18-Nov-2009 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Jonathan Paveley, the former Punch Taverns director, has been appointed executive chairman of Admiral Taverns. He replaces Gary Landesberg following...
16-Nov-2009 By The PMA Team
Punch Taverns could also be affected by the administration of First Quench with a number of leasehold off-licences bouncing back to it, a City...
Hamish Champ: On the road with Punch Taverns
09-Nov-2009 By Hamish Champ
I was in the back of a taxi in Bristol last week when the driver peered at me in the rear view mirror. "What do you for a living then?" he asked me....
Punch Taverns executives awarded millions of shares
19-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
Members of Punch Taverns' senior management team have been awarded millions of shares in the company to incentivise their performance in the coming...
Punch Taverns spends £100m on debt buyback
12-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns, which will this week announced its annual results, revealed it had spent around £100m buying back debt relating to its Punch 'B'...
Punch licensee roadshows kick-off today
06-Oct-2009 By James Wilmore
Punch Taverns is today launching a series of UK-wide roadshows aiming to give its licensees "ideas and support to help them make a difference". This...
24-Sep-2009 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City
Heartstone Inns acquire sixth site
23-Sep-2009 By Claire Dodd Claire
Privately owned pub company Heartsone Inns has acquired its sixth site after purchasing the freehold of the Weyside Inn in Guildford, Surrey from...
03-Sep-2009 By Ewan Turney
Admiral Taverns has joined My Pub Life, the trade group which aims to promote a career in the pub trade through its mypublife.com.
Punch Taverns fined £17K for fire safety breaches
03-Sep-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Punch Taverns has been ordered to pay £17,000 in fines and costs after admitting serious breaches of fire safety legislation. In a case bought by...
19-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
The GMB union has called on the British Institute of Innkeepers to strip Punch Taverns of membership over its treatment of Peak District tenant. It...
17-Aug-2009 By M&C Report
Altium Securities has recommend Punch Taverns as a high-risk investment and said recent disposals had given it a lifeline.
13-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
InnBrighton, operator of 42 licensed premises in the city of Brighton and Hove, has acquired four freehold pubs from Punch Taverns. The operator...
10-Aug-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Joule's Brewery has bought two more pubs from Punch Taverns, bringing its estate to 16 sites. Joule's has now acquired five pubs from Punch. The...
06-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
Punch Taverns could sell as many as 3,000 pubs by the end of 2012, a top City analyst has forecast. Douglas Jack, of Numis Securities, says that he...
Publican awards finalists buy out leases
24-Jul-2009 By Claire Dodd Claire
Two Publican award finalists have bought the freeholds of the pubs they had been leasing from Punch Taverns and Enterprise Inns. Publican Food &...
14-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team
A City analyst has estimated that Punch Taverns has raised around £220m from disposing of 298 pubs so far this year. Geof Collyer, of Deutsche...
13-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team
Punch Taverns is enjoying improved managed division margins and should be able to reduce its overall debt by at least £1.3bn in the coming two...
09-Jul-2009 By John Grogan
Who could have predicted six months ago that Punch Taverns and pubco representatives would sit down in the same room as Fair Pint, says John Grogan.
Punch says it will attend Fair Pint summit
08-Jul-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubco giant Punch Taverns has confirmed it will be represented at an event organised by anti-beer tie campaigners next week. Fair Pint has invited...
St Austell's tenants' code gets BII stamp of approval
01-Jul-2009 By James Wilmore
St Austell has become the latest pub company to have its code of practice for tenants approved by the BII's accreditation scheme The Cornwall-based...
Jumping to it?
27-Jun-2009 By Hamish Champ
To the untrained eye it could look as if brewers and pub operators have been falling over themselves to do right by their licensees in the wake of...
25-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team
A host of tenanted pubcos are to make changes to the AWP machine tie in the wake of the critical Business & Enterprise Committee report on...
Doing the decent thing, but will it be too late?
21-Jun-2009 By Hamish Champ
"It's not out of the woods yet." So mused a pretty well-informed industry observer on the situation at Punch Taverns. When the UK's largest pub...
Realpubs snaps up three Punch Taverns freeholds
19-Jun-2009 By Hamish Champ
London pub operator Realpubs has bought three Punch Taverns freeholds for an undisclosed sum.In addition to the three sites private equity backed...
19-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team
Realpubs have acquired five freehold London pubs from Punch Taverns in a deal estimated to be worth under £10m. The company has bought the freehold of two Punch pubs it currently leases plus three more sites.
