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Founder of JD Wetherspoon renews attack on 'unsustainable' levies facing pubs after revealing his firm's tax bill topped £450 million last year... more
JD Wetherspoon, the pub company of choice for those who like good beer at cheaper prices than rivals can offer, says that it is feeling the pinch... more
City analysts moan that sales aren't rising as quickly as those of Greene King, but budget pub chain JD Wetherspoon is still moving in the right direction... more
Is JD Wetherspoon founder and chairman Tim Martin the coolest businessman in Britain? Given his hair (a mullet nearly as famous as Peter Stringfellow's) and dress, this may seem an odd call... more
After at least four years of gloom in the saloon bar that left many predicting their ultimate demise, pubs are now looking forward to a cheery summer as industry figures show that they are outperforming the High Street... more
Pubs firm JD Wetherspoon report an 11% decline in first half pre-tax profit, blaming higher interest charges following the renewal of its bank facilities in March last year... more
Most Americans were chowing down on their Thanksgiving turkey today, but there were some who preferred to sniff around British shopping centres... more
After 13 years of attacking successive Labour governments, JD Wetherspoon founder and chairman Tim Martin shifts his ire to the new Coalition Government... more
Recession? What recession? There were no empty seats at the British Council for Offices annual black tie shindig which filled the Great Room of the Grosvenor House to bursting... more
How very different yesterday’s Pre-Budget Report was from Alistair Darling’s first as Chancellor in October 2007, when he proudly boasted that Britain is “the fastest growing advanced major economy in the world”... more
JD Wetherspoon founder Tim Martin has attacked a teenage "vodka-drinking culture", claiming the pub trade and the police are paying the price for failed Government policies... more
Consumer: A bar-room brawl erupted between two of Britain’s biggest pub groups today as Ted Tuppen, chief executive of Britain’s second-biggest pubs group Enterprise Inns, said: “I don’t take Wetherspoons terribly seriously.”... more
Leisure: JD Wetherspoon’s big gamble of slashing the price of a pint to less than £1 is paying off, but the credit crunch has forced the discount pubs chain to axe the dividend and cut back drastically on expansion plans... more
The smoking ban, competition from the supermarkets and a general lack of cash in people’s pockets are continuing to take a heavy toll on the UK’s big pub operators and restaurant chains... more
What must it be like being Hank Paulson? One minute you’re the head of Goldman Sachs, surrounded by some of the smartest people on the planet, and the next...you’re trying
to explain the economic crisis to George Bush... more
Leisure: Maverick pubs boss Tim Martin is calling the end of the recession in the nation's boozers as JD Wetherspoon reported its busiest ever August... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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