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...
Food Excellence Awards Special achievement
01-Mar-2008
Tony Hughes Tony Hughes, who stepped down after a decade as boss of Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) pub restaurant division at the end of last...
Food Excellence Awards
01-Mar-2008
Pub company of the year - branded Barracuda Brands: Smith & Jones, Varsity, Cape, Barracuda Bar, Juniper. Key innovations in 2007: The last...
A Blanc canvas
01-Mar-2008
Top chef Raymond Blanc talks to Lucy Britner about pubs, restaurants and other animals Raymond is busy recruiting wannabe restaurateurs for a second...
Food Excellence Awards
01-Mar-2008
Young Pub ChefJack Bloomfield Commis chef, the Lickfold Inn, Lickfold, West Sussex 01798 861285 ?thelickfoldinn.co.uk Ownership: Freehold Dish:...
Good month bad month
01-Mar-2008
Good month for... Grilling: Orchid and Spirit Group launch new grill concepts with a focus on top quality British meat and fish. Both companies...
A round-up of this month's news
01-Mar-2008
Thrilling grills Two managed pub companies are set to launch new grill concepts. Orchid Pub Group, formed by private equity company GI Partners, is...
Pub company of the year, branded - winner
29-Feb-2008
Orchid Concepts: Contemporary dining gastropubs, contemporary carveries; freehouse midmarket Two for One including Fuzzy Ed's; Oriental restaurant...
Whitbread combines management of hotels and pubs
28-Feb-2008 By Hamish Champ
Whitbread has today announced a number of sweeping changes to its structure, including combining the management of its hotels and pub restaurant...
MyNewPub
21-Feb-2008
Three Wheat Heads Inn Thropton, Northumberland Agent: Davey & Co The team behind this pub has completely turned business around since taking over...
Pubcos promise help amid trade gloom
14-Feb-2008
Pub companies claim they are willing to work with licensees to help steer them through the troubled waters currently washing through the trade.Floods...
Michelin awards stars go to Sportsman and Goose
31-Jan-2008 By Tony Halstead THals22851@aol.com
Licensees at two pubs, in Kent and Oxfordshire, are celebrating the award of a coveted star in the Michelin Guide - Great Britain & Ireland 2008....
Business Opinion
17-Jan-2008 By with The PMA Team
Marston's has survived flood pain No one in the quoted arena has had a darker cloud hanging over them this summer than Marston's. Proportionately, no...
Pete Robinson: Apocalypse now!
16-Jan-2008
The Gala Bingo hall closed without warning and now has a 'for sale' sign on the premises. With the writing on the wall for local social clubs what...
Gastro chain set for growth
10-Jan-2008 By The PMA Team
The Restaurant Group (TRG) is targeting five openings a year in the 14-strong Brunning & Price (B&P) pub business it bought for £32m last...
MA award winner buys Dorset inn
10-Jan-2008
MA Pub of the Year winner David Sax has secured his second pub in Dorset. Sax has bought former English Inn of the Year the Museum Inn in Farnham,...
07-Jan-2008 By The PMA Team
The Restaurant Group (TRG) is targeting five openings a year in the Brunning & Price estate
Heartstone Inns acquires fourth pub
03-Jan-2008 By Mark Wingett
Heartstone Inns, the company formed by ex-Refresh UK colleagues Stuart Hawthorn and James Birch, has acquired its fourth pub, the Hare & Hound in...
Pick of the pubs
19-Dec-2007 By James Wilmore
A former micro-brewery on Dawlish High Street, Devon, the Old Brewery compromises a 24-cover restaurant and 30-capacity bar.Extensive accommodation...
06-Dec-2007
Consumers are planning to spend 18% more in pubs and restaurants this Christmas, says Deloitte
Room for manoeuvre
01-Dec-2007
David Hancock, editor of pub guide Room at the Inn, offers advice on how to make a success of rooms at your pub Tips for licensees Don't do it...
Pick of the pubs
21-Nov-2007 By James Wilmore
Advertised as "the only pub in the village" the Edgcumbe Hotel in Bere Alston, Devon, is 14 miles from Plymouth. A wet-led inn, it supports two pool...
French connection
21-Nov-2007
Running a pub in England is becoming more and more of a challenge. With continuing changes in rules and regulations and the tax man trying to bleed...
