24-Sep-2009 By Ewan Turney
M&B has warned the outlook for consumer spending is "uncertain" because of rising unemployment and the scheduled VAT rise.
18-Sep-2009 By The PMA Team
A M&B field trip to its own and competitors' pubs has spotlighted the "glaring differences in price point on product and asset quality".
28-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
Managed pub company Mitchells & Butlers has appointed Denis Jackson and Ray MacSharry as non-executive directors. Denis Jackson has significant...
03-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has appointed Adam Fowle as chief executive. Fowle had been acting chief executive at M&B since Tim Clarke resigned on 21 May.
31-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) is to swap 21 of its hotels for 44 Whitbread pub restaurants in a straight asset swap worth £78m.
Whitbread and M&B in hotel/pub asset swap
31-Jul-2008 By Hamish Champ
Whitbread has agreed to swap 21 hotels owned by Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) and currently operating as Express by Holiday Inn sites in exchange...
25-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has reported a 1.1% rise in like-for-like sales for the 10 weeks to 19 July fuelled by its value food offering.
Food sales driving M&B growth
25-Jul-2008
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has reported an increase in sales across the 10 weeks to July 19, with its succesful drive to take more share from...
30-Jun-2008 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) biggest shareholder Robert Tchenguiz has reiterated his view that the company should pursue the route of converting...
Will Tchenguiz do another Laurel on M&B?
19-Jun-2008
The Iranian-born investor's forceful business approach over M&B is focused on the short term, says The PMA Team A few years back, Mitchells &...
12-Jun-2008 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) activist investor Robert Tchenguiz has upped his total holding in the company to 29.77%
29-May-2008 By James Shorthouse
Christie+Co's James Shorthouse considers whether the Reit conversion is the right way forward
17 Adam Fowle managing director, Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) Restaurants (new entry) Mike Bramley managing director, Mitchells & Butlers Pubs & Bars (18)
29-May-2008
Why they are on the list: Bramley runs M&B's predominantly wet-led pubs, which sport recognisable high-street names such as O'Neills, Flares and...
R20 staffers to join M&B
22-May-2008 By The PMA Team
Company confirms wish to become Reit
20-May-2008 By The PMA Team
A leading City analyst has poured cold water on its plan to convert to real estate investment trust status
20-May-2008 By Ewan Turney
Managed operator wants Reit conversion to maximise property value
'Loss-making Mitchells & Butlers wants to become a REIT'
20-May-2008
Mitchells & Butlers has reported a first-half net loss of £87 million. The owners of O'Neill's and Browns said it plans to split its property...
R20 gets two seats on M&B board
20-May-2008 By Hamish Champ
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has bowed to pressure from major shareholder Robert Tchenguiz and appointed not one but two of his lieutenants to...
'Tchenguiz's man to get seat on M&B board'
18-May-2008
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) will this week bow to pressure from Robert Tchenguiz, the pubs and property tycoon, by handing one of his key...
'M&B in discussions with private equity firms'
25-Apr-2008
Mitchells & Butlers is in discussions with private equity investors about the sale of a sizeable stake "at a material premium to the current...
Punch rejects M&B move for Spirit
18-Apr-2008
Punch Taverns has firmly rejected the approach by Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) for the managed Spirit pub operation.Punch, the UK's biggest...
M&B steady as Tchenguiz mulls stake sale
16-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ
Shares in Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) remained steady today as press reports spoke of a move by Robert Tchenguiz to sell his 23 per cent...
14-Apr-2008 By Ewan Turney & The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers is in talks to acquire Punch's managed division Spirit Group
M&B launches bid for Spirit Group
14-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has launched an audacious bid for Spirit Group, the managed pub estate owned by Punch Taverns.M&B proposes that...
'M&B shares hit three-year low'
10-Apr-2008
Shares in Mitchells & Butlers hit a three-year low yesterday as the pub group warned cash-strapped drinkers would continue to thirst for cheap...
09-Apr-2008 By Ewan Turney
Mitchells & Butlers has reported a 4.8% growth in food sales for the 27 weeks to 5 April
M&B reports "resilient" first half sales
09-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ
Despite withering criticism over its botched property joint venture, managed pub operator Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has claimed "resilient...
