Managing Director

Punch announces exec team change

24-Apr-2023 By Ed Bedington

Punch Pubs & Co has announced a shake-up within its executive team, which sees a couple of changes in senior roles.

Moving soft drinks upmarket

08-Mar-2018 By Andrew Don

Publicans do not have to be soft to give non-alcoholic drinks a hard push but they should do it with panache.

Sweet wise: how to get desserts right

04-Feb-2018 By Nikkie Sutton

Though desserts are traditionally the final taste diners have of a meal, it also means the dish will be their last impression, making it crucial operators get it right.

Ei Group partners with Yext to manage online portfolio information

15-Jan-2018 By Stuart Stone

Ei Group has collaborated with digital knowledge management provider Yext in order to maximise the visibility of its portfolio of pubs, improve customer experience and drive footfall through a centralised, online, bank of information on its estate.

Peter Furness-Smith joins Brakspear

08-Sep-2017 By Michelle Perrett

Brakspear has recruited former McMullen managing director Peter Furness-Smith as a non-executive director.

Drinks: what is premium?

21-Aug-2017 By Andrew Don

Premium drinks offer potential for enhanced profits, but when is a drink ‘premium’ and when is it not? The answer isn’t always clear cut.

New faces at NWTC and Loungers

09-Jun-2017 By MCA editorial

New World Trading Company (NWTC) and Loungers reshuffle senior staff to boost growth.

Free BII membership for Butcombe tenants

08-Jun-2017 By Liam Coleman

Butcombe Brewery has announced it is automatically enrolling its tenants into the British Institute of Innkeeping (BII), for free.

£420,000 investment for Alchemist sites

26-May-2017 By Liam Coleman

The Alchemist has said it will temporarily close two of its sites in June as part of a full refurbishment.

Unique line cleaning partnership launched

25-May-2017 By Liam Coleman

Vianet has partnered with FullClear to provide what it says is a first-of-its-kind beer line cleaning service.

Redcomb to open pop-up site on ‘floating park’

22-May-2017 By Liam Coleman

A pop-up site from Redcomb Pubs will open at London’s ‘Floating Pocket Park’ on the Paddington Basin section of the Grand Union Canal this summer.

HIT Training launches four hospitality apprenticeship standards

12-May-2017 By Georgina Townshend

Four new apprenticeship standards have been launched by hospitality training firm HIT Training.

Greene King helps licensees ‘drive trade’ through online presence

15-Mar-2017 By Liam Coleman

Greene King is offering discounted website 'toolkits' for tenanted and leased licensees to set up their own website and “embrace the digital world”.

Pub history

Smoking bans, supermarkets and the recession: how pubs overcame the hardest decade in the trade's history

12-Jul-2016 By Phil Mellows

By the end of the first decade of the new century, it was being called ‘the perfect storm’, a convergence of challenges that made it one of the toughest periods the licensed trade had ever experienced.

BII to ‘put pride in its membership’

08-Jun-2016 By Mike Berry

The British Institute of Innkeeping (BII) is in a “healthy position” with membership and revenue growing, according to managing director Mike Clist.

Advice

Preparing for the rent review fight

19-May-2016 By Michelle Perrett

The term ‘rent review’ can strike fear into the heart of any licensee. Michelle Perrett finds out how to negotiate the best possible deal in the first of this two-part series.

Publican Awards 2016: Outstanding industry contribution

14-Mar-2016 By James Evison

The 25th anniversary of the Publican Awards was brought to a close with Shepherd Neame’s Jonathan Neame taking home the award for Outstanding Industry Contribution.

BrewDog to close all its UK bars and brewery for one day

05-Feb-2016 By Emily Sutherland

BrewDog has announced it will close its UK bars and its Aberdeenshire brewery on the 29 February for its first 'Blackout Day'.

MA300

The best business lessons learnt by multiple operators this year

04-Dec-2015 By Emily Sutherland

As the year draws to a close, the PMA asked some of the industry's top multiple site operators to cast their mind back over 2015 and share the one business lesson they know now that they wished they'd known at the start of the year. 

Games

Top 10 pub games: What's your vote?

28-Oct-2015 By Oli Gross

The Publican's Morning Advertiser reveals an expert's top ten games for pubs - but which do you think is best?James Masters, managing director of Masters Games - which specialists in pub games - gave the PMA his top ten and explained why each...

Events

Dates for the diary

05-Oct-2015 By Emily Sutherland

Time to get your diary out - a number of key events for multiple site operators will take place through October and November. 

Consumer trends

Vegetarian customers unimpressed by Christmas menus

19-Aug-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Food operators are not doing enough to cater to vegetarian customers at Christmas, new data suggests.

McMullens appoints managing director

07-Aug-2015 By M&C Allegra

McMullens, the Hertfordshire brewer and pub operator, has announced the appointment of Tom McMullen as joint managing director.

MA300

TLC Inns plans Grand Central expansion and ops director appointment

15-Apr-2015 By James Wallin, M&C Report

Steve Haslam, managing director of TLC Inns, has told the Publican's Morning Advertiser's sister title M&C Report that the lack of good quality pub sites on the market has led the company to focus on its Grand Central concept, which could...

PEOPLE NEWS

Stonegate appoints M&B man to top role

10-Apr-2015 By James Wallin, M&C Report

Managed pub operator Stonegate has announced that Nick Andrews, currently brand operations director at Mitchells & Butlers, will join the company as managing director of its Traditional Pubs business.

new product

New products: Zumex Soul, Eliot's Meaty Bites

26-Feb-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Jestic has introduced a new model to its brand of Zumex juicers.

