Orchid Group lining up to buy Premium Bars & Restaurants
08-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
The future of Premium Bars & Restaurants (PBR), which operates more than 50 pubs and bars covering brands including the Living Room and the Bel...
Dark Star properties on the market
10-Sep-2009 By Claire Dodd Claire
Properties formerly belonging to Dark Star, one of Scotland's largest bar, restaurant and hotel operators, are on the market following the company...
07-Sep-2009 By The PMA Team
Property agent Christie & Co has been appointed to sell the assets of Dark Star, the leisure management business part-owned by the entrepreneur...
04-Sep-2009 By John Harrington
Trade leader Tony Payne has warned the Chancellor beer duty would rise to a massive 9.4% from 1 January if it isn't cut when VAT returns to normal....
Graffiti artists take over pub for charity
02-Sep-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
A pub has opened its doors to let graffiti artists take over the garden and create a new look. The Black Horse in Woburn, Bedfordshire, welcomed the...
12-Aug-2009 By Jo Bruce
A Norfolk pub chef is inviting customers to use the pub's garden as an allotment to grow produce for the pub's menu. The Pigs at Edgefield has...
24-Jul-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Hosts are warned that gangs are using sophisticated electronic devices to steal money from fruit machines in pubs across the country. Bob Rudd...
07-Jul-2009 By Ewan Turney
A Bristol pub has been banned from serving any drinks in glass and running drinks promotions following an incident involving a police officer. The...
Marc Allinson: Signs of the times
29-Jun-2009
However I do think that there is an information sign overload in this country. You cannot walk into any commercial premises without being faced with...
Parcel delivery is part of new pub support package
22-Jun-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
A new initiative that stemmed from a Dragons' Den style competition means people can now have parcels delivered to their local pub. Last year...
Charity cyclists on the lookout for pubs
12-Jun-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Two licensees are on the lookout for pubs to help them get through an epic charity cycle ride. Kevin Murphy, licensee at both Murphy's Bar and the...
04-Jun-2009 By Ewan Turney
Punch licensees in Bath — what they told Punch executives and the Morning Advertiser. Alan Morgan, Abbey Ales, the Star Background: Multiple lessee...
Trade union launches attack on pubco profit margins
28-May-2009 By James Wilmore
Trade union the GMB has stepped up its attack on the pubcos - claiming that Enterprise Inns has a profit margin nine times that of supermarket giant...
26-May-2009 By The PMA Team
Newcastle pub operator Fluid, which was crowned best operator in Newcastle, is diversifying into coffee shops.
18-May-2009 By Ewan Turney
Guiseley Factory Workers Club has today been crowned Campaign for Real Ale's National Club of the Year.
The pub industry: a house divided?
25-Apr-2009 By Hamish Champ
People I spoke to last week about Alistair Darling's Budget were understandably peeved. There was the City analyst who viewed the Chancellor's...
16-Apr-2009 By Steve Haslam
Steve Haslam — multiple Enterprise lessee at the Cutter Inn, Ely and the new White Horse at Ramsden Heath — says pubcos aren't to blame for all...
Keeping on an even keel, but for how long?
06-Apr-2009 By Hamish Champ
There are times when I 'get it in the neck' for something I've written. It comes with the territory. Sometimes I get it in the neck from licensees...
Philip Davison: What a week I've had!
30-Mar-2009 By Philip Davison Philip
It certainly was a very proud moment for my wife Lauren, Daughter Chantelle and myself, plus the four lnog serving members of our team we took with...
Glass attack victim's anger at police
26-Mar-2009
Police have been slammed by a licensee after a customer who smashed a glass in her face escaped with a caution. Jean Rowe, from the Rose and Crown,...
Agent stops marketing Admiral Taverns pubs
16-Mar-2009
Property agent Caldicott Payne Commercial has taken the decision to cease marketing properties on behalf of Admiral Taverns.Admiral currently has 220...
We are your good news bible
06-Mar-2009 By Andrew Pring
Calling all MA readers, calling all MA readers: is there any good news out there? Or is it really the end of the world and we're all off to hell in a handcart?
04-Mar-2009 By Ewan Turney
Miller Genuine Draft is giving drinkers in Scotland the chance to win a limited edition MP3 player loaded with live tracks. The promotion froms part...
'Arson attack pub to be demolished'
17-Feb-2009
A pub which was severely damaged when a suspected arson attack ripped through Blackpool town centre, will be demolished. Yates's Wine Lodge, a pet...
17-Feb-2009 By The PMA Team
JD Wetherspoon has brokered a deal with Greene King that will see Ruddles Best replace IPA as the 99p-a-pint offer within its 715-pub estate. The...
