GBPA point way forward
Times may be tough, but the high standards championed by the licensees in the Great British Pub Awards provide great hope for the future, says The PMA Team.
Archives for September 3, 2009
Tories back small venue live music exemptions
The Conservatives have backed plans to exempt small venues from needing a licence for live music. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)...
Get the basics right and success is yours
Any business not offering value to 30% of its customers is in trouble, says Andy Slee.
'Brits spend £40,000 on rounds of drinks in lifetime''
The average pubgoer spends £39,480 in a lifetime getting their round in. Each drinker can expect to shell out around £840 a year keeping...
News Sheps tenancy deal: more details emerge
Shepherd Neame has revealed details of plans for more flexible tenancy agreements as part of a new package of measures for licensee support. The...
Six more pubcos go for code of practice clarity
Another six tenanted pub operators have submitted their lease codes of practice to be accredited for clarity under the BII-led scheme. Codes from...
What would free-of-tie pub life look like?
While the leased pub industry is focused on resolving its issues through mediation, perhaps it is time to at least consider the possible scenario of life without the tie, writes Mark Stretton.
Admiral Taverns joins career advice site
Admiral Taverns has joined pub career and business advice website mypublife.com The pub company joins founding members including Enterprise Inns,...
Limited demand for draught cider accounted for Bulmers Pear axing
Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) axed the draught version of Bulmers Pear because of a limited demand for draught cider, according to the new head...
Do not take the risk
There is always a tendency within the licensed trade to consider that you are responsible only for what goes on inside your premises, not outside, says Peter Coulson.
Home Office drawn into Hastings battle
A leading Hastings licensee is to meet Home Office officials to resolve the dispute over the council's hardline approach to licence reviews. Stephen...
Punch: huge strides after fire fine
Punch says it has taken "huge strides" in its approach to health and safety after pleading guilty to serious breaches of fire safety legislation at a...
Beware of the style-jackers
Businesses must be wary of the new tactic of slapping trademarks on beer styles, says Roger Protz.
A spirited defence
"How can I be sure, In a world, that's constantly changin'?" For female readers of a certain age - and who knows, perhaps even a few male ones - the...
Banbury bars in all-inclusive war
An all-inclusive price war has begun in Banbury, with two bars running the deals in the Oxfordshire market town. It has been blamed on a rise in...
Scotland denies licence 'chaos'
The Scottish Government has ruled out intervening to improve the "chaos" of licensing reform that has seen one in five licensed premises shut....
GMB slams mediation process as "window dressing
Members of trade union the GMB are set to tell European Union officials the mediation process examining relationships between licensees and pub...
City Diary — 3 September
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
Accepting a passport to drink
Peter Coulson is sorry to note that the PASS scheme is being rejected in some places because of the possibility of fake cards.
Profit down 13% at Wadworth
Devizes-based Wadworth saw a 1% drop in turnover to £49.609m in its most recent year to 30 September 2008, but operating profit was down 13% to...
Beer duty set to rise 9.4%
Trade leader Tony Payne has warned the Chancellor beer duty would rise to a massive 9.4% from 1 January if it isn't cut when VAT returns to normal....
Moulton leaves Alchemy Partners
Jon Moulton — the boss of Alchemy Partners, the private equity firm that owns the Tattershall Castle and Inventive Leisure chains of managed pubs...
Experts question booze ASBOs
Experts have questioned the effectiveness of so-called "booze ASBOs", which will let authorities ban troublemakers from pubs. Drinking Banning...
'Pubco mediation a sham', GMB tells EU
Anti-pubco campaigners will tell EU officials the pubco mediation process is a sham and action is needed to outlaw the beer tie. The GMB Union and...