BrewDog looking to raise £2.3m from share sale
20-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
BrewDog, the maverick brewery responsible for producing the UK's strongest beer, is to invite the public to invest in the company via the internet....
06-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney
Pub sales agent Colliers CRE plans to raise £20m through a share issue to supplement £8.9m raised from a private equity group.
25-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
Adnams has claimed the majority of its shareholders are happy with its current share structure, despite claims by influential shareholder Guinness...
18-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
Nightclub operator Luminar Leisure has announced a 95.5% take-up from shareholders on its plan to raise £35.75, through a new share issue. On 31...
30-Jul-2009 By Tamara Sender, M&C Report
Commerzbank has acquired an equity stake in Town & City Pub Company from Kaupthing, the state-controlled Icelandic bank.
'Massive pub blaze claims life of firefighter'
12-Jul-2009
"A firefighter was killed and another injured after a floor collapsed while they fought a blaze in an Edinburgh pub, a fire service spokesman said....
Marston's gets shareholder nod for £175m rights issue
06-Jul-2009 By Hamish Champ
Executives at Midlands brewer Marston's breathed sigh of relief this morning after the group's proposed £176m rights issue was given the go-ahead by...
Sceptre Leisure raises £5.5m via share placing
17-Jun-2009 By Hamish Champ
AIM-listed Sceptre Leisure, one the UK's leading suppliers of gaming machines to pubs, has raised £5.5m before costs by placing nearly 17 million...
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...
29-May-2009 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers boss Tim Clarke quit last week after fresh hedge losses. The PMA Team looks at the background.
28-May-2009 By The PMA Team
The analysts Geof Collyer Deutsche Bank, Jamie Rollo Morgan Stanley, Mark Brumby Blue Oar Securities, Douglas Jack, Numis Securities Paul Hickman,...
'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...
Regent Inns confirms plan to de-list shares
28-Apr-2009 By Hamish Champ
Regent Inns has confirmed its intention to delist its shares from the London Stock Exchange once investors have approved the proposal.In a statement...
'Supermarkets acting like 'crack dealers''
24-Apr-2009
Up to 40,000 drinkers are dying every year and supermarkets are acting like 'crack dealers' by lowering alcohol prices, experts have warned. They say...
Greene King to raise £207m via rights issue
23-Apr-2009 By Hamish Champ
Suffolk brewer Greene King has announced plans to raise more than £200m through issuing new shares to investors.The group said it was issuing nearly...
Fair Pint to invest in Enterprise Inns and Punch Taverns
06-Apr-2009 By Hamish Champ
Fair Pint campaigners are set to buy what they describe as 'activist stakes' in the country's leading listed pub companies.Members of the group,...
11-Feb-2009 By The PMA Team
Greene King is likely to sell around 100 tenanted pubs from its estate, according to Numis Securities analyst Douglas Jack. The analyst has...
The City, the pubcos and a glimmer of recovery, mebbe?
02-Feb-2009 By Hamish Champ
Remember when Thatcher was busy privatising everything that moved, turning us into a nation of short-term shareholders? Our TV screens were chock...
Mind the perception gap
31-Jan-2009 By Hamish Champ
To say the recent slump in the share price of the country's leading listed pub operators has attracted a certain amount of attention would be a case...
15-Jan-2009 By Ewan Turney
Punch's day of woe finished with share prices reaching an all time low of 39.75p — a drop of over 30% — one analyst warned they may hit 10p.
Punch shares fall by more than a fifth
14-Jan-2009 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns shares were down more than 20 per cent today after revealing leased pub profits had fallen sharply in the 20 weeks to January 10,...
Punch Taverns set for shareholder mauling
12-Jan-2009 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns shareholders are expected to give senior executives at the UK's largest pub operator a rough time at the group's annual general meeting...
'Punch Taverns to report tough Christmas trading figures'
11-Jan-2009
"Embattled pub company Punch Taverns is expected to report tough trading over the festive season, with like-for-like sales likely to be down about 5...
Punch Taverns slides - and recovers - after negative City comment
11-Dec-2008 By Hamish Champ
Shares in Punch Taverns recovered today after a piece of negative City research sent the company's stock tumbling by more than 20 per cent.The...
