Olympic Games

Pubs needed for Olympic effort

18-Nov-2010 By Matt Eley Matt

Pubs are being urged to do their bit to help tourists feel at home when the Olympic Games roll into town in 2012. Mayor of London Boris Johnson has...

Pete Brown: FIFA's own goal hands World Cup victory to Bavaria

01-Jul-2010

At Holland's group game against Denmark, 36 attractive girls appeared in a block, all wearing bright orange mini-dresses. Orange is the Dutch...

British food push for Olympics

30-Apr-2010 By Jo Bruce

British Food Fortnight, the two-week promotion of British food, is to coincide with the London Olympics in 2012 — and licensees are urged to get...

Fair-price charter for 2012 Olympics

26-Nov-2009 By John Harrington

Pubs could be asked to sign up to a charter committing them to charge fair prices during the 2012 Olympics. Several trade bodies representing events...

SIA steps up doorstaff licensing

03-Aug-2009 By John Harrington

The body that regulates doorstaff processed 30% more licence applications than planned in the past year due to improved procedures.

'Give pubs later hours for Olympics'

03-Feb-2009 By Ewan Turney

A leading licensing solicitor has urged the Government to relax opening times for London pubs during the 2012 Olympics. Jeremy Allen of Popplesten...

Eastern beers advance

01-Oct-2008

China is not exactly known for its fair and accurate media - but UK expansion plans by Chinese and Far Eastern beer brands suggests brewers in the...

Forget Team GB. Now Pub GB needs help

05-Sep-2008 By Neil Morgan

The sector will be kept on its feet through survival of the smartest.

Olympics Preview: On your marks!

25-Jul-2008

The Olympics. Arguably the world's most political non-political event. In just two weeks the flags will be waving at the opening ceremony, and for...

Roll out the banners

28-Feb-2008

Pubs have less than eight weeks to prepare their festivities for 23 April - and there are plenty of ways to pull in puntersfundraising to help our...

Licensees warned to be prepared for Olympics

22-Nov-2007

Britain's hospitality industry has to get into training now if pubs are to win in the 2012 Olympics, the man charged with closing the sector's skills...

'Noisy' pubs to get council earache

04-Jan-2007

Another busy year lies ahead for you and me, with new legislation to explain and understand, plus the prospect of more local council involvement in...

Could we all be caught with our trousers down?

13-Jul-2006 By Andrew Jefford

Andrew Jefford wonders whether we'll suffer from bland sponsorship at the 2012 Olympics

Legal advice: Game on?

08-Sep-2005

The rules surrounding the Olympics will be complex, warns our legal team.By Amanda Frayne of thePublican.com's team of legal experts from London...

Joy at Games triumph... then horror at bombings

14-Jul-2005

Licensees in and around Stratford are expected to see a big lift in trade during Olympic fortnight. But the bomb attacks cast a long shadow over...

Olympic spirit survives blasts

14-Jul-2005

by Tony Halstead The trade is still hailing the 2012 London Olympics as a great opportunity to showcase British pubs, despite the harrowing events of...

Olympic pub joy cut short by terrorist attack

07-Jul-2005

A huge shadow has been cast over London's Olympic triumph by the terrorist attacks in the capital this morning.Celebrations in the hospitality...

A round with The Publican

18-May-2005

What made the news in The Publican this week 10 years ago, five years ago and last year.1995Brewers escape a referral to the Monopolies and Mergers...

What the Sunday papers said

08-Aug-2004

With most of the City on its August break, it's a quiet week for company news, but there's still plenty going on elsewhere in the papers...The mullet...

Olympics could provide London tourism boost

31-Jan-2003

The Olympic Games is just what London needs to boost tourism following a severe dip in trade caused by foot-and-mouth and September 11.These are the...