Giles Thorley

Giles Thorley to steer clear of pubs at TDR Capital

05-Jan-2011 By Hamish Champ

Former Punch Taverns boss Giles Thorley said today his new role at TDR Capital, the private equity firm that bought more than 300 pubs from Mitchells...

Thorley joins TDR Capital

05-Jan-2011 By Ewan Turney

Ex-Punch Taverns boss Giles Thorley is set to take up a role with the private equity firm TDR Capital, which backed the acquisition of 333 wet-led...

Thorley: Joining TDR Capital talk "premature".

15-Nov-2010 By The PMA Team

Former Punch Taverns boss Giles Thorley has described reports that he is set to join private equity firm TDR Capital as "premature". The Sunday...

Welcome to Punch Taverns Mr Dyson

14-Sep-2010 By Hamish Champ

What are the odds that last week would have been the first in a long while that Giles Thorley enjoyed from start to finish? Having stepped down as...

Thorley to leave Punch on 3 September

26-Aug-2010 By The PMA Team

Punch Taverns chief executive Giles Thorley will leave the business a week tomorrow — Friday 3 September. His replacement, Ian Dyson, starts on Monday 6 September.

5. Roger Whiteside, managing director and Giles Thorley, chief executive, Punch

27-May-2010 By Tony Halstead

The Morning Advertiser's top 50 most influential people in the pub industry.

New Punch boss starts on 6 September

25-May-2010 By Ewan Turney

Ian Dyson will take over as chief executive of Punch Taverns on 6 September, the pub company has confirmed. Current boss Giles Thorley will remain...

Punch boss Thorley starts new private venture

26-Apr-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report

Giles Thorley, the outgoing chief executive of Punch Taverns, has set up a new company under the name Anthrop Capital. Thorley, who announced last...

Retail is the new reality

09-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team

The departure of Punch boss Giles Thorley is part of a changing of the guard trend, says The PMA Team. He's the last of seven senior or board-level...

Thorley: Paving the way for retail-led growth

08-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team

Last week Giles Thorley revealed he was leaving Punch Taverns later this year. The PMA Team gives a view on the departure. It's been pretty much a...

Pub Bitch: New beer for the mature drinker

06-Apr-2010

One for the mature drinker Perusing my copy of German newspaper Der Spiegel the other day over breakfast I rather bemusedly read about a local brewer...

Giles Thorley quits Punch Taverns

30-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney

Punch Taverns chief executive Giles Thorley has announced his resignation from Punch Taverns. Punch said it is "well advanced" with the process of...

Giles Thorley's replacement to be announced "at the end of April

30-Mar-2010 By Caroline Nodder

Punch chief Giles Thorley said he expects his successor to be named by the end of April, and confirmed that final interviews were taking place...

Thorley likely to stay until summer

30-Mar-2010 By The PMA Team

Punch chief executive Giles Thorley has indicated that he is likely to remain in post until early summer to ensure a smooth hand-over to his...

Pete Robinson: The pubco disease

16-Jun-2009

Where did it all go wrong?The entire sorry saga can be summed up in three words - Suits, Greed and Smoking Ban. Okay, that's four words.Punch was...

Punch tells MPs beer tie probe would be a "waste of time and resources

04-Jun-2009 By James Wilmore

Punch Taverns chief executive Giles Thorley has written to MPs arguing an investigation into beer tie would be "a waste of time and resources". In an...

Giles Thorley

28-May-2009 By The PMA Team

Giles Thorley chief executive, Punch Taverns (1) Why he is on the list: The head of Britain's biggest pub company, which like other big tenanted...

Who's fooling who?

11-Apr-2009 By Hamish Champ

I don't expect Punch Taverns' Giles Thorley, Enterprise Inns' Ted Tuppen or Admiral Taverns' Lynne D'Arcy to give a flying fig for the following...

Pubco CEOs may see pay frozen in 2009

14-Feb-2009 By Hamish Champ

A number of leading pubco bosses are expected to miss out on a basic pay increase in the coming year as the companies they run batten down the...

City Diary — 22 January

22-Jan-2009 By The PMA Team

All the latest rumour and gossip from the City.

Punch ups tenant support as beer volumes drop 12%

14-Jan-2009 By The PMA Team

A total of 1,200 Punch licensees are currently receiving special support from the company at a cost of £1.6m a month, the pubco says.

Reports of Punch Taverns' demise "greatly exaggerated", says Thorley

04-Nov-2008 By Hamish Champ

Punch Taverns chief executive Giles Thorley pointed to his group's much anticipated annual results, published today, and claimed news of the pubco's...

Good news anyone?

27-Oct-2008 By Hamish Champ

Another week, another set of depressing economic surveys. I know I contribute to the increasing sense of gloom, doom and despondency by repeating the...

Punch denies letting problems

29-Sep-2008 By Ewan Turney

Punch boss Giles Thorley has denied claims that the pubco is struggling to let pubs despite a weekend report that around 1,400 of its pubs are looking for new tenants.

Dear Prudence?

08-Sep-2008 By Hamish Champ

When Greene King published its trading update on Tuesday of last week its shares immediately shot up, to the bewilderment of even some of the City's...

Giles Thorley named most influential in pub industry

30-May-2008 By The PMA Team

MA's Top 50 Most Influential list

1 Giles Thorley

29-May-2008

chief executive, Punch Taverns (1)

Packing A Punch

02-May-2008 By Hamish Champ

Many believe Punch Taverns' size and dominance of the leased pub sector effectively renders the group the industry's 'belweather'. Such people would...

Merger means clash of styles

07-Feb-2008

The merger of Punch and Mitchells & Butlers would create a marked contrast in styles at the top of the organisation. Punch boss Giles Thorley...

Giles Thorley backs calls to reduce drinking age

20-Sep-2007 By Hamish Champ

Punch Taverns chief executive Giles Thorley has added his weight to calls for the drinking age in the UK to be lowered to 16.The boss of the biggest...

Punch defends 'fat cat' chief

30-Aug-2007

Punch Taverns has defended its chief executive Giles Thorley, disputing claims he earns 1,147 times the average salary of his employees. A report in...

'One in five teenagers admit to drink-driving'

30-Aug-2007

One in five 17 to 18-year-old drivers admits to drink driving, a survey has revealed. One in 14 admitted driving while under the influence of drugs....

Value for money?

12-Jan-2007 By Hamish Champ

2007 is likely to be one busy year for the pub industry. Following hot on the heels of the roll-out of the Licensing Act, the introduction of...

Punch hosts' yearly earnings reach £35k

17-Nov-2006 By The PMA Team

Punch Taverns has produced its first ever official figure for tenants' and lessees' earnings in the estate - £35,000 including the annual live-in...

Punch Taverns sees little upside from new licensing regime

09-Nov-2006 By Hamish Champ

Extended drinking hours have had little impact on Punch Taverns' overall trading, according to Giles Thorley, the pub operator's chief...

Mr Punch shows the way to do it

31-Aug-2006 By Hamish Champ

Google "Giles Thorley" and the search results range from the usual stuff on Punch Taverns through to disgruntled retailers venting their collective...

Spirited Punch likely to sell off 1,000 pubs

08-Dec-2005

by The PMA Team Punch Taverns boss Giles Thorley has indicated at least 1,000 pubs are likely be sold by the company in the wake of its acquisition...

Unique, the UK's largest landlord, and its 'retailers'

14-Mar-2001

It's Saturday night, and a fashionable, affluent crowd is crammed into one of London's hippest bars, 25 Canonbury Lane in Islington, sipping...