Going Forth - Fast
Steve Mallon, managing director of Scottish pubco Maclay Inns, is in a buoyant mood. Following a major investment programme across the group's...
Archives for May 11, 2008
Back to Basics: The wow factor
We have all watched the shambles going on at Heathrow's Terminal 5 with a mix of disbelief (how can they have made SUCH a mess of it?) and...
Heineken urges consumers to use their continental head
Heineken has launched a new TV and cinema advertising campaign urging Brits to "use your continental head". The new ad is the second installment of...
Hamish Champ: Getting a bit of perspective
Like everyone sometimes I have a crap day at work. Sometimes this stretches to a crap week, such is the way my life occasionally goes. Either it's...
Doing the REIT thing
Until last week the likelihood of significant pub sector corporate activity in the near future was relatively low. Money - or rather debt - to fund...
InBev UK chief "staggered" by Stella Artois criticism
The new boss of InBev UK has delivered an impassioned defence of its under-fire lager brand Stella Artois.Stuart MacFarlane, who was appointed to the...
Ask An Expert: Speedier service at the bar
My customers seem to take ages deciding what to order at the bar and it really slows up service. How can I help them to make a decision more...
Suburban Bar Co creates new group to run wet-led pubs
Suburban Style Bar has created a subsidiary company to manage the 10 freehold wet-led pubs it bought earlier this year. Beacon Pub Company will run...
Time for a new model?
The pub industry's prospects appear bleak and things are likely to get much worse if the UK economy goes well and truly into recession. Moreover, the...
Darling visits Lincolnshire pub - and is barred
A Lincolnshire licensee has received a visit from Alistair Darling - and told him he is barred. Unfortunately, Darren Cheesman of the Hit or Miss in...