Pub property predictions for 2015

14-Jan-2015 By Ellie Bothwell

How will the pub property market perform in 2015? The Publican’s Morning Advertiser speaks to the agents in the know.

Pub's crystal ball: Industry predictions for 2015

13-Jan-2015 By James Evison

Guessing what the future holds is not an easy task, so the Publican's Morning Advertiser asked industry leaders for their opinions.

Fuller's King of the Fryer crowned

03-Nov-2014 By Chloe Hay

The Pilot pub in Chiswick, London has been named the winner of The Great Fuller’s Chip Off.

Spirit expands training programme

14-Oct-2014 By James Wallin

Spirit Leased Pubs has launched two new training packages on the back the popularity of its ‘In Pub’ programme.

Insight

A guide to nil premium leases

01-Oct-2014 By Matt Bettesworth

Matt Bettesworth, managing director of Bettesworths, explains the pros and cons of taking on a nil-premium lease

Roy Ellis joins JW Lees board as adviser

30-Sep-2014 By John Harrington, M&C Report

Roy Ellis, founder and ex-chief executive of Inventive Leisure, is to join the management board of JW Lees, the Manchester-based brewer and pub operator, as an external adviser, as the company accelerates its growth plans.

CAMRA appoints new chief executive

29-Sep-2014 By James Wallin

The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has announced its new chief executive, three months after Mike Benner left the post.

VIDEO: Interviews with Great British Pub Awards' winners

15-Sep-2014 By James Evison

The winners of the Great British Pub Awards, including the winners of the overall Pub of the Year, talk to The Publican's Morning Advertiser's news editor James Wallin about their success.

Whisky producers call on Scots to vote no to independence

28-Aug-2014 By James Wallin

Leading figures in the Scotch whisky industry have added their names to a call for a no vote in the referendum on Scottish independence.

Pay rises for Young's directors as bonus package doubles

04-Aug-2014 By John Harrington

Senior directors of Young’s, the London-based pub operator, saw substantial uplifts in their remuneration packages in 2013/2014 after total bonuses paid almost doubled from £506,323 to just over £1m.

Beannchor MD Bill Wolsey is made OBE

16-Jun-2014 By John Harrington

Bill Wolsey, managing director of Northern Ireland-based hospitality firm Beannchor, has become an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Heineken unveils new trade website for pubs

29-May-2014 By Robyn Black

Heineken Online, a new trade website designed to make ordering easier as well as acting as a business-boosting tool, has been launched.

Stonegate names Simon Longbottom as new chief executive

10-Mar-2014 By John Harrington

Stonegate Pub Company has announced that Simon Longbottom, managing director of Greene King Pub Partners, is to replace Toby Smith as chief executive of the managed operator.

Greene King offers licensees cut-price Sky Sports deal

24-Jan-2014 By Lewis Brown

Pub operator and brewer Greene King has offered its licensees a cut-price deal to reduce the costs of their Sky Sports TV package.

PMA owner William Reed acquires Allegra Foodservice

12-Dec-2013

The Publican's Morning Advertiser owner William Reed Business Media (WRBM) has acquired the Allegra Foodservice business - formerly a division of Allegra Strategies.

MA300: Branded managed operators 'perform stronger in recession'

02-Dec-2013 By Jessica Mason

Branded managed houses and pub chains will see more success than tenancies and freetraders during economic uncertainty because consumers feel more confident in the consistency of their offer, according to a pub industry veteran.

Redcomb Pubs wins top accolade as Spirit Leased Pub operators

11-Nov-2013 By Michelle Perrett

Redcomb Pubs has been named as Spirit Leased Pub Operators of the Year 2013.

Loungers to hit 90-site mark ahead of time

22-Oct-2013 By Mark Wingett

Loungers, the Piper-backed café-bar operator, is likely to reach 90 sites by 2017, ahead of an earlier target of 70 by that date, as it reveals the details of the next handful of property acquisitions.

Campaigners hail Tax Parity Day a success

30-Sep-2013 By Mark Wingett

Last Wednesday’s Tax Parity Day (25 September), which saw up to 15,000 outlets take part in a national day of action as part of the campaign to reduce VAT for the sector to 5%, helped increase sales for participating operators by up to 23%, while also...

Jägermeister and Cellar Trends to part company

11-Sep-2013 By Robyn Black

Jägermeister’s parent company Mast-Jägermeister SE, is to set up its first subsidiary office outside of its native Germany to look after the brand in the UK.

Pub property agents report 'buoyant' summer sales activity

10-Sep-2013 By Gurjit Degun

The pub property market could be seeing green shoots of recovery as agents report “buoyant” trading over the summer, which is traditionally a quiet period.

Places still up for grabs at PMA's Cider Trends Summit

02-Sep-2013 By Mike Berry

Places are still available for the Cider Trends Summit next month — the Publican’s Morning Advertiser’s new event that focuses on the cider category.

Pub property agents point to north-south divide

03-Jul-2013 By Gurjit Degun

Pub property agents are seeing sales activity grow in the south and decrease in the north.

Tenanted Pub Summit: Admiral bemoans quality of some pubco BDMs

19-Jun-2013 By John Harrington

Many business development managers (BDMs) released by Admiral Taverns for not being good enough have gone to work for other pub companies, according to Admiral managing director Kevin Georgel.