Marketing

Gin

Gin festival attracts thousands

28-Jul-2016 By Nikkie Sutton

A Cheshire pub hosted the county’s biggest gin festival and saw more than 2,500 in attendance.

Cask Ale Week 2016

Cask Ale Week: A Beginner's Guide

28-Jul-2016 By Sara Hussein

September sees the return of Cask Ale Week, but why should pubs get involved in the annual event? Sara Hussein reports

Technology

Licensee: “Mobile phone users like smokers”

27-Jul-2016 By Nikkie Sutton

A bar in Hove, East Sussex has installed a Faraday cage in the ceiling of the venue to block mobile phone signals, meaning customers have to go outside to make a call.

Dogs in pubs

'Pubs should adopt a dog-friendly policy' says Kennel Club

26-Jul-2016 By Nikkie Sutton

Kennel Club secretary Caroline Kisko claimed pubs should be dog friendly because there are proven benefits for businesses that welcome dogs.

Marketing

Employer Branding: The Big Sell

26-Jul-2016 By Greg Pitcher

Recruiting new staff is never easy but if you are to attract the top talent to your business it's vital to create an impressive employer brand to draw them in.

Marketing

7 ways to be a digital marketer

26-Jul-2016 By Chris Lowe

Digital marketing is a must for any business, big or small. It can be daunting, but fear not, there’s a lot you can do on a modest budget to start or enhance your journey.

Hate crime

Pub investigated over Muslim customer told to remove "Islam" hoodie

25-Jul-2016 By Oli Gross

A pub is under investigation by police after a barman allegedly told a Muslim customer to take off a hoodie which displayed his surname, Islam.

Summer

Licensees reveal their summer plans for pubs

25-Jul-2016 By Nikkie Sutton

Licensees have revealed their plans for this summer at their pubs to make the most of the current good weather.

Snifter: Does beer really help you in the bedroom?

25-Jul-2016 By Snifter

This week, Snifter takes a look at brewer's droop, Brewdog, drones and Tim Martin...of course.

Top Tips

5 tips to make your pub more family friendly

20-Jul-2016 By Sara Hussein

Pubs are popular go-to venues for families to socialise and spend quality time with one another as well as meet up with other families. Yet there are many that are not making the most of their facilities to create a child-friendly atmosphere, which could...

Good Beer Guide

Cask Marque to sponsor Good Beer Guide

19-Jul-2016 By Nikkie Sutton

This year marks the 44th edition of CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide, which will be sponsored by Cask Marque and is set to be published in September.

Awards

CAMRA launches search for best designed pubs

19-Jul-2016 By Nikkie Sutton

The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has launched its National Pub Design Awards for this year in a quest to find the most stunningly designed pubs nationwide.

Pub barters for beer

14-Jul-2016 By Nikkie Sutton

A Leicester pub is giving local fruit and veg growers the opportunity to barter their produce for beer.

Snifter

The return of Snifter: Murray's mints, the G-word and swimming to pubs

12-Jul-2016 By Snifter

Snifter is back - and ready to cause utter carnage across the pub PR landscape.

MA

The new MA: bringing 222 years of tradition into the 21st century

11-Jul-2016 By Ed Bedington

Welcome to The Morning Advertiser, your new and improved one-stop shop for all things pub industry related.

TripAdvisor

Licensee's furious response to beer pricing TripAdvisor complaint

06-Jul-2016 By Oli Gross

TripAdvisor reviewers can be infuriatingly harsh in their assessments of pubs, and none more so than a customer who branded his experience ‘terrible’ based purely on the price of a pint.

A-boards

Gallery: Send us your best A-board pictures

05-Jul-2016 By Oli Gross

The Publican’s Morning Advertiser is calling on licensees to send in their best, funniest and most inspiring advertising board pictures.

Marketing

Pub labelled 'law-breakers' for £1.20 water charge on TripAdvisor

30-Jun-2016 By Oli Gross

A licensee has defended her pub after an angry cyclist labelled staff ‘law-breakers’ for charging £1.20 for tap water.

Pictures of celebs in underwear stolen from pub's women's toilets

20-Jun-2016 By Oli Gross

A licensee is ‘really peed off’ with a thief who has been repeatedly stealing pictures of celebrities in their underwear from the women’s toilets.

Digital Marketing

5 simple social media tips for pubs

15-Jun-2016 By Emily Sutherland

Although it might be unfair to brand the pub trade as stuck in the dark ages, there’s certainly more licensees could be doing when it comes to social media. Here are 5 tips to get started.

Brexit

PMA licensee poll: Brexit or Bremain?

14-Jun-2016 By Mike Berry

In just over a week the electorate of the United Kingdom will make its biggest decision in modern political history - to stay in the EU or leave.

Licensees

Licensee donates food to homeless

13-Jun-2016 By Nikkie Sutton

Mark Cutter of the Robert Gillow pub in Lancaster has set up a free food scheme in the pub to help those who need it.

Beer

BrewDog founders awarded MBEs

13-Jun-2016 By Nicholas Robinson

James Watt and Martin Dickie, founders of Scotland-based brewery and pub operator BrewDog, have been awarded MBEs in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.

PR tips on a shoestring budget

10-Jun-2016 By Emily Sutherland

Creating a buzz around their businesses can seem like an uphill battle for small or single-site operators without the big marketing budgets enjoyed by larger pub companies. But entrepreneurial licensees have proved you don't have to spend big to...

Pub beer ballot for EU referendum

07-Jun-2016 By Nikkie Sutton

Ahead of the EU referendum at the end of this month (June), an independent brewery has teamed up with local pubs to offer an unusual method of finding out how people may vote.

