Ted Tuppen

Ted Tuppen to step down as Enterprise Inns chief

19-Nov-2013 By Mark Wingett

Enterprise Inns chief executive Ted Tuppen has announced he is to retire from the group he founded in 1991 next February, with current chief operating officer Simon Townsend to succeed him.

Minimum pricing 'probably illegal' claims Enterprise chief Ted Tuppen

24-Jan-2013 By Adam Pescod

The Government is unlikely to succeed in its bid to introduce a minimum price for alcohol, according to Enterprise Inns’ chief executive Ted Tuppen.

Mulholland hits out at Enterprise boss Tuppen over CBE

21-May-2012 By Gurjit Degun

Pubs campaigner Greg Mulholland MP has hit out again at Enterprise Inns boss Ted Tuppen’s CBE honours, accusing him of damaging the British pub industry.

Tuppen in plea to pubcos

11-Aug-2011 By John Harrington and Michelle Perrett

Enterprise chief Ted Tuppen has promised to "push even harder" to encourage other pubcos to insist that anyone signing a lease or tenancy has taken...

Pubco inquiry: my view from the ringside

14-Jul-2011 By Ewan Turney

Last week, tenanted pubco chiefs went before MPs on the Business, Innovation & Skills Committee (BISC). The Publican's Morning Advertiser's digital editor Ewan Turney gives his personal take on proceedings.

Enterprise directors awarded shares

24-Jan-2011 By Ewan Turney

Enterprise Inns chief executive Ted Tuppen has been granted 613,614 performance award shares in the company. Tuppen was also granted 306,807...

A tale of two pubcos' tails

25-Nov-2010 By The PMA Team

Contrasting results at Enterprise Inns and Punch Taverns highlight the pubcos' differing challenges, says The PMA Team.

Enterprise to sell 500-600 pubs

22-Nov-2010 By Hamish Champ

Enterprise Inns said last week it plans to sell between 500 and 600 under-performing pubs in the current financial year. The pubco said it had sold...

Family in licensee tragedy call for Tuppen to 'do the honourable thing and resign'

08-Oct-2010 By Matt Eley Matt

The family of licensee Paul John Lee, who died from carbon monoxide poisoning in his pub, has spoken out against Enterprise Inns boss Ted Tuppen. In...

Ted Tuppen: Rider on the storm

15-Jul-2010 By Phil Mellows

Ted Tuppen is used to fielding brickbats but doesn't shirk responsibility, as Phil Mellows finds when he meets the captain of Enterprise. To find...

Tuppen: I'm staying put at Enterprise

15-Jul-2010 By Ewan Turney

Enterprise Inns boss Ted Tuppen has vowed to remain at the helm of the tenanted pubco to steer it through the choppy waters of recession and reform. In an exclusive interview, he said some positive reforms had come out of BISC.

A new chief executive at Enterprise Inns?

10-May-2010 By James Wilmore

Ted Tuppen is poised to announce a £1 billion debt refinancing for Enterprise Inns in a move that could trigger a boardroom succession plan,...

Enterprise: step-by-step approach to auctions

20-Nov-2009 By The PMA Team

Enterprise Inns boss Ted Tuppen has stated that the company plans a "step-by-step" approach to selling pub freeholds at public auctions as it gears...

Enterprise Inns could sell and leaseback 100 more pubs

24-Sep-2009 By Hamish Champ

Enterprise Inns could offload a further 100 pubs through sale and leaseback deals if the seven sites it is looking to sell and let back at next...

Tuppen: 'We'd pay £100k to new body'

02-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team

Enterprise boss says his company would happily pay a levy of £100,000 or more to set up a body to represent individual licensees.

Enterprise: we have complied with most of BEC

18-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team

Enterprise Inns believes it has already complied with most of the recommendations contained within the hostile Business & Enterprise Committee...

Fair Pint accuses Tuppen of "cynicism

05-Jun-2009 By James Wilmore

Campaign group Fair Pint has accused Enterprise Inns chief Ted Tuppen of "breathtaking cynicism" for suggesting that licensees need a support group,...

Ted Tuppen

28-May-2009 By The PMA Team

Ted Tuppen chief executive, Enterprise Inns (2) Why he is on the list: Tuppen heads the UK's largest tenanted pubco, although pub numbers have been...

Fair Pint offers retort to Tuppen

12-May-2009 By James Wilmore

Anti-pubco campaign group Fair Pint has hit back at Enterprise Inns chief Ted Tuppen over his criticism of the group in a letter to MPs. It emerged...

Tuppen: Fair Pint damaging whole industry

11-May-2009 By Ewan Turney

Anti-beer tie Fair Pint campaigners are "damaging the whole industry in pursuit of their own self interest" — that's the broadside fired by Ted Tuppen.

Tuppen: rise of cheap pub drinks disappointing

22-Jan-2009 By Ewan Turney

Enterprise Inns boss Ted Tuppen has slammed the rise of cheap drinks deals in the on-trade, such as JD Wetherspoon's 99p a pint deal, as a...

Enterprise: net income down 8% per pub

22-Jan-2009 By Ewan Turney

Enterprise's net income per pub is down an average of 8% on a like-for-like basis for the sixteen weeks to 17 January as beer sales slide and rent...

No bonuses for Marston's top brass

02-Jan-2009 By Hamish Champ

Top executives at Midlands' brewer Marston's have missed out on bonuses in 2008 collectively worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.According to the...

Mark Daniels: A Totalitarian Trade

10-Dec-2008

Pubco bosses must be laughing in to their wallets this morning after Ted Tuppen, Chief Executive for Enterprise Inns, deftly deflected criticism of...

Enterprise chief reveals licensee tax scandal to MPs

09-Dec-2008 By James Wilmore

Enterprise Inns chief executive Ted Tuppen has told MPs that some of his company's licensees buying outside the beer tie are also committing tax...

Tuppen: Enterprise lessees coping well

22-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney

Enterprise boss says there has been no material deterioration in the key indicators of its lessees' financial health and the tenanted system is flexible enough to cope in tough times.

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Pubco boss cycles 350 miles for charity

07-Apr-2008

A pub company boss is cycling hundreds of miles to raise money for soldiers hurt in war zones. Enterprise chief executive Ted Tuppen is joining a...

Pub closures in wake of smoking ban "inevitable", says Enterprise boss

20-Nov-2007 By Hamish Champ

Enterprise Inns chief executive Ted Tuppen said while most of his group's pubs were coping with the smoking ban, closures across the industry in the...

Letter from Ted Tuppen to David Blunkett

12-Feb-2004

Letter from Ted Tuppen, chief executive of Enterprise Inns to Home Secretary David Blunkett, calling for pay-for-policing plans to be dropped.Dear Mr...