Merchant Inns spends big on new sites
The operator, headed by Robert Breare, has spend £3.75m at the Lambert Arms in Oxfordshire and the Talbot Inn at Surrey.
Archives for August 31, 2008
Hamish Champ: When will shares in pubcos finally turn?
I was having a chat with a friend the other day about when we thought share prices for the listed pubcos would turn for the better. We weren't...
'Supermarket alcohol to outsell pubs for the first time'
Supermarket booze sales are about to outstrip pubs for the first time. The trend will inflict even further pain on pubs that have been hit by their...
Drinks giant slams Scottish government
Diageo has slammed plans by the Scottish government to crack down on pubs' alcohol sales and promotions, and proposed an alternative system of...
Diageo slates Scotland's hard-line crackdown
A system of "co-regulation" - with Government and industry both regulating - is proposed by the drinks giant as an alternative.
Opinion: Eavesdropping on InBev
I just can't get away from work these days. A trip to drink beer in Brussels on a day off recently was bound to be something of a busman's holiday,...
Setting a new trend
Never mind the cities - let's go for the towns and the customers nobody else seems to have bothered about.That's broadly how Scottish pub firm Gastro...
Guinness campaign to boost pub visits
The £5m campaign aims to get punters in pubs on weekday evenings
Cains and able to buy back the business?
In what has been a quiet and singularly damp squib of a summer the Cains affair is at least building up a head of steam, judging by developments last...
Trade veteran's historic move
A pub saved from developers by a philanthropic local historian, and since laid low by flooding, has become the latest addition to recently...
Mark Daniels: How bad is it going to get?
Naturally, we're all focusing on the fact that business is getting worse, that our turnovers are dropping and that we're facing the prospect of a...
Coors adds 3p to a pint
The Carling and Grolsch brewer cites massive cost inflation - after making just 2p profit per pint in 2007.