22-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
The beer tie is not the problem for our tenants, Marston's chief executive Ralph Findlay said today. Speaking to The Times, Findlay admitted that...
18-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Fuller's recruitment manager Louise Lawler has been recruited herself, this time by Punch Taverns. Lawler, former tenanted and leased recruitment...
Enterprise Inns puts more pubs in sale and leaseback auction
16-Feb-2010 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns is hoping to raise more than £12m next month when it sells and leases back another eight London pubs. The latest auction is being...
22-Jan-2010 By John Harrington
The new framework code of practice between pubcos and tenants "doesn't address the fundamental issues of concerns to lessees", says the Independent Pub Confederation.
Punch warns licensees to "think carefully" before taking industrial action
04-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns has warned its lessees to "think carefully" before signing up to the GMB's call for tied tenants to take industrial action against...
21-Dec-2009 By John Harrington
Enterprise Inns has been criticised for adding a new monthly charge of £100 plus VAT to licensees who don't pay the pubco by direct debit. In a...
08-Dec-2009 By John Harrington
Pubcos were slated for their treatment of tenants on BBC's Inside Out programme on Monday night. Peter Luff MP pulled no punches, referring to the...
S&N Pub Company offering tie-free deal
23-Nov-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Scottish & Newcastle Pub Company is offering 19 vacant pubs on free-of-tie leases. The move comes after the pubs, which are spread across the...
23-Nov-2009 By Ewan Turney
Scottish & Newcastle Pub Company is offering 19 of its vacant pubs on free-of-tie leases via Christie & Co. The move is designed to find...
12-Nov-2009 By Gemma McKenna
The new Independent Pub Confederation (IPC) wants MPs who conducted the probe into pubcos to formally review the trade's progress in one year's time.
11-Nov-2009 By John Harrington
The BII has rejected BBPA's claims that the content of pubco codes are not examined when they get a stamp for clarity from the BII.
GMB mounts protest over evicted tenant
09-Nov-2009 By James Wilmore
The GMB union is planning a demonstration outside a South London pub this morning to highlight its claim that pubcos are "overcharging" tenants for...
05-Nov-2009 By Gemma McKenna
A pub at the centre of a £500,000 drugs bust was being operated by an illegally-assigned tenant without landlord Wellington Pub Company's knowledge....
02-Nov-2009 By Ewan Turney
The GMB trade union is to hold a demonstration against the eviction of an Admiral Taverns tenant, who has been at his pub for 17 years. Bill Synan...
26-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
BII boss Neil Robertson believes that life will be much better for new and existing pub tenants as a result of the new code of practice for pubcos....
22-Oct-2009 By Alastair Darby
Mediation achieved more than you might think. Here's the view of Alistair Darby, managing director of Marston's Pub Company. Fair Pint, the ALMR,...
22-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
Now is the time to draw a line under the pubco-tenant divide and work together to improve the trade, says Marston's Alastair Darby.
ALMR and MP Mulholland hit out at OFT decision
22-Oct-2009 By James Wilmore
The Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) has said it is "very disappointed" that the OFT will take no further action on CAMRA's...
15-Oct-2009 By The PMA Team
Marston's has reported that 30 tenants out of a group of 60 licensees offered one of its "Advance" leases has taken up the offer.
14-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) has reached a binding agreement with key licensee groups for reform.
14-Oct-2009 By Roger Whiteside
Roger Whiteside took over as boss of Punch's leased division a year ago. He talks about what he has discovered — and the way forward. I joined...
Buying groups: Together they're stronger
02-Sep-2009
To most customers, a pub is a pub. The different between the a managed outlet and an independent tenancy, lease of freehouse is not something they...
BII: fairer rents would help solve tie debate
28-Aug-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
The beer tie issue would take on "less significance" if rents were fairer according to members of the BII. The view is expressed in a letter by...
14-Aug-2009 By Barry Gillham
What would be the true cost of removing the tie? Fleurets chairman Barry Gillham takes an in-depth look at the pros and cons.
Marston's to roll-out free-trade price rent deals
18-Jul-2009 By Hamish Champ
Marston's Pub Company (MPC) plans to trial a new lease agreement later this year which it believes will boost profitability for its licensees,...
