Ex-Asda chief calls for on and off-trade unity
20-Nov-2008
"It's a great mistake to think it is an on-trade versus off-trade issue. If you carry on down this road of "on versus off" you will lose."Strong...
13-Nov-2008 By Peter Coulson
this is undoubtedly the most difficult period for the pub trade within my own career — and theirs, says Peter Coulson.
James Wilmore: This is now a big deal
10-Oct-2008 By James Wilmore
It's nice to see the national media catching up again with an issue with the pub trade has been banging on about for ages. Supermarkets - the big...
Mark Daniels: Sounds Of The Summer
28-Jul-2008
Fond as I often appear to be of finding something to whinge about, I actually prefer good news and I've been desperately looking for something...
Standing tall
17-Jul-2008
It was the week when the pub trade stood tall. And it was the week when few in Parliament would have failed to hear the proud message of the pub...
The ban hurts, but it's right
26-Jun-2008
We have now lived for a year with the biggest revolution in the pub trade since all-day opening 20 years ago. To a greater or lesser extent, the...
The agent
19-Jun-2008
Krishana Singh, negotiator, Fleurets (London)
Pub Bitch
17-May-2008
Feeding his egoTop marks to the BII and John Mac for another sterling annual lunch at the Grosvenor House hotel in London last week. No marks at all,...
Gaming machines can give pubs a boost
28-Apr-2008
Gaming companies should help regenerate the pub trade, according to the head of one company in the sector.Stuart Ross, group managing director of...
11-Apr-2008 By Andrew Pring
Perhaps Government ministers are so out of touch, they didn't realise how unpopular their duty rises were, says Andrew Pring
The big fightback starts here
10-Apr-2008
Perhaps Government ministers are so out of touch, they didn't realise how unpopular their duty rises were. If so, last week's furore over the...
Sutcliffe: it is tough. But it's not our job to keep pubs open
03-Apr-2008
In an interview this week, Licensing Minister Gerry Sutcliffe tells Andrew Pring the pub trade must move with the times The Budget AP: The pub trade...
03-Apr-2008 By Andrew Pring
In an interview this week, Licensing Minister Gerry Sutcliffe tells Andrew Pring the pub trade must move with the times. The Budget AP: The pub trade...
LETTERs
27-Mar-2008
Darling and Brown are out of touch With reference to the recent Budget, I want to voice my concerns about the 9.1% increase in beer duty. I firmly...
Back to Basics: Preventing underage drinking
18-Mar-2008
Beating the problem of serving to underage drinkers is a top priority for licensees - especially since the recently announced government plan to...
City diary
13-Mar-2008 By The PMA Team
Pub trade job is just what the doctor ordered Who says working in the pub trade is badly paid? A medical student working in the Newcastle branch of...
Budget: Beer duty to rise 4p a pint
12-Mar-2008 By James Wilmore
Chancellor Alistair Darling dealt a severe blow to the pub trade today as he announced across the board above inflation duty rises on alcohol in the...
07-Dec-2007
Received opinion within the pub trade is that the buck for irresponsible drinking can be passed to supermarkets, based on super-low pricing policies....
Too soon to allow drinking at 16
18-Oct-2007
Last week's figures on underage drinking were a shot in the arm for the pub trade, and actually, to be fair, the off-trade too. Both sides of the...
25 Ways To Improve The Pub Industry
04-Oct-2007
Service standardsOne of the pub trade's weakest points but also the easiest to solve. You don't have to talk to customers at length, but a pleasant...
Careers: in the Spirit
28-Mar-2007
People come to the pub trade in different ways - as a part-time worker, from another industry, or from a family background in pubs. Here are three...
Pubs targeted by money laundering criminals
08-Mar-2007
More than £370m in cash is being laundered through the pub trade every year, says a leading investigator of organised crime. Roger Wilson from the...
Legal advice: The right person for the job
09-Feb-2007
As employers we all want our employees to be competent to do the jobs they are employed to do. In the pub trade we want people to be able to pour...
