02-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney
The TLC Group — run by award winning multiple lessee Steve Haslam — has taken on a temporary management contract for Enterprise Inns.
Enterprise Inns shares up despite credit rating downgrade
17-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns' shares were trading strongly today despite the pubco's 'corporate family rating' being downgraded by Moody's, the US-based credit...
17-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
Enterprise Inns has reminded tenants they can take advantage of a free ratings appeal service. Many licensees are facing crippling rises in business...
16-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Enterprise Inns hopes to raise a further £12.6m through the auction of eight more of its prime London pubs.
10-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Enterprise Inns has sold seven London freehold pubs at an Allsops auction for around £12m.
Enterprise Inns sells seven pubs in latest sale & leaseback deal
10-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns today sold seven more of its London pubs via a sale and leaseback arrangement, grossing at least £10.15m in the process. Six of the...
04-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
New Enterprise managing director east Nick Light tells Ewan Turney his views on the thorny topics of beer ties, rents and transparency.
03-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
Enterprise Inns is set to unveil a range of new lease agreements and support packages in the coming weeks as it seeks to attract new tenants and help...
21-Jan-2010 By John Harrington
Enterprise Inns has reshuffled its executive team following news that Colin Pedrick, MD of operations for the eastern division, is leaving the pubco.
21-Jan-2010 By Tamara Sender, M&C Report
Enterprise Inns has reported a 4% decline in average net income per pub for the 16 weeks to 16 January 2010, compared with an 8% fall the previous...
18-Jan-2010 By The PMA Team
Enterprise Inns is planning to sell eight more London freehold pubs at a London auction for £15.5m.
14-Dec-2009 By John Harrington
Enterprise Inns has denied allegations from Greg Mulholland that it has made legal threats against the Parliamentary Committee probing pubcos, as well as the media. But the MP has hit back.
14-Dec-2009 By Gemma McKenna
The latest auction of Enterprise Inns pubs saw seven lots sell raising almost £12m. Enterprise sold the freeholds of seven London pubs at an...
11-Dec-2009 By Ewan Turney
Enterprise Inns chief executive Ted Tuppen received a pay package of £811,000 for 2009, including benefits and bonuses, according to the company's...
10-Dec-2009 By Ewan Turney
Liberal Democrat MP Greg Mulholland has raised a question in Parliament over the attitude of Enterprise Inns towards MPs on the Business and Enterprise Committee.
Mulholland slates 'litigious' Enterprise Inns
10-Dec-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Save the Pub Group chairman Greg Mulholland MP has raised concerns about the "incredible litigiousness" of pubco Enterprise Inns. The MP for Leeds...
09-Dec-2009 By Lesley Foottit
Enterprise Inns has signed a deal to make Westminster Council its primary point of contact for health and safety issues. Enterprise is the first pub...
Enterprise gets £11.58m from freehold sales at auction
04-Dec-2009 By James Wilmore
Enterprise Inns is considering putting more pubs up for auction after raising £11.58m yesterday from seven London outlets as part of another sale...
25-Nov-2009 By The PMA Team
Enterprise Inns has re-opened the pub formerly tenanted by arch-critic and Justice for Licensees leader Inez Ward. The pub, Mavericks in Newquay,...
24-Nov-2009 By The PMA Team
The names of the seven Enterprise Inns pubs in London to be sold at a Cushman & Wakefield auction in December have been unveiled. Enterprise...
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...
Machine income will be left out of rent calculation, says Enterprise
19-Nov-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Enterprise Inns has revealed that a licensee's share of machine income will no longer be taken into account when the company conducts rent reviews....
19-Nov-2009 By Simon Townsend
Enterprise Inns chief operating officer Simon Townsend explains the company's long-term view of the pub retailing market. In the 10 years I have...
17-Nov-2009 By The PMA Team
Enterprise Inns has reported a £55m drop in full-year pre-tax profits to £208m for the year to 30 September. Profit after exceptional items was £11m compared to £209m in 2008.
