Urban Inns for the 21st century
19-Jun-2008
David Catling and Don MacIntyre are working with Enterprise Inns and Young's to re-invent the coaching inn. Lucy Britner reports. To paraphrase Alan...
05-Jun-2008 By The PMA Team
London brewer and retailer Young's has posted a 23.8% surge in pre-tax profit to £10.8m for the year to 29 March. The company revealed its managed...
Room to expand as Malmaison men move into pub market
30-May-2008
If the pub market is struggling, fortunes are more mixed for hotels. Some pub chains, such as Marston's, are moving into accommodation, while other...
28 Trevor Hemmings millionaire leisure tycoon (28) Brian King managing director, Trust Inns (28)
29-May-2008
Why they're on the list: Hemmings remains one of the most interesting, yet reclusive, figures in the pub and leisure industry. Until recently a major...
Urban set for expansion
29-May-2008
A new pub multiple is setting out to recreate the traditional inn experience with a modern twist. Urban Inns, set up by entrepreneurs David Catling...
Spirit aims for 43 Good Night Inns sites by 2009
08-May-2008
Boss Giles Thorley has indicated that Punch's managed division will beat tough trading conditions through innovation. Jo Bruce looks at some of the...
06-May-2008 By Tony Halstead
Ruling could limit ability of local residents to oppose extended hours
06-May-2008 By MA reporter
Zonal Retail Data Systems Founded in 1979, Zonal Retail Data Systems is the leading supplier of technology solutions to the hospitality and leisure...
S&NPE aims at up to 500 more pubs
17-Apr-2008 By The PMA Team
S&NPE nears single-site acquiaition target Scottish & Newcastle Pub Enterprises (S&NPE) is looking to add between 300 and 500 pubs over...
Digest
10-Apr-2008
Better training for new licensees First-time pub entrants could get a better package of induction training, if a new scheme is successful. North-west...
09-Apr-2008 By MA reporter
Grace's CV BackgroundPaul Grace trained as a chef in 1988 after getting the hospitality bug in his parents' pubs. He continued to train through...
A round-up of this month's news
01-Apr-2008
Hygiene made public The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has decided that a single nationwide scores-on-the-doors scheme should be put in place to make...
Room at the inn
03-Mar-2008 By Hamish Champ
Ted Kennedy likes a challenge. An affable veteran of Whitbread's pub and hotel businesses, Kennedy is one of a growing number of executives who see a...
Peach on the piste
01-Mar-2008
Lucy Britner reports on Peach Pub Company's new international adventure It's enjoying success with its seven UK pubs, but now Peach Pub Company is...
MyNewPub
28-Feb-2008
The Bull Charlbury Oxfordshire Agent: Colliers Robert Barry Alix Blumsom and Stuart Matthews are adopting an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"...
Health secretary: 'Ban is good'
28-Feb-2008
Health Secretary Alan Johnson has labelled the smoking ban "highly successful" and said it will not create long-term economic problems for pubs....
Rooms with a queue
07-Feb-2008
Maximise profits from your pub's letting rooms by promoting its profile effectively, advises Michael Cockman In difficult trading conditions one...
Bulldog Pub Company pulls out of pubs
17-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
The Lincolnshire-based Bulldog Pub Company (BPC) has announced that it has all but pulled out of pubs, blaming the current trading environment for...
Bulldog set for expansion
17-Jan-2008 By The PMA Team
Bulldog Pub Company is to expand in the three-star hotel market after disposing of its pubco leases. The company, headed by Kevin Charity, is to...
10-Jan-2008 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
London-based brewer and operator will more than double the number of rooms it operates
City diary
29-Nov-2007 By The PMA Team
Undercover operations in green light district We've all heard share-buying theories over the years. The sale of Grolsch to SABMiller reminds City...
Gastropub news digest....
26-Nov-2007
De Bretton Group Fawkes out The de Bretton Group, the Yorkshire-based hospitality business, has bought the Guy Fawkes Hotel in High Petergate, York,...
THE GUV'NOR
22-Nov-2007
Dave Burns Don't expect Dubai pubs to offer a comfortable experience, advises this ex-pat Being a Greene King tenant in Bedford was not all it was...
THE AGENTS
22-Nov-2007
Andrew Coulter Director of business development at Redwoods Dowling Kerr It was forecast that this would be a difficult year for the pub industry -...
Property Focus: The Castle at Porlock
17-Oct-2007
It made Fawtly Towers look like the Ritz. Tawdry 1970s décor, avocado bathroom suites and beds propped up on bricks, no two bedspreads matched. And...
Demand for supply
30-Aug-2007
Online ordering specialist Makella is hoping to carve out a niche in the pub sector. Noli Dinkovski reports Any licensee worth their salt knows that...