Back to basics: pub websites
17-Jan-2007
So you've got a website? Congratulations. But is it doing you any good?At the end of the last century a lot of pubs suddenly decided they ought to...
Fury over lack of smoke ban guidelines
07-Dec-2006 By James Wilmore
Trade fury has been sparked by the government's failure to publish guidelines on the smoking ban.More than a week after the July 1 start-date for the...
Don't gamble on AWPs
19-Oct-2006
Licensees will be "ruining it for the entire pub trade" if they are caught not supervising their gaming machines.The Department for Culture, Media...
12-Oct-2006
Poring over the entrails of the Bowes empire, it's pretty obvious that gullibility runs through the pub trade like a seaside resort through rock. How...
On the road
02-Aug-2006 By James Wilmore
So what type of person is looking to buy a pub at the moment? The Publican attended the London leg of the Christie + Co/Punch Taverns road show where...
Freehold frenzy
24-Jul-2006 By James Wilmore
It may be the most expensive way into the pub trade, but a freehold remains an attractive proposition for many. Freedom, of course, is the key word....
Playing the game
03-Feb-2006
This year's ATEI show threw up a few thoughts for the pub trade, as Phil Mellows explains.Behind the urgent commotion of noise and light at this...
JDW boss named pub personality with most impact
22-Sep-2005
Tim Martin has been voted as the individual from the pub trade who has made the biggest impact on the industry in the past 30 years.In a poll of...
Lorna Harrison: Never a dull moment in the pub trade
21-Sep-2005
The Publican's Editor-in-chief, Lorna Harrsion, looks back on the past thirty years in the pub trade to mark the 30th Birthday of The Publican...
Why
23-Jun-2005
is this such a rare sight? Is the industry doing enough to promote diversity in pubs? With figures showing that only 2.5% of the trade's workforce...
Drinking at home blamed for downturn in trade
03-Jun-2005
A growing trend across Europe for drinking at home, and not smoking bans, has been blamed for the downturn in pub trade. A report, presented at the...
Inn-Direct defends recruitment record
19-May-2005
Pub recruitment company Inn-Direct has denied that it is one of the rogue recruitment firms that continues to operate in the pub trade despite...
Risk-takers will continue to drive pub trade, says adviser
10-Nov-2004
The risk-taking, bigger players will continue to dominate growth in the pub trade, driving the industry forward at the expense of less innovative...
Give to the poor
23-Jun-2004
After selling the C-Side Ltd group for £14m Martin Webb felt like doing something charitable. By Tom Sandham.Martin Webb was on his 62-foot yacht...
Trade warned over EU workers' rights
03-Apr-2003
By Claire Hu The pub trade has been warned not to "bury its head in the sand" over new European Union legislation which will give temporary workers...
Pubs on track to meet charter complicance target
22-Jan-2003
New research from the industry's Charter Group on smoking shows that the pub industry is on track to meet its minimum targets. The latest market...
Play safe over darts oche hazard
28-Nov-2002
I have been asked for advice on a subject of considerable importance to the pub trade darts. As traditional a pub game as you can imagine, darts...
Pub trade must present a united front on licensing reform
31-Oct-2002
The pub trade needs to present a united front to Parliament or it could shoot itself in the foot over licensing reform.Speaking at a conference run...
Licensees fear death of the superpub
31-Jul-2002
The pub trade has hit back at claims that superpubs are contributing to underage drinking, binge drinking and public disorder.This comes after...
EU can't be serious!
18-Jul-2002
Whether we like it or not, our integration into Europe is gathering pace. Michelle Perrett assesses how it's affecting a British institution - the...
Sky hopes match day quizzes will challenge World Cup rule
14-Mar-2002
Sky is hoping to help the pub trade win its fight for extended hours during this year's World Cup by running a football quiz on match days.The...
pass notes
15-Mar-2001
The licensed trade has always been one of the UK's biggest employers, and today more than 900,000 people are estimated to work in the sector. Coming...
