27-Apr-2010 By Tim Martin
The Wetherspoon boss says he is concentrating on small improvements and urges Government to take a common sense approach to pubs.
19-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
JD Wetherspoon is offering customers money-off vouchers on breakfast items as it prepares for 7am openings across the estate.
15-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
Managed operator Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) is looking to triple the size of its Browns brand and to almost double its All Bar One chain.
15-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
JD Wetherspoon is on course to double the size of its pub estate and treble profits, according to City analyst Paul Hichman. The analyst, who works...
M&B plan provides food for thought
15-Apr-2010
Mitchells & Butlers ability to deliver on its latest food-led strategy under new chairman John Lovering has been questioned by pub industry...
'Mitchells & Butlers rebuffs offers for chains of pubs'
13-Apr-2010
Mitchells & Butlers has turned down several early approaches from private-equity firms for its All Bar One and Browns chains. One insider said if...
12-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
Managed operator Mitchells & Butlers has rebuffed preliminary approaches from a number of private equity firms keen to buy its Browns and All Bar...
'Mitchells & Butlers rejects suitors'
12-Apr-2010
Mitchells & Butlers, the pub and restaurant operator, has rebuffed preliminary approaches from a number of private equity firms keen to buy its...
01-Apr-2010 By John Harrington
JD Wetherspoon plans to explicitly market its pubs as the place in which to watch the World Cup. The company is set to screen most games — and...
31-Mar-2010 By The PMA Team
Managed company Mitchells & Butlers unveiled a new business strategy last week. The PMA Team looks at the plan. Welcome to the brave new world...
24-Mar-2010 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers is likely to sell between 10 and 15% of its estate — 200 to 300 wet-led pubs — to fund investment in growing key food-led brands.
Mitchells & Butlers to exit wet-led pubs
24-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ
It could be open season on many of Mitchells & Butlers' (M&B) wet-led pub businesses after the managed operator announced plans to focus its...
24-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney
Mitchells & Butlers is to "rapidly reshape" into a food-led business and plans a withdrawal from the more price sensitive drinks-led business....
23-Mar-2010 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has evolved 36 Harvester sites into a more modern Harvester format it calls "salad and grill".
19-Mar-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Mitchells and Butlers (M&B), the embattled managed pub group, has revealed that it will release details of its latest strategic review next week.
Toby Carvery hits TV screens
19-Mar-2010 By Jo Bruce
Mitchells & Butlers has launched their first TV advertising campaign for Toby Carvery — a £2m campaign.
Wetherspoons reinstates dividends to shareholders
11-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ
Managed pub group JD Wetherspoon has reinstated its dividend after more than a year of holding back payments to investors. Announcing its half year...
11-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney
JD Wetherspoon has reported record first half profits, successfully carried out a refinancing deal and reinstated a dividend. The 746-strong managed...
10-Mar-2010 By Gemma McKenna
A Tory MP had half a pint of bitter thrown over her during a constituency meeting held in a pub in North Yorkshire. Anne McIntosh, a shadow minister...
09-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney
Drinks logistics firm Tradeteam has signed a five-year extension to its deal with pub group Mitchells & Butlers (M&B). The new deal will...
05-Mar-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Jeremy Townsend, finance director, of the managed pub operator Mitchells & Butlers has resigned to join Rentokil Initial,
Wetherspoons preparing for mass maternity
03-Mar-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
There must be something in the water at a Wetherspoons pub as five members of staff are all pregnant. Kim Newstead, manager at the Swan, in Weymouth,...
'JD Wetherspoon backs time zone shift'
14-Feb-2010
'One of Britain's biggest pub chains is backing plans to move the UK into the Continental time zone - in the hope that longer, lighter evenings will...
Musical chairs at M&B finally comes to a halt - for now
06-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Annual general meetings (AGMs) tend to be relatively prosaic affairs. Presentations are given by the company's management on trading; votes on...
05-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Gemma McKenna reports on the mood in the room at Mitchells & Butlers' volatile annual general meeting last week. It bore all the hallmarks of an...