Review sites

Licensee frames 'hilarious' TripAdvisor complaint about dog policy

31-May-2016 By Oli Gross

A licensee has seen the funny side ‘hilarious’ TripAdvisor complaint about his rules on dogs - and had the review framed in the toilets.

CAMRA Revitalisation Project moves forward

25-May-2016 By Nikkie Sutton

The project to determine the future of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is now in its second stage, where it will analyse the data from a survey it conducted with its members.

The Big Interview: Oakman Inns founder Peter Borg-Neal

23-May-2016 By Oli Gross

Peter Borg-Neal is different to many pubco chief executives, having worked in just about every role in the business. Oli Gross finds out more about him.

Pubcos

Harry Ramsden's and Punch team up for pub partnership

20-May-2016 By Nikkie Sutton

The pubco and restaurant have joined forces to reopen a pub with the benefits of Harry Ramsden's reputation for fish and chips.

Animals

Pub's ban after 20 dogs drive customers barking mad

19-May-2016 By Oli Gross

A pub has been forced to ban dogs after customers were sent barking mad when the venue filled with up to 20 pets at the same time.

Charity round-up: The PMA takes a closer look at the trade's good deeds

16-May-2016 By Emily Sutherland

Pubs, breweries and pubcos are well known for their support of charities. The Publican's Morning Advertiser reports on the the industry's latest fundraising activities.

Marketing

Drink like a horse? Shropshire pub welcomes horses and riders

16-May-2016 By Nikkie Sutton

The Brewery Inn, based in Coalport, Telford has installed a purpose built area for their equine customers.

Football

Licensee paints pub in Leicester City colours

11-May-2016 By Nikkie Sutton

Brian Priest who runs the Chequers pub in Swinford made a passing comment that if Leicester won the league, he would paint the pub in the Foxes’ colours.

Business support

How one community local beat the big guns to win an award

10-May-2016 By Emily Sutherland

Marketing can be tough for small or single-site operators, who often don’t have the budget to compete with multiple site operators or the big managed pub chains. But one Yorkshire licensee has scooped a major marketing award and driven more trade to...

Emmerdale star delighted to open Lancashire pub

10-May-2016 By Nikkie Sutton

The grand opening of a Silverdale pub was marked with an Emmerdale star cutting the ribbon and pouring the first pint.

Business Support

'Honest' TripAdvisor responses: good or bad for business?

10-May-2016 By Emily Sutherland

Dealing with bad TripAdvisor reviews has kept many a pub operator up at night. But long-running frustration with reviews seen as inaccurate, unfair or malicious has reached boiling point, with some licensees taking matters into their own hands by posting...

Gluten-free Report

10 things you need to know about serving gluten-free food in pubs

10-May-2016 By Daniel Woolfson and Nicholas Robinson

Gluten-free food is one of the most enduring food trends to hit the UK's eating-out sector this century, but what do you need to know to implement it in your pub? Here are the Publican's Morning Advertiser's top 10 things you need to know.

TripAdvisor

Scathing response to 'impossible' TripAdvisor review gives licensee the last laugh

09-May-2016 By Oli Gross

A scathing response to an ‘impossible’ customer on TripAdvisor should give pubs encouragement that difficult reviewers don't always need to have the last laugh, according to the licensee.

Newspaper roundup

Pubs in the Papers – Enterprise's Townsend ‘no idea’ on MRO numbers, Vardy Bombs and arm wrestling saving pubs

09-May-2016 By James Evison

This week's pubs in the papers round-up includes The Times's interview with Enterprise's Townsend, arm wrestling the 'saviour of pubs' and Leicester City's Premier League victory party.

Licensees

Kent pub celebrates 500th birthday

04-May-2016 By Nikkie Sutton

A Kent pub has recreated a vintage photo to mark its 500th birthday over the Bank Holiday weekend.

Charity

Licensee raises £3.5k for charity with 250 mile Asian bike trip

03-May-2016 By James Evison

Licensee Dave Mountford has cycled across Vietnam and Cambodia for charity, and got beer made in tribute to the ride placed in Westminster's Strangers Bar.

Hoax council caller orders pub to cover St George's flag or face legal action

29-Apr-2016 By Oli Gross

A licensee was left outraged when a supposed caller from the local council ordered her to cover a giant painted St George’s cross on the front of her pub, but the call appears to have been a hoax.

Marketing

Robbie Savage stars as licensee of 'spray tan pub' in bizarre video

28-Apr-2016 By Oli Gross

Former Leicester City midfielder Robbie Savage has starred in a bizarre promotional campaign, temporarily acting as licensee of the first ever golden spray tan pub.

Beer

CAMRA revitalisation: Licensees urged to have their say as deadline nears

27-Apr-2016 By Oli Gross

The Campaign for Real Ale’s first consultation to help shape its future is coming to an end, and licensees have been urged to join the 20,000 members and non-members who have already made their feelings known.

BrewDog falls £6m short of crowdfunding target

22-Apr-2016 By Emily Sutherland

Self-styled punk brewer BrewDog has raised £19 million through the latest round of its crowdfunding scheme Equity for Punks, falling short of its £25m target.

Marketing

Tinder date gone wrong? Pub offers to help women in uncomfortable situations

22-Apr-2016 By Oli Gross

A pub has offered a way out of awkward Tinder dates for women who feel uncomfortable on a night out.

Viral banned list which featured 'flat cap coke fiend' inspires a book

21-Apr-2016 By Emily Sutherland

A former live music pub’s list of barred customers has inspired a book after going viral on social media.

Mintel research

More than half of Brits went to pub in January

21-Apr-2016 By Chris Wisson

The Publican’s Morning Advertiser has partnered with market analysts Mintel to provide insight from its new leisure tracker, which covers consumers’ pub visiting habits. Senior analyst Chris Wisson examines the latest findings.