Adnams plans to double operating profit
Suffolk based brewer and operator Adnams plans to double operating profit within five years. Speaking at the company's AGM, executive chairman...
Archives for April 27, 2008
Going green again, lights are goin' out...
The environment is an emotive topic. For every person warning that pumping millions of tonnes of industrial crap into the atmosphere is endangering...
Pick of the pubs
The Crown Inn in the rural village of Axford, in North Hampshire is a traditional village pub serving cask and keg ales and food. Featured in the...
Hamish Champ: Blue is very most definitely the colour
Nothing beats being at a football match 'in the flesh' when something truly great happens. I was at Stamford Bridge two years ago when Chelsea beat...
Adnams bullish about the future
Adnams shareholders have heard that the brewer and pubco is meeting the challenges of trading in 2008 and looking forward to the future with...
Licensee hit with £8,000 payout after spirits swap
A Lincolnshire licensee has had to pay out £8,000 in fines and costs after passing off supermarket spirits as premium brands. Simon Crathorn, from...
For the common good
Rightyl or wrongly, stock markets have long been associated more with avarice than environmentally-friendly business practices. But the commercial...
Mark Daniels: I should be greener
You only have to look to the motoring industry to understand what I mean but, whether you believe it or not, environmental issues are here to stay...
Gaming machines can give pubs a boost
Gaming companies should help regenerate the pub trade, according to the head of one company in the sector.Stuart Ross, group managing director of...
Pub profits up at Whitbread
Profits per pub at Whitbread's pub restaurant sites increased by 40%
First Scottish eco pub unveiled
"This place will do a ton," says the taxi driver as he takes me the short distance from Croy railway station to an idyllic stretch of the Forth and...
Agents hail cut in rates
Property agents have welcomed the cut in interest rates, claiming it will bring "renewed confidence to the market". Bank of England Governor Mervyn...
Darling vows to stand by duty rises
Chancellor still believes he was right to raise alcohol duty despite trade uproar