Restaurant Group posts half year profits hike
The Restaurant Group (TRG), which operates Frankie & Benny's and Garfunkel's eatery chains as well as a number of pub restaurants, has announced...
Archives for August 28, 2008
Home Office alcohol official to speak at BBN event
A top Home Office official, who deals with alcohol policy, has been revealed as the keynote speaker at the first National Best Bar None (BBN)...
Greene King's £1m tenants' drinks promo
The company will absorb the cost of cut-price drinks deals at around 200 mainly wet-led tenanted pubs
Cains licensees reveal distress of losing jobs
Distraught ex-Cains licensees have told of their misery at losing their jobs and homes following the high-profile collapse of the company.Twenty-four...
The rise and rise of women
Women have been the backbone of the pub trade for centuries. Their husbands and partners may have been the name over the door and played the...
James Wilmore: Fasten your seatbelts
So, silly season is nearly at an end for another year. Frivolous stories about the weather and cheeky chimpanzees will make way for tales from...
My Shout: Murdoch's TV sport grip may weaken
A glorious summer of sport has almost ended — and soon there will be an autumn chill in the air.
Diageo: Middle classes switch drinking away from the pub
Drinks giant Diageo has warned that the slowing UK economy would lead to more middle class people drinking at home rather than at the pub. Chief...
Home Office man to address BBN Conference
Top people from the trade, police and councils are to speak at the must-see Best Bar None Conference
Trade backs call for energy red-tape delay
The Energy Performance Certificate chaos continues - and it's suggested that some pubs may need two EPCs
Robinson's tenant support package
A form of open-book accounting for new tenants is among the measures in the new package from the Cheshire brewer and pub operator
New Spirit Group boss to restructure company
Mike Tye, Spirit Group's newly appointed managing director, has announced sweeping changes to the organisation in an effort to reverse its flagging...
Guinness acts to pull more people into pubs
Guinness is looking to drive more people into pubs with a £5m ad campaign aimed at celebrating the after-work drinking occasion.Entitled '17:59....