Tim Clarke: 'I'm sorry for £300m hedging losses'
26-Nov-2008 By Hamish Champ
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) chief executive Tim Clarke said he "very much regretted" the group's near-£300m hedging losses which resulted from...
Pub stocks slide again as gloom worsens
06-Oct-2008 By Hamish Champ
Shares in listed pubcos took another battering today as the stock market responded to yet more bad news surrounding the consumer, the viability of...
Industry meltdown?
05-Oct-2008 By Hamish Champ
Lemmings. That's how one City analyst described the investment community last week as shares in pubcos - and most other listed companies - dived...
01-Oct-2008 By The PMA Team
A move by Punch Taverns to repay a tranch of debt to some of its bondholders "may have been misunderstood" by the stock market.
Mark Kenyon: Does a pubco's share price matter?
19-Sep-2008
For those of us with young children, a visit to a theme park is a familiar draw over the long summer holidays. On the menu are fast food, fizzy...
Dear Prudence?
08-Sep-2008 By Hamish Champ
When Greene King published its trading update on Tuesday of last week its shares immediately shot up, to the bewilderment of even some of the City's...
Hamish Champ: When will shares in pubcos finally turn?
01-Sep-2008 By Hamish Champ
I was having a chat with a friend the other day about when we thought share prices for the listed pubcos would turn for the better. We weren't...
Whitbread ramps up investment in Brewers Fayre
21-Aug-2008
Whitbread aims to grow its share of the competitive value-for-money pub food market with a £4.75m investment programme in its Brewers Fayre...
Cains relying on bank for lifeline
29-Jul-2008 By James Wilmore
Liverpool-based brewer Cains is facing an uncertain future following a dramatic fall in trading. The company, which owns around 100 pubs, is...
Luminar denies making informal bid for Regent Inns
21-Jul-2008 By Hamish Champ
Luminar, the nightclub operator, has denied press speculation it has tabled an informal offer for troubled Regent Inns, which runs the Walkabout...
Where there's a will
19-Jul-2008
Death and taxes - the two things we all have to look forward to. With this in mind, have you considered your position in the event of the death of a...
Bulls, bears and pubcos
12-Jul-2008 By Hamish Champ
I was asked recently why the words 'bull' and 'bear' were used to describe a stock market's performance. Now of course I could well be wrong, but...
'Inspired Gaming shares tumble'
08-Jul-2008
Inspired Gaming shares plummeted yesterday after the ailing company announced plans to raise £40million through a discounted share placing. Plans...
Inspired Gaming Group confirms sale of pub games business
07-Jul-2008 By Hamish Champ
Inspired Gaming Group (IGG) has today confirmed the sale of its pub gaming business to a subsidiary of Danoptra, the group which owns Gamestec, a...
07-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney
InBev has filed a preliminary consent solicitation statement to remove each member of the Anheuser-Busch board.
Pubco shares hit as gloom continues
01-Jul-2008 By Hamish Champ
The sun may have been shining today but investors caught a chill as shares across a range of sectors dived once again.The stock market took the news...
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29-May-2008
chief executive, Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) (2)
R20 staffers to join M&B
22-May-2008 By The PMA Team
Company confirms wish to become Reit
13-May-2008 By Ewan Turney
Enterprise Inns has recorded an 11% slump in profit before tax for the six months to 31 March
Pubcos ride out the downturn
08-May-2008
Shares in publicly-quoted pubcos have had a torrid 12 months, performing poorly compared to the overall market. Caroline Muspratt reports Between the...
Going green again, lights are goin' out...
28-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ
The environment is an emotive topic. For every person warning that pumping millions of tonnes of industrial crap into the atmosphere is endangering...
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...
Punch rejects M&B move for Spirit
18-Apr-2008
Punch Taverns has firmly rejected the approach by Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) for the managed Spirit pub operation.Punch, the UK's biggest...
M&B launches bid for Spirit Group
14-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has launched an audacious bid for Spirit Group, the managed pub estate owned by Punch Taverns.M&B proposes that...
Imagesound to de-list from AIM
14-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ
Imagesound, the AIM-listed supplier of audio visual equipment to the pub trade, has decided to quit the stock market after four years.The...
31-Mar-2008
Scottish & Newcastle shareholders have approved the takeover bid from Carlsberg and Heineken. The 800p-a-share offer, which values the company at...
