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Dec 31 2008
The Living Room chain of restaurant bars has requested the suspension of its shares while it continued debt refinancing talks with lenders....
Dec 1 2008
The top man at Mitchells and Butlers has come out fighting and predicted major market share gains for the Birmingham pub group – despite a huge profits slump....
Nov 27 2008
Investors raised a glass to Mitchells & Butlers yesterday even though the Birmingham-based pubs operator scrapped its final dividend and told shareholders not to expect a resumption before 2010....
Nov 27 2008
Potential licensees in the West Midlands who fancy trying their hand in the troubled leisure sector but only speak English as a second language will be given a helping hand....
Nov 19 2008
Midland-based pub giant Enterprise Inns is to offload around 200 pubs, including 14 in the West Midlands, in a £100 million sale as the consumer downturn forces drinkers to stay at home....
Nov 5 2008
Drinks giant Carlsberg has announced plans to close a historic brewery in Yorkshire with the loss of 170 jobs....
Nov 5 2008
Real ale is making a comeback as pub drinkers turn to quality to soothe the impact of the downturn in the economy, said Burton-on-Trent-based Punch Taverns....
Nov 4 2008
A West Midlands pub company has set up a management firm it hopes can save dying pubs....
Nov 4 2008
This year has been one of the most difficult in history for pubs, according to the licensed trade body....
Oct 29 2008
Birmingham’s first Business Improvement District have dismissed as “wild exaggeration” claims that Broad Street has fallen victim to recession. ...
