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A Hertford-based family brewer is on the hunt for enthusiastic entrepreneurs to run one of its pubs with a difference - they do not need to invest any capital, pay rent, utilities or rates.
Community pubs minister Brandon Lewis has issued a rallying cry for local authorities and MPs to continue to use their powers to help list pubs as assets of community value.
Around 70% of McMullen’s tenanted pubs have been enhanced to the standard of its managed houses following a series of ‘rep and dec’ investments, tenant operations manager Gavin Mansfield has told the Publican’s Morning Advertiser’s sister title M&C Report.
Pub operators will shortly receive demands to pay back the “several hundred million pounds” collectively owed in “overpaid” tax rebates in 30 days, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has confirmed.
SA Brain has announced that retail director Philip Lay is to leave the business at the end of March, after 12 years with the company.
Freetrade outlets that stock Carlsberg UK products and those that sign up to BT Sport will be entitled to a 50% discount on a BT Sport subscription under a new deal agreed between the companies.
Two Enterprise Inns tenants have spoken out after the pub company demanded they agree to significant changes in their leases as a condition for implementing a rent reduction.
Business Secretary Vince Cable today faces a demand to remove himself from the decision-making process on the future of tenanted pub companies after reportedly admitting that he thought Punch Taverns had “gone bust”.
The Brighton & Hove Licensees Association (BHLA) has called on Sussex Police to reveal the names of pubs and clubs caught selling alcohol to Under 18s so it can offer assistance.
Islington Council appears a step closer to implementing a late-night levy (LNL) at tomorrow night’s (27th February) decisive public meeting, after it emerged that its licensing committee had already approved the proposals.
Stonegate’s conversions of its Living Room sites will have a “bias” towards Missoula, the group’s new US-inspired venture, according to chief executive Toby Smith.
Creating a new business rates system based on energy usage rather than rateable value would be “very problematic” — that’s the warning from a leading energy consultant for pubs, after the British Retail Consortium (BRC) put forward the proposal last week.
The nation’s beer lovers drank nearly 33 million more pints of local beer last year than in 2012, as independent brewers responded positively to the Chancellor’s decision to scrap the beer-duty escalator.