Tuppen and Thorley say pubco debt is not a problem
09-Dec-2008 By Hamish Champ
Bosses of the UK's leading pub operators today emphatically denied their companies' massive debts were putting the institution of the Great British...
09-Dec-2008 By Ewan Turney
The bosses of Britain's two biggest pubcos, Punch Taverns and Enterprise Inns, will be grilled by MPs on how they treat their tenants today. Punch...
09-Dec-2008 By John Harrington
Enterprise Inns chiefs mounted a strong attack on tenants buying outside the tie when they gave evidence to MPs in the pubco inquiry. They accused...
Hamish Champ: The Tuppen & Thorley Show hits town!
08-Dec-2008 By Hamish Champ
Forget David 'Dr Who' Tennant taking to the West End stage in 'Hamlet'. This week's hottest ticket is the much-anticipated appearance by the bosses...
27-Nov-2008 By The PMA Team
Pubs' performance can be split into three distinct groups, The PMA Team says.
Enterprise Inns to get tough on tie-breakers
18-Nov-2008 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns' chief executive Ted Tuppen today pledged his company's support for what he called "deserving licensees", but warned those who...
04-Nov-2008 By Ewan Turney
The Fair Pint campaign group has asked the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to investigate the level of discount pubcos pass on to their tenants.
Hamish Champ: Have we learned anything from the credit crunch?
03-Nov-2008 By Hamish Champ
I was on holiday last week doing the half-term thing with my nine year-old. In between the usual visits to cinemas and museums I listened to a lot of...
Hunger strike publican gets a date for his eviction
30-Oct-2008
A publican who went on hunger strike in a coffin to protest against his eviction will leave his pub in dramatic style on the 11th day of the 11th...
City Diary: 16 October
16-Oct-2008 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip from the City.
Selling the industry short
06-Oct-2008 By Hamish Champ
What a difference 12 months can make. A year ago next week, shares in Punch Taverns were trading at 11 quid, those of Enterprise Inns at nearly...
02-Oct-2008 By The PMA Team
Enterprise Inns chief executive Ted Tuppen has insisted that his company's business model is "robust and secure" with more than 80% of its pubs...
'Pub chain helps out licensees'
01-Oct-2008
Britain's second-biggest pub group said it was offering special concessions to 850 licensees during current trading conditions. Enterprise Inns,...
Rays of sunshine or flights of fancy?
13-Sep-2008 By Hamish Champ
For the country's more cynical pubco watchers, Enterprise Inns' demotion from the FTSE100 share index last week probably came as a ray of sunshine...
Enterprise shares hit by broker downgrade
11-Sep-2008
Enterprise Inns saw its share price fall to a five-year low yesterday after being downgraded by broker Morgan Stanley.With the City very downbeat on...
Pubco giants say no to Fair Pint meeting
07-Aug-2008 By James Wilmore
The UK's two biggest pub companies have strongly rejected campaign group Fair Pint's request to meet before the parliamentary showdown over pubco...
07-Aug-2008 By John Harrington
Enterprise and Punch have told the anti-pubco Fair Pint campaign they will not meet the group before the Parliamentary inquiry into pub companies,...
06-Aug-2008 By John Harrington
The BII is to run a series of roadshows, featuring a number of trade experts, on how best to prepare for rent reviews in association with the Morning Advertiser.
'Enterprise Inns warns of double digit declines'
22-Jul-2008
Enterprise Inns has warned of double-digit declines in beer sales and the rising cost of helping out ailing tenants. The company saw its share price...
How worried should pubcos be?
03-Jul-2008 By James Wilmore
So here we are again. Four years on from the Trade and Industry Select Committee (TISC) inquiry into pubco power, the big guns of the trade are...
Diary
27-Jun-2008
Tuppen's time on two wheels Intrepid Enterprise Inns boss Ted Tuppen is set to raise £75,000-plus for soldiers' rehabilitation charity Help for...
Paul Hickman, analyst at KBC Peel Hunt
26-Jun-2008
The effect of the smoking ban has differed widely depending on whether you are in the industry or an investor. The pubcos took radical action in...
Enterprise Inns to sell 82 pubs
12-Jun-2008 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns, which was recently given the go-ahead to become a real estate investment trust, is selling more than 80 of its pubs as part of a...
11 Simon Townsend
29-May-2008
chief operating officer, Enterprise Inns (11)
2 Ted Tuppen
29-May-2008
chief executive, Enterprise Inns (3)
Enterprise auction aims high
29-May-2008
Enterprise Inns is helping its licensees drive trade with an ingenious "How Lo?" reverse- auction competition — only the lowest unique bid wins. A...
