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Enterprise promises reform

A Challenge to Enterprise.

If you are serious about implementing all these 13 proposals.

Why not act now and convince your lessees that you are serious.

Set up Deeds of Variation for all rent reductions that you have agreed to.

Remove the full tie that has been imposed on all pubs that have had a rent reduction caused by hardship.

Systematically work through your estate and give all your lessees 28 days credit to get them back to having a reasonable cash flow, whilst you enjoy greatly extended credit from your suppliers.

Give achievable incentive discounts based on £150.00+ per barrel to all pubs so that they know that they can regularly make their discounts and have an incentive to invest in their business, not hate EI like a millstone round the neck.

It's not hard to work with your tenants to get the best out of them, it's just that you appear to have lost the plot years ago, how about trying to change with deeds rather than words.

I listened to a presentation by Nick Light EI Director, after he had finished I asked him which Enterprise Inns he worked for because what he said bore no relation to the comments about the Enterprise that I was getting from the lessees.

We had a meaningful discussion and nothing really changed, maybe it has taken a long time for my comments to reach the policy makers, though I doubt my comments even registered, but if they are committed to change lets see some action.

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Enterprise promises reform

Just the kind of nonsense and spin one would expect the hear from a bdm (if you ever see one)

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Enterprise promises reform

Alan, the whole thing is a game of bluff, but the bluffing has to stop somewhere, the Pub Co's have their backs to the wall financially and operationally, playing for time is not an option, there are too many high profile people involved.

Most of which would like to claim that they are the saviours of the ills of the industry.

Fair Pint instigated this action out of necessity, others like me joined in because I had so many BII members calling me for advice, now Phil Dixon is the BII advice line and I talk to non members.

Strangely Phil would appear to have moved over in opinions, having had to answer the help line for a few months.

Fair Pint and people like me have had a lot of stick from a lot of sources in the industry and many more people are asking questions in the right places with their MP's etc, the momentum is there.

If we all ask Enterprise to back up their talk with deeds, it will be a start, if they don't perform they will lose even more credibility after their showing in the Select Committee, they have lost an enormous amount of corporate face and they have to act, there are too many people watching them.

This post replies to Alan Finch > Enterprise promises reform

Enterprise promises reform

Inez I agree, but it is worth throwing out a challenge, put up or shut up.

They are banking on not doing anything and hoping it will all go away.

But if they fail to do anything it is another nail in their coffins.

If at the end of a fortnight we get a whole lot of lessees saying that their BDM has offered a Deed of Variation on a rent reduction, it will be a start.

I have a number in my area, if I don't hear from them the Leopard has still got all his Spots.

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RE: Enterprise Inns promises reform

christopher carling of the Victoria Washington

It is hard to read or understand the comments made in this article.

we have been in negotiations with our highly trained BDM (tongue in cheek) for a total of 11 months!!!!!!! regarding the fall of trade and ever increasing overheads not to mention the cost of our tied products which forces us to compete against six other bars in our area selling pints at least 60p cheaper. come on wake up Enterprise assist and you shall reap

Eleven months and still no answer ???? enterprise are a joke !

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