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London pubs boss urges Reeves to spare struggling sector from more Budget punishment

Fuller’s boss said the pub chain faced an £8m increase in costs as a result of last year’s Budget

Evening Standard

Fuller’s hiked pint prices after staff costs soared

Fuller, Smith & Turner raised prices at the end of March in response to the Chancellor’s tax raid in last October’s Budget.

Evening Standard

Fuller’s toasts sales and profits leap as chairman of 18 years bows out

Michael Turner – chairman and member of one of the three founding families – will retire at the group’s annual general meeting in July.

Evening Standard

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Cost of pint to rise 20p after Reeves tax hikes, pub boss warns

Brewer Young’s set to raise prices after increases in alcohol duty and employer national insurance contributions

The Independent UK

What’s happening to the price of a pint?

Chancellor Rachel Reeves hiked employers’ national insurance rates and lowered the threshold at which they are paid

The Independent UK

Fuller’s latest to warn over price rises as it braces for £3m Budget hit

The pub group said the rise in employers’ National Insurance contributions will cost it £3 million with a further £5 million due in wage increases.

Evening Standard

Major pub chain joins Wetherspoon with stark price hike warning after Labour’s Budget

Pub bosses have warned that prices will have to go up

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Taylor Swift's Wembley concerts could rake in more for London's pubs than Euros

‘You can’t underestimate the effect that eight fully-booked nights at Wembley will bring,’ a leading pubs boss says

Evening Standard

A familiar discussion at Fuller's

When 179-year-old pub chain Fuller, Smith & Turner appointed Simon Emeny as its new boss, the company tried something completely new: He was the first CEO not to be related to the Fuller, Smith or Turner family.

Evening Standard

City pubs becoming a 'seven-day operation' thanks to weekend tourist boost, Fuller's boss says

Profits at the chain, which owns more than 380 pubs and hotels across the south of England, rose by 40% to £14.7 million

Evening Standard

Fuller’s hails rebound in trade at City pubs as it reveals full-year results

Boss of pubs group says he is upbeat about coming months after return of office workers and tourists

The Guardian - UK

Iconic Trafalgar Square pub The Admiralty reopens after devastating fire

The pub is one of London’s most iconic

Evening Standard

Fuller’s pub chain issues profit warning, blaming rail strikes

Sales for Christmas and new year period are up on last year but down on pre-Covid trading

The Guardian - UK

Fuller’s takes £4 million knock from strikes after train cancellations leave London’s pubs empty

The hit to Fuller’s would suggest London’s pub industry has taken a knock of as much as £84 million from industrial action in recent weeks

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Fuller’s hails return of the commuter as London sales recover

Central London and City sites have seen revenues rise by 20%, the pub chain said

Evening Standard

£14 pints? Pubs say they’ll call orders long before then — but vow to battle on

Soaring energy prices, runaway inflation and the cost of living crisis pose a life-or-death threat to hospitality businesses, especially in London. Publicans and restaurateurs say they have little choice but to dramatically raise prices — so, asks David Ellis, what can be done to help them?

Evening Standard

Fuller’s calls for help as energy bills double

The firm has seen its electricity and gas bills grow 125% to £18 million

Evening Standard

UK ‘being held back over labour shortages,’ Fuller’s boss says

THE boss of pub chain Fuller’s has accused the Government of “holding back Britain” as the firm wrestles with labour shortages crippling the capital’s hospitality sector.

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