
Admiral pumps over £1m into three pubs
Admiral Taverns has injected £1.05m into three pubs over the past month.

Admiral Taverns has injected £1.05m into three pubs over the past month.

AUTUMN BUDGET 2025
The Government has the chance to “empower” independent brewers at next week’s Autumn Budget SIBA chief executive Andy Slee told The Morning Advertiser (The MA).

THE LOW & NO PROJECT
A little over six months ago, Heineken 0.0 had hit the 1,000 mark in the number of pubs it had draught taps dispensing the alcohol-free beer, it’s now at 1,700 – and 2,000 is the next target.

Pub behemoth JD Wetherspoon (JDW) has partnered with the University of Birmingham’s Guild of Students to operate its bar and restaurant, Joe’s.

Scottish pub operator and brewer BrewDog has warned pubs would need to sell an extra 950,000 pints an hour to offset rising energy, labour and tax costs.

RedCat Hospitality like-for-like (lfl) sales have risen 4.3% with the group’s Coaching Inn Group arm bringing the lion’s share of takings to the business.

AUTUMN BUDGET 2025
Ahead of next week’s Autumn Budget, industry voices have unanimously called for tax reforms, duty cuts and NIC rollback.

Years of rising costs, safety fears and poor public transport are among factors that have seen the late-night economy contract by 4.6% in 12 months – and 28% since Covid.