Scottish & Newcastle 'star chamber' to fend off Carlsberg approach
05-Nov-2007 By Hamish Champ
Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) has created a 'star chamber' of senior board members to see off Carlsberg/Heineken's £6.8bn approach.Officially...
10-Oct-2007 By The PMA Team
Dissident Shepherd Neame shareholder Stuart Neame has tabled three resolutions questioning aspects of corporate governance
John Dunsmore appointed S&N chief executive
27-Sep-2007 By Hamish Champ
John Dunsmore, Scottish & Newcastle's (S&N) Western Europe boss, is to replace Tony Froggatt as chief executive of the group.The UK's largest...
23-Aug-2007 By The PMA Team
Cornish brewer and retailer St Austell saw turnover grow by 6% to £85.25m in 2006, according to the latest Companies House accounts. The company...
NewsDigest
01-Aug-2007
The Clear Pub Company (CPC), a fledgling business set up by Duncan Ward and Andy Wilkinson, has launched with the acquisition of 25 leasehold sites...
24-Jul-2007
Fuller's, the London brewer and pub operator, said it is too early to assess the impact of the smoking ban but the wet British summer is affecting sales.
Concerns raised over new Scottish licensing regime
13-Jul-2007
The Scottish Executive has defended its handling of the new Licensing Act, following a high profile complaint from Glasgow licensing board.New board...
Making sense of things...
29-Jun-2007
Comprehending modern day 'corporate speak' is never easy, especially a chairman's AGM speech. So given the importance of the boss's comments, an...
George Bateman dies
26-Jun-2007 By Hamish Champ
George Bateman, chairman of the Lincolnshire brewer that bears his name, has died after a long illness. According to a statement from the company he...
Ultimate Leisure buys Living Room for £28m
25-Jun-2007 By Hamish Champ
Ultimate Leisure has acquired Living Ventures - which operates the Living Room bar and restaurant brand - for £28m.Ultimate said it hoped to create...
Adams re-elected as LTC chairman
21-Jun-2007
Anita Adams, chairman of the Licensed Trade Charity (LTC) board of trustees, has been re-elected at a trustee's meeting and will serve another year...
Scottish licensing regime to impact drink pricing?
03-Apr-2007
Scotland's new Licensing Act - already set to end happy hours - could ban discounted drink prices. Specialist lawyers argue that in future key...
InBrief
29-Mar-2007
BII offers better insurance deal The British Institute of Innkeeping is offering its members improved insurance benefits. The new package, via...
Alan Bowes declared bankrupt
12-Mar-2007 By Hamish Champ
Alan Bowes, the former head of collapsed pub business London & Edinburgh Swallow Group, has been declared bankrupt.Records on the Individual...
15-Feb-2007
The pub assets of 30-strong managed company Wessex Taverns have been sold for a second time in less than 18 months, the Morning Advertiser has...
24-Jan-2007
Punch Taverns has reported steady trading in the first 20 weeks of its financial year in line with its expectations, with Christmas sales also in...
Ultimate Leisure looking to buy rivals
16-Jan-2007 By Hamish Champ
High street bar operator Ultimate Leisure expects to be in the market for rival operators as well as individual sites in 2007.Speaking as the group...
Brakspear agrees sale to JT Davies
21-Nov-2006
London based pub group JT Davies has announced a deal to acquire regional brewer Brakspear.The Brakspear board has agreed a 915p a share offer from...
Talks to sell end as Laurel restructures
05-Oct-2006 By The PMA Team
Laurel Pub Company has signalled the end of talks to sell as many as 150 sites by re-structuring its business. The company had been involved in...
Laurel Pub Company gets its second major shake-up in a year
28-Sep-2006 By Hamish Champ
Laurel Pub Company's new chief executive Paul Symonds has revealed details of the pub and bar group's second major divisional overhaul in less than a...
The end of the road?
25-Sep-2006 By Hamish Champ
A fortnight ago The Publican was alerted to the fact that things were not quite right at London & Edinburgh Swallow Group (L&ES). Insiders...
25-Jul-2006
Fuller's has reported a good start to the year but says chairman plans to retire next year.
Michael Turner gets top job at Fuller's
25-Jul-2006 By Hamish Champ
Michael Turner, Fuller Smith & Turner's chief executive, is to become the brewer's executive chairman when Anthony Fuller retires at next year's...
04-Apr-2006 By Iain O'Neil
New Fuller's director Nigel Atkinson talks exclusively to morningadvertiser.co.uk about the future of his old employer Gales under the Fuller's...
Laurel unveils long-awaited restructure programme
07-Feb-2006
The Laurel Pub Company will next month unveil long-awaited details of the group's restructuring exercise at a conference attended by the chain's 410...
