Pub Food Profile: The Golden Boar, Freckenham, Suffolk
23-Sep-2010 By Jessica Harvey Jessica
Routine can sometimes be rather disillusioning. For starters, it represents the drudge of the day-to-day. It's the supermarket big shop, paying the...
Greene King names new brewing marketing director
04-Aug-2010
Greene King, the Suffolk brewer, has announced the appointment of a new marketing director at its brewing operation. Dominic South joins the Bury St...
To run managed or leased pubs... that is the question
12-Jul-2010 By Hamish Champ
Greene King's decision to boost its managed, brand-led pub estate over its tenanted one is a bold move. The Suffolk brewer, led by chief executive...
08-Jul-2010 By The PMA Team
All the latest rumour and gossip from the City.
10-Jun-2010 By Jo Bruce
Ideas for boosting food sales at your pub including making a film for your website, supporting local crafts and themed food and drink nights. Making...
14-May-2010 By John Harrington
Former Greene King tenanted pub boss David Elliott is heading a new pubco with plans to take on 200 sites within 12 to 18 months. David Elliott has...
27-Apr-2010 By Lesley Foottit
A former Greene King brewer has come up with a new drink — the first English whisky for more than 100 years. Distiller at the English Whisky...
23-Mar-2010 By The PMA Team
There has been a consumer flight to value in the wake of the credit crunch, says Greene King chief executive Rooney Anand.
Admiral Taverns set to sell up to 200 pubs
12-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ
Admiral Taverns, the 2,000-strong pub company bailed out by its bank late last year, is understood to be looking to sell up to 200 of its pubs....
25-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna
An historic building in the heart of Bury St Edmunds is set to be marketed as a pub by the local council. The 19th-century Corn Exchange will no...
19-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
Two of the finalists in the BII's Licensee Trainer of the Year competition say they feel "humiliated" by the decision not to give out the award. The...
NITA winners unveiled by BII
18-Feb-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
The winners of the BII's training awards have been announced - with the exception of the Licensee trainer of the year award. Despite listing three...
Win Greene King IPA tickets to Quins v Gloucester
01-Feb-2010
This all-England clash at the Twickenham Stoop will be the first of two encounter s between the sides in the space of a week. Will Skinner and his...
15-Jan-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Greene King IPA has teamed up with the Morning Advertiser to offer five readers a pair of tickets each to see Quins take on Cardiff in Europe.
04-Jan-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The BII has revealed its shortlist for the 2009 National Industry Training Awards (NITAs) across seven categories.
Managing expectations in the pub trade
07-Dec-2009 By Hamish Champ
A City wag suggested last week it was no coincidence JD Wetherspoon announced its 250 pub opening/10,000 jobs creation scheme on the same day that...
25-Nov-2009 By The PMA Team
Greene King has become the first pub operator to be awarded the Carbon Trust Standard. It has also become the country's first brewer to gain this...
'Minimum price' demand on alcohol'
24-Nov-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
The availability of cheap alcohol has led to calls for minimum prices in Wales to change the drinking culture. Brian Gibbons, Wales' social affairs...
12-Nov-2009 By Robyn Lewis
Wannabe beer boffins will be able to test their knowledge of all things cask ale with the launch of the Abbot Ale Beer Diploma from brewer Greene...
09-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
Greene King has signed a three-year shirt sponsorship deal with Conference League side Cambridge United. The club, just 25 miles down the road from...
Greene King launches Head Brewer's Club
07-Oct-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Cask masters have been rewarded by brewer Greene King with the launch of its Head Brewer's Club. The Suffolk brewer has hand-picked 300 of its best...
30-Sep-2009 By David Elliott
Bring on the SWAGs — Sassy, Wise and Grown Up — says Greene King Pub Partners chief executive David Elliott.
'Evacuation after fire at Greene King brewery'
30-Jul-2009
Staff at Suffolk's biggest brewery were evacuated yesterday following a severe fire in a boiler room. Fire crews were called to the Greene King...
Beer and food matching: Summer at the Dog & Partridge
16-Jun-2009
The Dog and Partridge pub in Bury St Edmunds uses a variety of the best food Suffolk has to offer, including guinea fowl and chicken. The pub also...
Mulberry Tree named top ten restaurant
22-May-2009 By Jo Bruce
A Kent pub has been named one of the Good Food Guide's top ten restaurants. The Mulberry Tree, in Boughton Monchelsea, near Maidstone, Kent, is the...
26-Mar-2009 By Robyn Lewis
Greene King is to offer drinkers the choice of two styles of its flagship IPA beer as it begins a trial of a dual-pour "Revolution" font. The...
