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Pubs code adjucator inundated with arbitration requests

06-Dec-2016 By Liam Coleman

The first figures released by pubs code adjudicator (PCA), Paul Newby, show that his office received 79 requests for arbitration in just the first four months of the pubs code being law.

Pubs code delay: 'Infuriated' campaigners urge Government to set new date

10-Jun-2016 By Oli Gross

Campaigners have urged the Government to make an urgent statement on when the pubs code will be implemented, following its delay last month.

Brakspear rewards top five tenants with up to £2,000 each

16-Jul-2012 By Michelle Perrett

Brakspear has presented five of its top pub tenants with up to £2,000 each, as winners of the annual Brakspear Hospitality Awards.

Tenants polarised over pubcos

08-Mar-2012 By Rob Willock

Most pub tenants would recommend their pub company to another tenant, and half would take another pub from their pubco, according to new research.

Measure, benchmark, act

08-Mar-2012 By Rob Willock

Spend a week on the newsdesk of the Publican’s Morning Advertiser (it’s an open invitation!) and you’d be forgiven for thinking that all tenants hate their pub companies. It’s true to say that most of those that contact our journalists have an axe to...

Another link in Wetherspoon's chain

18-Sep-2010 By Hamish Champ

It's easy to imagine some pub tenants cheering local councillors in Lymington for saying 'no' to JD Wetherspoon's application to open one of its pubs...

Eric Illsley: Cheap alcohol is creating issues we ignore at our peril

06-Jan-2010

The choice was to drink beer for under 50p per can at home or pay upwards of £2.75p per pint to drink the same beer in a pub. Cheap availability of...

The limits to pubco giving

27-Oct-2009 By The PMA Team

Trying to broker an agreement with the parties involved in mediation talks between pub tenants and their landlords was described by one observer as "like herding cats", says The PMA Team.

Trade reacts to new beer tie probe

24-Jul-2009 By John Harrington

Groups and companies from across the industry give their view on the new beer tie probe by the Office of Fair Trading.

Tied pub tenants converge on Westminster

20-May-2009 By Ewan Turney

Around 200 tied pub tenants are due to descend on Westminster today to lobby MPs for support to change the pubco model. The Lobby Day, organised by...

Marston's tenants say 'no thanks' to volume-led variable rent deals

08-Dec-2008 By Hamish Champ

Marston's pub tenants have been reluctant to take up the brewer's sales-based variable rent agreements because they require too much transparency,...

North West Focus: Robinsons takes stock

21-Feb-2008

It could have been a stupid question - asking 400 pub tenants whether they're being charged a fair rent. But the exercise produced a pleasant...

Change of hands at

29-Sep-2005

the Mare & Foal A couple who have worked as pub tenants and managers have fulfilled their ambition of buying their own freehold in a pretty Devon...

People: A working relationship

18-Nov-2003

What do publicans really want from their company? The results of a new survey give some answers.Will pub tenants and their landlords ever learn to...