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East London Pub Co goes into administration

24-Nov-2023 By Ed Bedington

The East London Pub Company has gone into administration, although the businesses four sites are continuing to trade.

BISC: Pubcos attacked over national rent database

07-Jul-2011 By John Harrington and Michelle Perrett

Pubcos were attacked for failing to provide information for a national database on rents and other costs for tenants. The Royal Institute of...

Fair Pint: 'Five pubs fail every day'

19-Apr-2011 By Ewan Turney

Anti-beer tie group Fair Pint believes the failure rate of pubs may be as high as five per day — it disputes figures given by BBPA.

Surveys paint bleak picture for UK pubs

12-Jul-2010 By Hamish Champ

The immediate trading prospects for the on-trade appear grim, if two new surveys on business survival and consumer spending are to be believed. Pub...

The tie's moral dimension

12-Mar-2010 By The PMA Team

So where are we after last week's pubco/tenant report? More than half of the UK's pubs are subject to a supply agreement called the tie, says The PMA Team.

Video: 'free of tie world would lead to more pub failures'

22-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney

A free of tie pub world could lead to more business failures, Marston's Pub Company boss Alastair Darby has warned. Speaking to the Morning...

Lowlander does a pre-pack after big City losses

09-Nov-2009 By Hamish Champ

Mounting losses in its City of London site have forced Lowlander, the London-based bar operation, to undergo a pre-pack administration. Following the...

FLVA: It was important to 'bank benefits' from mediation

20-Oct-2009 By Matt Eley Matt

Trade group the Federation of Licensed Victuallers Associations (FLVA) has explained its decision to support for the British Beer & Pub...

Pre-packs defy evolution

06-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team

Pre-pack administrations might be perfectly legal, but they don't seem very fair — to unsecured creditors or to other companies, says The PMA Team.

Pub failure rate on the increase

02-Feb-2009 By Hamish Champ

The pub sector's problems have been highlighted in new research which shows the failure rate in the sector is on the increase.According to insolvency...

Scots off trade slammed for underage sales

22-Apr-2008 By Ewan Turney

MSP hits out at off-trade following test purchase failures

Business failures rise as credit crunch tightens

07-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ

The number of UK business failures has increased for the first time in more than a year, as the credit crunch tightens its grip on the...

Punch boosts new licensee support

08-Nov-2007 By The PMA Team

 Punch Taverns is ramping up its support for new licensees in an attempt to reduce the number of business failures in the first year of...

Punch ramps up licensee support

31-Oct-2007 By The PMA Team

Punch Taverns is ramping up support for new licensees in a bid to reduce the number of business failures

Police unfair on licensees

06-Sep-2007

The issue of underage drinking won't go away. In spite of some suggestions from informed sources that the Home Office was taking the pressure off,...

Provence founder has failed before

02-Nov-2006 By The PMA Team

The collapse of Provence is not founder Paul J Kiely's first business failure. Before setting up Provence, he was a director of Kiely Developments,...

One in three pubs fail underage sting

15-Jun-2006 By The PMA Team

Nearly one third of pubs and clubs - 31% - served minors in the latest Home Office-backed national test purchase operation, the MA has learnt. NEW COMMENT

Dilemma of missing applications

19-May-2005

The above brings me very neatly to the shock-horror scenario of the missing applications and the deadlines. There is a small amount of deliberate...

Scottish trade hits out at Smoking Charter 'failure'

01-Oct-2003

Scottish trade leaders have defended themselves against accusations that the Scottish Smoking Charter is a failure. Last week doctors launched a...