07-May-2008 By Ewan Turney
Former Punch licensee locks himself in pub over F&F dispute with pubco
Packing A Punch
02-May-2008 By Hamish Champ
Many believe Punch Taverns' size and dominance of the leased pub sector effectively renders the group the industry's 'belweather'. Such people would...
Kemp outlines new Punch culture
01-May-2008
The head of Punch's tenanted division deserves credit, says The PMA Team Deborah Kemp, boss of Punch Taverns' tenanted division, stepped into the...
30-Apr-2008 By MA reporter
Loyalty schemes can have a major impact on sales, especially if you use them to drive footfall during quieter trading periods. For example, if you...
24-Apr-2008 By The PMA Team
Punch tenanted boss admits the company had had credibility issues with licensees over some of its BDMs not being good enough
24-Apr-2008 By Ewan Turney
The average Punch tenant makes a profit of £40,000 a year, pubco says
Punch says Spirit sale is 'no solution' to M&B's ills
24-Apr-2008 By The PMA Team
Talks on takeover of managed division end in acrimony M&B issues coded rebuke to Punch for failure to explore potential Spirit sale The...
Punch pledges support for licensees
24-Apr-2008
The managing director of Punch Taverns has defended what she said was a widely-held bad opinion of the company but admitted that it still had a lot...
Number of closed Punch pubs "marginally higher
24-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ
Despite the licensed trade experiencing the toughest trading conditions in years, the number of closed pubs across the Punch Taverns estate was only...
Rent concessions rise at Punch Taverns
24-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns, the UK's largest pub operator, has had to increase the number of rent concessions it offers its licensees as market conditions...
24-Apr-2008 By Ewan Turney
Britain's largest pub company moves to ban Alistair Darling from all of its 8,449 pubs following his devastating budget
18-Apr-2008 By The PMA Team
Punch Taverns has rebuffed an approach by M&B to buy Spirit
M&B's coded rebuke to Punch
18-Apr-2008 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers has issued a coded rebuke to Punch for not exploring properly the possibility of a sale of its Spirit managed division. The...
'Punch ends talks with rival M&B'
18-Apr-2008
The board of Mitchells & Butlers is set to come under renewed shareholder pressure after Punch Taverns abruptly ended all contacts with its UK...
17-Apr-2008 By The PMA Team
Punch begins eight week support drive to help licensees
M&B eyes Punch's Spirit pubs
17-Apr-2008 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has turned the tables on Punch Taverns by suggesting it buys its managed-pub division, Spirit. The company is in...
Punch on full alert
17-Apr-2008 By The PMA Team
Eight-week support drive underway Staff told to focus on what's vital to hosts Punch Taverns has begun an intensive eight-week "support drive" to...
'M&B and Punch could merge'
15-Apr-2008
Mitchells & Butlers and Punch Taverns are exploring a complicated deal that would merge the two pub groups' managed operations while attracting a...
09-Apr-2008 By MA reporter
Kemp's CV BackgroundKemp's early career was at Bass, where she held a number of operational and property roles. She joined Punch in 1998 as...
28-Mar-2008 By The PMA Team
Punch Taverns has withdrawn its merger proposal for Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) but is still pursuing other possible deals involving the...
Heavy-handed cops arrest Punch BRM
27-Mar-2008 By Tony Halstead THals22851@aol.com
Punch Taverns seeks an apology from the police for their aggressive enforcement approach to a minor licence breach Punch is demanding an apology from...
26-Mar-2008 By MA reporter
For professional multiple operators within the licensed trade there are few pub companies that offer the same scope of opportunities or flexible...
Punch shareholder revolt on the cards
14-Feb-2008 By The PMA Team
One Punch shareholder has warned the board it will vote against the proposed merger with Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) because it gives too much...
11-Feb-2008 By The PMA Team
One Punch shareholder has warned it will vote against the proposed merger with Mitchells & Butlers
'Punch's shares offer for M&B is worth less than the group's pub freeholds'
05-Feb-2008
Punch Taverns is seeking to win control of rival pub group Mitchells & Butlers through an £11bn merger proposal that offers M&B investors...
