Orchid acquires 10 Bar Room Bar sites
The Orchid Group has acquired 10 sites back from Bar Room Bar — it originally sold the sites in 2007.
Archives for June 15, 2009
MP: Gov plans on alcohol are not sufficient
An influential Labour MP has told a Home Office minister he's "disappointed" the Government has failed to push ahead with minimum pricing of alcohol....
Ex-minister 'disappointed' at government's minimum price failure
A former government minister has revealed he is disappointed that recommendations to introduce a minimum price for alcohol have been ignored. Keith...
Pub meal deals spark Whitbread growth
Value meal deals sparked a 2% like-for-like sales increase at Whitbread's pub restaurants for the 13 weeks to 28 May. Whitbread, which owns the...
Organic gastro pub operator awarded MBE
Geetie Singh, owner of London organic gastro pub the Duke of Cambridge has been given an MBE in the Queen's birthday honours list.
Scam artists targeting pubs with letting rooms
Pubs with rooms to let are being warned to be on guard against a scam that could cost them thousands of pounds. Craig Henry, tenant at Fuller's pub...
Pete Robinson: The pubco disease
Where did it all go wrong?The entire sorry saga can be summed up in three words - Suits, Greed and Smoking Ban. Okay, that's four words.Punch was...
Pubs in line for fruit machine tax windfall
Pubs could hit the jackpot after a court ruling paved the way for huge rebates in overpaid VAT on games machines. At the High Court earlier this...
Punch Taverns invites bond holders to sell up
Punch Taverns has invited holders of its 2010 convertible bonds to sell their holdings back to the company for 97 per cent of their par value, plus...
Awards for best frozen products
Leading suppliers to the pub trade including Brakes, Authentic Food Company and Scholler picked up trophies at the British Frozen Food Federation...
Better education can beat binge drinking
Better education and a focus on partnership schemes are the ways to reduce harmful drinking, says a report on alcohol misuse in London.
Beer and food matching: Summer at the Dog & Partridge
The Dog and Partridge pub in Bury St Edmunds uses a variety of the best food Suffolk has to offer, including guinea fowl and chicken. The pub also...
Community owned brewery secures free-of-tie Enterprise lease
A Cumbrian co-operative owned micro-brewery which was purchased by locals to save it from closure, has opened its first pub under a free-of-tie...
Pubs get to grips with new £70-jackpot games machines - includes video
Pubs across the country have been making the most of new laws that now allow amusement with prizes (AWP) machines to have £70 jackpots. The top...
'Girls now as bad as boys for underage drinking'
Eleven- to 15-year-olds in London drink an equivalent of 180,000 bottles of lager a week, a survey reports today. The study, carried out for the...