Licence revoked at Gloucester pub
Police have secured a licence revocation for a pub in Gloucester after a "massive failure" to prevent crime and disorder — one of the four...
Archives for September 28, 2008
Fuller's opens new training centre
London brewer and operator Fuller's has opened a new training centre. The new Centre of Excellence includes a full working cellar and bar as well as...
Rational calls time on limescale
Equipment supplier Rational reckons to have cracked the problem of limescale build-up.The company has developed a new cleaning system which means its...
Drink sales down 6.5 per cent at Globe Pub Co
The Robert Tchenguiz-owned Globe Pub Company said year-on-year drinks sales for the three months to August 2008 fell more than six per cent compared...
Hamish Champ: Learning the lessons of drink, but at what age?
You know you're getting old when you read an item in a newspaper about the goings-on of the 'youth of today' and you hear yourself tutting at the...
Globe: rent concessions up, drinks down
The number of tenanted pubs within the 425-strong securitised Globe Pub Company receiving rent concessions has more than doubled to 30.
Back in business
Tucked away on page 17 of Cains Beer Company's last annual report and accounts appears what turned out to be a prescient warning from Mazars,...
No roadside ban on pub signs
The Highways Agency has dismissed reports that it wants to ban roadside ads for pubs to halt drink-driving. The Agency objected to a retrospective...
Administrators warn of a bumpy ride ahead
The news that brothers Sudarghara and Ajmail Dusanj had bought Cains Beer Company back out of administration caused a mighty kerfuffle.Many wondered...
City waits on US 'bail out' vote
The vote on the proposed US$700bn 'bail out' of the US banking system is being keenly awaited by City analysts, desperate for some good news for the...
Low alcohol wine can appeal British ban
A low alcohol wine producer has won the right to appeal its ban in Britain. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) banned sales of 8% abv Sovio after...
More high profile industry casualties are likely, warn experts
Insolvency experts are predicting a sharp rise in the number of pub and bar operators going under in the coming months.The warning comes as trading...
Punch Taverns' shares slide as pubco denies letting issue
Shares in Punch Taverns continued to slide today after weekend press reports suggested a fifth of the pubco's outlets were awaiting tenants.After...