Regent sales talks end
03-Jul-2008
Walkabout operator Regent Inns has revealed that sale talks have ended because of problems for bidders in raising finance in current market...
Capital boss steps down
26-Jun-2008
David Bruce has stepped down as chief executive of Capital Pub Company (CPC), with business partner Clive Watson taking on the role. It comes as CPC...
23-Jun-2008 By Ewan Turney
Capital co-founder steps down as chief executive - Clive Watson takes over
9 Deborah Kemp
29-May-2008
managing director, Punch Taverns (leased & tenanted) (10)
21-May-2008 By Ewan Turney
Jygsaw Brands, the company formed to look after S&N's heritage ale brands, has appointed SHS Sales and Marketing
Cains names new finance chief
13-May-2008
Liverpool brewer Cains Beer Company has appointed a finance director in the form of ex-Stanley Casinos finance head Paul Morgan. Morgan joins Cains...
Thwaites appoints new managing director
02-Apr-2008 By Tony Halstead
Northern brewer and pub retailer Daniel Thwaites has appointed Peter Morris as its new managing director.
Thwaites names Peter Morris as its new managing director
02-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ
Lancashire brewer Daniel Thwaites has replaced former managing director Brian Hickman with ex-Scottish & Newcastle Pub Enterprises (S&NPE)...
14-Mar-2008 By The PMA Team
Swallet Management Solutions Limited has been granted exclusivity until today to buy Massive.
Huw Bement joins former Beam colleagues at Cobra UK
06-Mar-2008
Cobra Beer has announced the appointment of Huw Bement in the newly-created role of On-Trade Channel Controller. Bement is the latest Beam Global...
04-Mar-2008 By Ewan Turney
Coors has appointed two new sales directors to replace John Holberry who is taking over as managing director at Magners. Steve Ellis will takeover as...
Drummond Hall appointed M&B deputy chairman
26-Feb-2008 By Hamish Champ
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has appointed Drummond Hall, its senior independent non-executive director, to the position of deputy chairman with...
M&B's £400m mess
31-Jan-2008 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) finance director Karim Naffah has resigned after the company closed its controversial hedge position at a cost of...
29-Jan-2008 By The PMA Team
M&B's Karim Naffah resigns after the company closed a hedge position at a cost of £274m
Punch Taverns lands Cable & Wireless MD as non-exec
06-Dec-2007
Punch Taverns has appointed two new non-executive directors, including the joint managing director of telecoms giant Cable & Wireless.Tony Rice...
Francis Patton to leave Punch Taverns
02-Oct-2007 By Hamish Champ
Francis Patton, Punch Taverns' long-serving customer services director, has announced he is to leave the company on December 7.Patton said he had had...
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...
29-Aug-2007 By Mark Stretton
Julian Sargeson, the former Laurel Pub Company chief executive, is to take the helm at Herald Inns & Bars. He will join the 40-strong managed...
Adam Hyde celebrates 25 years service
09-Aug-2007 By Hamish Champ
Adam Hyde, finance director at Manchester brewer Hydes, is this week celebrating a quarter of a century working for the company.The only Hydes family...
NewsDigest
28-Jun-2007
Tony Hughes, aged 59, managing director of Mitchells & Butlers restaurant division, is to retire at the end of the year. Hughes, regarded by many...
34 Jonathan Webster managing director, Greene King Destination Pubs (new entry) Jonathan Lawson managing director, Greene King Local Pubs (new entry)
31-May-2007
Why they are on the list: Webster and Lawson assumed command of Greene King's two new managed pub divisions following the re-structuring of the...
12 Ian Payne Laurel chairman (14) Paul Symonds Laurel chief executive (new entry)
31-May-2007
Why they are on the list: Payne made a spectacular return to the trade last year when he replaced Chris Hutt as chairman of Laurel - a company he...
