Pub Company Boss

Pleisure pub boss plan to beat late night levy

03-Dec-2010 By John Harrington

A Brighton pub company boss has devised a plan for a licensee-led scheme to stave off the threat of the late night levy.

Video: 'free of tie world would lead to more pub failures'

22-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney

A free of tie pub world could lead to more business failures, Marston's Pub Company boss Alastair Darby has warned. Speaking to the Morning...

Cautions for staff attacks are 'scandalous'

12-Feb-2010 By John Harrington

A pub company boss has hit out at the Government for saying cautions are sometimes acceptable for attacks on bar staff. The Government was...

Pub Bitch: Bridget Simmons, Brigit Symmons or Brigid Simmonds?

14-Dec-2009

Slapstick politics Marston's Pub Company boss Alistair 'Cuddly' Darby was given a robust introduction to the rough and tumble of politics at the BIS...

Pubco launches Apprentice comp of its own

27-May-2009 By Matt Eley Matt

A pub company boss has taken on the role of Sir Alan Sugar in a bid to find a star apprentice in his team. Dave Burr, who heads up the 16-strong...

Just how bad is it out there?

25-Sep-2008 By The PMA Team

A leading City analyst emailed me this week to claim that analysis of the pub sector has become far too black and white, with managed companies...

Pubco boss cycles 350 miles for charity

07-Apr-2008

A pub company boss is cycling hundreds of miles to raise money for soldiers hurt in war zones. Enterprise chief executive Ted Tuppen is joining a...

Pubco boss thwarts till-roll bandits

26-Jul-2007

A pub company boss has issued advice for licensees who receive payment- demands for goods they never ordered after being cold-called by a salesman....

Coors appeals for unity on keg thefts

03-May-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u

Coors has called for the industry to unite to stop the epidemic of keg thefts. This follows comments by Tadcaster Pub Company boss James...