02-Mar-2010 By Jo Bruce
The finalists in the Morning Advertiser's Great British Pub Food Awards' pub company awards have been revealed. The 2010 winners will be announced...
25-Feb-2010 By The PMA Team
Marston's Pub Company has unveiled two initiatives aimed at providing its 1,600 tenants with a chance to grow their businesses. Division boss...
The finalists for The Publican Awards 2010 have been announced
22-Feb-2010
For more information on the awards or to book tickets go online to www.thepublicanawards.com or contact Claire Bradshaw on 020 7921 8359...
10-Dec-2009 By The PMA Team
Town & City Pub Company, which operates the Yates's chain, reported a "very successful" first 11 trading months, qualified by exceptional...
29-Oct-2009 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Heineken will takeover the Globe Pub Company in late 2010 - following its £180m acquisition today by a holding company.
08-Oct-2009 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
02-Sep-2009 By Ewan Turney
JD Wetherspoon is the first pub company to commit to the Government's skills pledge initiative. The pledge is a voluntary, public commitment to...
01-Sep-2009 By The PMA Team
Punch Pub Company, the managed arm of Punch Taverns, is trialling several different concepts to plug gaps in its portfolio.
Frying tonight! Fish and chips boom in London
28-Aug-2009
Sales of traditional fish and chips are booming in Punch Taverns' managed pubs in London. Punch Pub Company sells more fish and chips in the capital...
10-Jun-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Regional brewers say applications for tenanted pubs have risen sharply since the start of the year — with increased redundancies cited as a reason....
And The Publican Awards 2009 winners are...
25-Mar-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
The best in the business have been rewarded for their achievements at industry 'Oscars' The Publican Awards. Top performing licensees and pub...
15-Jan-2009 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.
Clear pubco estate acquires freeholds
12-Dec-2008 By The PMA Team
Clear Pub Company has radically reorganised its estate after taking on 25 Punch leaseholds less than 18 months ago. Clear Pub Company (CPC) now has...
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...
Facing up to reality in the pub trade
09-Jun-2008
The smoking ban, the credit crunch, poor weather and steeply rising costs are regularly cited as contributing to the pub industry's ills. Whether pub...
Marston's hits the road to find new talent
22-Apr-2008
Marston's has launched a series of roadshows to meet existing licensees and recruit new people to the trade. Around 25 suppliers are exhibiting at...
09-Apr-2008
Marston's Pub Company has appointed Amelie Cree as marketing executive, to help provide further support to its tenants. Cree, a product of the...
01-Apr-2008
Marston's Pub Company has launched its annual awards to recognise the best in its estate. In addition to the prestigious top prize of Marston's Pub...
White Lion
27-Mar-2008
Barthomley, Cheshire Marston's Pub Company tenancy As you would expect from a thatched country inn built in 1614, the White Lion is all about...
The Publican Awards: And the winners are...
18-Mar-2008 By James Wilmore
More than 1,800 people saw the pub trade's finest recognised at The Publican Awards in Central London.Comedians Alan Carr and Justin Lee Collins were...
14-Mar-2008 By The PMA Team
Swallet Management Solutions Limited has been granted exclusivity until today to buy Massive.
PubChef's winners
06-Mar-2008
A former London PR director turned pub owner and self-taught chef has been crowned PubChef of the Year 2008. Ross Williams, who left London five...
Food Excellence Awards
01-Mar-2008
Pub company of the year - unbrandedBrunning & Price Sites: 14 trading and one in development Innovations: Located mainly in the north-west, with...
Pub goes on strike after beer prices rise
07-Feb-2008
A licensee has closed the doors of his century-old pub in protest at rising beer prices from Marston's.Carl Sherratt of The Poacher, in Bolton,...
City diary
07-Feb-2008 By The PMA Team
Cannon has plenty to grouse about A little local difficulty for serial entrepreneur Michael Cannon who has been left facing a legal bill for nearly...
Marston's ramps up tenant training
10-Jan-2008
Marston's Pub Company (MPC) is ramping up training provision to help tenants and lessees prepare for the expected slowdown in consumer spending this...
