All Pubs articles – Page 247
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NewsRobinsons: tenancy innovation, operating profit grows 50.5%
Robinson’s, the Cheshire-based brewer and pub operator, is to introduce a more flexible tenancy agreement this year, which it hopes to rollout across most of its estate, joint managing director William Robinson has told M&C Report
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NewsJack upbeat on Spirit
Leading analyst Douglas Jack has predicted “strong” results for Spirit at its Q3 interim management statement next Tuesday, saying that trading for the pub group should be ahead
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Former M&B ops director Young joins Harrods Bank
Robin Young, former operations director at Mitchells & Butlers (M&B), has joined the board of the Qatar Holdings owned Harrods Bank Limited
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NewsPunch disposal package will remain as pubs
The five central London freehold pubs sold by Punch Taverns to a property company will remain as pubs, a spokeswoman for the pub company has told M&C Report
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OpinionPubco reform: the devil's in the detail
Adrian Bailey, chairman of Parliament’s Business, Innovation & Skills Committe that has been investigating the tenanted pub model for several years, gives some background to yesterday’s announcement from the Government on plans to intervene in the sector and says “the devil is in the detail”
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Kerridge moves closer on second pub
Tom Kerridge has moved closer toward opening a second pub after he applied to Wycombe District Council for planning permission to overhaul the grade II listed Coach & Horses in Marlow
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ALMR unveils manifesto
The Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) has published its 2014 manifesto to coincide with the State Opening of Parliament today
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JDW opens at new Heathrow Terminal 2
JD Wetherspoon is to open its sixth pub at Heathrow today (4 June) in the new Terminal 2: The Queen’s Terminal building
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Statutory code - let's accept it and move on
Could the Government have pulled off the impossible and satisfied both the pubcos and tenants with its plans for a statutory code in the tenanted pub sector? Rob Willock investigates
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NewsCollyer: Gov't intervention 'good news' for pubcos
Leading analyst Geof Collyer says the Government’s plans to intervene in the tenanted pub sector will be “good news in the long term” for Enterprise Inns, Marston’s and Greene King
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Hawthorn Leisure buys 88 R&L pubs
Hawthorn Leisure, the pub group set up with the acquisition of 275 pubs from Greene King, has announced the acquisition of 88 tenanted and leased public houses from R&L, the pub portfolio former operated by property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz
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NewsIndustry responds to statutory code proposal
British Beer & Pub Association chief executive Brigid Simmonds says it’s a “huge relief” that the Government has chosen not to introduce mandatory free-of-tie or guest-beer options into the pubco/tenant relationships, although she criticised the “disproportionate” cost of an adjudicator
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Gov't action 'will transfer up to £140m to pub tenants'
Government plans to intervene in the tenanted pub sector will lead to the transfer of up to £140m from pub companies to tenants and will “indirectly” cause 52 pubs to close, according to estimates from the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
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NewsGovernment confirms statutory pubco code
The Government has confirmed that it will introduce a statutory code to govern the pubco/tenant relationship but has stopped short of having a mandatory free-of-tie or market-rent only option, and will also not scrap the beer tie
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OpinionCable: Why we are acting on pubcos
Vince Cable, the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, talks about the reasoning behind the Government’s intervention in the pub sector, the consultation process, new policy and its proposed benefits
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Glendola gives Silk & Grain details
Glendola Leisure, the London-based bar and restaurant operator, has given more details of its latest ‘cocktails and steaks’ opening in the City, Silk & Grain on Cornhill
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NewsSpirit plans Orchid leases deal
Spirit Pub Company is planning to acquire around a dozen leases currently operated by Orchid Pub Company on which it is guarantor before they are placed into administration
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Leeds Brewery takes eighth site
Leeds Brewery, the pub operator and brewer, has made an application for planning permission to renovate a Grade II listed building in Leeds to open in October as its eighth pub.
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Fuller Thomson on the acquisition trail
Scottish pub group Fuller Thomson is close to securing its sixth site which is due to open in early 2015 in Edinburgh as part of a plan to open five sites in the next five years, M&C Report has learnt
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M&B launches updated Harvester offer
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has launched an updated Harvester offer at selected sites, including its unit in Peterborough’s Pavilions West scheme