Almost two thirds of consumers believe pubs play a vital role in their local community and continue to prioritise on-trade visits despite economic pressures.
With energy markets continuing to fluctuate and operators facing uncertain costs, the MA has teamed up with Nationwide Energy Consultants to provide our readers with a regular update to keep you one step ahead when it comes to the utility sector.
Pubs and bars are preparing for what looks to be one of the biggest celebrations this weekend with Ireland playing Scotland in the Six Nations final and St Patrick’s Day.
The Kuits NRB Top Fifty Hospitality Power List 2024 was unveiled at the opening of the annual Northern Restaurant and Bar (NRB) trade show in Manchester yesterday.
Abi Dunn, the founder of hospitality recruitment agency Sixty Eight People, advised on how to retain managers at the MA Leaders conference in Liverpool last week.
The freehold site of Laine Pub Company’s flagship pub has been placed on the market – but the pubco insists the sale won’t affect the pub and it will be business as usual.
The Harbour Beer House will open its doors in summer, but in more recent news, Heartwood Collection has launched a new site and gastropub the Guinea Grill has reopened in London.
Bedfordshire-based operator and brewer Wells & Co has reported a significant increase in its EBITDA in its recent financial results for the year ending 1 October 2023.
Clive Watson, the founder of City Pub Company, looked back on his career at last week’s MA Leaders conference, having sold the business to Young’s earlier this month.
Licensees of the Cavendish Arms, Cartmel, Cumbria, have received an award to mark their 20th anniversary at the pub, which is the oldest in the village.
A buoyant Saturday trade, the impact of businesses continuing to work from home and the need for stronger infrastructure were three of the topics discussed when it comes to operating in the seaport city.
The Campaign of Real Ale (CAMRA) has warned the introduction of a cask-style beer that is a kegged product made by Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company (CMBC) risks confusing drinkers about cask conditioned beers.
Managed venues closed February with further year-on-year drops in drinks sales as “shifting dynamics” make growth more “challenging”, particularly for the spirits category.
By Hamish Stoddart, founder of Peach Pubs and strategic adviser to Punch Pubs
I attended Planet Peach – the hospitality Sustainability Summit – this week and Which?, the consumer magazine, released a sustainability report on pubs and restaurants.
Hook Norton Brewery has teamed up with fellow family breweries Everards and Joseph Holt to brew three unique beers as they all celebrate 175 years of beer and brewing.
The founder of a new east London lesbian bar, which has hit its fundraising target of £50,000 to launch a permeant venue, has opened up about future plans.
No matter who is appointed Chancellor come the Autumn Statement, they will have “a lot to prove” to win over the hospitality industry as firms are “rightfully frustrated” with current policies.
The Morning Advertiser has collated advice and life stories from some of the key voices in the sector – namely CEOs – in celebration of this year's International Women's Day.
The Morning Advertiser has spoken to a number of female operators leading the on-trade in 2024 to hear how the industry can #InspireInclusion this International Women's Day (IWD).
To celebrate International Women's Day 2024 the Morning Advertiser spoke to some of the leading women in the drinks industry to discover how the sector can #InspireInclusion.
I’m surrounded by amazing women, in my work, my family and my friends but often I find we just aren’t making it clear how much of a great job we are doing.
Hickory’s founder Neil McDonnell and pub owner James Kowszun outlined the opportunities in the sector at the MA Leaders Conference in Liverpool yesterday (7 March).
The pub sector has reacted with “extreme disappointment” to the Spring Budget, with slashed VAT and reform of business rates needed to make a real difference.
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has described the decision by Asahi UK to shut its Greenwich brewery – which produces Meantime and Dark Star beers – as a “further blow to British brewing”.
Despite the hospitality sector’s calls for a reduced business rates burden in the Spring Budget, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s lack of action on the subject means companies in England will endure a combined tax hike of £1.66bn from 1 April.
It was a faint hope, but still cruelly dashed as the chancellor stood at the dispatch box and showed his fundamental lack of understanding of the pub sector.
On Saturday I’m cutting shapes at Fabric. On Monday I’m at City Hall to meet London’s night czar Amy Lamé. 15 minutes before the interview, I phone to get let in. After some confusion, the press officer double checks, “you are at Docklands right?” No....
As trends within the RTD sector shift and younger generations catch on to what the category can offer, publicans would do well to heed some expert advice.
The reopening of the 02 Brixton Academy is a “symbolic resurgence” of the night-time economy (NTE), the Night-Time Industries Association (NTIA) has said.
