All Pubs articles – Page 238
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Beds & Bars to open cider bar
Beds & Bars, the bars-meets-hostels operator, is to open a cider bar above its Belushi’s site in London’s Covent Garden next Wednesday
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Brakspear’s ‘mystery customers’ are 10% more satisfied
Brakspear, the brewer and pub operator, has seen a 10% rise in mystery customer satisfaction since it implemented the mystery customer scheme in 2010, with average pub satisfaction scores over 80%
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Opinion
The fine line between genius and madness
Rob Willock, group editor of M&C Report and the Publican’s Morning Advertiser, responds to criticism levelled at the publications by JD Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin
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OpinionFace the brutal facts about pubs and tax
In a strongly worded article, JD Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin takes to task those who have expressed optimism about the prospects for major pub companies. He also reserves criticism for M&C Report and the Publican’s Morning Advertiser group editor Rob Willock for not supporting the VAT Club
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NewsStatutory code has little effect on pubco share prices
Yesterday’s news that the Government is to introduce a statutory code and adjudicator into the pubco/tenant relationship had little impact on the movement of shares among listed pub groups that operate tenanted and leased outlets
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Hawthorn: up to 2,000 pubs could fit our criteria
Up to 2,000 existing pubs could fit the criteria for Hawthorn Leisure, which has no cap on its expansion ambitions, Noah Bulkin of the company’s joint backer May Capital has told M&C Report
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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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Opinion
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