All JD Wetherspoon articles
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NewsTim Martin: ‘Oldies like me won’t stay in forever’
The Wetherspoon chairman told MCA sales growth at Lloyds was being driven by younger consumers less concerned about Covid
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Wetherspoon faces ‘considerable pressure on costs’
The pub company reported like-for-like sales in Q3 were down 4%, though said sales were improving
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JDW pushing coffee and breakfasts to boost sales
Chairman Tim Martin told MCA the pub company was looking to boost breakfast sales with its coffee offer, which includes refills and is priced lower than the average pre-pandemic price
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Tim Martin: Post-lockdown boom hasn’t materialised
Despite a return to more normal trading patterns, the Wetherspoon chairman told MCA sales have been slow to recover
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JDW like-for-likes down +15% in Q2
JD Wetherspoons chairman Tim Martin said the company would be loss-making in H1, but hoped that the end of restrictions would contribute to a much stronger second half
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Wetherspoon’s founder Tim Martin says British boardrooms are ‘havens of wokery’
The pubs boss told the Mail on Sunday There is “too much virtue-signalling” and too little attention to more important fiduciary duties
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JDW appoints employee directors to board
JD Wetherspoon has appointed four employees to its board in an effort to boost its business by having additional ‘pub experience’ at board at a senior level.
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Tim Martin: ‘Predictions for profits are hazardous’
JD Wetherspoon’s chairman Tim Martin has hit out at the government’s “radical changes of direction”, stating the implications of further restrictions could lead to a loss-making first half.
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Wetherspoon and Budweiser in new 20-year deal
It follows a 41-year association between Wetherspoon and Heineken as well as its predecessor, Scottish and Newcastle
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Tim Martin: Wetherspoon still a broad church
The Wetherspoon chairman has shrugged off a disappointing trading update, telling MCA he hopes the legacy of the pandemic will be “temporary, not permanent”
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Draught ales and breakfast sales down at Wetherspoon
JD Wetherspoon has seen like-for-like sales down 8.9% for the first 15 weeks of the financial year to 7 November 2021.
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Wetherspoon to appoint ‘worker directors’ to board
It is hoped that the creation of more experience of the ‘front line’ at board level will help to protect the DNA of the business
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JD Wetherspoon ‘cautiously optimistic’ after year of lockdowns
The managed pub company reported a loss before tax of £154.7m, during a period when pubs were closed nationally for 19 weeks.
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Draymen vote in favour of pay deal
A pay deal has been struck with 1,000 draymen at drinks delivery company GXO Logistics Drinks, following the threat of strike action last month.
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JDW hits back at headlines on beer shortages
JD Wetherspoon (JDW) has hit back at headlines in the national press that linked its current shortages with some beer to issues around the shortage of workers caused by Brexit, and reports that its pubs were running low of beer, claiming they were inaccurate.
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Wetherspoons blames beer shortages on industrial action
JD Wetherspoon (JDW) has said the supply shortages it has been experiencing with several of the beer and lager brands it sells is down to the industrial action proposed by delivery drivers supplying Heineken products, rather than the impact of Brexit.
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Opinion
Dominic Walsh: ‘Freedom’ lasted all of 17 hours
It was dubbed Freedom Day. The moment when all Covid-related restrictions would be lifted and life – notably going to the pub or eating out at a local restaurant – would return to normal.
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Wetherspoon looks to sell seven pubs
JD Wetherspoon looks to sell seven pubs has appointed CBRE and Savills to sell seven of its pubs.
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Nightclubs reopen as ‘freedom day’ dawns
Clubbers have returned to the bars and dancefloors of nightclubs as England reached its long-awaited ‘freedom day’ today (19 July).
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JDW expects sales to return to 2019 levels
J D Wetherspoon has reported like-for-like sales were down 14.6% between 17 May-4 July.
