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Bermondsey Pub Company helps budding young entrepreneurs

29-Apr-2016 By Mike Berry

Scores of budding young entrepreneurs have been learning how rewarding a career in hospitality can be — direct from local licensees.

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Dragon's Den investor Deborah Meaden shares food and drink fundamentals

19-Feb-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Dragon’s Den’s Deborah Meaden has shared her tips and tricks for making it big in foodservice.

ALMR announces Late Night Awards winners

01-Jul-2013 By Ellie Bothwell

Be At One, Beds and Bars and Novus Leisure were among the winners at the first Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) Late Night Awards.

PMA backs Start Up Britain campaign to put pubs at the centre of economic recovery

26-Jul-2012 By Michelle Perrett

The Publican’s Morning Advertiser (PMA) is backing a campaign with StartUp Britain and Pub is the Hub to put pubs at the centre of boosting the economy.

Top Tips: Raising funds for your pub business

18-Jul-2012 By Phil Mellows

Looking to grow your pub empire? Think there’s a shortage of money around? Well, think again. There are plenty of potential investors out there — it’s just that the organisations who have got it, are afraid to use it.

The Big Interview: David Bruce, City Pub Company

17-Jul-2012 By Phil Mellows

For some reason that now escapes me, having carried our desserts across the level crossing, David Bruce and I are eating them off pub crockery balanced on some sort of electrical junction box at Kintbury railway station, eastbound platform, in Berkshire.

Businesses lack creativity, claims Jongleurs founder

12-Aug-2011 By Mark Wingett

Maria Kempinska, the founder of iconic comedy brand Jongleurs, has hit out at UK leisure businesses, claiming that they lack "creativity" and "stifle...

Prisk and Johnson headline BII Annual Lunch

15-Apr-2011 By Ewan Turney

The minister in charge of cutting red tape and serial entrepreneur Luke Johnson will be the guest speakers at the BII's Annual Lunch. Business and...

Punch steps up recruitment

28-Mar-2011 By Graham Ridout

Punch Taverns is stepping up its campaign to recruit entrepreneurs to take on leaseholds. Punch's managing director Roger Whiteside explained: "We...

Punch plans to give new tenants 'best possible chance'

26-Jul-2010 By John Harrington

Punch has vowed to invest in its pubs immediately after the lease is handed back to give new licensees "the best possible chance" to trade well from...

Brulines founder buys Smartcellar

18-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ

Derrick Collin, founder of beer flow monitoring group Brulines, has bought Smartcellar for an undisclosed sum. Speaking about the deal, Collin, who...

Ex-Brulines founder buys rival Smartcellar

18-Jan-2010 By Ewan Turney

Brulines founder Derrick Collin has acquired rival beer flow monitoring company Smartcellar for an undisclosed sum. Collin launched Brulines back in...

Cobra to get £10m investment

08-Oct-2009 By The PMA Team

A total of £10m will be invested by the Cobra Beer Partnership, the joint venture between Molson Coors and Cobra founder Karan Bilimoria, over the...

JD Wetherspoon crowned best company

05-Mar-2009 By Ewan Turney

JD Wetherspoon has been crowned best company at the Retailers' Retailer of the Year Awards, organised by M&C Report.

Training firm in line for major business award

12-Sep-2008

Licensed retail training experts CPL Training has been shortlisted for a major business award.Birkenhead-based CPL is in the final of the Tenon Award...

Table device proves Dragons' Den wrong

08-Nov-2007

Inventor Andrew Gordon is on the way to solving the age-old problem of annoying wobbly pub tables once and for all. His invention Stabletable is...

Back to basics: how to be an entrepreneur

02-Apr-2007

Are you an entrepreneur? OK, you're an independent business-person, but to be an entrepreneur you need to have something extra. You know when you're...

David Bruce plans Capital Pub float

09-Aug-2004

Pub entrepreneur David Bruce is planning his first venture onto the stock market.The founder of the Firkin chain is working on an AIM launch for...