Profits warnings, price wars, share collapses. Ah, it's coming up to Christmas
10-Dec-2007
Though not the first from the group this year, was last week's profit warning from Regent Inns the first thunderclap of a storm which threatens to...
Cellar to Glass: One tap, two heads
10-Dec-2007
Greene King's bid to bridge the great cask beer divide - between northern folk who like their head tight and creamy and southerners who prefer it...
Greene King cautious but confident
04-Dec-2007 By Hamish Champ
Acquisitions and strong organic growth helped push Greene King's half year turnover up six per cent to £445m and operating profits 11 per cent...
Heavy smokers still visit the pub, poll finds
04-Dec-2007 By Hamish Champ
More than half of all 'heavy smokers' visit their local pub as often as they did before the introduction of the smoking ban, a Greene King survey has...
Investing in skills
29-Nov-2007
Managed-house operators are nurturing talented staff to make sure they keep their best people. Graham Ridout finds out more The trend towards a more...
New Century staff share £19m payout
22-Nov-2007 By The PMA Team
Directors and staff at New Century Inns will share about £19m after the sale of the company's 49 pubs to Greene King for £32.6m. The company's...
Another day, another acquisition
19-Nov-2007 By Hamish Champ
As City analysts were busy dismissing yet another merger rumour concerning Marston's and Greene King, the latter's Rooney Anand was busy with his...
Ale makes play for sport
15-Nov-2007
Through their multi-million pound sponsorships, lager brands have long been associated with sport. Now the ale brewers are looking for a piece of the...
Greene King buys New Century Inns for £32.6m
14-Nov-2007 By Hamish Champ
Greene King, the Suffolk brewer and pub company, has bought North East pubco New Century Inns (NCI) for £32.6m. The deal is to be financed from...
Geoff Newton: An industry made of sterner stuff
24-Sep-2007
After a very quiet summer everyone is now back at work and in recent weeks we have had some interesting trading statements from Greene King, Punch...
Greene King trials carvery
06-Sep-2007 By The PMA Team
Greene King is trialling a number of different carvery concepts in its managed division. One such trial is being undertaken at a pub in Dunstable,...
04-Sep-2007
Like-for-likes up despite the terrible summer and the introduction of the smoking ban
Business Opinion
30-Aug-2007 By with The PMA Team
Support can cost little but save a lot When you own thousands of tenanted pubs, the degree of support you offer tenants must be a matter of perpetual...
Focus East Anglia: The Greene belt
24-Aug-2007
In the past few years one of the great names in regional brewing has rather outgrown itself.Greene King's 2,500 pubs are now spread all over the UK,...
Greene King fined £42,000
23-Aug-2007
Greene King has been hit with a mammoth £42,000-worth of fines and costs for hygiene offences at a Hampshire pub. It is the second time in three...
NewsDigest
16-Aug-2007
Former boss of Greene King's managed division, Mark Angela, was given a pay-off of £300,000 after his employment ended at the company in April this...
Pub food: going from strength to strength
16-Aug-2007
As Greene King buys the Loch Fyne seafood restaurant chain, The PMA Team looks at developments in the past year within a key success story for the...
Fishing for profits
13-Aug-2007 By Hamish Champ
In the cold light of day Greene King's recent foray into restaurants is probably as airtight as the containers used to transport the raw materials...
Greene King's text appeal
09-Aug-2007
Greene King is inviting cask beer drinkers to 'shout' about beer quality by text. The Bury St Edmunds brewer has set up a new quality textline as one...
Shares fall again following M&B property move
02-Aug-2007 By Hamish Champ
Greene King's shares fell today to their lowest point since October last year as the markets digested the postponement of Mitchells & Butlers'...
Pub trade defiant despite disaster
01-Aug-2007
Ewan Turney and Joe Lutrario visited the flood-stricken crisis zone to witness first hand the carnage left in the wake of the worst natural disaster...
Big Apple, Greene King?
30-Jul-2007
Beer was the furthest thing from my mind, it had to be said. It was only an hour since I had been staring open mouthed through the clouds at the...
Greene King set to land Loch Fyne
26-Jul-2007 By The PMA Team
Greene King is set to swallow the 36-strong seafood restaurant chain Loch Fyne, after entering exclusive talks. The deal would cover all 36 sites...
23-Jul-2007
Greene King is to withdraw its High Court appeal to gain costs from a group of local residents who opposed the opening hours at one of its pubs. The...
Greene King fined over hygiene breach at pub
19-Jul-2007
Greene King has been fined £25,000 plus costs over breaches of food hygiene at a managed pub in Winchester, Hampshire.The pub operator said it was...
