Fuller’s have announced that it has entered into an agreement for the sale of its entire beer business to Asahi Europe Ltd (“AEL”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd (“Asahi”), for an enterprise value of £250 million ...

Entries are now open for this year’s BII Licensee of the Year award, sponsored by Sky. The British Institute of Innkeeping are celebrating all that is good about the licensed retail sector and can’t wait to recognise the top individual ...

Oakman Inns have announced strong sales over the important Christmas trading period, continuing the strong growth that the business has seen in the year to date. The Like-for-Like sales for the five weeks ending Sunday 6th January 2019 were up ...

Award-winning Kent microbrewery Rockin Robin has teamed up with Britain’s oldest brewer Shepherd Neame to launch its first pub. The Duke of Edinburgh in Barming near Maidstone, owned by Shepherd Neame, has been taken over by Rockin Robin and renamed Rockin Robin ...

Almost a year to the day since they put out a serious fire at the Saracen’s Head, local firefighters were given a warm welcome when they visited the pub recently to enjoy a pre-Christmas beer or two. Landlady Melanie Roberson ...

Residents of Exelby in Yorkshire have celebrated the reopening of their village pub this month after a local community group reached an agreement with Ei Publican Partnerships to buy The Green Dragon. New tenants Becci and Tom Baker opened the ...

A pub at the centre of a community campaign to keep it open following its closure brewers Hall & Woodhouse has now been saved. The community in the village of Woodgreen, near Fordingbridge, launched a campaign to raise £700,000 to keep ...

The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has appointed a new chief executive and deputy chief executive. Tom Stainer, who has worked for CAMRA since 2006, will become the organisation’s chief executive while Ken Owst, who joined as chief support officer ...

HRH The Prince of Wales paid a visit to the community-owned pub, The Fleece Inn at Hillesley, to highlight the importance of great pubs within rural communities. He was greeted by the children from Hillesley Primary School before going into ...

Head Brewer at Wadworth, Rob Jacobson has recently qualified as a Master Brewer with the Institute of Brewing and Distilling. Rob Jacobson left the sunnier climes of South Africa to join the Wiltshire based family brewer as Head Brewer in ...