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...
NewsDigest
15-Nov-2007
Charles Wells Pub Company has bought the Golden Ball Hotel in Boxworth, Cambridgeshire. The property has 11 rooms in addition to the bar and...
08-Nov-2007 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report
Performance driven by the integration of new businesses and disposals, the pubco says
NewsDigest
08-Nov-2007
The Queen's speech unveiled two bits of good news for pubs. She confirmed the Government intended to go ahead with legislation to reduce regulatory...
Guiding light
01-Nov-2007
Good Pub Guide 2008 editor Fiona Stapley talks prices, pub characters and bad soup with Lucy Britner This year's industry bible contains more than...
NewsDigest
25-Oct-2007
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) says it has held "constructive" talks with Chancellor Alistair Darling over plans to abolish taper relief on...
17-Oct-2007 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report
The Restaurant Group has acquired pub operator Brunning & Price for £32m
Roy Beers: Dining disaster
17-Oct-2007
It's always nice to agree with a man you've never even met, but who puts your own point over quite succinctly and with the benefit of actual...
...and here's what the trade says
11-Oct-2007
Leading lights from within the industry offer their perspective on what it takes to shinePeter Linacre Massive Pub Company You need a very clear...
NewsDigest
20-Sep-2007
In a dramatic u-turn, InBev is moving production of Hoegaarden back to the original town in Belgium where it was first brewed. The drinks giant...
Good Food Guide names top UK pubs
20-Sep-2007 By Lucy Britner lucy.britner@william-reed.co.uk
Nigel Haworth's the Highwayman in Burrow, Lancashire, has been named Pub Newcomer of the Year in the 2008 edition of Which magazine's Good Food...
Wellstead's successors announced at Christies
19-Sep-2007
Following Colin Wellstead's decision earlier this year to retire Neil Morgan has been appointed as Christie & Co's director & head of public...
Food revamp before ban
13-Sep-2007
More than four out of 10 Everards tenants revamped their food menu before the English smoking ban, a new survey shows. The survey of the...
NITAs finalists announced
07-Sep-2007
Five licensees have made it to the shortlist of the flagship Licensee Trainer of the Year award at this year's BII NITAs.Maggie Armstrong of the...
£10m investment for 240 LESG pubs
06-Sep-2007 By Tony Halstead THals22851@aol.com
Oxford Inns & Hotels (OIH) is making a £10m investment in the former London & Edinburgh Swallow Group (LESG) pubs it took over following the...
Gentlemen's evenings
01-Sep-2007
Where: The Snooty Fox, Lowick, Northamptonshire, www.snootyinns.com The idea: With a programme of regular entertainment, the Snooty Fox is keen to...
NewsDigest
30-Aug-2007
Five hosts are being taken to the High Court by the Premier League (PL) for allegedly screening foreign satellite football. In a writ, the five are...
29-Aug-2007 By John Harrington
Marston's Pub Company is looking for new licensees to run four "flagship" pubs it bought this week from the Rutland Pub Company for £5.5m.
Marston's buys Rutland Pub Company
28-Aug-2007
Marston's Pub Company has bought Rutland Pub Company's four sites for £5.5m.This latest deal involves high-quality, English pubs in rural locations...
A round-up of the month's pub food news
28-Aug-2007
Sixth site for Merchant Inns Merchant Inns, the company headed by veteran entrepreneur Robert Breare, has opened its sixth site - in Ripley, Surrey....
MyShout
23-Aug-2007
Room for improvement? Colin Wellstead looks at the increasing popularity of letting rooms
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...
10-Aug-2007 By Mark Wingett of M&C Report
Calco Midlands has acquired Bold Pub Company, the St Helens-based pub group, that operates a 29-strong managed estate in the North of England and...
Our new community pub
09-Aug-2007
WHEN I arrive at the White Hart, a team of workmen are swinging a wrecking ball through a derelict set of buildings in an area that will eventually...
07-Aug-2007 By Mark Wingett of M&C Report
Greene King, the brewer and pub operator, has announced it has acquired Loch Fyne Restaurants for £68.1m. The deal for the 36-strong chain marks...
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...
17-Jul-2007
Renegade licensees continue to defy the smoking ban with no sign of action against them
