25-May-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Oxfordshire-based pub operator Brakspear is introducing a programme of mystery customer visits to help tenants improve their offering. Each of the...
19-May-2010 By John Harrington
The first rent dispute has been resolved via the new BII-led low-cost arbitration service, called the Pub Independent Rent Review Scheme.
18-May-2010 By Ewan Turney
All Punch tenants will be able to have their say on the pubco's new code of practice before it is finalised. The 63-page code of practice has been...
17-May-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Brighton's Indigo Pub Company has taken on two new sites, growing its estate to 10 pubs in the seaside resort. It recently bought the Punch lease of...
Enterprise reveals details of new lease agreements
11-May-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubco giant Enterprise Inns has revealed details of new lease agreements which will include free-of-tie options and no rent reviews. The new deals,...
30-Apr-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Enterprise Inns hopes to raise more than £6m from a sale and leaseback auction of six prime London pubs on 24 May. The tenanted operator is...
27-Apr-2010 By Gildden Trade
The Secret's out: GLIDDEN TRADE AND MORNING ADVERTISER JOIN FORCES TO HELP SAVE BRITAIN'S PUBS. Glidden Trade — one of the UK's leading paint...
Shep's Operation Landlord offers pubs a chance to win £30k
26-Apr-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Spitfire stockists will all be in with a chance of winning the top prize - rent for a year up to £30,000. And freeholders who enter can spend the...
26-Apr-2010 By Sonya Hook
One lucky pub will have its rent paid for a year courtesy of Shepherd Neame's Spitfire Ale via Operation Landlord.
Chris Maclean: Beware of the rattling can
06-Apr-2010 By Chris Maclean
Today two charity collectors, dressed in Superman outfits, called in to collect money for children with cerebral palsy. Armed with scratch cards and...
Batemans' code first to get BII stamp of approval
06-Apr-2010 By James Wilmore
Batemans has become the first pubco to receive accreditation for its code of practice from the BII, under a newly strengthened service. The...
'Sky Sports price war threatens pubs'
28-Mar-2010
A price war in the cost of watching live sport at home could force more pubs to close. The cost of watching the English Premier League and Ashes...
First rent arbitration cases due to be heard
26-Mar-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
The first cases involving a rent arbitration scheme for the industry are likely to be settled in court next month. Speaking at the British Beer...
22-Mar-2010 By The PMA Team
Head of Steam boss, Tony Brookes, has told the OFT that tied operators are in a dramatically disadvantaged position.
Forget Healey; the gloves are well and truly off
22-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ
It's a rare thing for MPs from opposite sides of the political divide to agree on anything. So when representatives from the three main parties...
16-Mar-2010 By John Harrington
Join the GMB's industrial action and risk losing your business — that's the stark message to tied tenants from the BBPA.
Punch due in court over false barrelage claims
10-Mar-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubco giant Punch Taverns is to be questioned in court over claims it provided false barrelage information to incoming tenants. Philip Sambell,...
Wriggling off the hook
08-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ
Whichever way you look at it, members of the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) have got to be pretty pleased with the Business, Innovations...
04-Mar-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Pub Revolution wants direct action by tenants to bring pubcos to their knees, Gemma McKenna met its mysterious founder.
Pubco cast-offs creating surge in interest, say property agents
25-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Research suggests more wannabe licensees - as well as experienced operators - are showing an interest in buying pubs, thanks in part to the current...
22-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
The beer tie is not the problem for our tenants, Marston's chief executive Ralph Findlay said today. Speaking to The Times, Findlay admitted that...
18-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Punch has denied accusations that it enforced a no-rent reduction clause at a Northamptonshire pub. County Court documents from a case involving...
08-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
The Government has appointed the first ever minister for pubs to help stem the wave of pub closures.
Fuller's chairman calls for an end to 'industry in-fighting'
05-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Michael Turner, chairman of London brewer Fuller, Smith & Turner, has called for an end to what he described as the "unbelievable in-fighting"...
21-Jan-2010 By John Harrington
According to a trial carried out by Marstons Pub Company, gaming machine income is 10% higher at pubs where units are managed by the pubco. The result is now being used to justify the existence of the AWP tie.
20-Jan-2010 By John Harrington
Marston's Pub Company (MPC) has launched a DVD welcome pack for potential new tenants.
Is joining the GMB the answer?
