Punch Taverns sells six pubs to Fuller's for £21.1m
26-Mar-2009 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns has sold six of its London-based managed pubs to Fuller, Smith & Turner for £21.1m.The deal will be settled in cash and will see a...
06-Mar-2009 By The PMA Team
Punch Taverns has sold two freeholds to The Restaurant Group for £1.5m — the sale is in line with the Punch policy of offering sitting tenants the chance to buy their pubs.
12-Feb-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Finance brokers report an increased number of inquiries from Punch tenants offered the chance to buy their pubs' freeholds. In November Punch...
11-Feb-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Now is the perfect time for licensees to improve their share of the lodging sector — that's according to licensed property agents Christie + Co.
Punch Taverns denies underage drinking caused pub to shut
06-Feb-2009
Punch Taverns has hit back at claims that one of its pubs was forced to shut due to underage drinking on the premises.According to a newspaper report...
Punch Taverns ring-fences troubled pubs
30-Jan-2009 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns is set to create a separate division to oversee the most economically challenged pubs across its estate.As well as the creation of the...
Fuller's buys three Mitchells & Butlers pubs
15-Jan-2009
London-based brewer and pub company Fuller's has just bought three London pubs from Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) in a deal apparently worth...
'Wetherpoons founder slams private equity as disastrous for industry'
12-Jan-2009
The founder and chairman of JD Wetherspoon Tim Martin has warned private equity groups and property investors are having a disastrous impact on the...
Call to arms for Admiral Taverns tenants
10-Jan-2009 By Hamish Champ
The newly-appointed head of Admiral Taverns' new division of bottom-end pubs said he wants underperforming tenants to "grasp the opportunities" that...
08-Jan-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Enterprise Inns has sold 10 closed pubs for alternative use at an auction held by Breach Wood Ingram (BWI).
Cock Inn is Adnams top pub
24-Dec-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Adnams' top pubs have been celebrated at the company's inaugural awards ceremony. The number one prize of Pub of the Year went to the Cock Inn at...
15-Dec-2008 By The PMA Team
Lancashire-based regional brewer Daniel Thwaites has announced a trio of key director appointments as part of a newly-restructured operations board....
Tuppen and Thorley say pubco debt is not a problem
09-Dec-2008 By Hamish Champ
Bosses of the UK's leading pub operators today emphatically denied their companies' massive debts were putting the institution of the Great British...
Four County Inns purchase closed Trowbridge pub
03-Dec-2008
A 200-year old Trowbridge pub which has been closed for over a year is to re-open as a real ale house specialising in micro-brewers' beers.The...
Hamish Champ: Living in Enterprising times
17-Nov-2008 By Hamish Champ
Enterprise Inns announces its annual results tomorrow. Doubtless the numbers will make for interesting reading. Yet while there're currently some...
Reports of Punch Taverns' demise "greatly exaggerated", says Thorley
04-Nov-2008 By Hamish Champ
Punch Taverns chief executive Giles Thorley pointed to his group's much anticipated annual results, published today, and claimed news of the pubco's...
23-Oct-2008 By The PMA Team
A tranche of 100 pubs, understood to belong to Admiral Taverns, has been put on to the market — many at massively reduced prices.
Chefs battle it out for food award
03-Sep-2008
Two former kitchen colleagues are going head-to-head in a bid to see their pubs recognised in a local food competition.The New Inn, at St. Owen's...
Greene King 'on track' despite tough trading conditions
02-Sep-2008 By Hamish Champ
Suffolk brewer Greene King is set to deliver a relatively upbeat message to shareholders at the group's annual general meeting today.While...
Farmer's son makes dad's business work for him
02-Sep-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
At an early age Mark Hammick made a career choice so he would not have to work on his father's farm. Fast forward a couple of decades and he is now...
'Recession hits pubco shares'
14-Aug-2008
The Bank of England's warning that Britain is on the verge of a recession has hit pub and leisure shares. Enterprise Inns tumbled 43¼ to 342¾p....
24-Jul-2008 By Paul Collins
Punch Taverns says it is focusing on small and rural pubs in attempts to get reductions on business rates. These pubs have been hit hardest by the...
Celebrating the great British pub
17-Jul-2008 By Andrew Pring andrew.pring@william-reed.co.uk
Year-long national promotion will lead to a massive event A national celebration of all that's great about pubs will be staged next year in London....
We're right behind you...
