Minimum pricing is only way to tackle supermarkets, says operator
A high profile multiple pub operator has argued minimum pricing is the only way to tackle cheap supermarket deals - and called on licensees to spread...
Archives for May 26, 2010
Scots committee split over minimum pricing
The Health and Sport Committee also backs plans for a new disorder levy on premises, and mandatory Challenge 21, in a new report.
Robert Sayles: Everybody knows we're expensive, but can we be reassuringly expensive?
The driving force behind high status brand marketing is the knowledge that people aspire to brands which project wealth and status. Designer labels...
4. Ted Tuppen, chief executive, Enterprise Inns
The Morning Advertiser's top 50 most influential people in the pub industry.
Brains and Charles Wells Tap into WaterAid
Two pub companies, with more than 500 pubs between them, are backing an industry drive to help deprived communities get access to clean water. SA...
9. John Hutson, chief executive, JD Wetherspoon
The Morning Advertiser's top 50 influential people in the pub industry.
MA200 topics are revealed
The speaker line-up for the next free Morning Advertiser seminar for members of our managed multiples club, MA200, has been unveiled. The meeting,...
Party to show that you're Proud of Pubs
The countdown is on for Proud of Pubs Week 2010 and this year we're throwing a party! Once again it has been a tough year for the trade with duty...
World Cup research: Why watch it in the pub?
After months of build-up the first match is less than two weeks away. But there is still time for pubs to make sure their own teams are ready for the...
M&B reveals new human resources and commercial directors
Saudagar Singh has joined Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) as group human resources, service and productivity director.
M&B sets franchise pubs sale deadline
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has given its franchisees until Wednesday 30 June to submit "full and final offers" to buy the freeholds of their pubs.
Top 50 Most influential people in the pub industry
Now in its 9th year — The MA ranks the trade's movers and shakers on the impact they've had on the industry in the past 12 months.
Trade groups: United we stand
Trade group leaders have spoken together in public for the first time in months and vowed to work more closely for the good of the industry. Brigid...
8. Rooney Anand, chief executive, Greene King
The Morning Advertiser's top 50 most influential people in the pub industry.
Pub newcomers win top food award
A Cotswolds village pub wowed customers and industry judges alike to be named best restaurant in the Which? Good Food Guide.
Paul Heaton: Pedalling for pubs
What inspired the Pedals and Beer Pumps tour? I was cycling last summer and I saw a couple of pubs closed down round Macclesfield way. Macclesfield...
Marston's plans 135 more new-build pubs
Brewer and retailer Marston's has revealed plans to double the opening programme for new-build managed pubs to 135 in the next six years.
'Professionals 'more likely to drink than those in working class jobs'
Middle class professionals who relax with a bottle of wine in the evening are now more likely to drink to excess than those in working class jobs,...
Off-trade can beat below-cost ban
Supermarkets could still sell alcohol at rock-bottom prices if below-cost sales were banned using a definition supported by off-trade chiefs....
Thwaites pub goes to Swiss chef
Swiss chef Michael Riemenschneider has taken over a Thwaites-owned pub in Cheshire and relaunched it as a restaurant under the same name.
Clarke joins the Timothy Taylor board
Keighley based Timothy Taylor, brewers of award-winning Landlord, has unveiled former M&B chief executive Tim Clarke as a non-exec.
City Diary — 27 May
The latest gossip and rumour from the City.
Drinkaware seminar tackles alcohol-related problems
Drinkaware has hosted a pan-industry seminar on how community and trade partnerships can tackle alcohol-related problems. The seminar, on Tuesday at...
7. Ralph Findlay, chief executive, Marston's
The Morning Advertiser's top 50 most influential people in the pub industry.
3. David Cameron, Prime Minister and George Osborne, Chancellor
The Morning Advertiser's top 50 most influential people in the pub industry.
5. Roger Whiteside, managing director and Giles Thorley, chief executive, Punch
The Morning Advertiser's top 50 most influential people in the pub industry.
ALMR backs action on supermarkets
The AMLR is backing a united lobbying effort to ensure there's no "wriggle room" for supermarkets in the crackdown on cheap alcohol deals.
6. John Lovering, chairman and Adam Fowle, chief executive, M&B
The Morning Advertiser's top 50 most influential people in the pub industry.
Drop in underage pub drinkers
The number of underage drinkers who consume alcohol in pubs and bars has fallen to less than one in 10, government figures have revealed. Among...
Trade unites to promote British Pub Week
A pan-industry group has been formed to promote British Pub Week later this year. The week, which will run from Saturday 30 October to Saturday 6...
Pub trade must fight the supermarkets now
Pub company boss Michael Kheng is urging immediate, united action by the pub trade to lobby for minimum pricing to curb cheap supermarket alcohol...
2. Neil Robertson, chief executive, British Institute of Innkeeping
The Morning Advertiser's top 50 most influential people in the pub industry.
Greene King invests in Belhaven brewery
Greene King is boosting capacity at its Belhaven brewery in Dunbar — the scheme is expected to be complete in February 2011.