing

Those of us within the hospitality industry are well aware that we face a staff crisis; there is no disputing that we are experiencing rising worker shortages, with job vacancies at higher-than-ever levels.

Recruitment continues to be top challenge for 2021

30-Jul-2021 By Nikkie Thatcher

The majority of operators have highlighted staffing issues as the number one issues over the next six months, a report has found.

Hospitality qualifications to be included in Lifetime Skills Guarantee

29-Jul-2021 By Nikkie Thatcher

Trade bodies have welcomed the announcement of catering and hospitality qualifications are set to be featured as part of the Lifetime Skills Guarantee.

Toolkit launched to help pubs aim for net zero emissions

28-Jul-2021 By Ed Bedington

Pubs are being urged to step up and help cut their carbon emissions with the launch of a new initiative aimed at hospitality.

Great British Pub Awards

2021 Great British Pub Awards finalists revealed

28-Jul-2021 By Nikkie Thatcher

Following two rounds of rigorous judging, this year’s shortlist for the industry’s ‘pub Oscars’ - the Great British Pub Awards – has been announced.

Proportion of EU workers in hospitality sector falls as ‘potent combination’ of Brexit and Covid-19 hits

26-Jul-2021 By Michelle Perrett

The proportion of EU workers in the hospitality sector is at its lowest level since 2016 due to the “potent combination” of Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic, new data from Fourth has revealed.

All hospitality firms looking for workers

22-Jul-2021 By Nikkie Thatcher

Every business in the hospitality sector has job roles to be filled currently, an industry-wide survey has revealed, with recruitment for front-of-house staff at the fore.

Opinion

Pub PR: how can operators reassure customers returning after 'Freedom Day'?

20-Jul-2021 By Sarah Murray, client director at PR and digital agency Edson Evers

For the hospitality industry, the road to ‘Freedom Day’ on 19 July was a bumpy and tumultuous journey.

Quarter of all furloughed employees were in hospitality

20-Jul-2021 By Nikkie Thatcher

Some 25% of all workers on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme amid the coronavirus pandemic were from the hospitality sector, a study has revealed.

‘We have a societal issue with racial inequality – hospitality is not exempt from that’

15-Jul-2021 By Stuart Stone

As Be Inclusive Hospitality – a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to accelerating racial equality in hospitality – turns one, founder Lorraine Copes reflects on moving the needle forwards and a sector-wide journey that's just beginning.

Opinion – Sober Inn Thoughts

Sober Inn Thoughts: Navigating pub life while ‘fully on the wagon’

15-Jul-2021 By Senior pub marketing and communications manager

I’ve come to the conclusion that I drink too much. Yes, I know loads of us think we drink too much but I really do.

Euros fans boost footfall at high street pubs by 129%

14-Jul-2021 By Emily Hawkins

Football fans eager to experience match fever together resulted in a huge boost to hospitality footfall on Sunday 11 July – the day England took on Italy in the Euros final.

Pandemic ‘premiumisation’ sparks beer tap and tech review for 67% of operators

13-Jul-2021 By The Morning Advertiser

Two thirds of pub and bar operators are reviewing their beer offer off the back of a newfound thirst for premium pours, according to research carried out by Beer Piper in tandem with The Morning Advertiser (MA).