'M&B could sell stake to private equity firms'
All Bar One and O'Neill's pubs operator Mitchells & Butlers could sell a stake in the business to private equity firms to shore up its balance...
Archives for March 17, 2008
Charles Wells picks up top business award
Charles Wells has been named private company of the year in the 2007 Business Weekly Awards for East Anglia. In the last year, the parent company of...
Web Marketing: Make your website work
Most pubs these days have a website - the trick is how you get one that works harder for you.That's where Ready2use aims to come in. It's a website...
Punch Taverns still pushing for M&B deal
Punch Taverns remains confident it can convince the Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) board, the managed pub group's investors and its own...
Nick Yates: These boots are made for walkin?
It seems that for people training for the Marathon, or just generally trying to keep fit, life in the kitchen is going to keep you in shape more than...
JD Wetherspoon lines up two Terminal Five sites
Wetherspoon is opening two new outlets at the new multi billion-pound Terminal Five building at Heathrow Airport, taking the total number of pubs it...
Chris Maclean: An awful breakfast
Saturday's trip to the rugby was bound to be a messy affair and it was with some foresight that I took the opportunity to grab a decent breakfast in...
Web Marketing: A taste of CityPubLife
Overnight guests at Perry Maher and Linda Langfrey's semi in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, might find themselves repeatedly climbing out of bed in the early...
Hamish Champ: A bugger of a Budget
As I feverishly rang various pubco bosses last Wednesday afternoon for their reaction to Alistair Darling's 'stability' Budget I thought back to the...
Web Marketing: Beer with BITE
Go into Google and search for a pub and more often than not you'll find a Beer in the Evening (BITE) listing near the top of the page.BITE was...
Mitchells & Butlers looks for an investor
Managed pubs operator Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) is looking at selling a stake in the business to bolster its balance sheet, according to reports.
Laurel Pub Company closes 60 pubs
Laurel Pub Company has today closed 60 of the 65 trading pubs it has on the market.A spokesman for the group, owned by property tycoon Robert...
Wethering the storm
It is fair to say that when a UK-wide ban on smoking in pubs was first mooted three years ago many observers expected JD Wetherspoon would be hit by...
Web Marketing: Doing it yourself
Licensee Richard Pope's website has averaged 80 visits a day recently - impressive considering he taught himself web design from scratch and launched...