Sands snaps up Wessex to create Definnitive
03-Nov-2005
by The PMA Team Former Pubmaster boss John Sands has bought the 30-strong Wessex Taverns out of administration for around £20m. The deal will mean...
Riding out a blip at H&H
27-Oct-2005
It may recently have posted a profits warning, but that doesn't stop Hardys & Hansons chief executive, Tim Bonham, from believing that the...
Fighting-fund call gets luke-warm response
06-Oct-2005
by John Harrington and Rosie Davenport Pub operators have given a lukewarm response to calls for the trade to contribute to a multi-million pound...
Hartford full of Beans after £5.8m takeover
29-Sep-2005 By The PMA Team
London bar operator Hartford plans to roll out Henry J Beans, the American-themed bar and grill chain, after buying it for £5.8m. The acquisition...
Jones to explore Ultimate growth
25-Aug-2005
by The PMA Team Newcastle-based nightclub company Ultimate Leisure looks set to go on an expansion drive after its existing management team was...
Ultimate Leisure bosses step down
20-Aug-2005
Shareholders in troubled late night operator Ultimate Leisure have forced the resignation of founder and chairman Allan Rankin, along with other key...
What the Sunday papers said
15-May-2005
A group of institutional investors is plotting to arrange the sale of Ultimate Leisure from under the feet of its management. Following revelations...
Fully booked
21-Apr-2005
Booker is now firmly focused on its customers after its long-running takeover saga. John Porter meets Hans Kristian Hustad - the new man at the...
Spirit merges divisions as Richards is poached
10-Mar-2005
by The PMA Team Managed operator Spirit Group is to reduce its operating divisions after Steve Richards, managing director of City Spirit, was...
Regent rallies as City confidence returns
09-Feb-2005
Three months into Bob Ivell's stewardship Regent Inns is on course for recovery as profits grow.Interim results released this morning (February 9)...
Big fish,
03-Feb-2005
small pond Many were surprised when Bob Ivell, the former boss of mighty Scottish & Newcastle Retail, agreed to take charge of Regent Inns. But...
W&D's Burtonwood legal reform help
13-Jan-2005
Burtonwood's 420 tenants are to have licensing reform legal costs met by new owners Wolverhampton & Dudley in a move that will cost around...
Perth & Kinross axes minimum price policy
16-Dec-2004
by Ewan Turney Britain's longest-running minimum price scheme has ended as the fallout from the Scottish Court of Session's landmark decision...
Where else for Rotch?
02-Dec-2004
With Robert Tchenguiz tipped to have won the auction for Laurel, analysts are trying to predict what his company's next high street acquisition will...
People: Training is vital
10-Nov-2004
The latest studies show that developing staff can add great value to a business.If you ask any chief executive what they think about training you...
Regent fights back
29-Oct-2004
Regent Inns has appointed two former Scottish & Newcastle directors in an attempt to revive the flagging company.Bob Ivell, former chairman of...
Long division
14-Oct-2004
Shepherd Neame has achieved profit growth for the 29th year in succession. But disgruntled former vice-chairman Stuart Neame shows no sign of ending...
Sheps facing bid to shake up company
07-Oct-2004
Former Shepherd Neame vice-chairman Stuart Neame is expected to signal a new chapter in the feud of Faversham at the company's annual general meeting...
Family feuds laid bare as the Neames dish dirt at tribunal
06-May-2004
The surprise resignation by Shepherd Neame vice-chairman Stuart Neame in October 2003 resulted in a three-day employment tribunal in Ashford, Kent,...
Stuart Neame takes Shepherd Neame to court
06-May-2004
Family relations at Shepherd Neame came back under the spotlight this week after news that Stuart Neame has taken the regional brewer to an...
More to be gained than lost from a smoke ban'
29-Apr-2004
The issue of smoking in pubs surely merits proper debate rather than the paranoid and misinformed rantings of Tony Brooks (Morning Advertiser Letters...
Fighting fit
01-Apr-2004 By Andrew Pring
The family feud atShepherd Neame has failed to dent the Kent-basedcompany's performance. The dramas of last October's civil war did nothing to...
JDW and Exel in £100m deal
01-Apr-2004
JD Wetherspoon has confirmed it has given a contract to logistics firm Exel to manage deliveries to its entire estate,as the Morning Advertiser...
What next for Tim Martin?
09-Mar-2004
Last week Tim Martin, boss of JD Wetherspoon, said he was stepping down. Mark Stretton examines his career.In the past six months Tim Martin has been...
Whitbread pubs boss Bill Shannon quits
27-Feb-2004
Bill Shannon, the head of Whitbread's pubs and restaurants division, has quit the leisure group.Mr Shannon was one of the front runners to succeed...
