25-Aug-2010 By Ewan Turney
Radio 2 presenter Chris Evans is to sell another of his pubs — after closing the Lickfold in Petworth, West Sussex. The multi-millionaire blamed...
24-Aug-2010 By Becky Paskin, Restaurant
A new café or restaurant will open for every pub or bar that closes over the next three years, as consumers adopt a more "European" lifestyle....
24-Aug-2010 By Sonya Hook
Licensee Ashley McCarthy tells Sonya Hook all about transforming a business, buying the freehold and the challenges of taking on another pub.
M&B's sold pubs could be merged with Town & City
23-Aug-2010 By Hamish Champ
Stonegate Pub Company, the new outfit which will run the 333 wet-led pubs Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) announced last week it is selling, could...
For TDR the price was right
22-Aug-2010 By Hamish Champ
Just as I went into print last week musing on the length of time it appeared to be taking Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) to sell the package of...
17-Aug-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Pubs will no longer be able to clamp or tow the cars of non-customers under new legislation to be introduced at the end of the year. Wheel clamping...
16-Aug-2010 By Lesley Foottit
More than 70% of pubs sold by a leading property agent in the last year went to buyers who lived within 10 miles of the business. Christie + Co has...
16-Aug-2010 By The PMA Team and Martyn Leek, M&C Report
A restaurant chain founded by French chef Raymond Blanc is adapting its offer for the pub sector under the tagline White Brasserie Company.
16-Aug-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Punch Taverns has paid out £3,000 in compensation to a girl who fractured her finger at one of it's Staffordshire pubs. Seven-year-old Caitlyn...
Brasserie Bar Co plans new pub-based concept
16-Aug-2010 By Hamish Champ
Brasserie Bar Company, an outfit run by the former management team behind Loch Fyne Restaurant Group, is planning to roll out a new pub-based...
13-Aug-2010 By The PMA Team
Derby-based Bespoke Inns has opened its sixth pub. The company was set up little more than a year ago by former Marston's and Hardys & Hansons...
13-Aug-2010 By The PMA Team
Highly-rated Lincolnshire multi-site operator Michael Thurlby will open his second pub of the year next month. He will reopen a former Enterprise...
Pubs go up against McDonald's over animal welfare credentials
09-Aug-2010
Two pubs will battle it out against global giant McDonald's to be named the country's top pub or restaurant promoting animal welfare in business....
09-Aug-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Enterprise Inns is to install Games Media digital gaming technology at a further 250 of its tenanted pubs.
06-Aug-2010 By Lesley Foottit
A West Yorkshire pub will host a live Racing UK outside broadcast next week after winning the John Smith's Tipping Game. The Junction Inn in...
Pub to host 'groundbreaking' outside broadcast
06-Aug-2010
A West Yorkshire pub will host a live outside racing broadcast next week after beating hundreds of pubs to win the John Smith's Cup tipping game. The...
03-Aug-2010 By Ewan Turney
Lancashire brewer and pub operator Thwaites has reported an "encouraging" start to the year. At its Annual General Meeting, managing director Peter...
29-Jul-2010 By Sonya Hook
Andrew Woodward, owner of the Boat Inn, Towcester, tells Sonya Hook how he and his family have kept the family pub afloat for more than 130 years.
Town & City trials new look for Slug & Lettuce
27-Jul-2010 By Hamish Champ
Town & City Pub Company (T&C) is trialling a new look for some of its Slug & Lettuce bar restaurants after a successful refit of its...
20-Jul-2010 By Lesley Foottit
A licensee is expanding his business after buying the freehold of his pub from Punch last July. Rob Williams has been granted permission to add 15...
Proud of Pubs Week: Here's to pubs!
19-Jul-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
The waiting is over and the biggest annual event celebrating all that is great about pubs is finally here. Proud of Pubs Week 2010 launches today...
16-Jul-2010 By The PMA Team
The owner of award-winning North Yorkshire food pub the Durham Ox has set up a company, Provenance Inns, to acquire new sites. The company has been...
15-Jul-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Mitchells & Butlers, Britain's biggest managed pub group, has announced the sale of 52 budget hotels for £91m. The deal, to Prupim includes the...
M&B sells hotels and pubs for £91m
15-Jul-2010 By James Wilmore
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has sold the majority of its lodge business and eight pubs for £91m, as part of a strategy to dispose of its...
Summer sun and football a mixed blessing for pubs
13-Jul-2010 By Hamish Champ
Last month's half term holidays, international football festivities and sunny weather were a "mixed blessing" for the UK's leading UK pub and...