THE GUV'NOR
12-Jul-2007
John Baldwin Pubcos need to do more to protect the traditional community pub, says the licensee of the Big 6 in Halifax, Yorkshire I recently took...
06-Jul-2007 By The PMA Team
New 'development estate' of 160 pubs will get increased support from regional managers to help them develop trade.
More leases for Greene King
05-Jul-2007 By The PMA Team
Greene King is to offer more of its pubs on a leased basis to attract more entrepreneurial licensees. The company has traditionally let around 80%...
03-Jul-2007 By The PMA Team
Greene King is to offer more of its pubs on a leased basis to attract more entrepreneurial licensees. The company has traditionally let around 80%...
Greene King looks for 'OpCo/PropCo' partner
03-Jul-2007 By Hamish Champ
Greene King is to look for a partner to co-own the 872 pubs currently not covered by existing securitisation arrangements.Announcing the group's...
What the papers say - July 3, 2007
03-Jul-2007
One of Britain's biggest pub groups Greene King has dismissed concerns about the smoking ban and said that sales on the day it came into force were...
Good month bad month
01-Jul-2007
Good month for Organic produce: According to new research, organic food sales topped £1bn last year. Families: More parents and kids are expected...
Website to launch promoting career in pubs
29-Jun-2007 By James Wilmore
A website developed by leading pubcos to promote the pub industry as a viable and exciting career is being launched on Sunday (July 1)....
Making a meal of the beer
28-Jun-2007
Greene King kick-started the drive to encourage drinkers to match beer with food with a special brew called The Beer To Dine For. It was one of the...
Greene King to sell homes
21-Jun-2007
Greene King has confirmed plans to sell off homes on its former Hardys & Hanson Brewery site. The brewery, in Kimberley, Nottinghamshire, is no...
Cellar to Glass: the surgery's open!
15-Jun-2007
Tech services have been brought into the 21st century with the launch of a trouble-shooting beer quality website for publicans.By logging onto...
34 Jonathan Webster managing director, Greene King Destination Pubs (new entry) Jonathan Lawson managing director, Greene King Local Pubs (new entry)
31-May-2007
Why they are on the list: Webster and Lawson assumed command of Greene King's two new managed pub divisions following the re-structuring of the...
30-May-2007 By Lucy Britner
Greene King develops Bake 'N' Bite concept for bar food.
Pub chief bitter at Harveys turnabout
03-May-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.
A Greene King lessee has criticised the company's decision to re-introduce Harveys to the Lewes Arms, East Sussex, while his pub opposite is not...
Training & Recruitment: tenant induction
20-Apr-2007
A tenant's first night in their new pub is always a stressful experience. For Karen Richardson and Mark Woolson, the fact they have never run a pub...
A breath of fresh air
19-Apr-2007
A smoke-free pub was the destination for the final Plan for the Ban roadshow, and there was plenty of advice on offer. John Harrington reports With...
Greene King, the Lewes Arms and the right of protest. Part Two.
16-Apr-2007 By Hamish Champ
My recent observations on the Greene King/Lewes Arms business certainly appear to have stirred up a plethora of comments, with many people believing...
Greene King, the Lewes Arms, and the right of protest
10-Apr-2007 By Hamish Champ
The recent Easter holiday saw me whizzing about the Sussex countryside on my motorcycle along with a bunch of biker chums. Being in the vicinity of...
Greene King set for U-turn on Harveys
05-Apr-2007 By Hamish Champ
Greene King is expected to bow to consumer pressure and reinstate Harvey's Best Bitter into Sussex pub the Lewes Arms, following a vociferous...
Business Opinion
05-Apr-2007
Greene King treads two different paths Last week's re-organisation of Greene King's managed division into two segments suggests the company believes...
Greene King invests £4.5m in depot
05-Apr-2007
Greene King has invested £4.5m in a new depot in Nottinghamshire to meet the increasing demand for Greene King beers in the midlands and the north....
Greene King invests £4.5m in new depot
02-Apr-2007 By Hamish Champ
Greene King has spent £4.5m on a new distribution depot in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in what the brewer describes as a signal of its commitment to...
GK's supermarket approach
29-Mar-2007
Major changes announced by Greene King (GK) this week are fascinating because they revolve around two key issues for the industry's future. Firstly,...
28-Mar-2007 By Lucy Britner
Greene King is to launch Greene King IPA Chilled. The new brand is an authentic keg beer designed to be served at 4°C from a condensating font....
Greene King gets it in the neck
26-Mar-2007 By Hamish Champ
I'm sure I wasn't the only one who read the piece in The Guardian's G2 section last week on Greene King and one of its pubs, the Lewes Arms in Lewes,...