17-Jul-2008
Go to www.pubinthepark.com to register your support "This event will be great for everyone in the industry to showcase all that is good and great...
11-Jul-2008 By Tamara Sender, M&C Report
Underdog, the London-based food and drink operator, has sold its Marquess Tavern pub in Islington to fund the rollout of its award-winning Hawksmoor...
Second pub for Cutter licensees
10-Jul-2008
Top Enterprise Inns licensees Steve and Jo Haslam are taking on their second pub. The couple have boosted turnover at their first Enterprise pub,...
Paramount to double sales
10-Jul-2008 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk
Paramount Investments predicts that it will sell up to 400 pubs over the next 12 months — double the amount it sold in the last year. The firm's...
23-Jun-2008 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Churchill Taverns has been withdrawn from the market after offers failed to reach the vendor's expectations, M&C Report understands. Led by...
19-Jun-2008 By John Harrington
The rural regeneration scheme launches an advisory group to help pubs diversify in south east England
21 Lynne D'Arcy
29-May-2008
joint managing director, Admiral Taverns (21)
11 Simon Townsend
29-May-2008
chief operating officer, Enterprise Inns (11)
14 Andrew Knight
29-May-2008
managing director, Spirit (Punch Taverns) (13)
Diary
29-May-2008
Marston's rejects Darling ban Would Marston's follow the Morning Advertiser and Punch's lead by banning Chancellor Alistair Darling from all its...
8 Robert Tchenguiz
29-May-2008
owner R20 (7)
Food the star performer for M&B
20-May-2008
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) is on the hunt for acquisitions as is seeks to extend its market-leading position in the pub food market.Announcing...
Top team at the Hogget
08-May-2008
A multi-award-winning team have taken on the Hogget, near Hook, Hampshire. Formerly the Dorchester Arms, the site has just re-opened following a...
Packing A Punch
02-May-2008 By Hamish Champ
Many believe Punch Taverns' size and dominance of the leased pub sector effectively renders the group the industry's 'belweather'. Such people would...
Innventive Pubs & Restaurants buys Massive Pub Co sites
23-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ
Administrators to Massive Pub Company have exchanged contracts to sell 33 sites to Birmingham-based Innventive Pubs & Restaurants (IPR).David...
Tchenguiz pumps in £50m
03-Apr-2008 By The PMA Team
Tycoon acquires Laurel assets with new equity Property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz placed Laurel Pub Company in administration last Thursday, before...
28-Mar-2008 By The PMA Team
Property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz placed Laurel Pub Company in administration last night before immediately buying out the majority of its sites to be...
S&NPE snaps up 14 sites
28-Mar-2008 By James Wilmore
Scottish & Newcastle Pub Enterprises (S&NPE) has bought 14 pubs as part of two packages of tenanted outlets for an undisclosed sum. The group...
Trade fights for energy protection
11-Mar-2008 By James Wilmore
Thousands of pubs could be excluded from protection over bad deals with energy suppliers under a new scheme being launched this autumn. Pub trade...
Food Excellence Awards
01-Mar-2008
Pub company of the year - branded Barracuda Brands: Smith & Jones, Varsity, Cape, Barracuda Bar, Juniper. Key innovations in 2007: The last...
Pub company of the year, branded - winner
29-Feb-2008
Orchid Concepts: Contemporary dining gastropubs, contemporary carveries; freehouse midmarket Two for One including Fuzzy Ed's; Oriental restaurant...
MyNewPub
21-Feb-2008
Three Wheat Heads Inn Thropton, Northumberland Agent: Davey & Co The team behind this pub has completely turned business around since taking over...
Best Bar None rewards Doncaster pubs
28-Jan-2008
Richard and David McIvor picked up the top prizes at Doncaster's Best Bar None awards for the second year running.The brother's town-centre venue,...
MA award winner buys Dorset inn
10-Jan-2008
MA Pub of the Year winner David Sax has secured his second pub in Dorset. Sax has bought former English Inn of the Year the Museum Inn in Farnham,...
07-Jan-2008 By The PMA Team
The Restaurant Group (TRG) is targeting five openings a year in the Brunning & Price estate
The Pub Food Awards 2007: The winners
08-Nov-2007
Historic London pub the Grapes has been named Pub of the Year at The Publican Pub Food Awards 2007. Licensee Barbara Haigh, who ran the Limehouse...
26-Oct-2007 By Ewan Turney
The second of the trinity of smoke ban rebels has put his pub up for sale
