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...
JDW attacks nightclub operator Luminar
09-Jan-2003
The battle between nightclub operator Luminar and pub group JD Wetherspoon has endured another bitter twist.JD Wetherspoon managing director John...
JD Wetherspoon: pub prices set to fall
29-Nov-2002
A sharp fall in the cost of buying a pub is on the cards, according to JD Wetherspoon.The drop in prices is expected as operators cut back on...
Martin squares up to supermarkets
07-Nov-2002
By The PMA Team JD Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin is aiming to "rough-up" the supermarkets in a new marketing campaign which undercuts Sainsbury's on...