Daniel Thwaites has called on the Government to provide pubs with more support to provide them with a "sustainable platform" as they face "a broad front of increasing costs".
The Lancashire-headquartered pubs, hotels and brewing giant said that while the Government's intervention over the winter is "extremely helpful, it is not in itself a solution to longer term structural taxation issues".
It added that "pubs are critical community assets and are overtaxed" and said the Government’s review of business rates, which is due in the spring, "must give them further relief and other ways must be found through duty or VAT".
