Tuppen: BISC inquiry was a ‘political pantomime’
Enterprise Inns chief executive Ted Tuppen has branded the recent Business, Innovation & Skills Committee (BISC) inquiry into pubco-tenant relationships as a “political pantomime”.
Archives for November 11, 2011
Sheffield’s art-inspired bar
Thornbridge, the Derbyshire-based brewer and pub operator, has opened its first city-centre bar, named Dada, in Sheffield.
Responsibility deal condemned
The Government’s responsibility deal will fail because it creates a fundamental conflict of interest within the drinks industry, according to public health campaigners and an influential committee of MPs.
New lime flavour for So-Co
Bacardi Brown Forman Brands (BBFB) is to capitalise on the “daytime drinking occasion” by launching a lime-flavoured Southern Comfort to the on-trade.
Living Ventures to open new venue
Living Ventures Management, the restaurant and bar company led by entrepreneurs Tim Bacon and Jeremy Roberts, will open its latest venture in Manchester — Peppermint Bay, a café-deli concept — next week.
Whiting & Hammond’s seventh site
Whiting & Hammond, the award-winning south-east multiple led by co-founder Brian Whiting, has secured its seventh site, historic 18th-century Stanmer House in Brighton.
A pivotal change is brewing
In my last column, I talked about how the cask ale message – that cask is on the up, that it’s a real boon to publicans — has finally got through. I said that this was a good thing, and that we perhaps need to stop repeating ourselves.
'Two-thirds pints are being shunned'
Pubs and pub goers have shunned the two-third pint glasses, says research from the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA).
Innuendo: it’s the bedrock of beer
Hands up if you’ve ever bought an alcoholic product on the assumption that it’s going to give you an almighty erection?