Cost

What is the best workwear for pub staff?

10-Apr-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Operators explain why striking a balance between clothes that look the part and workwear that helps get the job done is important.

Brewer announces price freeze for 250 pubs

24-Jan-2018 By Nikkie Sutton

Lancashire-based brewer and operator Thwaites is freezing the price of its beer sold to its tenants across its 250 leased and tenanted estate, for the second year in a row.

Big brewers announce 2018 price hikes

21-Jan-2018 By Nikkie Sutton

AB InBev and Molson Coors will raise beer prices to above inflation over the next 12 months, making some beers and ciders up to 3.9% more expensive than in 2017.

Food price inflation is the biggest challenge for 81% of operators

18-Oct-2017 By Nikkie Sutton

The rising cost of ingredients is the number one challenge for operators, according to a survey from data experts.

7 ways to combat food price inflation in your pub

09-Oct-2017 By James Beeson

Food price inflation is nothing new, and many a pub operator will be used to that one local who sits in the corner complaining that his ploughman’s and pint of bitter is far more expensive than it used to be.

Pub operating costs rise above 50% of turnover, ALMR report reveals

11-Jul-2017 By Georgina Townshend

Operating costs in the pub sector have risen above 50% of turnover for the first time, according to the latest Benchmarking report from Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) and Christie & Co. 

Sky price rise limited to 5% to account for spiralling business rates

16-Jun-2017 By Michelle Perrett

Sky has revealed that it is to increase prices from 1 August 2017, but promised that no pub would see an increase of more than 5%.

BT Sport announces price freeze

22-Feb-2017 By Liam Coleman

BT Sport will not raise the prices of its subscription packages when the new business rates are announced in April, the broadcaster has confirmed.

How will 2017's price increases affect the trade?

08-Feb-2017 By Michelle Perrett

With licensees facing increased expenditure ranging from brewery beer price increases to business rate revamps, what do some of those affected think will happen in the sector?

Food suppliers blame Brexit as record price hikes hit pubs

03-Feb-2017 By Daniel Woolfson

Food companies issued a record number of price rise notifications over the past four months, citing Britain’s impending exit from the European Union as a major cause. 

Thwaites freezes beer prices to tenants

30-Jan-2017 By Michelle Perrett

Thwaites has revealed it is to freeze its own beer prices to its tenants this year.

Carlsberg and Heineken unveil price increases

23-Jan-2017 By Michelle Perrett

Carlsberg and Heineken are the latest brewers to unveil beer price increases for 2017.

BREXIT

Post-Brexit wine price fears: a storm brewing or scaremongering?

26-Oct-2016 By Daniel Woolfson

Wine experts have warned that the severe economic uncertainty left by Britain’s vote to leave the EU is likely to disrupt the UK’s wine industry and raise prices. But how tangible will the knock-on effect be on UK pubs and should licensees be worried? 

Beer prices

The average cost of a pint in each county in Great Britain revealed

29-Sep-2016 By Liam Coleman

There is an 87p difference in the price of a pint of ale between the cheapest and most expensive regions of the country, according to the Good Pub Guide 2017.

Punch to trial energy cost-saving scheme

01-Apr-2016 By Oli Gross

Punch will trial an energy deal that aims to help its licensees cut the cost of utilities and reduce admin burdens.