26-Jul-2021 By Nikkie Thatcher
With vaccine passports looking set to become compulsory in nightclubs later this year, The Morning Advertiser takes a look at how Covid-status certification is being undertaken across the Channel, where all hospitality venues have to impose it.
Analysis
14-Oct-2020 By Stuart Stone
How does the UK Government's support for the hospitality sector stack up against what's being offered on the continent?
Comment
27-Jul-2020 By Elaine Beckett, Darls communication
Hospitality trade communications specialist Elaine Beckett writes about what it’s like in French bars and restaurants post coronavirus lockdown.
06-Aug-2018 By Emily Hawkins
Brewer Charles Wells will invest €9m (£8m) into the growth of its French estate of managed pubs over the next three years.
24-Aug-2017 By Nicholas Robinson
They are potentially the most expensive fungi known to man, with prices regularly exceeding £30 per gram, but there are ways to extend the use of truffles beyond thinly shaving them over a dish.
Euro 2016
18-Aug-2016 By Oli Gross
Charles Wells France sold 225,595 pints during Euro 2016 as the company saw a massive increase in sales.
01-Jul-2015 By Jessica Mason
Heineken has signed French footballer Eric Cantona for a new digitally led campaign for its Kronenbourg 1664 lager brand.
12-Jun-2013 By Noli Dinkovski
The body that represents UK advertisers has slammed Alcohol Concern’s latest report on alcohol advertising as “seriously flawed”.
Hamish Champ: Why can't the UK be a bit more like France?
12-Jul-2010 By Hamish Champ
Travel, they say, broadens the mind and by golly they're right. I recently whizzed around Northern France on my motorbike and found the people in...
Wells to expand in France
17-Apr-2009 By The PMA Team
Charles Wells Pub Company plans to extend its French connection by adding seven more pubs to its French estate over the next four years. The...
French invasion boosts pub's trade
20-Jan-2009
While most pubs have to work hard to drive trade during January, handing the business over to a team of chefs and waiters from France is a solution...
05-Jun-2008 By Joe Lutrario
Buyer plans two mixed-use sites
29-May-2008 By Tamara Sender, M&C Report
Charles Wells Pub Company is looking to more than double its existing estate in France to 10 sites within the next three years. The group currently...
Hamish Champ: Drinking lots of beer in Paris has consequences
22-Oct-2007 By Hamish Champ
Sometimes one comes across cultural differences between the peoples of two nations that are so stark, so… gulf-like in their make-up, that one...
Chris Maclean: what's up with the French?
19-Jul-2007 By Chris Maclean
Last week's trip to France was quite an eye-opener in many ways. I often visit northern France and know many areas quite well but I am surprised at...
What the papers say - July 2, 2007
02-Jul-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
Kraft, the maker of Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers, is understood to be in talks to buy the biscuit and cereal-products division of France's Danone,...
01-Sep-2006
The mushroom season is upon us, opening a luscious variety of tastes, textures and colours from the delicate to the pungent. So how about creating a...
Chile wind gives France a cold
20-Oct-2005
Varying consumer tastes - and some savvy marketing - are changing customer demand for wine in the on-trade. NIGEL HUDDLESTON reports on the...
France moves closer to smoke ban
03-Aug-2005
France looks set to be the latest European country to ban smoking in workplaces, including pubs and restaurants. The French government plans to...
Heritage to reward its successful tenants
29-Apr-2004
Heritage Pub Company has launched a new volume-based incentive which could see tenants winning holidays in the Caribbean or Mediterranean. Heritage...
Sports Cafe reports sales increase
26-Apr-2004
Coliseum Group, owner of the Sports Café chain, has reported a 22 per cent increase in sales to £7.8m for the year ended December 31, 2003.Earnings...
Renowned chefs cross Channel for pub move
22-Jan-2004
It's normally the British who are tempted to the French way of life but not for the Van Vliet family, who have just sold a countryhouse hotel in the...
Angel brings wine cave to north Yorks
14-Aug-2003
by Tony Halstead An award-winning north Yorkshire gastropub has become one of the first in the country to open its own French-style wine cave. The...
New booze cruise could kill pub trade in the North East
12-Jul-2002
Licensees in the North East fear a new booze cruise - taking drinkers to France- could be devastating for trade.Drinkers will be able to board the...
European union?
05-Dec-2001
As the EU proposes harmonisation of duty levels, the difference between Britain and the continent grows ever larger. Jackie Annett reportsIt's a...
How knowing your wine regions can boost sales
26-Jul-2001
A familiarity with the characteristics of the major wine producing countries and regions can be useful when advising customers on their choice of...