06-Aug-2008 By John Harrington
The BII is to run a series of roadshows, featuring a number of trade experts, on how best to prepare for rent reviews in association with the Morning Advertiser.
Spirit Group plans to merge employment contracts spark staff fury
26-Jul-2008 By Hamish Champ
Proposals to replace dozens of existing Spirit Group employment contracts with a single set of terms and conditions have been condemned by staff who...
MBE awarded to charitable licensee
25-Jul-2008
A licensee has spoken of her delight at being awarded an MBE for her work for charity.Pat Ost, who runs Punch Taverns pub the South Western Hotel in...
City analyst calls for cut in Punch Taverns' dividend
17-Jul-2008 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns should cut its dividend payment to help pay off some of its debt, a City analyst said today.Punch's shares have fallen sharply in value...
Footfall fever
17-Jul-2008
The start of the premiership season is just a few short weeks away, so its time to prepare for those match days to lift your takings into the next...
Punch Taverns shares continue to fall over debt fears
08-Jul-2008 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns' shares fell nearly seven per cent this morning, wiping out gains made after yesterday's debt update with City pub watchers.Pressure on...
Spirit's Anchor gets £1.6m makeover
02-Jul-2008 By James Wilmore
Spirit Group, the managed house division of Punch Taverns, has re-opened one of its one most famous pubs following a £1.6m transformation. The...
REITdom beckons for Punch Taverns
24-Jun-2008 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns said today it believed it could become a real estate investment trust (REIT) and continue to own and control its existing pub estate....
Pub Is The Hub launches South East advisory group
20-Jun-2008
Pub is the Hub has launched a new regional advisory group in the South East of England.Former Humberts Leisure director, Anthony Miller has been...
Punch licensees abandoning Sky
12-Jun-2008
Licensees have been increasingly abandoning Sky TV, a survey of more than 4,000 Punch Taverns licensees has revealed.The poll shows that between 2003...
Punch Taverns postpones debt re-jig
05-Jun-2008 By Hamish Champ
The credit crunch has forced Punch Taverns to abandon its attempt to amend the redemption terms of its Spirit debenture bonds.The move, which Punch...
04-Jun-2008 By The PMA Team
A sale of Punch Taverns managed division Spirit is now even less likely after a move to refinance was pulled, according to a City analyst. This...
9 Deborah Kemp
29-May-2008
managing director, Punch Taverns (leased & tenanted) (10)
14 Andrew Knight
29-May-2008
managing director, Spirit (Punch Taverns) (13)
1 Giles Thorley
29-May-2008
chief executive, Punch Taverns (1)
Your say
01-May-2008
Pubco support drive? Not at my pub I was intrigued to read your front-page piece on Punch Taverns giving intensive support to its licensees (17...
Rent concessions rise at Punch Taverns
24-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns, the UK's largest pub operator, has had to increase the number of rent concessions it offers its licensees as market conditions...
M&B warned Spirit not for sale
20-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ
Relations between Punch Taverns and Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) sank to a new low last week as the pair fell out over the future of Punch's...
M&B eyes Punch's Spirit pubs
17-Apr-2008 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has turned the tables on Punch Taverns by suggesting it buys its managed-pub division, Spirit. The company is in...
16-Apr-2008
Have you ever thought of owning and running your own pub? Would you like to see your name above the door of your very own licensed outlet? Well, a...
09-Apr-2008 By MA reporter
Kemp's CV BackgroundKemp's early career was at Bass, where she held a number of operational and property roles. She joined Punch in 1998 as...
Punch Taverns in M&B talks with private equity firms
10-Mar-2008 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns has refused to rule out teaming up with private equity groups to ensure its proposed merger with Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) goes...
Rates threat to vacant pubs
06-Mar-2008 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk
A pubco property boss has said that the empty-property relief rate changes will not alter how his company looks at empty sites. Punch Taverns...
28-Feb-2008 By The PMA Team
MA deputy editor The PMA Team previews the MA100 club meeting
'Licensee barred from selling beer by landlord'
10-Feb-2008
A pub landlord has been barred from serving beer by a brewery (sic). Graham Smith, 51, and wife Carole, 50, owe Punch Taverns £4,800 in rent. And...
25-Jan-2008
Punch Taverns has signed a new three-year contract worth £150m with leading gaming group Gamestec. Gamestec has been responsible for the management...
