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The Business and Enterprise Committee has launched an inquiry into the trading practices of Britain’s largest pub companies.
Posted: 26 June 2008 | 15:07
Chip shops, sandwich bars and restaurants will soon have to display nutritional information about the food they serve, including fat, salt, sugar and calorie content.
Posted: 23 June 2008 | 10:58
Claims and counter-claims are fuelling the war of words over who's to blame for the UK's perceived binge-drinking culture. But one thing's for sure: while pubs are going out of business at an alarming rate, supermarkets are thriving. Martyn Cornell reports
Posted: 22 May 2008 | 00:00
The Government has been attacked over its failure to disclose its motives over rising tax on beer, announced in this year’s Budget.
Posted: 16 May 2008 | 07:00
Pub operator JD Wetherspoon has seen its margins squeezed after three-months of flat sales.
Posted: 29 April 2008 | 11:24
Wine is delightful, but beer can be even easier and more fun to pair with food.
Posted: 25 April 2008 | 17:14
Merchant Inns, the pubs-with-rooms company controlled by property magnate Sir John Ritblat and chairman Robert Breare, has acquired its seventh pub, the Saracen’s Head in Essex.
Posted: 21 April 2008 | 10:45
John Grogan MP, chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group, is trying to build a consensus behind the notion of reference pricing as a way of tackling irresponsible alcohol retailing. Christopher Walton reports.
Posted: 14 April 2008 | 00:05
Over 44,000 pints of alcoholic drinks were seized from underage drinkers during February half-term during a crackdown by the Home Office.
Posted: 09 April 2008 | 15:49
Harvester and All Bar One owner Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) is taking market share from struggling rivals thanks to its offer of a "value and volume" dining experience, the pub group claimed today.
Posted: 09 April 2008 | 12:00
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Melton Mowbray pork pies win protected status; Marston’s buys Hobgoblin and Brakspear beer maker; Thai hotel ‘poverty tour’ sparks outrage and chef boycott
Posted: 07 April 2008 | 10:33
Enterprise Inns chief executive Ted Tuppen has attacked the Government for its “punitive and ill conceived” hike in alcohol duty.
Posted: 31 March 2008 | 14:26
East Anglian brewer and pub operator Adnams has warned of a “turbulent year for the drinks industry” and pubs in 2008.
Posted: 31 March 2008 | 12:50
Pub industry fury over the chancellor's decision to ignore pleas from operators and lobby groups and raise alcohol duty in last week's Budget has forced a rethink on how to make their views count in future. Christopher Walton reports
Posted: 20 March 2008 | 00:05
Shepherd Neame chief executive Jonathan Neame has defended the pub industry’s efforts to head off yesterday’s 6% hike in alcohol duty in the Budget.
Posted: 13 March 2008 | 11:00
Andrew Colley and Robin Knight have turned the Pride of the Valley into somewhere affluent local residents are happy to go. Janet Harmer reports on how the hoteliers are attracting a new market of discerning customers
Posted: 13 March 2008 | 00:05
The Conservatives have proposed a two-tier tax on booze to tackle problem alcohol use and binge-drinking.
Posted: 07 March 2008 | 15:48
No sooner had the air cleared from the smoking ban than the dangers of alcohol reared its head. Overall levels of alcohol consumption by the general public have increased rapidly over the past 10 years as we all drink more wine, spirits and alco-pops (but we all drink less beer) and the term binge-drinking has entered the national vocabulary.
Posted: 27 February 2008 | 16:10
The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) has derided the British Medical Association’s (BMA) report on alcohol as “flawed and flimsy”.
Posted: 22 February 2008 | 11:26
Beer from local breweries is bucking the trend of falling volumes with strong sales growth, according to a report by the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA).
Posted: 05 February 2008 | 15:27
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