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Stratford pubs report post-Olympics trade boost

Stratford pubs report post-Olympics trade boost

By Adam Pescod

The Olympic Games will have a positive long-term impact on pubs in Stratford, east London, where trading figures are higher than they were a year ago. That is the feeling of licensees who were visited by the Publican’s Morning Advertiser as part of its...

Protecting the pubs’ interests

Protecting the pubs’ interests

By Peter Coulson

Trade protection has a very different meaning these days from the time when licensed victuallers associations (LVAs) were a dominant force in the industry. Now it tends to mean preserving the pub from extinction by outside forces.

On track for the Games?

On track for the Games?

With the world set to descend on London for the 2012 Olympics, the Publican’s Morning Advertiser team ventured into Stratford, in the East End, to find out how publicans are preparing for a sporting spectacle in their own backyard.

Geronimo’s new flagship site

Geronimo’s new flagship site

By John Harrington, M&C Report

Geronimo Inns, the pub operator acquired by Young’s late last year, is to open a new flagship site called the Oyster Shed on the ground floor of the headquarters of Japanese bank Nomura, in the City of London.