Licensee

Marion Jones: Licensee of the Joiners Arms since 1996

Licensee’s message to new publicans

By Rebecca Weller

Prospective publicans should be warned about the hard work and challenges involved in running a pub before entering the trade, one licensee has stated.

Community owned pubs the future of the UK pub landscape

Could community-owned pubs be the saviour of the sector?

By Ben Winstanley

As locals fight to preserve their cherished boozer, community-owned pubs are becoming a small but quietly growing fixture of the UK pub landscape. Ben Winstanley asks whether this model could be the saviour of the sector and how they can work with experienced...

Admiral boosts support for new licensees

Admiral boosts support for new licensees

By Michelle Perrett

Admiral Taverns is launching a new agreement designed specifically to deliver extra support and help for new licensees or those taking their first Admiral pub. 

Running A Pub: Trading up

Running a pub

Running A Pub: Trading up

By Glynn Davis

In the second of our series on the challenges of running a pub, Glynn Davis looks at the practicalities of taking those first steps in expanding your horizons by running a large premises or more than one outlet.

Lee Price:

Meeting the challenges of living up to my BII award

By Lee Price

I’ve been taking a lot of flack from regulars about my acceptance speech to a roomful of industry professionals at London’s Grosvenor Hotel after winning the BII Licensee of the Year award (LOYA). “No speeches, thanks,” was host John Inverdale’s opening....

PICA-Service: how does it work?

PICA-Service: how does it work?

By Michelle Perrett

When the Government agreed the self-regulation deal over the pubco-tenant relationship one of the major actions was the setting up of a Pubs Independent Conciliation & Arbitration Service or, as it is now called, PICA-Service.

Coulson: be careful on the phone

Don't pay money for nothing

By Peter Coulson

Scams against licensees never really go away, or alter that much but can be avoided, says Peter Coulson.

Disgruntled licensees can have their say

OFT asks hosts to get in touch on beer tie

By John Harrington

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is accepting submissions from individual licensees as well as stakeholders for its new investigation into pubcos.

Ted Tuppen

Pub rents: calculation or negotiation

By Ted Tuppen

Enterprise chief Ted Tuppen explains his pubco's approach to setting rents and supporting in-coming licensees. The current debate surrounding rents,...

Pring: pubcos want their pubs to stay open

Help! We need everybody's

By Andrew Pring

Whether or not pubcos are able or willing to offer help to licensees, additional trade initiatives are vital, says Andrew Pring.

Advancing on plastic

Advancing on plastic

By Hamish Champ

Pub licensees, along with every other taxpayer in the UK, are now shareholders in the country's leading banks, thanks to the government's recent...

BII: rent review seminars are a mine of information

Three BII rent review seminars left

By MA Reporter

There are still three BII Rent Review Roadshows left for those eager to learn more about the process and pick up valuable tips. The roadshows, run in...

Coulson: Issues remain over hosts' SIA licences

Issues over hosts' SIA licences

By Peter Coulson

MA legal guru Peter Coulson considers whether a licensee needs and SIA licence for supervising their own door staff.

The Big Smoke-easy

The Big Smoke-easy

It's 2.13am and I'm sat at the bar next to a chain-smoking biker, a cavewoman and a Labour councillor. My eyes sting as the air is thick with the...

A licensee

Open books: open mind

For once, The interests of pubco and licensee may be completely coterminous here. Many licensees will be cynical about the trend among pubcos to...