Employment Law: Transfer trouble
An empty pub means no revenue from rent, premises potentially vulnerable to vandalism, and ownership of an uninsurable asset which may be...
An empty pub means no revenue from rent, premises potentially vulnerable to vandalism, and ownership of an uninsurable asset which may be...
Managed operator JD Wetherspoon has moved to open later for breakfast at around 70% of its sites. The company began opening for breakfast at 7am...
Enterprise Inns has launched its first free-of-tie on cask ale lease — teaming up with Thornbridge Brewery at the Greystones in Sheffield.
Vince Cable may never have to pay for a drink again in his life. The friendly-faced Business Secretary is shaping up to be a pub trade ally, judging...
Given the economic clouds hanging over the UK consumer, silver linings might be in short supply in the coming months. But despite fears of what...
If you want to grab attention in the media these days you need a catchy one-liner, preferably involving sex, drugs or alcohol. Take, for example,...
A ban on below-cost sales of alcohol has been delayed until May 2012 - and will now only be introduced "if necessary". The Home Office has today...
The MA visited Home Lounge Bar and Restaurant in Nottinghamshire to try to persuade drinkers to choose wine in bars as well as at home.
A number of companies in the pub and brewing sectors will soon reveal how they fared over the past year. It'll have been a tough old 12 months. After...
"Is me, or has everybody gone mad?" Not my words, dear reader, but the words of Brian Potter; owner and operator of the Phoenix Club, one of the UK's...
The Scottish National Party has called on opposition parties to vote for minimum pricing when it reaches Parliament this week. The call comes after...
If there's one thing guaranteed to get me uppity in a morning - apart, that is, from discovering there's no marmalade to put on my eggy bread - it's...
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) expects to publish its guidance for rental valuations of pubs at the end of this month, six...
Cigar evolution Not that we would go to the opening of an envelope or anything, but we did find ourselves at the presentation of the newly designed...
Business in Sport and Leisure welcomes the plan to streamline, but is concerned that new hurdles may be added to the process.
The British Property Federation (BPF) has given the thumbs-up to government plans to simplify development consents for businesses. The BPF said it...
Being "fair" might be the loadstone of the Coalition's philosophy, but not much of it is percolating down to our business, says Tony Jennings.
Community Pubs Minister Bob Neill says he is determined to champion pubs as the heartbeat of Britain's towns and villages. Neill was writing in the...
A Staffordshire MP did his bit for British Pub Week by working a shift at the bar of a local Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) pub.
The Scottish government is launching its biggest ever awareness-raising campaign on the dangers of cocaine use. Staff will visit 140 pubs and clubs...