30-Aug-2022 By Rebecca Weller
Independent pub company Punch Pubs site the Moorend Spout in Nailsea, Somerset, has reopened under new management following a £350,000 investment from the pub company.
Mild January boosts managed pub chains
14-Feb-2011 By Hamish Champ
A milder January than last year made for better trading across the country's leading managed pub and restaurant chains, according to new research....
04-Oct-2010 By The PMA Team
City analyst Paul Hickman, of KBC Peel Hunt, has issued a buy note on Punch Taverns — fortune favours the brave, he said.
Punch gives jobseekers a taste of the trade
22-Sep-2010 By James Wilmore
Ten jobseekers were given a two-week taste of the industry and a guaranteed job interview thanks to a link-up between Punch Pub Company and a...
04-May-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Punch Taverns hopes to raise in excess of £36m from the sale of a 36-strong package of its managed pubs. The pubs, part of Punch Pub Company, the...
08-Feb-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Punch Pub Company has recognised its top 10 pub managers with Best Awards at a ceremony at the Hotel Du Vin in Birmingham. Winners were selected...
Punch awards Best in business
08-Feb-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
The top managers at Punch pubs have been rewarded at an awards dinner with company directors. The Best Awards event was held at Hotel Du Vin in...
16-Nov-2009 By Ewan Turney
Managed pub and restaurant chains saw a 2.8% increase in like-for-like sales in October — the largest increase since Easter.
19-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
The major branded pub chains have now recorded six months of positive like-for-like sales growth, despite predictions that the eating and drinking...
14-Oct-2009 By The PMA Team
Graham Jones, operations director at Barracuda, has joined Punch to oversee the roll out of Punch Pub Company's new concepts.
Punch Pub Company to get major revamp
03-Sep-2009 By Hamish Champ
Mike Tye, boss of Punch Taverns' managed pub assets, is going for an all-out revamp of the group's 800-odd sites as part of a multi-million pound...
03-Sep-2009 By Ewan Turney
Punch has been ordered to pay £17,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to serious breaches of fire safety legislation. Punch Pub Company's...
17-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
Leading pub and restaurant chains are trading positively thanks to an increased spend on marketing and promotions. The Coffer Peach Business...
12-Aug-2009 By John Harrington
Punch is looking to recruit up to 100 people in its managed pubs division including chefs and kitchen managers.
23-Jun-2009 By Ewan Turney
Established managed, branded pub and restaurant chains are holding off stiff competition from supermarkets and tightening consumer spending with...
Recruitment companies continue to fail licensees
02-Sep-2004
Licensees are calling on the government to stop recruitment companies from failing to live up to their promises. The Publican newsdesk has been...
Pub trade's best awarded at Publican Awards
24-Mar-2004
Licensees David Heyes and Gillian Heyes of the Garsdale Country Inn & Restaurant in Bury, Lancashire have been named the British Institute of...
Brakspear buy
16-Oct-2003
Brakspear has bought its first pub in Wiltshire the Shears Inn at Collingbourne Ducis. The buy takes Brakspear's total estate to more than 100,...
Crusader joins trade
07-Aug-2003
The founder of Mothers Against Drink Drivers, who wants all learner drivers to be shown a video detailing how her own daughter was killed by a car...
Property briefs
25-Jun-2003
Punch Pub Company is continuing on the acquisition trail with the purchase of the Bay Horse Inn in Ashurton, Devon (pictured). The company beat four...
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
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...
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's BDMs show the way forward
06-Nov-2002
A new breed of area manager has arrived, selling ideas rather than beer. Phil Mellows finds out how a new computer system is helping one company help...
Punch wants hosts
10-Oct-2002
to have a vine time Punch Pub Company is helping its licensees cash in on the growth of on-trade wine sales with the launch of a new support package....
Football fever for Punch lessees as text message promo kicks off
22-Jul-2002
Punch Pub Company licensees are bracing themselves for a prolonged dose of football fever as part of a text message promotion in association with...
Punch Taverns float resurfaces
21-May-2002
Punch Taverns, the parent group of the 4,300-strong Punch Pub Company, has made a dramatic U-turn, returning to the stock market only a week after it...
Punch pulls flotation
16-May-2002
Punch Taverns, the parent group of Punch Pub Company, has pulled its flotation on the London Stock Exchange - just hours before shares were due to be...
Spirit set for brand extensions
13-Mar-2002
Karen Jones, chief executive of the managed pub business Spirit Group, has identified three concepts that she plans to roll-out through the...
Flower power to the people
13-Mar-2002
Adrian Gilpin is the man Punch Pub Company has brought in to boost business by focusing on people. Phil Mellows investigatesThe hippies are back. And...
Packing a Punch
29-Aug-2001
Mark Ludmon meets Punch Pub Company chief Stephen LambertLike many students, Stephen Lambert worked behind the bar of a local Edinburgh pub during...
Leased pubs boss quits Punch
05-Apr-2001
Peter Thomas, the original managing director of Punch Taverns and the former boss of Bass Lease Company, is to leave Punch.He is quitting as leasing...
