05-Mar-2008 By The PMA Team
Spirit, Punch's managed division, is to brand its accommodation Good Night Inns as part of a major refurbishment programme. The company is investing...
Greene King absorbs insurance rise
21-Feb-2008
Greene King (GK) is to absorb a 20% hike in insurance premiums and hold back beer price increases until May. The aim is to help its 1,450 tenants and...
Spirit 'tipping' is on the increase
20-Feb-2008
Illegally refilling branded spirits with a cheaper product is on the rise, the International Federation of Spirits Producers (IFSPUK) has warned.The...
15-Feb-2008 By The PMA Team
The two managed operators get on the grill bandwagon
The spirit of New Orleans
24-Jan-2008
Rosie Davenport explores the inspiring US home of Southern Comfort as it gets ready to bring the energy of Mardi Gras to UK pubs Firing like flash...
Greene King celebrates top prize at the BII NITAs
07-Dec-2007
Greene King Pub Partners and Charles Wells Pub Company are among the pubcos celebrating after taking top prizes at the BII NITA training awards.The...
04-Dec-2007
Suffolk brewer and operator unveils jump in profits but faces tougher winter challenge
Greene King cautious but confident
04-Dec-2007 By Hamish Champ
Acquisitions and strong organic growth helped push Greene King's half year turnover up six per cent to £445m and operating profits 11 per cent...
Greene King buys New Century Inns for £32.6m
14-Nov-2007 By Hamish Champ
Greene King, the Suffolk brewer and pub company, has bought North East pubco New Century Inns (NCI) for £32.6m. The deal is to be financed from...
14-Nov-2007 By Ewan Turney
Greene King has bought tenanted pub operator New Century Inns in a deal worth £32.6m. New Century Inns, led by Alistair Arkley, consists of 49...
Greene King's St Edmunds ale breaks new ground
25-Oct-2007 By Rosie Davenport rosie.davenport@william-reed.co.u
Greene King is investing in a major ale launch it believes will take the category into new territory by combining the best attributes of leading...
Greene King trials carvery
06-Sep-2007 By The PMA Team
Greene King is trialling a number of different carvery concepts in its managed division. One such trial is being undertaken at a pub in Dunstable,...
04-Sep-2007
Like-for-likes up despite the terrible summer and the introduction of the smoking ban
Focus East Anglia: The Greene belt
24-Aug-2007
In the past few years one of the great names in regional brewing has rather outgrown itself.Greene King's 2,500 pubs are now spread all over the UK,...
23-Aug-2007 By The PMA Team
Greene King Pub Partners, the company's tenanted division, has extended its open book accounting package to include new accountants more local to the...
Rock-Inn buys ex-Spirit leases
14-Aug-2007
The Bedford-based Rock-Inn Pub Company has kicked into life by acquiring new leases on three former Spirit pubs from Punch Taverns.The pubs are the...
Bold commercial moves Greene King IPA into lager territory
09-Aug-2007 By Rosie Davenport rosie.davenport@william-reed.co.u
Greene King is targeting its top-selling ale, IPA, firmly at the lager market with its first commercial in four years plus a £2m spend. Created by...
Greene King buys Loch Fyne for £68.1m
07-Aug-2007
Greene King has announced the purchase of fish restaurant chain Loch Fyne for £68.1m.The Bury St Edmunds brewer and pub company has acquired all 36...
07-Aug-2007 By Mark Wingett of M&C Report
Greene King, the brewer and pub operator, has announced it has acquired Loch Fyne Restaurants for £68.1m. The deal for the 36-strong chain marks...
Greene King set to land Loch Fyne
26-Jul-2007 By The PMA Team
Greene King is set to swallow the 36-strong seafood restaurant chain Loch Fyne, after entering exclusive talks. The deal would cover all 36 sites...
23-Jul-2007
Greene King is to withdraw its High Court appeal to gain costs from a group of local residents who opposed the opening hours at one of its pubs. The...
Spirit's filth 'lets down pub world'
19-Jul-2007 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
Spirit Group, the managed division of Punch Taverns, has promised that remedial action is already underway to rectify its woeful food-hygiene...
06-Jul-2007 By The PMA Team
New 'development estate' of 160 pubs will get increased support from regional managers to help them develop trade.
More leases for Greene King
05-Jul-2007 By The PMA Team
Greene King is to offer more of its pubs on a leased basis to attract more entrepreneurial licensees. The company has traditionally let around 80%...
04-Jul-2007 By The PMA Team
Even chief executive Rooney Anand hits the road to speak to licensees, staff and customers about the smoking ban
03-Jul-2007 By The PMA Team
Greene King is to offer more of its pubs on a leased basis to attract more entrepreneurial licensees. The company has traditionally let around 80%...