30-Jan-2008 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Punch Taverns is to reduce the number of regions within its leased business from 12 to eight. The move means that it will lose four regional...
25-Jan-2008
Punch Taverns has signed a new three-year contract worth £150m with leading gaming group Gamestec. Gamestec has been responsible for the management...
Punch pub themed as 'hunting lodge'
24-Jan-2008
A £60,000 investment by the licensees has seen a rural Punch pub in Herefordshire transformed with a Scottish hunting-lodge theme. Hosts Keith and...
Punch announces BRM of the Year
17-Jan-2008
Punch has named Michael Bridger as its Business Relationship Manager (BRM) of the Year. Bridger, who is responsible for pubs across the West...
16-Jan-2008
Smoking ban and declining consumer confidence cited for profit drop
Punch lessees to become 'customers' of the pubco
16-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns is changing the moniker of its lessees from 'retailer' to 'customer' as part of a drive to improve the relationship between the group's...
Punch Taverns' pub profits down on last year
16-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
Shares in Punch Taverns fell more than 30p today - five per cent - after the pubco reported subdued trading across its estate.In an interim...
14-Jan-2008
The Forum of Private Business is urging small businesses to consider switching utility suppliers
11-Jan-2008 By The PMA Team
Rumours of a Punch bid for Mitchells & Butlers has undermined its share price because of the limited logic of such a deal, analyst Douglas Jack claims
Punch executives land double-digit pay rises
10-Jan-2008 By The PMA Team
Punch executive directors have been awarded double-digit increases in basic salaries and a 50% increase in the potential size of bonuses in the...
Punch to boost partnerships
10-Jan-2008
Punch business relationship managers (BRMs) will hold one-to-one workshops with hosts about running pubs for the first six months of lease...
09-Jan-2008
Michael Bridger, who is responsible for pubs in the West Midlands, is named the pubco's best business relationship manager
09-Jan-2008
Punch BRMs will hold one-to-one workshops with hosts for the first six months of lease agreements
02-Jan-2008 By The PMA Team
Punch executive directors also get a 50% increase in the potential size of bonuses in the current financial year
Punch Taverns to build new multi-million pound HQ
02-Jan-2008
Punch Taverns has secured planning permission to build a new three-storey, multi-million pound office building in Burton on Trent.The pubco said it...
13-Dec-2007 By John Harrington
Punch says it has acted on its commitment to be more transparent by abandoning a planned rent increase after it failed to follow procedure
Punch sticks to new charter
13-Dec-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Punch says it has acted on its commitment to be more transparent with licensees by abandoning a planned rent increase after it failed to follow...
Punch Taverns lands Cable & Wireless MD as non-exec
06-Dec-2007
Punch Taverns has appointed two new non-executive directors, including the joint managing director of telecoms giant Cable & Wireless.Tony Rice...
Punch denies £5bn approach for M&B
29-Nov-2007 By The PMA Team
Punch Taverns has denied that it is in talks regarding a £5bn takeover of rival Mitchells & Butlers (M&B). Media reports at the weekend...
'Punch Taverns lining up a merger with Mitchells & Butlers'
25-Nov-2007
Punch Taverns has approached investors in Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) about plans to mount a £5bn merger that would create Britain's biggest...
15-Nov-2007 By The PMA Team
MA deputy editor The PMA Team runs his sharp eye over Punch's results
08-Nov-2007 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report
Performance driven by the integration of new businesses and disposals, the pubco says
Punch boosts new licensee support
08-Nov-2007 By The PMA Team
Punch Taverns is ramping up its support for new licensees in an attempt to reduce the number of business failures in the first year of...
Pub customers "responding positively" to smoking ban, says Punch boss
08-Nov-2007 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns' chief executive Giles Thorley said the UK-wide smoking ban had improved the environment of his group's pubs and customers were...
'Punch Taverns to warn smoke ban honeymoon period at an end'
04-Nov-2007
Punch Taverns is expected to warn that any honeymoon period from the smoking ban is firmly over and that it is likely to affect future profits when...
