Machine Income

The issue with the machine tie

20-Mar-2012 By Phil Dixon

‘Phil just has a thing about machines,’ Neil Robertson, former BII chief executive, would inform those assembled. Or he’d say ‘Phil will no doubt wish to comment he has a bit of an issue with machines’.

BII's call to tied tenants over machine income

02-Jun-2011 By Ewan Turney

The BII has urged tied tenants to be aware of how pubcos are treating machine income in regard to rental negotiations.

Machine income will be left out of rent calculation, says Enterprise

19-Nov-2009 By Matt Eley Matt

Enterprise Inns has revealed that a licensee's share of machine income will no longer be taken into account when the company conducts rent reviews....

AWP tickets boost pub incomes

13-Oct-2009 By John Harrington

Games machines where customers retrieve prize money behind the bar are to be rolled out to thousands of pubs after boosting machine income up to 35%...

Pubcos go separate ways over AWP tie

11-Sep-2009 By The PMA Team

The bruising Business & Enterprise Committee report on the pubco/tenant relationship in May this year was no less than a major body shock for the...

Fair Pint: machine tie must be scrapped

03-Sep-2009 By Ewan Turney

Punch's move to stop rentalising machine income is a "half-hearted" response to the Business and Enterprise Committee report.

Punch stops rentalising machine income

01-Sep-2009 By The PMA Team

Punch Taverns has begun to stop rentalising machine income in a move that will boost pub income for licensees by around £1,250 per annum. The...

Pubcos move to remove machine income from rent calculations

25-Jun-2009 By Hamish Champ

As the country's pubcos try to fend off a referral of the industry to the Competition Commission, Bedford brewer Charles Wells became the latest...

Pubcos slated over AWPs

21-May-2009 By The PMA Team

Machine suppliers have accused Punch and Enterprise of increasing the share of machine income in the five years TISC.

Marston's first half profits under pressure

03-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ

Marston's, the Midlands brewer, has reported sliding wet and machine income sales across its managed pub estate for the first 24 weeks of the current...

Analyst rejects gaming claims

03-Apr-2008

A City analyst has dismissed claims that the decision by Inspired Gaming to sell its pub fruit-machine division, because of falling income, has any...

Marston's warns on outlook for 2008

25-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ

Marston's has reported lower drink and machine income across its estate as the impact of the smoking ban and consumer confidence pressures...

Making it pay: advice from Fuller's

30-Sep-2004

At Fuller's, "machine income is healthy, but not as healthy as it could be", according to Elton Mouna, who is responsible for machines at the London...

Profit is the key to a fair rent

22-May-2003

Assessing the rental value requires precise data on the amount of trade and hence profit of a pub, as Ken Newton explains It has been accepted for...