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Molson Coors chief executive Mark Hunter has replaced Ralph Findlay as the chairman of the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA). Marston’s boss Findlay is stepping down after the completion of his two year term of office.
He was the banker who funded Enterprise Inns as it grew to be the biggest pub company in the country. He advised on, backed and brokered countless deals during the industry’s M&A heyday.
A group of leading doctors and academics have said that thousands of lives could be saved if cheap alcoholic drinks were made more expensive and called for the Government to bring in a minimum price for alcoholic beverages.
A Punch Taverns multiple operator has launched a bargain marketing scheme that is helping to fill other Punch pubs with customers.
John Roberts, the former managing director of the Fuller’s Beer Company, has become a founder investor and non-executive director of two new pub companies alongside pub entrepreneurs David Bruce and Clive Watson.
Last week, somebody decided that pubs are giving their customers too much head, which prompted somebody in a union to write to the government and complain that this is the sole fault of the pub companies.
A £2 million media campaign for Guinness forms the backbone of Diageo’s masterplan to drive festive beer sales and satisfy hard-to-please men in the prezzie department.
A local council in Lancashire has sent letters to people banned from pubs in Pubwatch schemes, warning them not to try and enter those premises over the festive period.
Innovative ideas in the licensed trade are like Marmite — you either love ’em or hate ’em. So it is with Bob Senior’s idea in Durham that if you can’t beat them, you try and turn a trick.