A campaign to break the beer tie - where pub landlords have to buy their beer directly from the pubs owners as a proportion of rent - is vowing to see through its fight against Britain's largest pub companies.
Fair Pint, which launched last month, was formed to highlight the tied lease agreements used by pub owners such as Punch Taverns and Enterprise Inns.
Brian Jacobs, founder member of Fair Pint, told Caterer that the campaign's goal was to get the recommendations of a Select Committee for Trade and Industry report in 2004 adhered to.
The report called for more transparency in the way that rents were calculated, as well as recommending a voluntary code governing rent reviews.
But the report also insisted that removing the beer tie would not necessarily make tenants better off.
Jacobs insists that this code of conduct had not been adhered to and called on the government to stick to the promise made in the review and introduce laws governing the beer tie and rent.
"Fair Pint will see this through. We recognise we are up against £10b worth of might but that does not stop us," he says.
The campaign has already received the backing of Liberal Democrat MP Tom Farron, whose Early Day Motion on the issue has received 44 signatures.
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Posted by GLUJUNewmoon | January 28, 2010 11:49 AM
Posted on January 28, 2010 11:49