17-Jan-2022 By Ed Bedington
Leading Welsh brewer SA Brain is reported to be set to sell the freeholds of the majority of it’s pubs to a global consortium for a reported £100m.
15-Nov-2013 By John Harrington
This year will prove to be a “turning point” in the pub market, Sapient Corporate Finance founder Peter Hansen has predicted.
12-Aug-2011 By Dave Daly
It seems that a lot of managed houses are running a lot stronger than they were 10 to 15 years ago, including a few wet-led town centre pubs, writes Dave Daly.
08-Jul-2011 By Michelle Perrett
Private equity will be looking to invest back into the tenanted pub market, Peter Hansen of Sapient Corporate Finance has predicted.
05-Jan-2011 By Ewan Turney
Discussions over a possible merger between Stonegate and Town & City are "on-going" but still "slow-going", according to a source. Stonegate,...
15-Nov-2010 By The PMA Team
Talks over merging Stonegate Pub Company with Town & City Pub Company are making very slow progress, sources indicate. Stonegate, backed by...
15-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney
The pub and leisure sector is "Marmite" for private equity investors — they either love it or hate it, according to a new survey. Research by BDO...
Pubs are a bad bet, say a third of private equity firms
15-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ
A third of private equity firms think the leisure and hospitality sectors are a bad bet, according to new research. A survey by financial advisers...
05-Mar-2010 By Phil Mellows
Beds & Bars is one of the UK leisure sector's most successful firms overseas. Phil Mellows meets its ebullient boss, Keith Knowles. Eighteen...
Grooming your business for sale
22-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ
There's no doubt that good pub industry operators who make a decent fist of things enjoy what they do. After all, what's not to like? Building up a...
19-Sep-2008 By The PMA Team
Realpubs is understood to have acquired three freehold London pubs from Mitchells & Butlers in deal estimated to be worth in the region of £7m....
Churchill Taverns sale imminent?
30-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ
Churchill Taverns, the Northamptonshire-based group which operates 24 managed pubs across the county, is believed to be close to selling...
'M&B and Punch could merge'
15-Apr-2008
Mitchells & Butlers and Punch Taverns are exploring a complicated deal that would merge the two pub groups' managed operations while attracting a...
M&B shares slide after gloomy analyst report
19-Mar-2008 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers shares tumbled by 18% at one stage this morning after an analyst's note suggested it may be short of cash. The company fell...
28-Jan-2008
ALMR says CGT reforms should go further to help serial entrepreneurs vital to the pub industry
ALMR pushes for further CGT changes
25-Jan-2008
The Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) will push for further amendments to the watered down capital gains tax (CGT) announced by...
29-Nov-2007 By The PMA Team
The Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers has added its weight to the business campaign to force a re-think on Government proposals to reform...
Comment: Acquisition costs continue to rise
06-Jul-2006
No-one can really be surprised to see yet another family-owned brewer snapped up by a hungry, super-pubco. Even so, after 170 years of trading, it...
Celtic spends £10m war chest
10-Oct-2005
Celtic Inns, the Southampton-based tenanted pub operator, has begun spending part of a £10m war chest to fund expansion of its 65-strong estate....
What the Sunday papers said
15-May-2005
A group of institutional investors is plotting to arrange the sale of Ultimate Leisure from under the feet of its management. Following revelations...
Capital idea
02-Sep-2004
The Yates MBO is the latest in a series of private equity investments in pub companies. Bill Priestley, of Legal & General Ventures, examines the...
Legal advice: Management buy-outs
27-May-2004
If the situation ever arose, could you stage a management buy-out? Would you know how?By Sheldon Cordell of thePublican.com's team of legal experts...
S&N bidders line up
25-Jul-2003
Russian billionaires Simon and David Reuben have joined the line-up of prospective bidders for the £2.3bn Scottish & Newcastle retail...
Barracuda has become a stealthy predator, armed to the teeth
03-Apr-2003
It isn't hard to figure out why Barracuda is one of the snappiest retail operators in the industry's shark-infested waters these days. "In...
What the Sunday papers said
03-Mar-2003
The Sunday TimesHugh Osmond will this week launch "his first shot" in a sustained assault for control of Six Continents, the hotel-to-pub giant. He...
The Puzzle Pub Company has bought nine Old Monk Pub Company
03-Oct-2002
Ten years after being founded, Puzzle Pub Company has taken a quantum leap that will see turnover jump to £11m from the current £5m. Puzzle's...