Enterprise Inns sees profits fall as ban bites
13-May-2008 By Hamish Champ
The effects of the smoking ban, rising costs and the economic climate have predictably hit Enterprise Inns' profits in the six months to March 31...
13-May-2008 By The PMA Team
Three-quarters of Enterprise Inns licensees are making profits in line with or ahead of this period last year, chief executive Ted Tuppen has...
Time for a new model?
12-May-2008
The pub industry's prospects appear bleak and things are likely to get much worse if the UK economy goes well and truly into recession. Moreover, the...
'Boris bans booze on buses and tube'
08-May-2008
Drinking alcohol is to be banned on London buses and the Underground from next month as part of a New York-style "zero tolerance" approach to crime...
Licensees ordered out after £20,000 refurb
17-Apr-2008
A pair of licensees are refusing to quit the pub they have spent £20,000 renovating despite impending legal action by owner Enterprise Inns. Stephen...
Analyst rejects gaming claims
03-Apr-2008
A City analyst has dismissed claims that the decision by Inspired Gaming to sell its pub fruit-machine division, because of falling income, has any...
Enterprise Inns set to become a REIT
28-Mar-2008 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns believes it has taken a step closer towards qualifying as a real estate investment trust (REIT).In a trading statement issued today,...
We're working hard to help," says Enterprise Inns boss
28-Mar-2008 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns' chief executive Ted Tuppen said his company was working harder than ever to help those of its licensees who were in genuine need of...
Wilts pub rescue bid
13-Mar-2008 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk
The north-west Wiltshire branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) has launched a campaign to stop the county's oldest pub being turned into...
13-Mar-2008 By The PMA Team
City analyst has reports on budget increases and his negativity about the pub sector.
What the papers say - July 5, 2007
05-Jul-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
Staff and regulars at a pub in Scarborough have organised a whip-round for Martin Whisker, 42, the first man to be fined £80 for flouting England's...
Industry urged to help "marginalise" rogues
06-Jun-2007 By James Wilmore
Tenants will help put rogue operators out of business if they can encourage their landlords to meet the BII's standards, a pubco boss has argued....
Brulines sees turnover double in first half
05-Dec-2006 By Hamish Champ
Installing its equipment into thousands of Enterprise Inns' pubs helped boost first half turnover growth for Brulines, the manufacturer of beer flow...
Smoking out a bargain?
24-Nov-2006 By Hamish Champ
Ted Tuppen's comments that the sale of Enterprise Inns' entire 137-strong Scottish estate was strategically driven should be taken at face value,...
The GUV'NOR Dennis Griffiths
23-Nov-2006
The licensee of the Miners Rest in Barnsley looks back on the FLVA conference The 2006 FLVA (Federation of Licensed Victuallers Associations)...
The Publican's 30th Birthday: Ted Tuppen
20-Sep-2005
Ted Tuppen, chief executive of Enterprise Inns helps mark The Publican Newspaper's 30th Birthday.What were you doing 30 years ago?I had just got...
Industry Leaders' Forum: On the front foot
16-Jun-2005
Bosses of the biggest pubcos in the country came together at the first Publican Industry Leaders' Forum - and agreed that they needed to do more to...
Pubco bosses believe all-out smoking ban is 'inevitable'
09-Jun-2005
All sides of the pub trade are now preparing for an all-out ban on smoking in public places, including pubs, within five years.Meeting at the first...
Pubcos accused over recruitment firms
05-May-2005
Pub companies have been accused of turning a blind eye to the actions of rogue recruitment companies which sublease their sites to unwitting would-be...
Pubco 'not guilty' verdict confirmed
17-Mar-2005
Pub companies have been given a virtually clean bill of health by the government following the MPs' inquiry into the industry.Neither the Department...
Beer tie safeguards satisfies regulators and the City
13-Jan-2005
The Trade and Industry Select Committee's decision that the beer tie should remain for pubcos prompted a surge in share prices among the big...
Licensees lashout over committee report
06-Jan-2005
Licensees feel that they have been cheated after the Trade & Industry Select Committee failed to recommend decisive action to rein back the pub...
'Disappeared' couple speak of pubco disagreement
25-Nov-2004
The former tenants of a famous Kent pub are suing Enterprise Inns for £1m for alleged breach of contract.Adam Conti and his wife Hayley took over...
Capital idea
02-Sep-2004
The Yates MBO is the latest in a series of private equity investments in pub companies. Bill Priestley, of Legal & General Ventures, examines the...