What now for M&B?
07-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ
As one long-running industry takeover saga drew to a close - to wit, Scottish & Newcastle finally succumbing to the Saxon hordes - interest in...
28-Mar-2008 By The PMA Team
One observer believes there is a feeling that M&B management has been going through the motions
Punch Taverns withdraws M&B merger plans
28-Mar-2008 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns has given up on its ambitious plan to merge with Mitchells & Butlers.The group said this morning that discussions "have led the...
M&B: City analyst issues warning
27-Mar-2008 By The PMA Team
A City analyst, Paul Hickman, of KBC Peel Hunt, has sounded a warning about the economic climate and how it will impact on Mitchells & Butlers....
'Mitchells & Butlers denies it has hit cash crisis'
20-Mar-2008
Mitchells & Butlers, which effectively put itself up for sale this year, went on the attack yesterday after a City analyst alleged the pub...
M&B shares slide after gloomy analyst report
19-Mar-2008 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers shares tumbled by 18% at one stage this morning after an analyst's note suggested it may be short of cash. The company fell...
M&B rejects analyst's cash crisis claims
19-Mar-2008 By Hamish Champ
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has rejected comments from a City analyst that it will have to cut investment in the business.In an investment note...
17-Mar-2008 By The PMA Team
Managed pubs operator Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) is looking at selling a stake in the business to bolster its balance sheet, according to reports.
'M&B could sell stake to private equity firms'
17-Mar-2008
All Bar One and O'Neill's pubs operator Mitchells & Butlers could sell a stake in the business to private equity firms to shore up its balance...
Punch Taverns still pushing for M&B deal
17-Mar-2008 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns remains confident it can convince the Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) board, the managed pub group's investors and its own...
Punch Taverns in M&B talks with private equity firms
10-Mar-2008 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns has refused to rule out teaming up with private equity groups to ensure its proposed merger with Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) goes...
'M&B says Carr to step down after review'
27-Feb-2008
Roger Carr will step down as chairman of Mitchells & Butlers on completion of its strategic review, due by the end of May, the pub group...
Drummond Hall appointed M&B deputy chairman
26-Feb-2008 By Hamish Champ
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has appointed Drummond Hall, its senior independent non-executive director, to the position of deputy chairman with...
No truth in Clarke/Thorley reports, says Mitchells & Butlers
18-Feb-2008 By Hamish Champ
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has denied weekend press reports suggesting that chief executive Tim Clarke would play no part in the group should...
'Buyout firms want M&B shareholders to keep half the business'
18-Feb-2008
Blackstone and CVC Capital Partners, the private equity firms, are understood to be planning a bid for the pubs group Mitchells & Butlers that...
13-Feb-2008 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers is to reverse an experiment that has seen new Vintage openings "unbranded"
Mitchells & Butlers property deal still on the cards
11-Feb-2008 By Hamish Champ
A number of shareholders in Mitchell's & Butlers (M&B) are said to be still hoping for a property deal to revitalise the value of their...
07-Feb-2008 By The PMA Team
MA deputy editor The PMA Team considers a disastrous 12 months for Mitchells & Butlers
City diary special: M&B
07-Feb-2008 By The PMA Team
Those hedge losses in layman's terms Last week's belated closure of the Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) hedge position - at a pre-tax cost of...
City expects Punch/M&B merger to go through
07-Feb-2008 By Hamish Champ
Despite Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) claiming it is 'open to offers', City experts expect shareholders to okay Punch Taverns' merger proposal,...
Punch Taverns proposes merging with Mitchells & Butlers
04-Feb-2008 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns has proposed merging with Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) to form a pubco nearly two thirds larger than its nearest rival.In a...
Mitchells & Butlers: the new S&N?
03-Feb-2008 By Hamish Champ
After M&B last week admitted to losing hundreds of millions of pounds in a hedge gone wrong (the most I ever lost in a hedge was a football), the...
31-Jan-2008 By The PMA Team
MA deputy editor The PMA Team says the carvery is key to M&B's strategy again
