Government set to ditch hotel star-rating system
The star rating system used to rank the quality of hotels is set to lose Government backing in favour of consumer review sites.
Archives for January 25, 2011
Pub food: business boosters
Ideas for driving food and drink sales at your pub including a ten-pence sale, art exhibitions and a customer-run kitchen and bar.
Exclusive: Former GK finance director looks for tenant
Former Greene King finance director Michael Shallow is looking for a tenant for his brewery and bar business in Bury St Edmunds. Shallow and his wife...
PBD is 'good for all brewers'
SIBA chief shrugs off critics and says duty has transformed the beer market , says Roger Protz.
Mark Daniels: VAT + Duty won't end liver abuse
You can't fail to have noticed this week the news reports (again) concerning England's drinking problems, this time focusing on the rapid increase of...
Exclusive: Novus set to buy Balls Brothers
Novus Leisure is understood to be in exclusive negotiations to buy Balls Brothers, the London wine bar business currently in administration.
Seminars to consider test purchase problems
A series of seminars will be held at the end of March to discuss a solution to test purchasing and the control of age-restricted products. The Local...
Exclusive: JDW targets smallest town yet for opening
JD Wetherspoon is buying a hotel with 18 bedrooms in the Welsh town of Ruthin, which has a population of just over 5,000. Observers claim this is...
BII searching for China's top licensee
Trade body the BII is set to launch a new licensee of the year award - in China. The group has just signed a £300,000 deal to launch its licensed...
May claims below-cost ban will cut alcohol incidents by 7,000
Home Secretary Theresa May has claimed the ban on below-cost selling will mean 7,000 fewer alcohol-related incidents and 1,000 fewer hospital...
Exclusive: BII signs £300,000 China deal
The BII has signed a deal worth £300,000 to sell the intellectual property rights to its Induction Training certificate into China. Chief executive...
Theresa May's alcohol crackdown vow
Home Secretary Theresa May has promised to look at perceived difficulties in cracking down on licence breaches at pubs and shops. Congleton MP Fiona...