14-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team
A City analyst has estimated that Punch Taverns has raised around £220m from disposing of 298 pubs so far this year. Geof Collyer, of Deutsche...
Bed and Bars buys two Punch pubs
13-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team
Bed and Bars, the hostel operator led by Keith Knowles and previously known as Interpub, has acquired the freehold of the two London sites it leases...
02-Jul-2009 By Andrew Pring
The biggest pubcos pledge fairness and reform, but what about the others — and what about the nitty gritty of their offers, asks Andrew Pring.
29-Jun-2009 By Ewan Turney
Trade union Unite and Inez Ward's Justice for Licensees have been contacted by 117 licensees facing eviction in the last four weeks. The groups, who...
18-Jun-2009 By Gemma McKenna
A Punch host about to be kicked out of his pub for "trespassing" as his name was incorrect on the lease has won a reprieve. Roger Whiteside, MD of...
Punch to ditch restrictive covenants
15-Jun-2009 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns will attend this weeks ALMR 'mediation' meeting armed with a range of proposed amendments to its lease agreements, including removing...
12-Jun-2009 By Peter Coulson
Peter Coulson considers the great tied lease debate.
10-Jun-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Regional brewers say applications for tenanted pubs have risen sharply since the start of the year — with increased redundancies cited as a reason....
Trade group joins calls for beer tie to be scrapped
28-May-2009 By James Wilmore
Members of the Guild of Master Victuallers have joined calls for an end to the beer tie by voting unanimously for the system to be abolished. At its...
28-May-2009 By The PMA Team
Brian King managing director, Trust Inns (28) Why he is on the list: King heads up Trust Inns, which runs a nationwide estate of 600 tenanted and...
20-May-2009 By Ewan Turney
Around 200 tied pub tenants are due to descend on Westminster today to lobby MPs for support to change the pubco model. The Lobby Day, organised by...
14-May-2009 By The PMA Team
The challenge of turning around Spirit, Punch's managed division, could be made harder by the problem of additional reversionary leases, according to...
30-Apr-2009 By Tim Sykes
Tim Sykes, chairman of the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers, has called for a set of "standard compulsory clauses" to be inserted in pubco...
We need to be more transparent," admits Punch Taverns
29-Apr-2009 By Hamish Champ
As it announced a 38 per cent slump in annual pre-tax profits Punch Taverns, the UK's largest pub operator, admitted it needed to be more transparent...
23-Apr-2009 By Ewan Turney
The Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) has proposed implementing major changes to the pubco model to ensure a "fair distribution of the economic benefit between the landlord and the lessee".
17-Apr-2009 By Tony Halstead
National pub operator Trust Inns has launched a new Business Support Charter to help new licensees over the first critical year of trading. The...
16-Apr-2009 By Gerry Price
Gerry Price, leaseholder of the Inn at West End, Surrey is due for his rent review and mulls the onerous clauses in his leas and the dreaded annual price rise.
15-Apr-2009 By John Harrington
One in three Punch pubs has changed hands over the past three years, says the anti-pubco GMB union as it repeats its call for the beer tie to end
Robert Sayles: Whose fault is it anyway?
03-Apr-2009 By Robert Sayles Robert
And yet it was so very different not that long ago. Think back to the early years of this decade. Smoke filled pubs, full of people flush with cash,...
02-Apr-2009 By John Harrington
Greene King has abandoned cooling-off periods for in-coming licensees in favour of 12-month stand-alone tenancies to give hosts a flavour of running...
Heavitree puts pubs on market as it phases out its managed division
08-Mar-2009
Heavitree, the Exeter-based brewer, has put three of its pubs on the market as part of plans to convert its managed estate into tenanted or leased...
04-Mar-2009 By Gemma McKenna
An Enterprise Inns lessee is locked in dispute with Southern Water after receiving a £37,000 bill. The case raises the question of who is...
27-Feb-2009 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Regent Inns has warned that the uncertainty of its trading position could affect its ability to operate as a going concern.
26-Feb-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Enterprise Inns has warned licensees on leases of more than seven years that they are responsible for gas safety testing. The warning comes amid...
26-Feb-2009 By The PMA Team
County Estate Management has launched a new free-of-tie tenancy for the 260-strong estate of Pubfolio pubs it manages. Would-be licensees are being...
