Unruly pubs to be shut in Olympics run-up
The leader of Westminster City Council has warned that irresponsible pubs will be shut as the 2012 Olympics approaches. Cllr Colin Barrow also said...
Archives for January 27, 2009
Pub beer sales down 130m pints
Pub beer sales plummeted 9.9% in the fourth quarter of 2008 — equating to a massive drop of 130m pints on last year. The figures from the British...
Kebabs - more than 'meats' the eye?
Pub customers are being misled over the contents of their closing time doner kebab, according to a new survey.It's a fact of life that people who...
Adnams warns on 2008 profits
Suffolk brewer and retailer Adnams has warned that its 2008 profits would be "substantially" lower than 2007 due to falling sales as a result of the...
Council chief defends "tough" approach
Westminster City Council's leader has said he makes "no apologies" for being "reasonably tough" with the licensed trade, warning problem pubs will be...
Chris Maclean: Deal or no deal?
For many months virtually all the debate on the forum, and elsewhere in the industry, has been focused on the difficult trading conditions licensees...
Mark Daniels: What are you Twittering on about?
If I'd been around in 1704, when my pub was first built, the concept of telling everybody about it over something called the Internet would have...
BBPA slams mandatory code over pub job losses
The suggestion that the closure of pubs and loss of jobs in the industry is a price worth paying for a 1% drop in alcohol consumption is "quite offensive", says BBPA.
Adnams freezes beer prices
Southwold-brewer Adnams is freezing its wholesale beer prices across all on-trade accounts for the whole of 2009.
Romford pubs most likely to survive crunch
Pubs in Romford, Essex are most likely to beat the credit crunch with people spending three times the national average on food and drink. A survey by...
Pub bags Best Bar None hat-trick
A delighted licensee has praised her hard-working staff for helping scoop a hat-trick of awards at a regional Best Bar None ceremony. Kerry Simpson,...
Glass Half Full
A former drinks PR's optimistic guide to life after redundancy.
Beer sales down by 130 million pints in last quarter of 2008
Pubs and bars served 130 million less pints in the final quarter of last year - a drop of nearly 10 per cent - compared to the same period in 2007....
'Calls for alcohol duty to be scrapped'
The government should cut alcohol duty on beer, the British Beer & Pub Association says, after industry data showed a record fall in beer sales....
St Austell determined to keep pubs open
St Austell Brewery boss James Staughton says he's "determined" not to let the Cornish company's pubs close as recession hits. He told 280 tenants,...