Match words with action
21-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
As a barometer for the pub trade's fortunes, Punch Taverns is as big as they get. So when the group reveals that profits across its leased estate...
16-Jan-2008
Smoking ban and declining consumer confidence cited for profit drop
Punch Taverns' pub profits down on last year
16-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
Shares in Punch Taverns fell more than 30p today - five per cent - after the pubco reported subdued trading across its estate.In an interim...
Punch Taverns lands Cable & Wireless MD as non-exec
06-Dec-2007
Punch Taverns has appointed two new non-executive directors, including the joint managing director of telecoms giant Cable & Wireless.Tony Rice...
'Punch Taverns lining up a merger with Mitchells & Butlers'
25-Nov-2007
Punch Taverns has approached investors in Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) about plans to mount a £5bn merger that would create Britain's biggest...
08-Nov-2007 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report
Performance driven by the integration of new businesses and disposals, the pubco says
Francis Patton to leave Punch Taverns
02-Oct-2007 By Hamish Champ
Francis Patton, Punch Taverns' long-serving customer services director, has announced he is to leave the company on December 7.Patton said he had had...
Punch Taverns profits hit by bad weather
06-Sep-2007 By Hamish Champ
Shares in Punch Taverns soared this morning despite the group warning that its pre-tax profits for the year will be up to three per cent below...
Leasehold market shows its strength
06-Sep-2007 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk
Property agents agree that the success of Christie+Co and Punch Taverns' recent letting campaign shows the strength of the leasehold market. The...
Diageo customers are drinking less
31-Aug-2007
Punch Taverns, the pub group, rose another 27p to £10.81 on talk that Spirit, its managed pub business, could fetch more than £2 billion if it was...
Christie + Co completes on over 650 ex-Spirit Group Punch leases
20-Aug-2007 By Joe Lutrario
Christie + Co has successfully transferred in excess of 650 ex-Spirit Group Punch leases
Spirit's filth 'lets down pub world'
19-Jul-2007 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
Spirit Group, the managed division of Punch Taverns, has promised that remedial action is already underway to rectify its woeful food-hygiene...
Pubs forced to face smoke ban D-Day with no outside smoking shelters
14-Jun-2007
Planning red tape means licensees could wave goodbye to their smoking regulars on July 1 as outdoor areas fail to materialise. Many pubs are expected...
Half of Punch pubs open longer under Act
08-Jun-2007 By James Wilmore
More than half of Punch Taverns' pubs are staying open longer under the Licensing Act, a survey has revealed.However most are only trading for an...
Industry urged to help "marginalise" rogues
06-Jun-2007 By James Wilmore
Tenants will help put rogue operators out of business if they can encourage their landlords to meet the BII's standards, a pubco boss has argued....
36 Jonathan Paveley
31-May-2007
commercial director, Punch Taverns (new entry)
13 Andrew Knight
31-May-2007
managing director of Spirit, Punch Taverns (40)
Collyer: 'Punch must sort out Mill House'
17-May-2007 By The PMA Team
Punch Taverns' acquisition of Mill House Inns has seen "management's eyes completely off the ball" according to analyst Geof Collyer at Deutsche...
09-May-2007 By The PMA Team
City analyst claims Punch Taverns' acquisition of Mill House Inns has been disappointing in its first 24 weeks
Punch Taverns and REITs: It's not now, but it's not never either
04-May-2007 By Hamish Champ
It's definitely a 'no'. Well, for now. After much holding of breath, etc, industry watchers were put out of their misery last week when Punch Taverns...
Punch Taverns has "no plans to buy brewer
01-May-2007 By Hamish Champ
Despite speculation to the contrary, Punch Taverns has no plans to buy a brewery, chief executive Giles Thorley told thepublican.com today.The market...
To sell or not to sell...
26-Mar-2007 By Hamish Champ
The pub sector was gripped by speculation last week that Punch Taverns was looking to sell off up to 10 per cent of its estate in the run up to the...
International flavour
08-Mar-2007
Take customers on a magical mystery tour through a world of new beers, says Punch Taverns marketing director Geoff Brown For a long time now, it has...
Stamp of approval
15-Feb-2007
Hilary Scott tells Ewan Turney how adding a post office to the refurbished Black Swan in Wistow, North Yorkshire, helped her win friends and double...