17-Nov-2009 By The PMA Team
Enterprise is to offer all its licensees the chance to go free-of-tie on wine, spirits, minerals and AWP machines next year. The move follows the...
Enterprise Inns confirms 20 per cent profit slide
17-Nov-2009 By Hamish Champ
In line with City forecasts, Enterprise Inns has reported pre-tax profits of £208m for the year ending September 30, 2009, down nearly 21 per cent,...
Analysts forecasting 20 per cent profits slump for Enterprise Inns
13-Nov-2009 By Hamish Champ
City broker Panmure Gordon is warning that Enterprise Inns faces an uphill struggle to restore profits in the coming year. Enterprise is due to...
10-Nov-2009 By The PMA Team
Enterprise Inns is hoping to raise a further £10m by selling the freeholds of seven pubs at an Allsops auction planned for 3 December. The company...
Enterprise: the "vast majority" of licensees support the tie
22-Oct-2009 By James Wilmore
Enterprise Inns has welcomed the Office of Fair Trading's (OFT) rejection of CAMRA's super-complaint saying the "vast majority" of its licensees...
22-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
Enterprise Inns has vowed to avoid complacency, despite the pubco model being given a clean bill of health by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). The...
Enterprise Inns sale and leaseback pubs go for £13.2m
15-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns saw five of its freehold pubs being sold as part of a sale and leaseback deal go under the hammer this afternoon for a total of...
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.
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...
29-Sep-2009 By The PMA Team
Enterprise Inns could raise as much as £200m by selling the freeholds of 100 pubs at public auctions, if an auction trial this month is successful.
29-Sep-2009 By Ewan Turney
The rate of business failures in the Enterprise Inns estate is "slowing" with the amount of financial help required from the pubco also reducing....
Enterprise Inns says pub support is still affecting profits
29-Sep-2009 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns has warned that its overall profitability is still being affected by the financial cost of supporting those of its lessees who are...
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...
22-Sep-2009 By Martyn Leek & The PMA Team
Tenanted pub company Enterprise Inns is planning to sell seven of its top quality freehold pubs in a sale-and-leaseback deal at a public auction....
Enterprise Inns should do a rights issue, says City broker
21-Sep-2009 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns declined to comment today on suggestions in the City that it should raise funds via a rights issue. Stockbroker Seymour Pierce said...
17-Sep-2009 By John Harrington
Enterprise Inns has defended its redrafted lease code of practice against accusations that it makes it harder for hosts to secure rent cuts....
17-Sep-2009 By John Harrington
Enterprise has agreed to reduce rent by 38% for 12 months at a south Wales pub on advice of a valuer chosen by the pubco. In a rare move, Enterprise...
14-Sep-2009 By John Harrington
Enterprise says a High Court ruling where rent at one of its pub was reduced "does not bind the outcome of any other lease renewal or rent review".
13-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
Enterprise Inns should review its valuation of its pub estate in light of declining rents and beer sales, according to one broker. Shares in...
06-Aug-2009 By Jo Bruce
Former Ritz executive chef Giles Thompson has taken on a second Enterprise pub. Thompson, who was executive chef at the Ritz from 1997 to 2003, has...
04-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
Two M&B franchisees have joined forces to open a third pub as a joint venture with help from the Enterprise Finance Guaranteee Scheme.
16-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team
Business failures among Enterprise licensees are running 50% ahead of last year at a rate of 25 a month compared to a figure below 20 a month a year...
Enterprise Inns claims trade is "stabilising
16-Jul-2009 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns said today the underlying trading performance of its 7,000-plus pubs "appears to be stabilising", despite financial support for...
03-Jul-2009 By Ewan Turney
High profile tenant rights activist Inez Ward will be evicted from her Enterprise Inns pub on Thursday next week (9 July).
29-Jun-2009 By John Harrington
The pubco outlines 13 commitments in a letter to Lord Mandelson, including more discounts and "royalty-free" AWP machine share.
Enterprise Inns to drop restrictive covenants
29-Jun-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Enterprise Inns has vowed to ditch restrictive covenants that prevent pubs being used as licensed premises when sold off. The move is one in a series...