Greene King splits managed pub business
26-Mar-2007 By Hamish Champ
Jonathan Webster, former boss of Hardys & Hansons, is to assume a managing director role in one of Greene King's new managed pub businesses.In a...
Fawcett departure 'sad loss' for Punch
15-Mar-2007 By The PMA Team
Punch Taverns chief operating officer Adrian Fawcett is stepping down on 30 March to become CEO at General Healthcare Group, a UK private hospital...
12-Mar-2007
Punch Taverns' chief operating officer Adrian Fawcett is stepping down on 30 March. Fawcett, pictured with Giles Thorley, is leaving the company to...
Nexum appoints managing director
02-Feb-2007
Paul Kinsey, chief executive of nightclub operator Nexum Leisure, has announced the appointment of Tony Marshall as the company's managing director
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...
Marston's directors' pay down by 20%
11-Jan-2007 By The PMA Team
The five executive directors of Marston's, formerly known as Wolves & Dudley, saw a drop of just over 20% in their total pay packages in 2006...
NewsDigest
14-Dec-2006
The Morning Advertiser has acquired the Pub Business show - the exhibition dedicated to running pubs. The 2007 show takes place at Birmingham's NEC...
Business as usual for Smartbox directors
14-Dec-2006 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
Tec Rentals, run by three former directors of collapsed screen media company Smartbox, is continuing to provide its customers with content update...
Jonathan Webster set to leave Hardys & Hansons
06-Dec-2006 By Hamish Champ
Jonathan Webster expects to leave his role as managing director of Hardys & Hansons at the end of next month, once the Nottinghamshire brewer has...
Fuller's sizing up rival family brewers
24-Nov-2006
Fuller & Co aims to fuel expansion by courting rival family brewers with shareholders looking to cash in their assets.Speaking as the...
Keen and Rogers join Laurel pubco
02-Nov-2006
Laurel Pub Company, Robert Tchenguiz's high-street pub business, has announced the appointments of Chris Keen as its new chief financial officer and...
27-Oct-2006 By Ewan Turney
Laurel Pub Company has appointed Chris Keen as chief financial officer and Steve Rogers as managing director of Ha! Ha! Bar & Canteen. The...
Oliver: buying out will not be tolerated
21-Sep-2006 By The PMA Team
Union Pub Company, the tenanted and leased arm of Wolverhampton & Dudley, has told its business development managers (BDMs) they must crack down...
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...
Greene King remains tight-lipped over plans for Hardys & Hansons' brewery
23-Jun-2006 By Hamish Champ
Greene King says that until it gains full control of Hardys & Hansons (H&H) it would be "inappropriate" to discuss its plans for the...
Pub chiefs positive at The Publican's Industry Leaders Forum
15-Jun-2006 By Hamish Champ
Pubs will become much better places for many people to be when smoking is banned - but only if licensees start planning now.That was one of the key...
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...
28-Mar-2006
Manchester Brewer Hydes has this week announced the appointment of two new members to its Board of Directors. The first is Paul Mercer who has been...
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...
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...
Greene King directors earn £1.4m in bonuses
11-Aug-2005
by The PMA Team Greene King directors earned record bonuses of £1.4m in the wake of its £654m acquisition of Laurel Pub Company, according to 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...
Top level reshuffle at Diageo
18-Jan-2005
Diageo Great Britain has announced a major shake-up of its senior management structure.Two managing director posts have been created, with one...
Big rise in directors' earnings at W&DB
06-Jan-2005
Total remuneration to the board of executive and non-executive directors at Wolves & Dudley Breweries (W&DB) increased by just over 30% to...
Brook lands new role with Punch
16-Dec-2004
InnSpired chief executive Peter Brook is set to join Punch Taverns as property and strategy director, according to Morning Advertiser sister...
GI shakes up Yates Group boardroom
25-Nov-2004
Yates Group has made three major appointments as part of a boardroom re-organisation. Colin Rawlinson, who acted as a consultant to GI Partners when...
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...
