Job loss threat at C&C Group
10-Oct-2007 By Hamish Champ
The threat of job losses hangs over Magners cider maker C&C Group as the Irish company prepares to undertake a "comprehensive restructuring" of...
Still a good time to sell, licensees told
26-Sep-2007 By James Wilmore
Licensees thinking of selling up have been told that "now is as good a time as any to achieve a competitive price". Graham Allman, managing director...
The Spirits of Christmas
20-Sep-2007
BaileysBaileys is to Christmas what Pimm's is to summer: the undisputed king of the season. In summer Pimm's can so often be the drink of choice for...
Bulmers Original goes on draught over ice
22-Aug-2007
The latest blow has been struck in the cider war with news that Bulmers Original is to be served on draught over ice. Scottish & Newcastle UK...
Trade advice for first timers
16-Aug-2007 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk
Property agent GA-Select is launching a new service that it claims could help save the average licensee £200,000 over 10 years. Select Consulting...
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...
Rain helps Brains food sales leap 3%
09-Aug-2007 By The PMA Team
Food sales as a percentage of overall sales in the SA Brain managed estate have leapt by 3% to 29% in the three months since the smoking ban started...
02-Aug-2007 By The PMA Team
Wales's biggest brewer and retailer, SA Brain, has reported a slowdown in growth after a very challenging year. The company has reported a drop in...
Smirnoff ad takes to the waves
01-Aug-2007
Diageo is pumping £5m into its largest-ever integrated marketing campaign for Smirnoff. Breaking initially online this week, before hitting cinema...
Mighty marketing?
01-Aug-2007
Advertising is key to ale's growth - but are brewers getting it right? The dwindling marketing budgets afforded by some of the national brewers to...
In Season
27-Jul-2007
Claire Power, product marketing manager - fresh produce, Pauleys: From late July, super sweetcorn on the cob becomes available. We source this from...
Basking in success
26-Jul-2007
Philip Davison tells Ewan Turney how a marketing seminar helped him achieve £750,000 worth of sales at the Wadworth-owned Sun in the Wood, in...
C&C warns of lower first half profits
16-Jul-2007 By Hamish Champ
Wet weather and aggressive price competition from rival cider producers has prompted C&C Group to warn investors its first half operating profits...
Camerons Brewery sells free on-trade business
06-Jul-2007 By Hamish Champ
Tough market conditions have forced North East brewery Camerons to sell its free on-trade business to Coors for an undisclosed sum.The business...
E-pub: new online marketplace
03-Jul-2007
A new online marketplace aims to help smaller businesses source food and drink.Inquirex.com tackles one of the big challenges facing independent pubs...
21-Jun-2007 By Andrew Pring
Quality is the new watch-word for the trade today. Quality in everything you do as a licensee, be it quality of drink and food offer, quality of...
New Coors ale in Scottish market
07-Jun-2007
Coor Brewers is set to take on the established heavyweights of the Scottish ale market with the surprise launch this summer of Maclachlan's Best, a...
04-Jun-2007 By Iain O'Neil
Heineken UK announced today full details of its new multi-million pound marketing campaign and the launch of 'Continental Draught'. Heineken hopes...
Pubs taking share of tougher food market
01-Jun-2007
Pubs are still gaining share of the eating out market, despite consumers being more cautious overall, according to new market data.The latest figures...
In Season: As nature intended
23-May-2007
Claire Power, product marketing manager - fresh produce, Pauleys: Now is the optimum time for buying English asparagus. Grown more slowly than its...
21-May-2007
Scottish & Newcastle is putting £7m behind this year's 'Biggest Round' initiative - where it buys punters an S&N brand drink to try. It aims...
THE GUV'NOR
17-May-2007
Peter Gatling Be professional in your promotion, says the licensee of the Merry Harriers in Clayhidon, Devon Text-book marketing wisdom talks about...
In Season: Something special
09-May-2007
Claire Power, product marketing manager - fresh produce, Pauleys: Summer is nearly here and with the start of the UK season just around the corner,...
It's a mystery
25-Apr-2007
WHATEVER YOU think of your pub, and the wonderful ideas you have for making it a success, it is the customer who will tell you whether it really...
Why do we have listings fees?
19-Apr-2007
The Campaign For Real Ale's (CAMRA) submission to the Competition Commission's investigation of the groceries market includes some damning criticism...
