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Pub Co BDM’s make it up as they go along

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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 [...]

Always have everything in writing

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Always have everything in writing
An elderly licensee that I had dealt with most of his time as a licensee, had his pub taken over by one of the larger Pub Co’s. Prior to the takeover his area manager came in and told him that they had made an error on his accounts, they should have charged him so much [...]

Pub Co Bullies

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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 [...]

Scrooge lives after Christmas

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Scrooge lives after Christmas
One of the larger pub co’s is taking a serious approach to the falling trade throughout their estate, they have taken pity on their poor lessees and those in trouble are being offered a rescue package to help them through. They will reduce the rent, possibly give some discounts on their supplied products, wonderful??? But [...]

Some of The Mail We Have Been Getting

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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 [...]

Advice About Bank Accounts

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Advice About Bank Accounts
A word of advice always have two different Business Bank Accounts, not with the same bank, one with some money in and one that you trade day to day. If your day to day Bank Manager gives you a hard time and cuts your overdraft, you try and open another account, you have absolutely no [...]

Great Pub Co. Con or The Power of Manipulation

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Great Pub Co. Con or The Power of Manipulation
My apologies for leaving this topic as the main feature, but it is essential to make as many people question what is going on and please pass it on to everyone that may appreciate it. I had a phone call a couple of weeks ago  from a reader of the Web Site saying that he had [...]

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