JD Wetherspoon

Martin to the defence of happy hours

27-Mar-2003

JD Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin has defended the way happy hours operate in "the vast majority of pubs". Martin, who was giving evidence to a select...

Thugs close Wetherspoon pub

27-Mar-2003

Talks are being held between the police and JD Wetherspoon after the company's biggest venue in Scotland was forced to shut when football hooligans...

10am opening across the UK for JD Wetherspoon

14-Mar-2003

As exclusively revealed by thePublican.com in October of last year, Wetherspoon is to serve alcohol in its pubs from 10am.Many of its pubs already...

Tax rises restrict JDW openings to 50 pubs

13-Mar-2003

By The PMA Team JD Wetherspoon has reduced the number of pub openings planned for this year to 50 compared to 87 just last year as a result of...

JDW managers hit salary super-league

13-Mar-2003

Six pub management couples at JD Wetherspoon have entered the salary super-league by earning £100,000 last year. The average single manager earned...

Wetherspoon boss slams £5m tax hit

10-Mar-2003

Tim Martin has slammed the government for wiping £5m from his company's profits this year.The JD Wetherspoon executive chairman said that was the...

JDW fined £5,000 for short pints

27-Feb-2003

Pub company JD Wetherspoon is to remind all its managers of the need to top-up pints after being fined a total of £5,000 for serving up short pints...

Why Wetherspoon's must wait for 10am start

20-Feb-2003

A couple of quick but important footnotes on last week's news story about early opening. The JD Wetherspoon initiative, using the existing law to...

JDW PIONEERS early drinks

13-Feb-2003

by Richard Matthews and The PMA Team Pub chain JD Wetherspoon has won the right to serve alcohol at 10am at around one third of its 630 pubs with...

JDW boss rubbishes Northern Ireland expansion claim

30-Jan-2003

Rumours that JD Wetherspoon had cancelled expansion in Northern Ireland following political problems have been rubbished by chairman Tim Martin."It's...

Cellar audit at JDW's

23-Jan-2003

Cask Marque inspectors have completed an exhaustive eight-week cellar-quality check in more than 600 Wetherspoon pubs across the UK. For the first...

Merry Christmas for JD Wetherspoon

14-Jan-2003

High street discounter JD Wetherspoon last week unveiled Christmas and New Year figures showing 4.2 per cent rise in like-for-like sales figures, a...