09-Jan-2008
Marston's Pub Company is ramping up training provision to help tenants prepare for a tough year
Marston's licensees celebrate seafood success
26-Nov-2007
A drive by Marston's Pub Company to encourage licensees to offer more seafood has resulted in a host of new dishes on pub menus.Winners of a...
The Pub Food Awards 2007: The winners
08-Nov-2007
Historic London pub the Grapes has been named Pub of the Year at The Publican Pub Food Awards 2007. Licensee Barbara Haigh, who ran the Limehouse...
Marston's launches new 'turnover' leases
01-Nov-2007 By The PMA Team
Pubco responds to calls for flexible contracts to suit individual needs Marston's Pub Company, the company's tenanted division, is introducing...
01-Nov-2007 By The PMA Team
Pubco responds to calls for flexible contracts to suit individual needs
City diary
04-Oct-2007 By The PMA Team
Blowing in the wind I can't be the only one curious to see what the wind turbine on top of JD Wetherspoon's new green pub, the Kettleby Cross, in...
What the Sunday papers said
16-Sep-2007
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B), the pub company behind the Harvester chain, is facing a much higher liability from a failed property deal than the...
29-Aug-2007 By John Harrington
Marston's Pub Company is looking for new licensees to run four "flagship" pubs it bought this week from the Rutland Pub Company for £5.5m.
NewsDigest
01-Aug-2007
The Clear Pub Company (CPC), a fledgling business set up by Duncan Ward and Andy Wilkinson, has launched with the acquisition of 25 leasehold sites...
31-Jul-2007 By The PMA Team
Sizzling Pub Company, the Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) community brand, has unveiled its 200th pub.
Marston's
28-Jun-2007
Andrew Andrea Operations director Marston's Pub Company Peter Dalzell Operations director Marston's Inns & Taverns How many pubs do you operate?...
South East Focus: Local sourcing
28-Jun-2007
The link between farming and brewing goes back a long way. Once early man had started cultivating fields and producing crops, the very next item on...
14 Stephen Oliver managing director, Marston's Pub Company (MPC) (17) David Elliott managing director, Greene King Pub Partners (17)
31-May-2007
Why they are on the list: They head up the leased and tenanted pub estates of Britain's two super-regional brewers; Oliver's Marston's Pub Company...
Make the most of outdoors
18-May-2007
Marston's Pub Company is running roadshows aimed at giving its licensees ideas to maximise the al-fresco potential of their pubs. Lucy Britner went...
Legal advice: New taxation obligations for building work
23-Apr-2007
If you are a pub company or multiple retailer involved in regularly developing new sites (and if you spend more than an average of £1m a year on...
Marston's new pub pie concept
05-Apr-2007
Marston's Pub Company, the company's tenanted division, has launched a new pie concept to help its licensees get into food. The made-to-order pies,...
Open books may ease sales
22-Mar-2007 By Lucy Britner lucy.britner@william-reed.co.uk
Open-book accounting could encourage virgin licensees to enter the trade and make pubs easier to sell. Last week MA reported that Marston's Pub...
InBrief
15-Mar-2007
MPC offers pubs free spring clean Marston's Pub Company (MPC) pubs are to get a spring clean to coincide with the start of the smoking ban. More than...
Bay Horse, Great Broughton
01-Feb-2007 By Mark Taylor
Mark Taylor talks to the licensees of the Bay Horse in Great Broughton, Middlesbrough, Teesside
31-Jan-2007
This award recognises the pub company that has most successfully developed and delivered a new menu offer in the past year and judges were looking...
30-Jan-2007 By Lucy Britner
Two Marston's Pub Company licensees have scooped Bronze and Merit awards at a Hospitality Show cooking competition. Jeff Thomas, chef patron at the...
City Briefs
02-Nov-2006
Wellington shows drop in profit Wellington Pub Company, the tenanted pub company owned by the Reuben brothers, which runs around 800 free-of tie...
17-Aug-2006
If you are a pub company with an excellent food offer then don't miss the chance to enter the Pubchef Food Excellence Awards 2007. This year we have...
A Punch below the belt - a column by Phil Dixon
22-Jun-2006
Attitudes may be changing on both sides of the great pub-trade divide, but - as PHIL DIXON observes - there's still a crying need for more transparency in rental calculations