11-Feb-2009 By The PMA Team
A Walkabout bar in Liverpool, owned by Regent Inns, has had to install ID scanners and knife arches after 20 incidents in 12 months. The bar was...
Enterprise licensee warning after rent rise confusion
05-Feb-2009 By James Wilmore
An Enterprise Inns lessee is urging other publicans to check their annual rent increase after he discovered he was about to pay three times too much....
29-Jan-2009 By The PMA Team
Nightclub company Nexum Leisure is on the lookout for transformational deals in 2009 as a tough market produces "winners and losers". Nexum is 70%...
23-Jan-2009 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Merger talks have taken place between Premium Bars & Restaurants and 3D Entertainment.
23-Jan-2009 By M&C Report
Nightclub operator Nexum Leisure has revealed that like-for-like sales at its core estate have increased by 6%. Revealing its sales for a five week...
Pub helps save tourists stranded on cliff
13-Jan-2009
A pub came to the rescue of two Frenchmen and their dog who were stranded on a Cornwall cliff. Sue Sleight, manager of St Austell pub, the Port...
A half-decent Christmas and New Year then?
12-Jan-2009 By Hamish Champ
A ring round of managed pub operators to get a sense of Christmas and New Year business proved a rather fruitless exercise last week. While a handful...
07-Jan-2009 By www.clickliverpool.com
A Labour MP has sparked an inquiry into a drinks deal at Tesco, claiming it used "bait advertising" to lure customers in. Rosie Cooper, MP for West...
Wetherspoons hits back over 99p pint furore
07-Jan-2009 By James Wilmore
JD Wetherspoon has hit back at criticism over its 99p pint offer, arguing the promotion is "far from irresponsible". The pub chain launched the offer...
07-Jan-2009 By Ewan Turney
Nexum has stumped up a £20,000 to catch thieves who made off with cash from the Syndicate nightclub in Blackpool.
Brakspear pubs get a Christmas visit
12-Dec-2008
While it might not quite match up to Santa's ability to get round every child in the world in one night, Brakspear Pub Company commercial director...
Licensee sees off locals to win darts comp
06-Nov-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
A darts-playing licensee has seen off competition from his regulars to win the chance to play like a pro. Grant Vickers, who has run the Ravenscroft...
21-Oct-2008 By John Harrington
Disgruntled tenants are likely to be the first to give evidence in the Parliamentary inquiry into how pubcos treat licensees. The inquiry, which is...
06-Oct-2008 By John Harrington
Bristol barman Danny Walker has been crowned the world's best bartender in a competition run by Czech beer brand Pilsner Urquell. Walker, of the...
A new force in AWP machines is born
02-Sep-2008 By Hamish Champ
A new range of lottery machines will be making their presence felt in pubs in the coming months, following a deal between two leading technology...
Opinion: Eavesdropping on InBev
01-Sep-2008
I just can't get away from work these days. A trip to drink beer in Brussels on a day off recently was bound to be something of a busman's holiday,...
Cains and able to buy back the business?
01-Sep-2008 By Hamish Champ
In what has been a quiet and singularly damp squib of a summer the Cains affair is at least building up a head of steam, judging by developments last...
Home Office alcohol official to speak at BBN event
29-Aug-2008 By James Wilmore
A top Home Office official, who deals with alcohol policy, has been revealed as the keynote speaker at the first National Best Bar None (BBN)...
Winning a NITA proves a boost for business
23-Jul-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Scooping BII NITA awards has been great for business, according to the companies that won last time around. The entry process to the Publican backed...
Noctis ups focus on community engagement
18-Jul-2008 By James Wilmore
Better ways to engage with the community was high on the agenda at a meeting designed to raise standards among those working in the night-time...
15-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney
Best Bar None schemes have drastically cut the amount of paperwork to save licensees time.
11-Jul-2008 By Joe Lutrario
A leading agent believes bureaucracy will further complicate the arrival of Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) as qualified inspectors are told they cannot issue ratings until allocated an inspector number.
A modest proposal for helping pubs
10-Jul-2008
Last man standing is the phrase on the lips of many pub bosses these days. They mean that if you can just hang on in there, chances are your rival...
My New Pub
03-Jul-2008
Wellington Heifer Ainderby Steeple, North Yorkshire Agent: Guy Simmonds Scotsman Kenny Harkness comes to the Wellington Heifer after a celebrated...
03-Jul-2008 By John Harrington
The chairman of the new Parliamentary inquiry into pubcos says he has no agenda "other than the search for the truth". Peter Luff MP spoke...