Licensees need to do more to improve service in pubs to accommodate international visitors — that’s according to VisitEngland chief executive James Beresford.
Sixty-six percent of all pubs put up for auction were successfully sold in the first four months of this year — that’s according to statistics from Essential Information Group (EIG), which monitors and collates information on all property auctions held...
Enterprise Inns has launched a ground-breaking scheme — Pubs 2012 — to encourage its 3,000 community pubs to support their local athletes and make the most of this summer’s sporting events.
Over a dinner I cooked last week, a friend of mine was telling me about his newly-launched local pub. “You know, they have duck on the menu, real proper gastropub it is,” he said. The word makes me cringe somewhat, but it did make me think.
The majority of the British public want the Government to do more to support pubs by granting tax breaks, a new national study of 2,000 adults has found.
Simon Townsend is in a good mood. We’re in the Ebury in Pimlico, one of the gems in the Enterprise Inns estate, now back in the hands of gastropub entrepreneur Tom Etridge — and it’s a glittering example of just what pubs can be.
Ten Brakspear pubs in Henley-on-Thames are to stage a Tax-Free Beer Day on 28 February, as a way of highlighting the punitive taxation on beer in the run up to the Budget.
Tom Kerridge, winner of the Budweiser Budvar Top 50 Gastropubs 2012, has predicted more pubs will follow in his footsteps and achieve two Michelin stars.
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has called for urgent Government action to save Britain’s historic pub culture in light of new research showing how 16 pubs on average now close across the country on a weekly basis.
Did you know that more than two-thirds of Brits not attending this year’s Olympic Games hope to watch the action in a pub? That, at least, is according to research conducted by pub operator Orchid Group.
The Government needs to act to save thousands of jobs in the supply chain from farm to pub, according to a new initiative from the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) and the National Farmers Union (NFU).
Against a background where the vast majority of pubs are seen as responsibly right, why have successive governments discriminated against them instead of supporting them?
This is my last leader after 10 years on the magazine and much has changed in the pub sector in my time here. I thought I’d offer up 10 positives about the industry.
Seven out of every 10 pubs offered for auction this year were successfully sold – that’s according to figures from the Essential Information Group (EIG).
This is a critical time for our industry and the country’s economy. No less a person than the Governor of the Bank of England fears that the financial crisis is the worst the country has ever seen. Living standards are being squeezed to an extent not...
UKIP leader Nigel Farage declared “pubs are parliaments” at the launch of British Pub Week in south London last night before challenging community pubs minister Bob Neill on the smoking ban, beer duty, and supermarkets.
Whether it’s on the property or the operations side of the industry, Scottish & Newcastle Pub Company trading director Chris Moore has dedicated his career to unlocking the value in pubs. He can also pull a good pint, as he tells Phil Mellows.
Freehouses remain highly desirable purchases in the pub property market and the number being bought and sold is picking up — though funding is still an issue, Phil Mellows reports.
Us journalists are notoriously fickle when it comes to moving from industry to industry, but I have to say the pub sector has been a massive part of...
A major clampdown on alcohol sales in Scotland - including a ban on "irresponsible" off-trade promotions and pubs being forced to operate a Challenge...
If year zero for pubs was tomorrow what would they be like? Or, what do we want pubs to be in order to be successful and relevant in a modern world?...
Busy location on coastal main road
Extensively renovated detached public house
Five trade areas (100)
Sizeable refurbished 4-5 bedroom accommodation
Newly created beer garden (125)
Established and popular business...
