All JD Wetherspoon articles – Page 5
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Analysis & InsightWetherspoon’s model could impede recovery
Combined with rising costs, its value-led proposition could hamper recovery, analysts said following the operator’s trading update
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InterviewsJDW: ‘We’re in as good a position as we’ve ever been’
Despite a slow recovery, the company is confident trade will bounce back, chairman Tim Martin told MCA
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NewsWetherspoon: ‘recovery more laborious than anticipated’
Despite an improvement in sales since the last quarter, the company announced it is yet to return to pre-pandemic trading levels
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NewsOpenings of the week
D&D London, JD Wetherspoon and Tim Hortons feature in MCA’s roundup of the latest openings news this week
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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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NewsWetherspoon 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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NewsJDW 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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NewsTim 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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NewsJDW 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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NewsWetherspoon’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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NewsJDW 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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NewsTim 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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NewsWetherspoon 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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NewsTim 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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NewsDraught 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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NewsWetherspoon 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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NewsJD 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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NewsDraymen 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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NewsJDW 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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NewsWetherspoons 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.