18-Jun-2009 By Ewan Turney
Today's crunch talks on the future of the pub industry are expected to be the first of many mediation meetings.
15-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team
Punch Taverns has reported that it has stabilised performance in both its leased and managed division for the 40 weeks to 30 May. Like-for-like...
Punch Taverns to raise £350m via rights issue
15-Jun-2009 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns has announced a proposed £350m rights issue, aiming to use the funds to help pay down debt.Precise details of the rights issue, which...
12-Jun-2009 By Peter Coulson
Peter Coulson considers the great tied lease debate.
Punch tells licensees "long period" of change ahead
08-Jun-2009 By James Wilmore
Punch Taverns has written to its licensees admitting it has a "long period of change ahead" in its bid to build more trust with tenants and lessees....
Punch Taverns rebrands pub operations
08-Jun-2009 By Hamish Champ
In a surprise move Punch Taverns has changed the names of its managed and tenanted businesses.The pubco's managed operation, formerly known as Spirit...
04-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
'Young's in the scramble for Punch pubs'
29-May-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Regional brewers may be falling over themselves to snap up the pubs put up for sale by Punch Taverns but Young & Co continues to adopt a more...
28-May-2009 By The PMA Team
Giles Thorley chief executive, Punch Taverns (1) Why he is on the list: The head of Britain's biggest pub company, which like other big tenanted...
Fine warnings over 'smoking research centres'
21-May-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Licensees been warned they could face hefty fines if they follow in the path of a pub that allowed customers to light-up as part of a 'research...
'FSA looks into share dealing in pub firms'
18-May-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
The regulator is looking at trading in the shares of Punch Taverns and Enterprise Inns ahead of the publication of a controversial report into the...
City watchdog: no comment on pubco share trade inquiry reports
18-May-2009 By Hamish Champ
City watchdog the Financial Services Authority (FSA) refused to comment today on reports that it was investigating dealings in Punch Taverns and...
11-May-2009 By Ewan Turney
Punch Taverns has launched a new wine list designed to appeal to consumers seeking value for money. The new wine list, which launches on 11 May,...
When will the hangover fade?
10-May-2009 By Hamish Champ
Just as spotting a lone swallow in June does not signify the onset of a nice summer, one week's worth of good news from the retail sector does not a...
Charles Wells buys 17 pubs from Punch Taverns
08-May-2009 By Claire Dodd Claire
Charles Wells has purchased the freeholds of 17 tenanted pubs from Punch Taverns for an undisclosed sum. The deal is expected to complete on May 18....
07-May-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Punch Taverns says 1,000 of its tenants have expressed an interest in buying the freehold of their pub, but so far 23 deals have gone through. That's...
Punch and Enterprise pass on duty hike to licensees
05-May-2009 By James Wilmore
The UK's two biggest pub operators are passing on the Budget duty hike to their licensees, the companies have confirmed. Punch Taverns and Enterprise...
We need to be more transparent," admits Punch Taverns
29-Apr-2009 By Hamish Champ
As it announced a 38 per cent slump in annual pre-tax profits Punch Taverns, the UK's largest pub operator, admitted it needed to be more transparent...
'Punch Taverns to report slump'
27-Apr-2009
Punch Taverns: The embattled pub company is expected to report a 40 per cent slump in first-half pre-tax profits, but analysts believe that the...
'Supermarkets bearing brunt of fall in beer consumption'
26-Apr-2009
"It will be of small comfort to pub operators that their bête noire, the supermarkets, which undercut them with deep discounting on popular lagers,...
17-Apr-2009 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Spirit Group, the managed arm of Punch Taverns, is planning to reposition as much as a quarter of its pub estate, according to Mike Tye. The Spirit...
Who's fooling who?
11-Apr-2009 By Hamish Champ
I don't expect Punch Taverns' Giles Thorley, Enterprise Inns' Ted Tuppen or Admiral Taverns' Lynne D'Arcy to give a flying fig for the following...
'Pub supermarket plans are shelved'
08-Apr-2009
A disused Warwickshire pub will not be turned into a Tesco store after 2,000 residents protested against the plans. Punch Taverns, which owns the...
Peach Pub Company buys Punch pubs for £2.85m
06-Apr-2009 By Hamish Champ
Award-winning multiple operator Peach Pub Company has bought the freeholds of two pubs it leases from Punch Taverns for £2.85m.The deal to buy the...