Property briefs
03-Feb-2003
Chesterton has been appointed by the Spirit Group to identify and acquire up to 40 sites for its Two for One, Wacky Warehouse and Bar Room Bar...
Campaign for Real Food aims to boost profile
30-Jan-2003
The Campaign for Real Food is aiming to become as well-known to the public as CAMRA is.The campaign has the support of some of the UK's top chefs...
Trade's top stars receive their MA Oscars
30-Jan-2003
The winners of the Morning Advertiser's Industry Awards 2003 received their prizes during a glittering ceremony held at the Hilton Hotel on London's...
Hog's Heads are a hit
30-Jan-2003
by Tony Halstead Laurel is to roll out its new-look Hog's Head pub concept to 10 further sites across the UK from next month. It follows successful...
Founder buys back Brulines
30-Jan-2003
The licensed trade's biggest supplier of beer dispense monitoring equipment, Brulines, was in new ownership this week following a management buyout...
Rooms at the top: time for pubs to think letting accommodation
29-Jan-2003
More pubs are turning to letting accommodation to maximise potential and profit. Phil Mellows takes a look.As the British tourist market begins...
High Spirits, low prices
27-Jan-2003
Spirit Group may be discounting beer but it will not sacrifice quality or service. Mark Stretton talks to commercial director Andrew Knight.When...
SFI sites for sale
23-Jan-2003
Seven sites in London operated by beleaguered SFI Group are up for sale for just under £1.7m. They comprise three outlets operating under the Slug...
Two pubs so picturesque they have graced the cover of guides
23-Jan-2003
The famous Royal Oak Inn in Winsford, Exmoor, is for sale with Christie & Co, with a guide price of £1,295,000, while the Cock Inn at Sibson, on...
Quality drive set to revive cask ale
23-Jan-2003
by Tony Halstead Pubs in tenanted and retail estates are showing heightened awareness of cask-quality initiatives in a resurgence of interest which...
National Pubs Week is Camra's rallying cry
23-Jan-2003
Consumer group Camra has joined forces with brewers, pub companies and wholesalers in a campaign to raise awareness about the decline in the number...
Image so crucial in real ale crusade
23-Jan-2003
Cask Marque may not yet be a mass consumer brand, but it can only be a matter of time before every ale drinker in the country is looking for that...
Marketing ideas lift Hungry Horse sales
23-Jan-2003
Hungry Horse, Greene King's flagship food brand, has reported an 8% like-for-like sales growth over Christmas after pubs were encouraged to produce...
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...
Property briefs
20-Jan-2003
The Hare and Hounds in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, is up for sale for an asking price of £150,000. The pub is being sold as part of a rationalisation...
Business Development: Pub of the Year
16-Jan-2003
This award, sponsored by Unique Pub Co, aims to identify the tenants who have demonstrated the greatest improvements to their businesses over the...
Plea for starter pubs' to tempt newcomers
16-Jan-2003
Trade leader Tony Payne has called on pubcos to launch specialist estates of "starter pubs" to help first-time licensees gain a more secure entry...
Pub property market set for buoyant year
16-Jan-2003
Pub property values rose by 8.1% last year and will continue increasing in 2003, despite fears of a slowdown in the residential market, according to...
Tenanted sector to be hit by price rise
16-Jan-2003
The controversial divide between tenanted and managed pubs over beer discounts is set to take an uncomfortable step in the wrong...
Villagers in fight to save
09-Jan-2003
Peggy's pub Villagers are fighting to save apub which used to be owned by EastEnders landlady Barbara Windsor. The Plough Inn at Winchmore Hill in...
Shout' is a wake-up call
09-Jan-2003
Dave Elliott's "My Shout" (Morning Advertiser, 19 December) calling for the industry to "embrace" a possible future Government smoking ban is...
In uncertain times, quality is crucial
09-Jan-2003
Not for over a decade has the pub industry faced as potentially challenging a year ahead as this one. Or as difficult a one to call. In fact, 2003...
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...
Punch ready to
09-Jan-2003
push conquests' by Mike Bennett Punch Taverns has pledged to invest in and swiftly exploit business opportunities in the 61 tenancies acquired as a...
Trading places
09-Jan-2003
Abbey's good fortune means a lot to Alan Morgan, who has had his ups and downs in the trade over the past 30 years. He was interviewed for a job with...
FESTIVE FILLIP CHEERS TRADE
09-Jan-2003
by Mike Bennett and Richard Matthews Encouraging signs that trading over Christmas and New Year was ahead of expectations has heartened a pub sector...
