18-May-2010 By Ewan Turney
All Punch tenants will be able to have their say on the pubco's new code of practice before it is finalised. The 63-page code of practice has been...
Punch polls partners over code of practice
18-May-2010 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns is inviting all 6,318 of its lessees to comment on its soon-to-be-published code of practice. The document has been accredited "in...
13-May-2010 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
Punch Taverns names M&S man as CEO
05-May-2010 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns has appointed Ian Dyson, currently Marks & Spencers' (M&S) group finance and operations director, as its new chief executive....
Hamish Champ: Punch Taverns and its 'chief executive replacement' conundrum
26-Apr-2010 By Hamish Champ
Succession planning is a thorny issue for any organisation, especially so if the main man has been in situ for a long time. Heaven knows - though...
22-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
Punch has claimed that by the end of this year 220 pubs will have been "fixed" by conversion to new concepts or investment.
22-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
Punch Taverns is to trial new leases in September that offer licensees free-of-tie prices and a free-of-tie option on cask ale produced by smaller...
22-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
All the latest gossip and rumour from the City.
Training: Keep them on board
08-Apr-2010 By Katie Coyne
Apprenticeships are back in vogue, it seems. And as they can offer a recognised qualification while delivering company-specific knowledge and skills,...
08-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team
Last week Giles Thorley revealed he was leaving Punch Taverns later this year. The PMA Team gives a view on the departure. It's been pretty much a...
Giles Thorley to quit Punch Taverns
30-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ
Giles Thorley, chief executive of Punch Taverns, has announced he is leaving the company. In a statement issued today Punch said Thorley had informed...
Sunday Times names Punch Taverns as 'One To Watch'
15-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns has been named as 'One To Watch' in a Sunday Times company survey. The newspaper's accolade for the UK's largest pub operator comes in...
Punch due in court over false barrelage claims
10-Mar-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubco giant Punch Taverns is to be questioned in court over claims it provided false barrelage information to incoming tenants. Philip Sambell,...
10-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney
Punch Taverns is to face court claims over the validity and accuracy of information it provided about a pub's trade to former County Estate Management (CEM) head of pubs Philip Sambell.
Punch tenants face 1% beer price rise
03-Mar-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubco giant Punch Taverns has announced it will be increasing the majority of its beer prices for its licensees by one per cent. This move follows...
03-Mar-2010 By The PMA Team
Punch Taverns has opted to help tenants' competitive position by holding price rises to 1% this year. The move will mean that Punch has chosen to...
12-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Almost 1,000 Punch pubs are on schedule to get £100 cash back per barrel of beer, following the introduction of an incentive scheme. The company's...
01-Feb-2010 By Punch Partnerships
Punch Taverns is to re-survey MA200 members at first seminar of 2010 on Wednesday 14 April after a survey of members last year produced a number of...
16-Dec-2009 By John Harrington
Punch says it has increased its support for struggling lessees to £2m per month, up from £1.6m in the year to August. The pubco also revealed it...
Punch tenant hits out at eviction
02-Dec-2009 By James Wilmore
An award-winning pubco licensee has voiced his anger at being forced to quit his pub, claiming he has transformed the business. Brian Forgie, of the...
27-Nov-2009 By Gemma McKenna
A Punch lessee who claimed he was badly treated and misled by the pubco has agreed to stay on after Punch promised a £40,000 investment at his pub.
19-Nov-2009 By The PMA Team
Punch and Enterprise have abandoned the estimation of tenants' average annual incomes — but the expected profit figure is much more helpful, says The PMA Team.
14-Oct-2009 By Roger Whiteside
Roger Whiteside took over as boss of Punch's leased division a year ago. He talks about what he has discovered — and the way forward. I joined...
14-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
Punch Taverns has set itself the goal of becoming the "most trusted and best value" pubco in the UK. The pubco said that it had continued to evolve...
Punch Taverns annual profits down nearly a third
14-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns today reported a 31 per cent slump in annual pre-tax profits and said the state of the economy and other factors meant it has knocked...
Punch tenants given access to guest ale scheme
07-Oct-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Punch Taverns is running a trial allowing a greater number of its pubs to buy locally produced beer direct from the Society of Independent Brewers...
02-Oct-2009 By Gemma McKenna
The trespass row between host George Scott and Punch Taverns has ended, with the judge returning the lease into Scott's name. Scott, licensee of the...
Pubcos go separate ways over AWP tie
11-Sep-2009 By The PMA Team
The bruising Business & Enterprise Committee report on the pubco/tenant relationship in May this year was no less than a major body shock for the...
04-Sep-2009 By John Harrington
Punch says it has taken "huge strides" in its approach to health and safety after pleading guilty to serious breaches of fire safety legislation at a...
03-Sep-2009 By Ewan Turney
Punch's move to stop rentalising machine income is a "half-hearted" response to the Business and Enterprise Committee report.
01-Sep-2009 By The PMA Team
Punch Taverns has begun to stop rentalising machine income in a move that will boost pub income for licensees by around £1,250 per annum. The...
'Sharper' food pricing stalls Punch managed sales slide
25-Aug-2009
Punch Taverns has seen an improvement in like-for-like sales in its managed estate through reduced food prices and a boost to service. However, the...
Punch Taverns to 'hospitalise' a further 450 struggling pubs
25-Aug-2009 By Hamish Champ
Sounding a cautionary note on future trading prospects, Punch Taverns said today it plans to transfer a further 450 of its struggling leased pubs to...
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.
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...
31-Jul-2009 By Ewan Turney
Punch has launched a new e-learning programme for its managers and their staff using e-learning, DVDs and coaching.
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...
19-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team
New Punch boss Roger Whiteside has given the sector's first indication of how a post-Bec tenanted pub company will look. The PMA Team gives it the once-over.
18-Jun-2009 By Gemma McKenna
A Punch host about to be kicked out of his pub for "trespassing" as his name was incorrect on the lease has won a reprieve. Roger Whiteside, MD of...
Pete Robinson: The pubco disease
16-Jun-2009
Where did it all go wrong?The entire sorry saga can be summed up in three words - Suits, Greed and Smoking Ban. Okay, that's four words.Punch was...
15-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team
Punch has confirmed that it will be backing a range of recommendations contained within the highly critical BEC report.
15-Jun-2009 By Ewan Turney
Punch Taverns has announced its intention to raise £350m via a firm placing and an open offer of new ordinary shares and use the cash to make a...
15-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team
The number of individual Punch licensees who end up buying their pub is likely to end up well in excess of 300. This morning, Punch said there were around 300 deals either complete or going through legals.
Selling the crown jewels. Or not
06-Jun-2009 By Hamish Champ
Just how far short Young's fell from the asking price of the pubs it was seeking to acquire recently and from whom the South London-based operator...
04-Jun-2009 By Ewan Turney
Punch licensees in Bath — what they told Punch executives and the Morning Advertiser. Joe Cussens, Marlborough Tavern Background: Signed a lease in...
04-Jun-2009 By Ewan Turney
Punch licensees in Bath — what they told Punch executives and the Morning Advertiser. Alan Morgan, Abbey Ales, the Star Background: Multiple lessee...
04-Jun-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Two licensees have accused Punch of selling their pubs "behind their backs" to regional brewers while they were busy still bidding for the freeholds....
04-Jun-2009 By Ewan Turney
We are far from perfect, but we are listening and we are willing to change — that is the message from Punch Taverns as it looks to evolve its model...
08-May-2009 By The PMA Team
Punch Taverns has outlined a strikingly frank view of the harsh forces buffeting its tenanted division. The PMA Team gives his view.
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...