17-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
Leading pub and restaurant chains are trading positively thanks to an increased spend on marketing and promotions. The Coffer Peach Business...
M&B to put calorie counts on Harvester and Scream menus
06-Apr-2009
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) is to print calorie counts for dishes on the menus at two of its pub brands - Harvester and Scream.The UK's biggest...
Discounts driving pub food and drink sales
24-Feb-2009
High levels of discount offers and promotional activiiy boosted food and drink sales for the major managed pub and restaurant groups in January,...
10-Feb-2009 By John Harrington
A new offence of assaulting a licensee should be created — that's the view of Mitchells & Butlers security boss Andrew Nicholls.
22-Jan-2009 By The PMA Team
The UK's managed pubcos are driving hard down the value route. The PMA Team looks at the key strategies being used to out-perform in 2009 Consumer sea change.
21-Jan-2009 By Ewan Turney
Mitchells & Butlers managing director of Pubs and Bars Mike Bramley is to retire on 30 April 2008.
'Government to force pubs to sell smaller wine measures'
23-Nov-2008
"Happy hour and cut-price drink promotions in pubs and clubs will be outlawed under a Government crackdown. Ministers plan to unveil new proposals in...
08-Oct-2008 By Ewan Turney
Mitchells & Butlers has confirmed that R20's Aaron Brown and Tim Smalley have stepped down as non-executive directors after Robert Tchenguiz sold...
M&B pledges disciplinary action after BBC hygiene probe
01-Aug-2008
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) says it expects to take disciplinary action after the BBC 'Rogue Restaurants' series showed breaches of hygiene...
25-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has reported a 1.1% rise in like-for-like sales for the 10 weeks to 19 July fuelled by its value food offering.
Food sales driving M&B growth
25-Jul-2008
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has reported an increase in sales across the 10 weeks to July 19, with its succesful drive to take more share from...
'Too many retailers getting away with selling booze to under-age customers'
08-Jun-2008
Promises to crack down on teenage drinkers were exposed as a sham at the weekend with figures showing they go unpunished. In the past three years,...
M&B displays pub-food strength
01-Jun-2008
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has reported strong food sales growth in its interim results. The company recorded a like-for-like food sales...
4 Tim Clarke
29-May-2008
chief executive, Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) (2)
Food the star performer for M&B
20-May-2008
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) is on the hunt for acquisitions as is seeks to extend its market-leading position in the pub food market.Announcing...
'Loss-making Mitchells & Butlers wants to become a REIT'
20-May-2008
Mitchells & Butlers has reported a first-half net loss of £87 million. The owners of O'Neill's and Browns said it plans to split its property...
'M&B in discussions with private equity firms'
25-Apr-2008
Mitchells & Butlers is in discussions with private equity investors about the sale of a sizeable stake "at a material premium to the current...
11-Apr-2008
Mitchells & Butlers plans to ramp up its recycling programme
'M&B shares hit three-year low'
10-Apr-2008
Shares in Mitchells & Butlers hit a three-year low yesterday as the pub group warned cash-strapped drinkers would continue to thirst for cheap...
M&B reports "resilient" first half sales
09-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ
Despite withering criticism over its botched property joint venture, managed pub operator Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has claimed "resilient...
09-Apr-2008 By Ewan Turney
Mitchells & Butlers has reported a 4.8% growth in food sales for the 27 weeks to 5 April
28-Mar-2008 By The PMA Team
One observer believes there is a feeling that M&B management has been going through the motions
'Mitchells & Butlers denies it has hit cash crisis'
20-Mar-2008
Mitchells & Butlers, which effectively put itself up for sale this year, went on the attack yesterday after a City analyst alleged the pub...
Punch Taverns still pushing for M&B deal
17-Mar-2008 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns remains confident it can convince the Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) board, the managed pub group's investors and its own...
City diary
13-Mar-2008 By The PMA Team
Pub trade job is just what the doctor ordered Who says working in the pub trade is badly paid? A medical student working in the Newcastle branch of...
City diary
06-Mar-2008 By The PMA Team
Opening bars of the Bluus Marston's is lining up a City of London opening for its Bluu Bar Brasseries chain, acquired from the Fat Cat Group a few...