CAMRA blames death of rural pubs on pub companies
07-Jan-2003
National pub companies have been blamed for contributing to the demise of rural pubs by hiking up rents.Accusations that the pub giants are making...
What the Sunday papers said
06-Jan-2003
The Sunday TimesTHERE have been enough whispers in recent weeks to indicate there will be no shortage of buyers to scour Six Continents' demerger...
Landlord flattens pub after being refused a drink
03-Jan-2003
A landlord could be jailed after demolishing his own pub with a JCB digger.Police want to speak to pub owner Robert Tyrell after the mechanical...
CAMRA fears the decline of the rural pub
02-Jan-2003
Fears are again growing for the future of the rural pub as more licensees are finding it uneconomical to run their businesses.The Suffolk branches of...
A 14th century thatched freehouse in Devon has been sold.
19-Dec-2002
The Linny, in the village of Coffinswell, was probably built circa 1368 as two farm cottages. In 1954 the cottages were converted into a "members...
Old warriors offer some welcome festive cheer
19-Dec-2002
At last a little cheer for drink shares. Perhaps, in the present far from festive climate, it is not so surprising that three hard-bitten, old...
Osmond and Johnson eye 6C Retail
16-Dec-2002
Hugh Osmond and Luke Johnson are both said to be mulling bids for Six Continents' retail pubs division, which will be demerged from the group's...
What the Sunday papers said
16-Dec-2002
The Independent on SundayCUSTOMS & EXCISE has suffered another embarrassing setback, with the latest collapse of a fraud trial bringing its total...
PELs warning
12-Dec-2002
Brewers are being warned to expect a Christmas crackdown on pubs operating without PELs. Adrian Taylor, a partner at Manchester law firm Rowe Cohen,...
Paris catch
12-Dec-2002
In operating eight English pubs in Paris, Mayday Inns has made subtle yet vital concessions to French culture. The PMA Team meets founder Jeremy Bown...
New face at helm of haunted house
12-Dec-2002
An InnSpired outlet which has been investigated by the Association for the Scientific Study of the Anomalous & Paranormal has a new face at the...
Spirit sells 34 pubs to Punch
12-Dec-2002
Spirit Group has sold 34 "bottom end" pubs to Punch Tavern for £12.75m about £360,000 per pub. The pubs, three in Scotland and 31 in England,...
Fuller's fulfils cool promise
12-Dec-2002
We live in a cool age. I smile when my two sons one just into his teens, the other two years younger tell me that something is "cool", for it...
GK profits rise to £35m at halfway
12-Dec-2002
Greene King delivered reassuring half-year results this week when it reported a 9% rise in profits to £35m, pre-tax and exceptionals. Chief...
6C shuns high street for suburbia
12-Dec-2002
by The PMA Team Six Continents is to focus 75% of its pub capital investment in the "resilient-suburban" market because the high-street market is...
City reassured by resurgent W&D
12-Dec-2002
by Mike Bennett Wolverhampton & Dudley is celebrating a solid performance in all its three business divisions with a set of year-end financial...
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...
Future is small for pub business
09-Dec-2002
Increasing numbers of small multiple operators are set to change the face of the pub business, according to an industry expert.Yaser Martini,...
Beer conference move by Camra
05-Dec-2002
by Mike Bennett Camra this week called for a conference of key players in the brewing industry to boost the crusade to revolutionise the image of...
The only pub in the village of Tunstall, near Woodbridge, Su
05-Dec-2002
The Green Man was sold through Christie & Co by Sue and Ken Wren. The purchasers are Deborah and Dudley Naslund, whose daughter, Jackie, and...
Property briefs
05-Dec-2002
Grade II listed building the Wheat Sheaf is a three-story Victorian property situated close to the Stadium of Light football ground in Sunderland. It...
Customers plan to snub longer hours
04-Dec-2002
Nearly half of pub customers will continue to go home at the normal 11pm closing time - even if they are drinking in a pub that opens longer.That's...
JD Wetherspoon: pub prices set to fall
29-Nov-2002
A sharp fall in the cost of buying a pub is on the cards, according to JD Wetherspoon.The drop in prices is expected as operators cut back on...
Freemans at helm as George is snapped up
28-Nov-2002
Not only did North Bucks pub the George Inn change hands quickly, but the sale marked something of a milestone. The George Inn was sold for an...