Two thirds of Greene King customers give smoke-free pubs the thumbs up
03-Jul-2007 By Hamish Champ
Greene King chief executive Rooney Anand participated in polling the brewer's pub-going customers last Sunday to hear their views on the smoking...
Greene King offer marks new era
01-Jul-2007
Greene King is marking the new era of smoke-free pubs from 1 July with a national advertising campaign offering consumers money-off food vouchers....
21-Jun-2007 By John Harrington
Greene King is running a national ad campaign - with money-off vouchers - to get punters in the pub for the start of the English smoking ban. Under...
34 Jonathan Webster managing director, Greene King Destination Pubs (new entry) Jonathan Lawson managing director, Greene King Local Pubs (new entry)
31-May-2007
Why they are on the list: Webster and Lawson assumed command of Greene King's two new managed pub divisions following the re-structuring of the...
14 Stephen Oliver managing director, Marston's Pub Company (MPC) (17) David Elliott managing director, Greene King Pub Partners (17)
31-May-2007
Why they are on the list: They head up the leased and tenanted pub estates of Britain's two super-regional brewers; Oliver's Marston's Pub Company...
5 Rooney Anand Marston's chief executive (8) Ralph Findlay Greene King chief executive (8)
31-May-2007
Why they are on the list: The two super regionals are once again inseparable as both made similar moves to improve quality. The two behemoths have...
30-May-2007 By Lucy Britner
Greene King develops Bake 'N' Bite concept for bar food.
United Spirits buys Whyte & Mackay for £595m
16-May-2007 By Hamish Champ
United Spirits, a division of Indian drinks business UB Group, has bought Scotch whisky maker Whyte & Mackay (W&M) for £595m.W&M owns...
24-Apr-2007 By Iain O'Neil
A retired businessman, who was fed up with licensees complaining about spirit bottles dropping off the wall behind the bar, claims to have invented a...
Greene King, the Lewes Arms and the right of protest. Part Two.
16-Apr-2007 By Hamish Champ
My recent observations on the Greene King/Lewes Arms business certainly appear to have stirred up a plethora of comments, with many people believing...
Greene King, the Lewes Arms, and the right of protest
10-Apr-2007 By Hamish Champ
The recent Easter holiday saw me whizzing about the Sussex countryside on my motorcycle along with a bunch of biker chums. Being in the vicinity of...
Greene King set for U-turn on Harveys
05-Apr-2007 By Hamish Champ
Greene King is expected to bow to consumer pressure and reinstate Harvey's Best Bitter into Sussex pub the Lewes Arms, following a vociferous...
Greene King invests £4.5m in depot
05-Apr-2007
Greene King has invested £4.5m in a new depot in Nottinghamshire to meet the increasing demand for Greene King beers in the midlands and the north....
Greene King invests £4.5m in new depot
02-Apr-2007 By Hamish Champ
Greene King has spent £4.5m on a new distribution depot in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in what the brewer describes as a signal of its commitment to...
GK's supermarket approach
29-Mar-2007
Major changes announced by Greene King (GK) this week are fascinating because they revolve around two key issues for the industry's future. Firstly,...
26-Mar-2007
Greene King announces major re-organisation of its managed pubs and the departure of Mark Angela
Greene King gets it in the neck
26-Mar-2007 By Hamish Champ
I'm sure I wasn't the only one who read the piece in The Guardian's G2 section last week on Greene King and one of its pubs, the Lewes Arms in Lewes,...
Greene King boss outlines managed plans
26-Mar-2007 By Hamish Champ
Greene King's new-look managed pub business is designed to focus the appeal of its pubs and create what chief executive Rooney Anand says is a...
Greene King splits managed pub business
26-Mar-2007 By Hamish Champ
Jonathan Webster, former boss of Hardys & Hansons, is to assume a managing director role in one of Greene King's new managed pub businesses.In a...
15-Mar-2007 By Ewan Turney
Greene King (GK) Pub Partners plans to roll out cheque-cashing facilities to 50 pubs within six months.
Greene King out to attract 'pub virgins'
15-Mar-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
A new kit has been released to help Greene King pubs plan for the smoking ban - and tell their customers and "pub virgins" about the changes....
Greene King tenants join online revolution
14-Mar-2007
Greene King tenants are to be given the option to make liquid orders entirely online in what the pubco believes is a first in the industry.It follows...
Greene King launches smoking support for pubs
13-Mar-2007
Greene King has launched a marketing support package to help its pubs grab hold of the opportunities following the smoking ban on July 1. The...
Greene King places IPA at the 'heart of English rugby'
01-Feb-2007
Greene King IPA is launching its first advertising campaign since it became the official beer of England Rugby. The advertising will appear in UK...
