Sky and ESPN win SPL broadcast rights
Scottish Premier League (SPL) games are to be available on the Sky Ultimate package after Sky and ESPN won broadcast rights for the next five seasons.
Archives for July 16, 2009
Sainsbury's snubs £100m anti-binge campaign
Supermarket giant Sainsbury's is not involved in a new £100m industry-wide responsible drinking campaign because the initiative "duplicates rather...
MPs back pro-pub beer tax call
MPs are backing the call for Europe to allow the UK to set a lower rate of duty for draught beer sold in pubs. Fifteen to date have signed an Early Day Motion petition.
'£2m bar tab blow'
Pub group giant Enterprise Inns is losing £2million in revenue a month as boozers go to the wall. The group tallied the grim bar bill yesterday as...
Mandatory code gets thumbs down in Notts
Eight out of 10 people at the latest Home Office roadshow on the mandatory alcohol retailing code believed it would not have a positive impact....
Marston's innovates in the tenanted divison
Marston's is trialling an innovative re-working of the pubco-tenant relationship in an effort to create more trust and transparency. The company is...
Councils and police appear to be against mandatory code
The majority of police and council officials in the East Midlands appear unconvinced the government's controversial mandatory code of practice will...
Mandatory code consultation "a nonsense
A multiple operator has described a consultation session into government plans for new responsible retailing laws as "a nonsense". Michael Kheng,...
Wetherspoon re-opens Newport Walkabout
Managed operator JD Wetherspoon is re-opening the former Walkabout in Newport as a pub and hotel with 29 en-suite bedrooms today. The company has...
Luminar sees 'slight' improvement in tough market
Luminar Group has sounded a cautiously optimistic note about trading conditions in the cut-throat town centre market. Updating shareholders at its...
Pubs pay for police
Funding comes from the 450 firms, including around 30 pubs and restaurants, in Royston, that contribute to the Business Improvement District
Brewery in Peak condition
A new brewery in Derbyshire has some powerful history behind it. The plant for the Thornbridge brewery at Crompton Mill near Bakewell is on the site...
City Diary 16 July
City Diary 16 July
Sky and ESPN strike £65m deal to secure Scottish football rights
Sky and ESPN have secured the rights to Scottish Clydesdale Bank Premier League football for the next five seasons for £65m. The Scottish Premier...
Meet the man who can help us help ourselves
Trade chiefs hope heavyweight mediator Michel Kallipetis will help push forward reform within the tenanted pub trade and stave off Government interference.
Chris Maclean: Are male licensees becoming obselete?
I suspect I deceive myself. In our relationship I like to think of myself as the businessman and my wife as the support crew. I make the decisive...
Minister: I'll pursue anti-pub banks
Business Minister Ian Lucus has promised to raise the issue of banks not lending to pubs in Government. It followed a question in Parliament by Greg...
By-passing the law-makers
Police in some areas, it is reported, are seeking to "encourage" licensees to sign up to a minimum pricing policy, sometimes with the support of...
Taking the front foot against alcohol advertising regulators
Pernod Ricard (PRUK) has launched the latest in a long line of responsible drinking ad campaigns by the giants of the drinks trade. It comes as...
Charles Wells sells four out of ten pubs at auction
Bedford brewer and retailer Charles Wells managed to sell only four of the ten pubs it placed in a Colliers CRE auction earlier this week. Of the...
There's still time for an upswing in 2009
You won't often hear me say this, but God bless America, for it has taken their First Lady to put the British pub on the front pages of the...