Alex McGill
05-Apr-2007
director of marketing Venners stocktakers You should forbid your staff from having money on them whilst they are behind your bar, but you will need...
27-Mar-2007 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report
Shepherd Neame unveils like-for-like sales growth of 4.8% in its managed pub business for the six months to 30 December 2006.
06-Mar-2007
WKD is launching a national TV advertising campaign that it hopes will appeal to young adult male drinkers. The ads will continue the 'off-beat'...
THE AGENTS
22-Feb-2007
Barney Bettesworth Director, Bettesworths What are the best ways to market your pub? Initially, you need to be able to appraise it honestly,...
Move out of neutral...
20-Feb-2007
What's the story with vodka in pubs? It is the category in the on-trade with the largest number of new brands and new entrants to the market. And yet...
Home-grown foodie leads the pack
25-Jan-2007
Paul McCrystal tells Ewan Turney how a passion for home-made British food and quality real ales helped him increase turnover by 25% year on year at...
THE AGENTS
11-Jan-2007
Stephen Taylor Managing Director, Guy Simmonds Firstly, I would like to wish all the readers of the Morning Advertiser and our past, present and...
11-Dec-2006
InBev UK has concluded "a tough reorganisation" of its marketing department with a number of people choosing to leave. Devin Kelly, the company's...
Record figures at Greene King despite Scottish smoking slip
07-Dec-2006
Belhaven's like-for-like sales slip in its 300-odd pubs was the only blot on another sparkling set of "record results" from Greene King this week....
Making a SMART bomb
07-Dec-2006
As pubs compete more for their share of the leisure pound, a well-executed marketing strategy has become essential, says Geoff Brown, marketing...
Scams reveal pubs' openness to fraud
07-Dec-2006 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
A trading standards boss has called for pubs to get more protection against scammers who claim to be selling ads in magazines for emergency services....
Support for Stella
08-Nov-2006
Stella Artois has launched a new advertising campaign to try and reinforce the quality credentials of the brand.Adverts refering the different...
MyShout
19-Oct-2006 By David Elliott
Social marketing will get us all in the end - but maybe that's not such a bad thing, says David Elliott You may not have noticed yet, but the health...
25-Sep-2006 By Andrew Pring
The new Wells & Young's Brewing Company starts trading next Monday with plans to increase combined barrelage by 20,000 to well over 500,000...
Stocking up for Christmas: Get them involved
22-Sep-2006
Coca-ColaCoca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) is planning several mechanics to take advantage of the Christmas period, such as a fully-integrated marketing...
Better food will help with the effects of a smoking ban
20-Sep-2006
Better quality food and a more diverse menu will help pubs combat the "assault" of the smoking ban and licensing reform, according to a new report...
Back to basics: Branding drives sales
11-Sep-2006
BRANDING IS about much more than expensive advertising and pub chain logos. It's about communicating what makes your business individual and...
THE AGENTS
07-Sep-2006
I have been valuing and selling pubs for more than 40 years and am always surprised at the vast number of times I am asked for my top-10 tips for...
07-Sep-2006 By Rosie Davenport
Beverage Brands is unveiling a new category-management initiative to help licensees make the most of space in their fridges. Based on AC Nielsen's...
Smith lands new Diageo director's role
04-Sep-2006 By Hamish Champ
Diageo has appointed David Smith, former field sales director, to the newly created position of sales director for the UK business.The job has been...
28-Jul-2006 By Graham Ridout
Pressure is mounting for an Office of Fair Trading (OFT) inquiry into TrenStar, the country's largest keg supplier.
Put your house in order
20-Jul-2006
If you're thinking about selling your pub, there's plenty to be done before the estate agents get involved. TONY HALSTEAD reports
Being a module pupil
13-Jul-2006
Kara Jefferies transformed a potential business nightmare into a PR triumph with higher profits. She tells all to Tim Palmer
04-Jul-2006 By Iain O'Neil
A campaign group which is seeking to overturn the Government's proposed smoke ban has been "astounded" by the financial support it has been pledged....
S&N adds fruit cider to growing portfolio
14-Jun-2006
Scottish & Newcastle UK (S&N UK) has added another brand to its cider portfolio as it continues to meet rival Magners head on.Jacques is a...
