Mitchells & Butlers pays employee £12k after judge rules "unfair dismissal"
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B), the UK’s largest managed pub company, has had to pay one of its employees over £12,000 after a judge ruled he had been unfairly dismissed.
Archives for August 9, 2012
Charles Wells partners with Yummy for London pub acquisition
Charles Wells has bought a London pub from Young’s specifically to let to multiple operator Yummy Pub Company and is looking at opportunities to adopt a similar acquisition strategy going forward, the PMA's sister title M&C Report has learnt.
Brakes acquires £150m-worth of new business including DBC account and The Restaurant Group
Foodservice supplier Brakes has secured £150m from new contracts since the start of the year.
Booker launches second Indian product promotion for publicans
UK drink and food wholesaler Booker is offering customers discounts on Indian products until 11 September.
Are good pubs the victim of over-enforcement?
A couple of weeks ago the Metropolitan police and other agencies launched the second phase of Operation Condor. This was enforcement by way of inspection of a number of licensed premises, including pubs and bars in central London.
WKD launches "unique" t-shirt for students
WKD has launched the latest in its line of “unique” merchandise with an augmented reality t-shirt aimed at students.
London 2012 Olympics: Day 10 of pub landlady Janet Dooner's diary
Janet Dooner, licensee of the Railway Tavern in Stratford, a stone’s throw from the Olympic Park, continues her exclusive Olympic diary. Follow her diary by signing up to our daily news alert
Erdinger to launch an isotonic beer into UK on-trade
An isotonic sports beer sounds too good to be true, but German brewery Erdinger are launching just the thing into the UK on-trade.