Building pubs' social networks
As the social media revolution gathers pace pubs increasingly need to adopt a digital marketing strategy — or miss out. Ewan Turney looks at a...
Archives for February 10, 2011
'Drink-drive cases on hold as leading forensics lab axed'
Police have been told to put samples from drink drivers on ice after the biggest forensic science provider was axed.A leaked memo revealed staff at...
Accommodation Pubs: Room to grow trade
It is a truth universally acknowledged that staying in a pub, where a pint of decent beer is never more than a two-minute walk away, is way better...
Impose higher tax on spirits, advisor tells MPs
A tax on alcohol should be applied in accordance with its strength to crackdown on preloading, an alcohol advisor told MPs at Parliament yesterday....
Angry licensee bans school-run parents from car park
An irate licensee has banned school-run parents from using her pub's car park and been forced to issue parking permits to her regulars. Tracy...
Craft Beer Pubs: Tapping into the beer crowd
At first sight, the tall, narrow, grade II-listed Portland stone lodge that houses the Euston Tap might seem an odd choice of venue for a pub. Up...
Mark Daniels: The Premier League versus the advocate general
If I want to buy a new car, it's perfectly legal for me to go and purchase one in Europe. I can either drive over to the manufacturer and pick it up,...
Join our VAT-cut campaign
The Government has only to look at France to see why a tax reduction on food would help create jobs and lower prices for consumers, says The PMA Team.
Profits leap 30% at Market Town
Market Town Taverns, the Yorkshire free-of-tie operator led by Ian Fozard, has reported a 30% increase in profit for its most recent year. The...
Exclusive: JDW uses 'spotters' for ID patrols
JD Wetherspoon has started to employ "spotters" to identify under-age drinkers that have slipped through the net at its pubs. They are being...
Fish: What's the catch?
"The best fish I've had was some mackerel that had just been caught. It was so fresh it still had rigor mortis." Keir Meikle says fish is his "great...
MP: removing vicinity test 'fundamentally wrong'
Home Office minister James Brokenshire has defended the Government's decision to allow anyone to appeal against a licensing application. In a...
Pubs must learn from Starbucks to survive, says AB InBev chief
Pubs need to up their game and behave more like Starbucks if they are to survive, according to the UK chief of the world's largest brewer. Stuart...
Pub closures see Guinness sales drop
Net sales of Guinness in Great Britain dropped 2% for the six months to 31 December 2010 on last year as more pubs closed and the shift from on-trade...
Exclusive: Stonegate nears end of M&B debranding
Stonegate Pub Company is close to finishing the debranding of 78 sites trading formerly as Mitchells & Butlers brands.
Pub's soccer fine despite ECJ deliberations
Magistrates have refused to adjourn a prosecution for foreign satellite football screenings at a Humberside pub pending the European ruling.
Pub owners fined over foreign satellite football
Magistrates yesterday rejected an application for a pub foreign satellite football case to be adjourned until the European Court of Justice (ECJ)...
Stuart MacFarlane: 'Our brands are as relevant in pubs as they are in supermarkets'
Stella Artois Cidre may not be set to launch in both the on and off-trade until Easter, but it has already proved a talking point. Critics have...
Brakspear facing OFT complaint
Brakspear is being threatened with a complaint to the OFT on the grounds that it is "abusing" its local market dominance.