Price

Charity: service is key

Service, the final frontier

By The PMA Team

Customers appreciate a value offer for their pub experience, but one of the best ways to get an edge is well-trained and motivated staff, says The PMA Team.

Toby Carvery: a succesful meal proposition

M&B's sharp prices policy

By The PMA Team

A M&B field trip to its own and competitors' pubs has spotlighted the "glaring differences in price point on product and asset quality".

Distressed sales are gathering pace

Distress sales up — but at good prices

By Gemma McKenna

More "distress" sales of pubs are taking place than ever and their relatively cheap prices mean they're being snapped up quickly. That's according...

Charles Wells: strategic disposals

Charles Wells sells 11 pubs

By Ewan Turney

Charles Wells has sold 11 pubs with a further four under offer of the batch of 24 it put up for sale. The rural and urban pubs range in price from...

Clevely with wife Jo: important to have names people know on a wine list

Pubs optimistic on wine

By Gemma McKenna

The trade's view of wine sales in the recession remains optimistic, says Geronimo Inns chief executive Rupert Clevely.

Punch: new wine list

Punch unveils value wine list

By Ewan Turney

Punch Taverns has launched a new wine list designed to appeal to consumers seeking value for money. The new wine list, which launches on 11 May,...

Feel Good Kids range

Feel Good factor for kids

By Sonya Hook

The on-trade soft drinks category is set to be shaken up by a raft of new products from the Feel Good Drinks Company. The soft drinks producer is...

Pring: surely some deal could be worked out with eager tenants

Give licensees a fair chance

By Andrew Pring

Punch shouldn't waste the time of those licensees who really are interested in buying, says Andrew Pring.

Slee: pubs are the UK's favourite place

What do we mean by 'value for money'?

By Andy Slee

While there are some rocky roads ahead, we can learn from the experience of others in laying the foundations for future prosperity, says Andy Slee.

M&B: strong Christmas trading

M&B: value offers lift sales 1%

By Ewan Turney

Mitchells & Butlers pubs appear to be weathering the storm as it announced a 1% rise in like-for-like sales for the 17 weeks to 24 January— chiefly driven by its value food offers and a rise in cask ale volumes.

Marston's: holding back rises

Marston's absorbs beer rises

By The PMA Team

Marston's Pub Company is to absorb a series of price rises to help pub tenants through the first quarter of 2009.

Coulson: minimum price may still be an issue

Getting the price just right

By Peter Coulson

Minimum pricing by legislation could only work if all situations to which it applied were similar, says Peter Coulson.

All-inclusive deals such as this at Fire and Ice in Newport give the trade a bad name

ALMR slams irresponsible offers

By Ewan Turney

Trade body says the emergence of "irresponsible" offers in the late-night sector has made the on-trade an easy target and taken the heat off the supermarkets — it also warns that minimum pricing is not the answer.

Asda: offering customers value?

Asda: deep discounting in our DNA

By Ewan Turney

Supermarket giant has defended its right to offer huge discounts on alcohol at a Westminster Health Forum debate.

Coors adds 3p to a pint

Coors adds 3p to a pint

By John Harrington

The Carling and Grolsch brewer cites massive cost inflation - after making just 2p profit per pint in 2007.

450 pubs have agreed not to sell drinks below a certain level in Liverpool

Liverpool Pubwatch denies price cartel

By Paul Collins

The co-ordinator of Liverpool Pubwatch has denied the "gentleman's agreement" by licensees not to sell drinks below set prices is a cartel. More than...

Host wrote to Brown urging him to adopt minimum pricing

Host tells Brown: Adopt minimum pricing

By Ewan Turney

A licensee has written to Gordon Brown urging him to adopt a minimum price of 50p per unit of alcohol in a bid to cut anti-social behaviour and drive people to the local pub.

The agent

The agent

Bill Colquhoun, director, Christie+Co Ipswich Despite daily reports of doom and gloom in the economy, the Ipswich office of Christie+Co is pleased to...

Diageo ups price of Guinness by 3%

Diageo ups price of Guinness by 3%

The wholesale price of Draught Guinness is to increase by 3% from 1 February 2008. The relatively modest increase will come as a relief to many...

Cool operator

Cool operator

Refrigeration specialist Husky recently celebrated its 50th birthday. Graham Ridout learns how the company has grown from humble beginnings into a...

An epic challenge?

An epic challenge?

By Hamish Champ

Constellation Europe president Troy Christensen may well come across as your typically laconic yet focused American executive, but he's darned...