Pub Company

Jowell cleared over pub shares

09-Mar-2006 By Lucy Britner

Culture secretary cleared by watchdog over husband's pub shares

Licensing mess

15-Aug-2005

I run a pub which was recently sold by a major pub company as part of an Office of Fair Trading ruling. This pub company had offered to take full...

Industry's finest honoured at Publican Awards

23-Mar-2005

Licensee Lucy Craig of the Ha! Ha! Bar and Canteen in Brighton has become the youngest ever winner of the BII Licensee of the Year award.The...

Trade takes a bow at responsibility awards

18-Nov-2004

by MA Reporter Mitchells & Butlers, the pub company that runs All Bar One, It's A Scream, and Harvester, among other national chains, has been...

Policy power

27-Oct-2004

We've heard lots about binge-drinking problems. Isn't it time we heard about efforts to stop it? Tom Sandham reports.Social responsibility is in this...

Finding funds

17-Mar-2004

The Publican looks at how to find the cash to improve your pub.After the struggle of finding the right pub, getting funding in place to buy it and...

What the Sunday papers say

08-Mar-2004

The ObserverCity Councils across Britain are now drawing up radical plans to outlaw smoking in public places, with some considering draconian blanket...

Pub estates in huge shake up

09-Oct-2003

The coming months will see one of the biggest pub shake-ups since the beer orders, with more than 10,000 managed and tenanted houses set to change...

Property briefs

11-Jul-2003

Pub company and brewer Brain's is continuing on the acquisition trail with the purchase of six pubs in Wales. It bought four former Beefeater pubs...

Two's company

12-May-2003

Mark Stretton analyses the possibility of Scottish & Newcastle Retail merging with the Mitchells & Butlers chain to create one...

Punch to help out tenants with rent concessions

02-May-2003

Punch Pub Company has announced that it is to grant 256 of its tenants rent concessions.The 4,500-strong pub company is giving the concessions to a...

Property briefs

06-Mar-2003

InnSpired Pub Company has announced plans to spend £2.3m on improving the quality of its 1,100 strong estate. The figure matches the sum it spent on...

Property briefs

24-Feb-2003

Punch Pub Company is continuing on the acquisition trail purchasing three pubs from Mill House Inns for £1.7m. The pubs include the Mill at Worston...

Pub Company

23-Jan-2003

of the Year ­ Over 100 outlets This award, sponsored by Budweiser Budvar, aims to recognise the pub company with more than 100 outlets that has the...

Punch nets trio as it presses on

09-Jan-2003

Punch Pub Company has bought three freehouses through Bettesworths as it continues its expansion plans throughout the south-west. Two are in...

Greene King moves profits up nine per cent

10-Dec-2002

Brewer and pub operator Greene King has unveiled a nine per cent rise in profits to £35m on sales up 17 per cent to £249m for the half-year.In the...

Property briefs

21-Nov-2002

Clarke Pub Company is selling eight of its Scottish pubs in order to focus on its larger managed outlets. The pubs include the Souter Johnnies in...

Large chains look at pub leasebacks

19-Nov-2002

Pub companies which want to raise funds and reduce debt are increasingly getting involved in sale and leaseback property deals.The trend sees...

Lease is more at the Union

09-Sep-2002

Union Pub Company, W&DB's tenanted arm, aims to convert 150 of its tenants into leaseholders by Christmas. Mark Stretton finds out more.A potted...

What the Sunday papers said - 10 February

10-Feb-2002

The Sunday TelegraphNomura and Deutsche Bank are working on plans to launch two of the biggest ever pub-backed bond issues which together will be...

The top City stories of 2001 on thePublican.com

02-Jan-2002

Not a complete review of the year - thePublican.com only launched in April of 2001 - but rather a look at the top City stories you've been interested...

InnSpired - aiming to make licensees' lives easier

05-Dec-2001

Peter Brook, chief executive of InnSpired, likes to get out into the field as often as possible and sets aside at least one day a week for pub tours....