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BDM’s Change of Heart
I was at a trade show recently where one of the larger Pub Co’s had a stand, not wishing to get involved in any sort of mild verbal difference of opinion, I tried to slide past only to be caught by a BDM who I consider to be among the worst that I have met. [...]
Pub Co BDM’s make it up as they go along
I referred a Pub Co lessee to a colleague of mine, because he was being pushed to a rent increase. Ignoring the interim discussions, except that there was justification for a rent decrease. My colleague received a phone call from the BDM saying that they were not going to raise the rent and he asked [...]Andrew Pring’s 2007 Report in the Morning Advertiser on the Industry
The terrible indictment of his report is that only one third of BDM’s are doing a good job as far as the licensee is concerned, how do these Pub Co’s expect lessees to run their pubs if two thirds of their first line support is ineffectual. One in six lessees thinks that their Pub Co [...]Business Development Managers
Every company has them BDM’s (Business Development Managers), Area Managers, a number have never personally run a pub or licensed premises, they do from time to time make stupid or outrageous statements, at the time they are hell, but in the cold light of day we all manage to laugh about them, we can print [...]Pub Co Bullies
Some years ago I had the ex MD of one of the major brewers working under my guidance, I needless to say bent his ear on some of the more legal, questionable activities by Pub Co’s. In his day he said we had a duty to a community to provide good pubs and work with [...]Some of The Mail We Have Been Getting
These are edited copies of the mail that we get. I just hope that if any Pub Co Boss or Employee reads these terrible stories, they feel some degree of remorse. I just wish that they were not true, but they are and they won’t stop coming in. I am currently struggling with a Pub Co. The [...]BII Rent Review Road Shows
The BII have managed to get certain Pub Co’s to produce Codes of Practice in the way that they operate, to create more openness and clarity in a variety of matters. A colleague of mine at the Road Show told me that he had been negotiating a rent with the Estates Manager with a national pub [...]Rent Valuations by Pub Co’s, BDM’s
Having studied the so called method of rent assessment used by the Pub Co’s. Firstly all rents are supposedly worked out by Valuers and BDM’s on the future sustainable earnings potential by a competent operator or an alternative method of operation??? Valuers, at least qualified valuers in the main have never run a pub and would [...]Beware of Pub Co’s Bearing Gifts
A small brewer was taken over by one of the major Pub Co’s who sold on all the pubs that they did not want to a number of smaller Pub Co’s. I received a call from a lessee who had been there for about seven years, he had been invalided out of the Navy and [...]A Sobering Thought
Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 600 employees and has the following statistics. 29 have been accused of spouse abuse, 7 have been arrested for fraud, 19 have been accused of writing bad cheques, 117 have directly or indrectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses, 3 have done time for [...]Categories
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