10-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
The GMB's recent 'call to arms' to tied pub tenants rounded off one of the industry's most difficult years in living memory. Never mind collapsing...
Licensees' strike ballot "a disgrace", says pubco rep
29-Dec-2009 By Hamish Champ
The GMB union's approach to 22,000 pub tenants over the issue of industrial action has been labelled a "disgrace" by a spokesman for one of the UK's...
Drake & Morgan acquires third pub
09-Dec-2009 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Drake & Morgan, the fledgling bar-restaurant group led by Jillian MacLean and John Connell, has acquired its third site. The Anthologist, a...
08-Dec-2009 By John Harrington
Pubcos were slated for their treatment of tenants on BBC's Inside Out programme on Monday night. Peter Luff MP pulled no punches, referring to the...
08-Dec-2009 By John Harrington
The Government must intervene to make the pubco/tenant relationship fairer for tenants because real change won't happen voluntarily.
Chris Maclean: The problem is not too many pubs, but too few innkeepers
08-Dec-2009 By Chris Maclean
On the face of it a surplus of pubs seems the obvious response. In these economic times (and yes, Pete, the smoking ban) there is less and less money...
Greg Mulholland: We need a real manifesto for pubs
02-Dec-2009
I was lucky enough to see both Elvis and the Beatles. Well okay, not the real ones, but the pubs and beer certainly were. First 'Elvis Forever' at...
26-Nov-2009 By The PMA Team
A rising length of tenure and falling rate of churn of licensees is a good target for the trade, says The PMA Team.
GMB mounts protest over evicted tenant
09-Nov-2009 By James Wilmore
The GMB union is planning a demonstration outside a South London pub this morning to highlight its claim that pubcos are "overcharging" tenants for...
GMB claims "thousands" more joining, as licensee is evicted
09-Nov-2009 By James Wilmore
The GMB union has stepped up its campaign against the pubcos this morning by staging a protest in support of an evicted licensee, who it claims was...
05-Nov-2009 By The PMA Team
Wellington Pub Company, the 829-strong free-of-tie pub company, has seen a 2.6% decline in Ebitda.
05-Nov-2009 By Gemma McKenna
A pub at the centre of a £500,000 drugs bust was being operated by an illegally-assigned tenant without landlord Wellington Pub Company's knowledge....
02-Nov-2009 By Ewan Turney
The GMB trade union is to hold a demonstration against the eviction of an Admiral Taverns tenant, who has been at his pub for 17 years. Bill Synan...
30-Oct-2009 By Tamara Sender, M&C Report
Bay Restaurant Group and of Town & City Pub Company chairman Ian Payne said he believes the beer tie is not the problem.
29-Oct-2009 By The PMA Team
One key relationship in the pub sector is the one between pubcos and their multiple tenants. The PMA Team looks at the results of a Morning...
OFT tie probe 'not a waste of time and money'
23-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) yesterday defended itself against accusations that its investigation into the effects of the beer tie on consumers...
RICS promises new code of practice on pub rents
16-Oct-2009 By James Wilmore
Guidance on how pub rents are set will be reviewed after the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) admitted "greater transparency" was...
16-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
The tied tenant should be financially no worse off than the free of tie tenant — that is the key finding of the Royal Institute of Chartered...
Marston's to spend £45m building new food-led pubs
15-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
Midlands brewer Marston's is to splash the cash on building new pubs in the coming year. The group confirmed it planned to increase capital...
Mark Daniels: It's the thought that counts...
12-Oct-2009
Pubs are struggling. Hundreds are closing every month. Twenty six licensees are going to court today for broadcasting football illegally (plenty more...
Enterprise takes swipe at Pub Revolution
09-Oct-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Pub company Enterprise Inns has hit back at a group of licensees who have vowed to stop paying for beer and rent. The Pub Revolution group plans to...
09-Oct-2009 By The PMA Team
Next week Enterprise Inns hopes to sell the freehold of seven of its best pubs in an Allsops auction. The PMA Team looks at the move.
02-Oct-2009 By The PMA Team
The pub industry has to move away from allowing under-qualified people to take tenanted pubs, Marston's tenanted division boss Alastair Darby has...
Only eight Enterprise pubs are covered by recent High Court ruling
15-Sep-2009 By Hamish Champ
It has emerged that only eight Enterprise Inns pubs out of an estate of around 7,500 are covered by the kind of lease agreement that was the subject...
