Copper Dragon reports leap in turnover
Growing Yorkshire brewer Copper Dragon's is expected to report a 50% leap in turnover to £4m for this year. This came after it opened a new £4.5...
Archives for September 6, 2009
Christies to sell assets of collapsed Dark Star
Property agent Christie & Co has been appointed to sell the assets of Dark Star, the leisure management business part-owned by the entrepreneur...
Pubwatch's online success
The number of troublemakers banned from Swindon Pubwatch pubs has more than tripled since the launch of its website. Around 40 pubs and clubs in...
Bristol operator Flatcappers to expand
Bristol-based pub company, Flatcappers, which owns the award-winning Castle Inn in Bradford-on-Avon, has started work on their second pub in Rode,...
Hamish Champ: Three cheers for chucking mobile phones out of pubs
Proof, if any were needed, that I am a Boring Old Fart arrived last week in the form of my raising a glass in the direction of one Harry Walker,...
It's still about the economy. Stupid
The summer is fast becoming little more than a distant memory in the minds of pub operators. It won't be long before the industry's attention...
Advertising watchdog praises drinks industry
Drinks companies are cleaning up their act, with 99 per cent of adverts reviewed by the advertising watchdog now compliant with industry standards....
Camden licensee fined for excessive noise
A Camden licensee has been fined over excessive noise
Sharkey: Met 'spins' music red tape changes
Music campaigner Feargal Sharkey has accused the Metropolitan Police of "spin" by saying live music is excluded from controversial music risk assessment forms, known as Form 696.
Whitbread claims more market share
Whitbread has claimed its pub restaurant brands - Beefeater, Brewers Fayre, Table Table and Taybarns - have continued to claim market share during...
On the trail of more trade
Consumers today seem to need a good reason to drink in the pub, and one brewery has come up with one such reason. Just under 400 East Anglia pubs are...
Thornbridge opens £2m brewery
Thornbridge Brewery has opened a new £2m brewery in Derbyshire which will increase capacity from 2,800 brewer's barrels to 28,000 per year....
Live music exempt from Form 696
London pubs that stage live music will no longer have to abide by stringent risk assessment forms. But campaign group UK Music wants Form 696 scrapped altogether.
'Pub landlord robbed by a gorilla and a clown'
A pub landlord was tied up and robbed by two men dressed as a clown and gorilla. The men, dressed in masks and full papers suits, burst into the...
South Norfolk Council picks top community pub
South Norfolk Council has awarded the Pelican Inn at Tacolneston community pub of the year, in what it claims are the only council-run community pub...
Met Police forced to change music 'risk' form
The Metropolitan Police has today unveiled a more targeted version of its controversial Form 696, covering music events, with a senior officer...
Live music leads to £500 hit for pub
A pub has been forced to pay out more than £500 in fines and costs after residents said they were being kept awake by live music. Licensee Frank...