Hamish Champ: C'mon Giles. Roll them sleeves up!
Punch Taverns' troubles were understandably the talk of the industry last week.With profits tumbling and its share price following suit the fate of...
Archives for January 19, 2009
Camra launches Save our Pubs website
The Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) has launched a new website to advise the public of how to save their pub.
Hunger strike publican launches countrywide pub tour
A publican who went on hunger strike to protest at his eviction is to step up his campaign to save the trade by going on a pub tour throughout the...
Punch to welcome protesters at HQ
Punch Taverns will welcome any of its lessees attending the protest outside its HQ next week in for a coffee and a chat. Frustrated licensees are...
Mark Daniels: Taking Responsibility for the Irresponsibility
He was preceded by Gordon Brown who, between bouts of sucking on his bottom lip, tried to make the fact that he was going to use taxpayers' money...
Polycarbs with health warnings hit Blackpool pubs
Drinkers in a Lancashire holiday resort are to be given health warnings via special messages embossed on polycarbonate glasses. More than 20,000...
'Price of pint to rise by 15p'
The price of a pint could rise by 15p from next month as brewing giant InBev announced plans to increase its wholesale prices. The increased cost is...
Polycarbonates with unit labels hit pubs
Pubs and bars in Blackpool are being encouraged to use polycarbonate pint and wine glasses that display the number of alcohol units customers are...
Punch Taverns removes 140 BRMs from redundancy talks
Punch Taverns today revealed it has taken 140 business relationship managers (BRMs) out of its ongoing consultation process.The pubco is looking to...
Pubs closing at rate of 39 per week
The number of pubs closing per week in Britain has accelerated to a staggering 39 per week. The figures, compiled by CGA Strategy for the British...
Pub crisis: 39 close every week
Pubs are now closing at the rate of six every day and more will follow if the Government presses ahead with plans for a mandatory code on alcohol...
MP wants automatic rate relief for pubs
Tory MP Peter Luff is to table a private members bill, which would automatically grant small businesses rate relief. Luff, well-known in the pub...
Punch suffers body blows in a week to forget
Punch Taverns' numbers were worse than many were expecting, (see below) to the extent that at one stage its shares sank more than 22 per cent on the...