Hamish Champ: Shareholder power on display
Investor power was on ample display last week in Birmingham when 'activist shareholders' successfully forced out Mitchells & Butlers (M&B)...
Archives for February 1, 2010
New publicans: The Next Generation
Beer DUTY is crippling, breweries are pushing up prices, banks are closing their doors. Supermarkets and the smoking ban are keeping punters at home,...
Mark Daniels: An Englishman, Irish and Scotsman celebrated...
I haven't touched a good whisky since Christmas Eve 1997. Not, you understand, because I'm some secret Government agent with a vendetta against...
First Sheffield Best Bar None winners announced
The Frog & Parrot in Sheffield has come out on top in the pub category in the city's first ever Best Bar None scheme. It beat city centre venue...
'Pubs in soft drink 'rip-offs' with £2.60 a pint cola'
Pubs in soft drink 'rip-offs' with £2.60 a pint cola. Pubs are ripping off customers by charging up to £2.60 a pint for non-alcoholic drinks....
Paralysed charity worker gets pub's support
A paralysed charity worker could be flown back to England to receive the specialist care he needs thanks to the fundraising efforts of a pub. Dan...
Let firms retire employees at 65
A small business lobby group has called for plans to scrap the default retirement age to be shelved. The Government has proposed removing an...
Pub Bitch: Has Tuppen joined the Spiders from Mars?
Mine-tasting Perhaps the most bizarre charity tie-up of the week landed on my desk recently. A wine-tasting event to fund the removal of landmines...
Robert Sayles: Recovery? What Recovery?
Brigid Simmons, chief executive of the British Beer & Pub Association, (BBPA) would have us believe that we are now over the worst of the crisis...
'Government to tighten smoking area rules'
The current ban on smoking in workplaces and "enclosed public places" such as pubs and workplaces could be extended to cover areas such as walkways...
ASH backs away from total outdoor smoke ban
Anti-smoking lobby group Action for Smoking and Health (ASH) has backed away from a supporting a total outdoor smoking ban.
Global brewers: putting all their kegs in one basket
Despite assertions that they value cask ale, global brewers don't seem to be planning to produce it, says Roger Protz.
Red Lion, Llangadog: Getting the Lion's share
Llangadog licensee Kevin Skone talks to Lesley Foottit about attracting destination trade, traditional Welsh food, marketing and business advice....
Smoking ban could include beer gardens
The Government is set to review whether the smoking ban should be extended to include areas such as entrances to buildings and beer gardens. The move has been slammed as "totally draconian" by one campaigner.
Green shoots - or just a bit of mould?
While obviously welcome, last week's news that the UK economy had edged ever so slightly out of recession during the last quarter with growth of 0.1...
Pubs invited to join beef and lamb push
Pub chefs are being invited to sign up to a new initiative aimed at increasing sales of beef and lamb and underling the meats' quality during the...
Pub-goers want healthier soft drinks
Eight out of 10 pub-goers want licensees to stock healthier soft drinks and many resent paying high prices for poor quality draught products, new...
M&B's executive merry-go-round
Anyone following the row between Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) and its expat billionaire shareholder Joe Lewis in recent weeks could be minded to...
HEB to auction 10 pubs
Ten East Midlands pubs will go under the hammer in a Nottingham auction on 16 February. The pubs, which will be auctioned by property consultants...
CPL Training
CPL Training is an international training company and the biggest provider of personal licence training in the UK.
Customers 'resent' price of pub soft drinks
Resentment of soft drinks prices in pubs has reached "critical mass", with 63% resenting paying so much when they are so much cheaper in shops....
Go forth and multiply….in partnership with Punch Partnerships
Punch Taverns is to re-survey MA200 members at first seminar of 2010 on Wednesday 14 April after a survey of members last year produced a number of...