Economics

Enterprise tenants holding up well

24-Jan-2008

Enterprise Inns has reported that its licensees are showing no "material deterioration" in performance despite tough financial conditions. The...

Hall & Woodhouse sells free trade to Marston's

22-Jan-2008

Independent Dorset brewer Hall & Woodhouse has sold its free trade to Marston's. The brewer said its free trade business had become squeezed...

Hall & Woodhouse sells its free trade business to Marston's

21-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ

Dorset brewer Hall & Woodhouse has sold its direct free trade business to Marston's for an undisclosed sum.The brewer, whose brands include...

Subdued trading at Punch Taverns

16-Jan-2008

Smoking ban and declining consumer confidence cited for profit drop

Half of all UK pubcos will thrive in 2008, claims research group

16-Jan-2008

Despite concerns about the future trading performance of the UK licensed trade, around half of all pub companies "look surprisingly well placed to...

Andrew Meadowcroft

10-Jan-2008

Andrew Meadowcroft, head of licensed trade, Barclays bank Corporate goal for the year? Helping our customers achieve their aims might sound like a...

Paul Baker

10-Jan-2008

Paul Baker, managing director, Thwaites Corporate goal for the year? Our long-term focus has always been on investment in our people, pubs and brands...

Gary Whitlie

10-Jan-2008

Gary Whitlie, managing director, Miller Brands Corporate goal for the year? To continue the growth of our portfolio of brands by working closely with...

Pub advice on offer

10-Jan-2008 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk

Property agent GA-Select is to launch a consulting service in association with two trade professionals. Select Consulting plans to offer professional...

London's economy boosts Capital Pub Company

27-Nov-2007 By Hamish Champ

Despite fears of a downturn in consumer spending nationally, London's 'micro economy' helped boost Capital Pub Company's (CPC) trading in recent...

THE AGENTS

25-Oct-2007

Trevor M Watson Director Davis Coffer Lyons It is now widely accepted that trading conditions in the leisure sector are likely to be more difficult...

Downturn in sales warning

06-Sep-2007 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk

Agents have warned that the present economic climate will make it harder to sell pubs. There are fears that the current "credit squeeze", high...

Bar Group turnover up by 10% to £10m

30-Aug-2007 By The PMA Team

Bar Group, the 30-strong Kent-based managed multiple lessee headed by Paul Wigham and Stephen Brook, saw turnover rise by 10% to £10.02m in its most...

Trade advice for first timers

16-Aug-2007 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk

Property agent GA-Select is launching a new service that it claims could help save the average licensee £200,000 over 10 years. Select Consulting...

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...

Britvic looks at outsourcing

24-Apr-2007 By The PMA Team

Britvic is consulting with its staff about outsourcing its retail distribution network and chiller re-manufacturing operations

GA-Select teams up with Taylor Hall

22-Feb-2007 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk

Property agent GA-Select has teamed up with training experts Taylor Hall Associates. The two companies will be working closely to provide a committed...

THE GUV'NOR

18-Jan-2007

Anthony Mears The smoking ban should be viewed as an opportunity to grow trade What does 2007 hold for the trade? Definitely a challenge. Probably a...

MyNewPub The Smisby Arms, Smisby, Leicestershire Agent: GA-Select

30-Nov-2006

Peter Riley and business partner Paul Aldred sold their Burton-based bingo business in March and planned to retire. "Then eight months later we...

Lack of investment hits Honeycombe Leisure

27-Oct-2006 By Hamish Champ

Announcing its annual results for the year to April 30, 2006 pub management group Honeycombe Leisure has painted a bleak - and frank - portrait of...

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...

THE GUV'NOR - Yvonne Cleminson

18-May-2006

Yvonne Cleminson, Cherry Tree, Farnham, Surrey

they want me to pay 50% of the cost to re-thatch my pub

17-Mar-2006

I moved into a listed thatched pub in april 2004 as a tenant with a view to taking on a long term lease after the 1st 6months tma. I was told by my...

Luminar optimistic despite tough trading

15-Nov-2005

Despite continued tough trading late night operator Luminar said it remained "cautiously optimistic" it can end its financial year in good...

Bernard Brindley

30-Jun-2005

Pubcos should use their buying power to tackle tenants' utility bills says licensee of the White Lion, Pailton, nr Rugby Taking up the point that...

Drinking at home blamed for downturn in trade

03-Jun-2005

A growing trend across Europe for drinking at home, and not smoking bans, has been blamed for the downturn in pub trade. A report, presented at the...

Consumer spending slowdown in run-up to Christmas

25-Nov-2004

High street operators could be in for a tough ride this Christmas as a cocktail of gloomy economic factors dampens their spirits.With research among...

Sorry, another first time buyer!

24-Nov-2004

For quite some time I have been looking at the options available to me to move into the pub business. In order to release the capital necessary I...

Brown's Budget spells bad news for smuggling

09-Apr-2003

A rise in cross-Channel bootlegging is inevitable following the Chancellor's penny-on-a-pint tax hike.So say trade leaders who feel today's Budget...

Why life's sexier with the suburbanites'

12-Dec-2002

Suburban" used to be one of those snotty insults that trendy city-centre retailers hurled at the further-flung members of drinking society. Well,...

Brown's blow to duty cut

28-Nov-2002

The trade was disappointed yesterday after Chancellor Gordon Brown failed to outline plans for a duty cut in next March's Budget. Many licensees and...

SFI denies cash crisis amid City fears

23-Sep-2002

High street retailer SFI Group has rubbished claims it is on the brink of financial disaster following fears of a cash crisis.Last week, a broker...

Christie & Co launches new pub buyers' guide

05-Feb-2002

Prospective licensees who are thinking about buying a pub can get some valuable advice thanks to a new publication from licensed property agent...

Buyers should take pubs now as banks are open to lending

13-Nov-2001

Environment is right for banks to lend to businessesFirst-time freehold purchasers looking to buy their own pub should start looking now, according...

Help for flagging tourism industry

30-Oct-2001

Campaign and cash to aid businesses affected by foot-and-mouthTourism in the countryside is to be supported with extra money and a promotional...

Extra cash for countryside tourism's winter survival

23-Oct-2001

Tourism in the countryside is to be supported with extra money and a promotional campaign, to help businesses recover from foot-and-mouth disease and...

Foot-and-mouth financial aid for trade

09-May-2001

by David Clifton, one of thePublican.com's legal team.I was listening to Radio 4 on the day that Phoenix, the 13-day-old heifer from Devon, had been...