Holy Grail

Buying the freehold of your pub is worth the hassle

26-Oct-2012

For the 30 years I have been in pubs, owning your own freehold has always seemed the holy grail: freetrade prices, capital growth, no area manager, rent reviews or flow monitoring. Affordable freeholds have always been available, but not in our area.

Doing the decent thing, but will it be too late?

21-Jun-2009 By Hamish Champ

"It's not out of the woods yet." So mused a pretty well-informed industry observer on the situation at Punch Taverns. When the UK's largest pub...

Steve Haslam blog: What the pubco report will mean

12-May-2009 By Steve Haslam

Licensee Steve Haslam gives his view on what tomorrow's controversial Bec report on pubcos will reveal.

Hamish Champ: Look into my 2009 crystal ball. Murky, isn't it?

05-Jan-2009 By Hamish Champ

So how went your New Year celebrations? Really? Marvellous. As it happens I've never been so glad to see the back of a year as I was with 2008, but...

Alternative use drives town sales

08-May-2008 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk

An increasing diversity of prospective buyers are looking to purchase pubs in town centres for potential alternative uses. That is the view of Pub...

The agent

17-Apr-2008

Graham Allman, managing director, GA Select I have been privileged in being involved with the licensed trade all my working life — it's been an...

Statutory guidance: who really needs it?

25-Jan-2007

The long-awaited full revision of the statutory Guidance under the Licensing Act has now appeared. I don't know whether the trade expected the Holy...

Judgement day for 16 suppliers

15-Mar-2001

Pub Food never realised how difficult it was for food suppliers to the pub trade to get a national listing with a major wholesaler - until now.As an invited guest of Fairway Foodservice plc, Pub Food dropped in to a hotel suite in Bradford to