All MCA Insight articles in June 2011 – Page 6
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News
Mitchells: beer volumes up; rebranding due
North Yorkshire-based pub operator Mitchells of Lancaster says weekly production volumes at York Brewery have increased 58% since it was taken over by Mitchells three years ago, writes Tony Halstead.Volumes at the York Brewery have risen from 85 barrels a week in 2008 up to the current level of 135 ...
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Opinion
A franchise future
Paul Charity looks at how franchise-style agreements could help revive fortunes in the tenanted pub sector.Franchising is a development long overdue in the tenanted pub world. Here’s a universe of 20,000-plus pubs hugely reliant on a fairly narrow type of retail content - selling beer. Until the smoking ban of ...
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News
Fuller’s: Acquisitions, franchises and free-of-tie
M&C Report takes a closer look at the full-year results from Fuller’s, the London-based pub operator and brewer:Rival AcquisitionChairman Michael Turner told M&C Report that both Young’s and Greene King had both picked up very good businesses from their respective acquisitions of Geronimo’s Inns and Realpubs. He said: “These were ...