Ambitious Utopian develops portfolio
Utopian Leisure, the company set up by former Ultimate Leisure boss Bob Senior, has acquired nightclub company Tokyo Industries for an undisclosed...
Archives for August 23, 2006
Energy rip-offs must stop - Andrew Pring
The scandal of licensees being ripped off by unscrupulous energy companies grows greater by the day. Big, national, supposedly trustworthy power...
Live music in pubs 'suffering' under Act
Licensing reform has not helped live music in pubs because it makes it easier for residents to interfere - says licensee.
Licensees serving food could face huge tax hike
Licensees introducing food into their pubs could find themselves slapped with a huge price hike for VAT. The ruling of a recent tribunal case against...
Back to the ban
The countdown has begun. In less than a year smoking will be banned in all pubs across England and Wales. Of course licensees are already facing up...
BarTalk
Are you planning anything special for the bank holiday weekend?
Blackburn pubs defiant over foreign satellite broadcasts
Pubs in the North West are blatantly defying the FA Premier League by showing football matches via foreign satellite systems - and some even during...
A canned history of Carling...by Roger Protz
I returned home from work to find four cans of Carling in the fridge. "What are they doing in there?" I asked, close to hysteria.
Award-winning country pub for sale
Two Lincolnshire lessees who have reversed the fortunes of their pub, have decided to sell up. James and Jo Cartwright at the Tally Ho Inn, Aswarby,...
Pubs get food tax warning
A Wigan tenant has been ordered to pay about £20,000 in backdated VAT payments after tax inspectors re-defined his pub as a "restaurant" following a...
Are pubcos doing enough to stamp out rogue firms?
Pub companies have refuted accusations that they are failing to stamp out rogue recruitment and placement companies. Following news that Inn-Direct,...