04-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
Pub giant JD Wetherspoon has joined the Institute of Licensing — it said it represents a chance to share best practice.
M&B's executive merry-go-round
01-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Anyone following the row between Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) and its expat billionaire shareholder Joe Lewis in recent weeks could be minded to...
Rebel shareholders succeed in ousting M&B chairman
29-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
Dozens of ordinary Mitchells & Butlers' (M&B) shareholders used yesday's annual general meeting (AGM) to voice their anger at the behaviour...
28-Jan-2010 By M&C Report
Simon Laffin has been voted out of the Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) boardroom this afternoon and will be replaced by John Lovering as chairman.
28-Jan-2010 By The PMA Team
High noon in the on-going battle of wills between M&B management and rebel shareholders is set for the company's annual general meeting today.
28-Jan-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Smaller shareholders in Mitchells & Butlers have aired their grievances at the company annual general meeting this morning.
M&B shareholder has "no confidence" in group's chairman
27-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
Days before its crucial annual general meeting a significant minority shareholder in Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has indicated it has "no...
M&B chairman orders sweep for bugs
25-Jan-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
The Observer has claimed M&B chairman Simon Laffin had his home swept for bugs in the latest twist in the boardroom row led by Joe Lewis.
Lewis representative lists M&B grievances
25-Jan-2010 By The PMA Team
Activist M&B investor Joe Lewis has called on the company to change its banking advisors, concentrate on bottom-line profits and improve disclosure.
M&B shareholder offers olive branch in board row
25-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
In a crucial week for Mitchells & Butlers (M&B), shareholder Joe Lewis has apparently offered a compromise to the pub group's senior...
21-Jan-2010 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Mitchells & Butlers, the pub and restaurant operator, has this morning unveiled plans to double six key brands within its business. In a...
Piedmont agrees to compromise with M&B - up to a point
20-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
Piedmont Inc., the investment vehicle in dispute with Mitchells & Butlers (M&B), said today it is not seeking to control the managed pub...
JD Wetherspoon rules out rights issue
20-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
JD Wetherspoon boss John Hutson has scotched speculation in the City that the managed pub group might launch a rights issue in the near future to...
19-Jan-2010 By Ewan Turney
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has reiterated that it is willing to reach a compromise with its largest investor Piedmont.
M&B offers compromise in board appointments row
19-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has offered disgruntled shareholders a compromise in its efforts to end to a damaging row which threatens the...
What now for Mitchells & Butlers?
18-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) probably thought it was out of the woods two years ago when it waved good-bye to shareholder Robert Tchenguiz, who...
Grogan calls for resolution to M&B investor row
18-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
John Grogan, Labour MP and chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Beer Group, has called for certain Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) shareholders...
18-Jan-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat shadow chancellor, is writing to the chairman of the Financial Services Authority over the M&B saga.
16-Jan-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
The battle for control of Mitchells & Butlers has taken another twist after it was revealed that the Takeover Panel has dismissed the pub group's...
City watchdog rejects M&B takeover claims
15-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
City watchdogs have rejected claims by managed pub operator Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) that certain shareholders were acting together - or "in...
City broker: don't rule out a Wetherspoons rights issue
15-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
Investors should not rule out the possibility of managed pub operator JD Wetherspoon launching a rights issue in the near future, according to a City...
Blood & Co argue M&B board case
13-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
The four men whom Mitchells & Butlers' (M&B) shareholder Piedmont Inc proposes join the pub operator's board have rejected M&B's...
Piedmont accuses M&B board of misleading investors
13-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
The battle for the future of Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) intensified as Piedmont, the investment vehicle owned by Joe Lewis, who owns 23 per...
13-Jan-2010 By Ewan Turney
Mitchells & Butlers investor Piedmont has accused the board of presiding over a "culture of obfuscation and excess".
M&B appeals to shareholders ahead of AGM board vote
12-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has appealed to shareholders to vote for what it called a "strong and balanced" board and ignore attempts by a...