MyShout
23-Aug-2007
Room for improvement? Colin Wellstead looks at the increasing popularity of letting rooms
Legal advice: Fire safety regulations
10-Aug-2007
If you happen to have a pub in Suffolk then you will be included in a high-profile inspection regime which is targeting pubs that have sleeping...
View from the top
05-Jul-2007
Christoph Brooke, managing director of Hillbrooke Hotels, which runs Wiltshire's Bath Arms, leased from the Longleat Estate, shares secrets of...
Breare plans new dining pub estate
14-Jun-2007 By Lucy Britner lucy.britner@william-reed.co.uk
Entrepreneur Robert Breare has unveiled plans to open between 50 and 75 sites in the next five years within his Merchant Inns pub vehicle. The...
Fuller's unveils leap in profits
14-Jun-2007 By The PMA Team
London brewer Fuller's has unveiled a leap in profits in the wake of the acquisition of Hampshire brewer and retailer Gales. Chief executive Michael...
Chris Maclean: beguiled by sales people
12-Jun-2007 By Chris Maclean
I think the three words I least like to hear in a pub are "What you want to do is…" My heart sinks when I hear this line."What you want to do...
Gales boosts Fuller's results
08-Jun-2007 By Hamish Champ
A full year's contribution from the acquired Gales estate, rising food sales and two hotel disposals boosted Fuller Smith & Turner's annual...
27 Brian King managing director, Trust Inns (new entry) Trevor Hemmings millionaire leisure tycoon (new entry)
31-May-2007
Why they are on the list: Entrepreneur Trevor Hemmings, whose empire embraces pubs, hotels, fun parks, Blackpool Tower, construction companies and...
16-May-2007 By Ewan Turney
Morning Advertiser Pub of the Year Award winner David Sax has secured £10m worth of private-equity backing to expand the Cow brand in the southern...
MyNewPub
03-May-2007
Ship Inn, Noss Mayo, South Devon Agent: Colliers Robert Barry Lisa and Charlie Bullock have just taken over the Ship Inn, Noss Mayo, South Devon....
Chris Maclean: £1,500 well spent?
01-May-2007 By Chris Maclean
There is a little bit of a cold atmosphere in our household tonight. Put bluntly, I have the hump.My wife has decided to commission decorators to...
Thwaites makes clear it's not for sale
19-Apr-2007 By Mark Wingett mark.wingett@william-reed.co.uk
Daniel Thwaites, the Lancashire-based brewer and pub operator, has celebrated its 200th anniversary by declaring it is not for sale and setting out a...
As the smoke starts clearing
19-Apr-2007
Further rules on smoke-free premises and vehicles were published by the Department of Health last month. Although they do not give additional help on...
Bedroom antics
05-Apr-2007 By James Wilmore
Diversification is set to become the buzzword for pubs once the smoking ban hits. Competition will be fiercer than ever in many areas. Aside from an...
Chris Maclean: how to charge £30 for tea and cakes
23-Mar-2007 By Chris Maclean
I have just come back from tea at The Ritz. Wow. That sounded so good I am going to write it again. I have just come back from tea at The Ritz.I...
Staying power
22-Feb-2007
If your letting rooms aren't being exploited to the max, you could be missing a trick. Tony Halstead shows you how to be perfectly accommodating The...
Creating a cash cow
22-Feb-2007
David Sax tells Ewan Turney how he transformed the run down Cow in Parkstone, Dorset, into the MA's Pub of the Year in just three years How I got...
Chris Maclean: hotel rooms are a bonus
09-Feb-2007 By Chris Maclean
When we took over this pub we knew the hotel rooms were an additional bonus. What I had underestimated was how much of a bonus.At the beginning of...
08-Feb-2007 By The PMA Team
Former Mill House Inns bosses Ted Kennedy and Ziya Akguneyli have acquired three hotels from Punch for around £10m.
Back to basics: maximise letting rooms
31-Jan-2007
Well, thank goodness Christmas and New Year are over for another year. But it's January and your beds are empty. Of course, there is no magic...
Minto Hotel, Edinburgh
28-Sep-2006
Outlet profile The 22-bedroom privately owned Minto, set on a main road into Edinburgh about a mile from the city centre, faces plenty of competition...
Oxford Inns & Hotels takes over 240 former L&E sites
28-Sep-2006
A new company called Oxford Inns & Hotels is now running a group of 240 former London & Edinburgh Swallow Group (LESG) pubs and hotels. The...
07-Sep-2006 By Tony Halstead
Hospitality industry bosses attended a summit meeting with tourism minister Shaun Woodward yesterday (Wednesday) in an effort to stave off the threat of a controversial "bed tax" on letting accommodation.
An upmarket offering
01-Sep-2006
An enthusiastic taxi driver is often a pub's biggest hidden asset, so the cabby who takes me from Northampton to the World's End pub, five miles out...
