Portman Group drops Proof of Age Cards.
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...
Archives for September 3, 2007
Greene King: What bad weather and smoking ban?
Like-for-likes up despite the terrible summer and the introduction of the smoking ban
Are you a spud supremo?
The search to find the country's best potato dish is back, with the launch of the Great Potato Challenge 2008?As well as the chance to win the...
Punch appoints new retail director for managed pubs
A senior manager with 20 years' experience in retailing has returned to his first love, the hospitality sector, and joined leading pub company the...
Brulines to buy rival
Brulines has announced it is to buy rival cellar volume monitoring company Nucleus Data for £3,800,000. A further consideration of up to £700,000...
Pigs in plea for fair play
Pubs are being urged to pay a fair price for British pork in a new campaign. Pig farmers and processors have launched a major campaign, at...
Portman Group calls time on PASS cards
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...
Chris Maclean: cheered by clean-up
Today I had to write to the local paper to praise the work of the council's street cleaners.Throughout the hop festival they worked relentlessly...
Snakes on a plate
The top-selling pub dishes tend to remain fairly stable - it's a brave pub that takes sausage and mash or steak pie off the menu. But as consumers...
TCG launches Oasis concept
Tattershall Castle Group (TCG), the managed pub operator owned by Alchemy Partners, the private equity firm, has launched a new concept called Oasis under the banner "classic pubs with a twist".