All Pubs articles – Page 78

  • News

    Bel & The Dragon Godalming placed on the market

    2017-06-30T15:33:25.913Z

    Longshot has placed its Bel & The Dragon site in Godalming, Surrey, on the market

  • Analysis & Insight

    Fuelling growth

    2017-06-30T15:33:18.910Z

    Jo Cumming, co-owner of Food & Fuel, the food-led pub operator, talks to Mel Flaherty about expansion, working with Ei Group, the biggest changes she has seen across the industry and embracing the needs of Millennials

  • News

    ​Shep Neame launches Bluewater pop-up

    2017-06-30T15:33:06.070Z

    Shepherd Neame has launched a seasonal pop-up brewery store at Bluewater

  • News

    Laine's partners with Kafoodle

    2017-06-30T08:26:19.723Z

    The Laine Pub Company has signed up with labelling and allergen compliance experts Kafoodle.

  • News

    Ei & Booker reach 4,000th customer milestone

    2017-06-30T08:25:27.997Z

    Ei Publican Partnerships and Booker Wholesale have helped 4,000 publicans boost their food offering

  • News

    Heavitree Brewery H1 PBT up 10.5%

    2017-06-30T08:25:18.257Z

    Heavitree Brewery has reported that its pre-tax profit climbed 10.49% to £558,000 in the six months to 30 April 2017

  • News

    Greene King - 'challenges to intensify'

    2017-06-30T08:25:02.390Z

    Greene King chief executive Rooney Anand warned of softening of consumer confidence and a squeeze in disposable income over the last 12 months – but said affordable treats such as the pub would continue to play an important role in people’s lives.

  • Charlie McVeigh
    News

    Draft House completes Grand Union deal

    2017-06-29T11:22:00Z

    The Draft House has completed the acquisition of the six-strong Grand Union Group business, for an undisclosed sum

  • News

    EiG admits value food offer is a challenge

    2017-06-29T08:19:06.263Z

    Ei Group commercial director Paul Harbottle has said the company has considered a QSR model to make the most of the breadth of its estate.

  • Rooney Anand
    News

    ​Greene King FY managed lfls up 1.5%

    2017-06-29T07:25:00Z

    Greene King has reported a 1.5% increase in like-for-like sales across its managed division in the 52 weeks to 30 April 2017

  • News

    Brunning & Price takes former Jamie's site

    2017-06-28T08:31:35.213Z

    Brunning & Price, The Restaurant Group-owned pub operator, has taken on the former Jamie’s Italian site in Cheltenham. The company has submitted plans to transform the grade II listed former County Court building in Regent Street, Gloucestershire Live reports. According to planning documents the group plans to convert the building ...

  • News

    Top pubs' rateable value up 57% - ALMR

    2017-06-28T08:30:59.890Z

    New analysis by the ALMR has highlighted how the pub trade is disproportionately penalised by the current business rates regime.

  • Peter Furness-Smith
    News

    Furness-Smith to step down as McMullen’s MD

    2017-06-27T08:20:00Z

    Peter Furness-Smith, the joint managing director of family brewer and pub operator, McMullen’s, is to retire this summer after two decades with the group, MCA has learnt.

  • News

    Forest calls for smoking ban review

    2017-06-27T08:20:00.620Z

    Smoking advocacy group Forest has called for a review of the smoking ban, and the introduction of smoking annexes in pubs, after a report claimed the ban had decimated the trade.

  • News

    Liverpool gastro-pub closes

    2017-06-27T08:19:46.990Z

    Liverpool gastro-pub The Old Blind School has closed “until further notice”, The Liverpool Echo reports.

  • Punch deal
    News

    CMA - Heineken remedy 'might be acceptable'

    2017-06-27T08:19:00Z

    The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which is considering Heineken’s proposals to sell pubs in certain areas to preserve competition, has suggested the remedy “might be acceptable”.

  • News

    Red Oak founders eye next stage of growth

    2017-06-27T08:18:56.953Z

    MCA speaks to Red Oak Taverns founders Aaron Brown and Mark Grunnell about how they brought their experience at some of the biggest pub companies in the country into their own business

  • News

    JDW to develop £13m Dublin pub and hotel

    2017-06-26T08:16:37.950Z

    Wetherspoon is to spend around £13m developing a new pub and 98-bedroom hotel in Dublin city centre.

  • Opinion

    Managing expectations

    2017-06-26T08:16:00Z

    Brakspear’s chief executive Tom Davies talks about the group’s fast-growing managed estate, the challenges facing its 120-strong tenanted portfolio and the return to its 300-year association with brewing.

  • News

    Revere interested in further group deals

    2017-06-23T08:29:20.580Z

    Colin Sadler, managing director of Marston’s premium arm, Revere, has told MCA that the success of the integration of the Pointing Dog pubs has given the group confidence to look at other small group deals.