Whitbread to spend £7m on green initiatives
13-Jul-2010
Whitbread, the hotels and pub restaurant group, is to splash out more than £7m on green initiatives across its estate, including 'low-flow' showers,...
09-Jul-2010 By The PMA Team
Greene King has bought the freehold of the Ashley Hotel in Worksop, Nottinghamshire from Whitbread for an undisclosed sum. The Ashley Hotel is a...
08-Jul-2010 By Gemma McKenna & Ewan Turney
The valuation paper on setting pub rents won't be ready until the end of the year at the earliest, the Morning Advertiser has learned. The Royal...
29-Jun-2010 By Becky Paskin, Restaurant
Gordon Ramsay Holdings has closed one of its pubs, the Devonshire in Chiswick, blaming the state of the pub industry for its demise. Having opened...
Capital Pub Group buys Tomahawk for £5m
24-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
Capital Pub Company, the London pub operator, is set to buy Tomahawk, a rival pub group, for £5.03m in cash. The deal will be part-financed by the...
Barter Inns backs Tap into WaterAid
23-Jun-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Pub company Barter Inns is the latest to sign up to a Publican-backed initiative to help provide clean water to the world's poorest people. All 25...
17-Jun-2010 By Jo Bruce
Seven pub groups have signed up to take part in this year's British Food Fortnight, which runs from 18 September to 3 October.
11-Jun-2010 By Ewan Turney
Greene King has acquired four pub restaurants from Punch Taverns for £5.3m — the pubs are food-led sites.
Punch Taverns sells more pubs to Greene King
11-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
In the latest disposal from Punch Taverns, Greene King has agreed to buy four managed pubs from the UK's largest pubco for £5.3m. Two the four...
Pete Brown: When is a pub not a pub? When it's a licensed catering outlet...
09-Jun-2010
It caused a titter a few months ago during a conference call with the City when John Lovering, new chairman of Mitchell & Butlers (M&B)...
Orchid Group to buy 150 pubs over next two years
08-Jun-2010 By Hamish Champ
Orchid Group, the privately-backed managed pub operator which recently acquired the Premium Bars & Restaurants business, is looking to add a...
08-Jun-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Managed operator Orchid plans to add another 50 pubs to its estate this year, with 100 more scheduled for 2011 — it will target both individual...
Publican blogger's food offer shows off the best of English
07-Jun-2010
A Faversham pub has relaunched its restaurant - in a bid to show just how good English food can be. The Railway Hotel's new restaurant, Provenance,...
26-May-2010 By Gemma McKenna
A Welsh pub that faced a 527% increase in its business rates bill has got a reprieve of more than 350% after the Morning Advertiser intervened. Jill...
21-May-2010 By The PMA Team
Former M&B executive Chris Gerard is to reopen the Wellington, a Greene King leased pub, in Welwyn, Hertfordshire, on Monday.
11-May-2010 By Tony Halstead
Lee Roberts tells Tony Halstead how he and partner Sarah Dinning turned a near-derelict West Yorkshire pub into a £30,000 a week business.
07-May-2010 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
The managed pub arm of Punch Taverns is to launch a new bar brand called West Coast Grill to replace the Old Orleans name.
Punch Taverns looking for at least £36m in latest pub sell-off
05-May-2010 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns hopes to raise at least £36m by selling more than 30 of its managed pubs in England and Scotland. The pubco has appointed property...
04-May-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Punch Taverns hopes to raise in excess of £36m from the sale of a 36-strong package of its managed pubs. The pubs, part of Punch Pub Company, the...
30-Apr-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Whitbread has put the rollout of its Taybarns brand on hold and will assess further expansion later this year, M&C Report can reveal. The...
Whitbread's pub restaurants boosted by value offers
29-Apr-2010 By Hamish Champ
Hotels and pub restaurant operator Whitbread said its focus on market outperformance, cost reduction and cutting debt had paid dividends, despite...
28-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
Greene King has nearly doubled the size of its Old English Inns brand by clubbing together its characterful pubs and coaching inns in the estate....
19-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
Punch Taverns has insisted that the administration of pub management company Publicana does not present major difficulties.
09-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
Veteran pub entrepreneur Ted Kennedy has been drafted in to run around 200 freehold tenanted pubs that were formerly owned by London Town. Kennedy,...
09-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
Brunning & Price (B&P), the gastropub operator owned by the Restaurant Group, is set to reopen a second Blubeckers site in its own trading style.
