RICS: pub rent guide should be mandatory
New guidance on rent setting should be made compulsory across pub companies, a senior figure at RICS has told MPs.
Archives for December 8, 2009
Pubco inquiry follow-up kicks-off today
MPs will this morning hear evidence from trade leaders, licensees, campaigners and a pub rent expert as part of the re-opened parliamentary inquiry...
Tim Turner to retire from Fuller's
Fuller's commercial director Tim Turner is to retire from the board at the end of March 2010 after thirty years service.
Pub calendar girls raise more than £6000 for EllenorLions Hospices
A Kent pub has been getting into the Christmas spirit by raising more than £6000 for local charity, EllenorLions Hospices. The pub has been running...
We want "fairness" and "flexibility", IPC tells MPs
The government must intervene in the industry to ensure pubcos offer "fairness" and "flexibility", MPs have been told. This was the message from the...
RICS denies "intimidation" over new pub rents code
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) hopes to have its new code of practice for pub rents in place by next spring and has denied it...
Fuller's names new executive director
Fuller, Smith & Turner, the London-based brewer and pub operator, has announced Richard Fuller will be stepping up to executive board level with...
Chris Maclean: The problem is not too many pubs, but too few innkeepers
On the face of it a surplus of pubs seems the obvious response. In these economic times (and yes, Pete, the smoking ban) there is less and less money...
BBPA: "We are not complacent
'We are not complacent but judge our performance in two years time' - that was the message from the British Beer & Pub Association's (BBPA's) new...
World Cup to boost pubs' business
The World Cup is licensees' biggest opportunity to increase beer sales in 2010, according to Carlsberg UK. Last Friday's draw resulted in favourable...
Court backs police right to eject pub troublemakers
The High Court has upheld the right of police to use force to eject troublemakers from pubs and stop them re-entering. It came in an appeal of Luton...
Luff: I don't feel we can trust pubcos
I don't feel we can trust you to change voluntarily — that was the stark message delivered by Peter Luff to pubco representatives.
IPC: voluntary change won't happen
The Government must intervene to make the pubco/tenant relationship fairer for tenants because real change won't happen voluntarily.
Video: pubco progress is 'window dressing'
Fair Pint founding member Steve Corbett gives MATV his views on what progress has been made since the BEC Report of the summer ahead of today's...