Burdens and shocks
25-Feb-2008 By Hamish Champ
Despite seeing his 550p a share bid for Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) politely but firmly escorted out of the room a couple of years ago, it...
Waiting for a mega takeover deal - akin to waiting for a bus
10-Feb-2008 By Hamish Champ
I dunno. You wait ages for a juicy takeover battle then two come along almost at once. Just like waiting for a bus.The dust has barely settled on...
City diary special: M&B
07-Feb-2008 By The PMA Team
Those hedge losses in layman's terms Last week's belated closure of the Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) hedge position - at a pre-tax cost of...
'Punch's shares offer for M&B is worth less than the group's pub freeholds'
05-Feb-2008
Punch Taverns is seeking to win control of rival pub group Mitchells & Butlers through an £11bn merger proposal that offers M&B investors...
Punch Taverns proposes merging with Mitchells & Butlers
04-Feb-2008 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns has proposed merging with Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) to form a pubco nearly two thirds larger than its nearest rival.In a...
M&B now a takeover target, says City
29-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
Shares in Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) rose five per cent today despite the group revealing more than a quarter of a billion pounds-worth of...
Jack: 'bonuses create conflict of interest'
10-Jan-2008
A leading analyst has claimed that Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) bosses have created a conflict of interest by deferring their bonuses until a...
02-Jan-2008 By The PMA Team
A leading analyst claims Mitchells & Butlers bosses have created a conflict of interest by deferring bonuses until the operating company/property company joint venture is complete
13-Dec-2007 By The PMA Team
A leading City analyst has issued his most outspoken call for Mitchells & Butlers to drop plans to hive off freeholds into a Real Estate...
'Kids allowed to buy cigarettes in pubs'
02-Dec-2007
Pub landlords let kids as young as 14 buy cigarettes from vending machines, a shock People investigation has discovered. Staff at the Black Horse in...
Mitchells & Butlers remains committed to property deal
29-Nov-2007 By Hamish Champ
Despite posting a hedging loss of £180m over its proposed property joint venture with shareholder Robert Tchenguiz, Mitchells & Butlers...
'Punch Taverns lining up a merger with Mitchells & Butlers'
25-Nov-2007
Punch Taverns has approached investors in Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) about plans to mount a £5bn merger that would create Britain's biggest...
M&B's Karim Naffah gets board's "full support
27-Sep-2007 By Hamish Champ
Despite mounting hedge-related losses resulting from its postponed property joint venture with R20, Karim Naffah, Mitchells & Butlers' (M&B)...
25-Sep-2007
Mitchells & Butlers will open its first pub restaurant, designed to be as energy efficient as possible, at the Toby Carvery, Banbury. The pub...
17-Sep-2007
Mitchells & Butlers statement on press reports
02-Aug-2007 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has put on hold its plan to place most of its pub freeholds into a joint venture company owned in partnership with Robert Tchenguiz "until debt markets have improved".
Mitchells & Butlers halts R20 joint venture
02-Aug-2007 By Hamish Champ
Shares in Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) fell 30p this morning after the managed pub group announced it was putting its £4.5bn property joint...
M&B's underage policy gets results
19-Jul-2007
Staff in Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) pubs are refusing service to 50,000 young people each month, thanks to the company's beefed up alco-hol...
M&B set for joint- venture pubs sale
24-May-2007 By The PMA Team
Managed operator Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) looks set to sell most of its freeholds to a 50/50 joint-venture property company owned by itself...
22-May-2007 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) expects to sell around 20 pubs in the second half of its financial year in a move expected to raise £20m.
Mitchells & Butlers confirms asset talks with R20
22-May-2007 By Hamish Champ
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) stopped short of revealing detailed plans for its property assets this morning.Industry observers and investors had...
02-May-2007 By John Harrington
Mitchells & Butlers head of security says new doorstaff licensing scheme led to a shortage of experienced
M&B conversions ahead of schedule
08-Feb-2007 By The PMA Team
Managed operator Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) is in line to complete the conversion of the former Whitbread pubs it bought last summer to its...
Mitchells & Butlers sees quiet start to 2007
01-Feb-2007 By Hamish Champ
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) saw a slow build up to Christmas and has a seen quiet start to the New Year in some of its divisions, investors...