19-Feb-2009 By Robyn Lewis
Greene King has become the first brewer to gain Red Tractor accreditation across its entire beer portfolio. Beers including Greene King IPA, Old...
Beer and Food focus: Tempting appetites
26-Jan-2009
MATCHING BEER with food is not just a way of promoting the menu - Ron Blackmore, lessee of the Fox in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, also uses it to...
Mark Daniels: My Andy Warhol moment
07-Jan-2009
If I had a pound for every time I'd managed to get either myself or the pub mentioned in one form of the media or other in the past twelve months,...
11-Dec-2008 By Roger Protz
Whether you start a craft brewery or get in a best-seller, cask is the way forward, says Roger Protz.
MPs who are Proud of Pubs this year
10-Jul-2008
Gerry Sutcliffe, Bradford SouthThe Six Acres, 119, Westgate Hill St, Tong, Bradford,West Yorkshire, BD4 0SFGreg Hands, Hammersmith & FulhamThe...
Greene King 'seeks bidders' for 80-plus pubs
06-May-2008 By Hamish Champ
Greene King is understood to have put a package of more than 80 of its leased and tenanted pubs on the market.The Bury St Edmunds-headquartered...
WIN SKY FOR A YEAR
18-Feb-2008
Greene King IPA is launching its biggest ever competition, which gives you the opportunity to win a Sky Sports subscription for a year for your pub
Beer & food focus: Cunning at the Fox
16-Jan-2008
It probably shouldn't be too much of a surprise that Ron Blackmore, licensee of the Fox in Bury St Edmunds is something of a beer evangelist. Prior...
Heavy smokers still visit the pub, poll finds
04-Dec-2007 By Hamish Champ
More than half of all 'heavy smokers' visit their local pub as often as they did before the introduction of the smoking ban, a Greene King survey has...
MyNewPub
29-Nov-2007
The Queens Head Nutfield, Surrey Agent: Guy Simmonds Nutfield village locals John and Karen Osborne have been at the Queens Head for just a few days...
Greene King buys New Century Inns for £32.6m
14-Nov-2007 By Hamish Champ
Greene King, the Suffolk brewer and pub company, has bought North East pubco New Century Inns (NCI) for £32.6m. The deal is to be financed from...
InBrief
08-Nov-2007
De Bretton buys Guy Fawkes Hotel The Yorkshire-based de Bretton Group has bought the Guy Fawkes Hotel in High Petergate, York, with plans to turn it...
24-Sep-2007
The future of one of Britain's smallest pubs is under threat after a police crackdown on drinkers standing outside its doors. The manger of the...
Focus East Anglia: The Greene belt
24-Aug-2007
In the past few years one of the great names in regional brewing has rather outgrown itself.Greene King's 2,500 pubs are now spread all over the UK,...
Greene King's text appeal
09-Aug-2007
Greene King is inviting cask beer drinkers to 'shout' about beer quality by text. The Bury St Edmunds brewer has set up a new quality textline as one...
Greene King buys Loch Fyne for £68.1m
07-Aug-2007
Greene King has announced the purchase of fish restaurant chain Loch Fyne for £68.1m.The Bury St Edmunds brewer and pub company has acquired all 36...
23-Jul-2007
Greene King is to withdraw its High Court appeal to gain costs from a group of local residents who opposed the opening hours at one of its pubs. The...
THE GUV'NOR
12-Jul-2007
John Baldwin Pubcos need to do more to protect the traditional community pub, says the licensee of the Big 6 in Halifax, Yorkshire I recently took...
Two thirds of Greene King customers give smoke-free pubs the thumbs up
03-Jul-2007 By Hamish Champ
Greene King chief executive Rooney Anand participated in polling the brewer's pub-going customers last Sunday to hear their views on the smoking...
The future starts this weekend
01-Jul-2007
The big ban is almost here - an historic day for the trade. Whether you are for or against it, fear it or have already embraced it at your pub, it is...
Making a meal of the beer
28-Jun-2007
Greene King kick-started the drive to encourage drinkers to match beer with food with a special brew called The Beer To Dine For. It was one of the...
Greene King to sell homes
21-Jun-2007
Greene King has confirmed plans to sell off homes on its former Hardys & Hanson Brewery site. The brewery, in Kimberley, Nottinghamshire, is no...
Pick of the pubs
13-Jun-2007 By James Wilmore
The Craw Inn is located in the rural village of Auchencrow near Reston, Berwickshire, yet is only one mile from the main East Coast arterial road,...
What the Sunday papers said
22-Apr-2007
What began as a walkout by regular drinkers and then turned into a campaign uniting residents of a rural Sussex town against the might of one of the...
