News: September 2011

Britain’s leading pub companies face a stinging attack in a report on the pub industry by the House of Commons Business Select Committee.

Looking into the issue of pub closures, the report pins much of the blame on pub companies and the tie that many of them impose on their licensees, so inflating the price of beer.

The report also criticizes the pub companies for reacting slowly to past criticism, claiming that self-regulation was not working. The MPs behind the report now recommend statutory regulation to compel the companies to change practice.