Wetherspoon shares fall as it warns that wages will hurt profits
J D Wetherspoon shares fell 13 per cent to 1,138p today after it announced a rise in sales, but warned its decision to hand staff a wage increase without increasing prices will impact full-year...
View ArticleTim Martin is slashing prices by 7.5 per cent at all Wetherspoon's pubs
Wetherspoon's boss Tim Martin has issued a call to arms to pubs and restaurants in an attempt to convince the government to slash "unfair" taxes levied on the sector. The pub chain founder said tax...
View ArticleHere's what Tim Martin meant by his "Budget for dinner...
JD Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin has hit back at chancellor Philip Hammond's Budget, arguing it doesn't do enough to support pubs from increasing cost pressures. Wetherspoon's share price dipped in...
View ArticleWetherspoon cautions of lower sales and added costs in the second half
JD Wetherspoon's shares fell more than three per cent after the pub group reported half-year results slightly ahead of expectations but warned of a difficult second half to come. The figures The pub...
View ArticleJD Wetherspoon boss gets political before predicting better results
JD Wetherspoon is feeling the pinch as costs are set to rise over the financial year, but chairman Tim Martin said the company is cautiously predicting its results will be slightly better than forecast...
View ArticleWetherspoon's boss hits out at "elite groups" trying to stop...
The boss of Britain's largest pub chain has attacked a "cabal of politicians and elite groups... fighting to overturn the [Brexit] decision" comparing them with "undemocratic and totalitarian" regimes...
View ArticleWetherspoon's boss just pointed both barrels at Europe's leaders
The founder of pub giant Wetherspoon this morning slammed the "unelected" EU chief as well as the supporting leaders of Germany and France. Staunch Brexiter Tim Martin, who is chairman of the pub...
View ArticleWetherspoon's boss slams everyone who backed Remain in a lengthy essay
On announcing his company's preliminary results this morning, JD Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin took the opportunity to slam David Cameron and George Osborne for their conduct during the referendum...
View ArticleWetherspoon's boss: Everyone cheer up about Brexit
All this doom-mongering has become too much for Wetherspoon's boss Tim Martin, who finally came out and said it this morning: everyone needs to cheer up about Brexit. Martin, who in the run-up to the...
View ArticleJD Wetherspoon targets Osborne in new round of Brexit beer mats
Clearly not content with offering just one round of Brexit beer mats, JD Wetherspoon has printed another set - and this time George Osborne is in the firing line. The pub group, led by the staunchly...
View ArticleWetherspoon warns customer details stolen in cyber attack
Pub chain JD Wetherspoon has said that the personal details of more than 650,000 customers may have been stolen in a cyber attack, and a small portion of this included credit card data. For the...
View ArticleBoss warns Living Wage may affect Wetherspoon's profits
Wetherspoon's share price tumbled this morning after boss Tim Martin warned that rising labour costs could result in lower annual profits, with margins falling in its first quarter. The figures The...
View ArticleJD Wetherspoon hits out at government's Living Wage
Pub chain JD Wetherspoon has become the most recent in a series of companies to hit out at the government’s Living Wage.In the company’s preliminary yearly results, the pub chain said the government is...
View ArticleWetherspoon's sales rise despite supermarket showdown
It may be at a “great disadvantage” to supermarkets, but JD Wetherspoon still managed to report an increase in sales.The figuresIn an interim management statement, the company announced like for like...
View ArticleWetherspoon and Heineken make up after row
UK pub chain JD Wetherspoon kicked off the new year by setting aside its differences with Heineken, and putting the Dutch brewer's products back onto the menus of its 926 pubs across the UK and...
View ArticleWetherspoon is ditching Heineken after drinks row
Wetherspoon is waving bye-bye to Heineken and will pull the brewer's products from all of its 926 pubs, following a fall-out over pricing in Ireland.Wetherspoon said on Tuesday that the Dutch brewer...
View ArticleJD Wetherspoons reports record profit as boss slams VAT
JD Wetherspoon has reported record sales and profit in its full-year results, yet founder and chairman Tim Martin has described the government's VAT on pubs as a danger to the industry. Shares in the...
View ArticleJD Wetherspoon reports "slightly weaker" sales as World Cup fans...
Pub group JD Wetherspoon has revealed that sales have been slightly weaker during the World Cup, reflecting suggestions fans have been drinking at home during matches instead of going to bars. The...
View ArticleJD Wetherspoon boss launches another attack on VAT
The chief executive of high street pub chain JD Wetherspoon has again condemned the tax advantages supermarkets get over pubs.In a statement as part of the company’s interim financial results, Tim...
View ArticleNew Wetherspoon beer mats urge government not to pay £39bn to Brussels
Wetherspoon founder and outspoken Brexit advocate Tim Martin has called on leaders not to pay Brussels a Brexit fee and to end tariffs, by launching half a million new beer mats. Headlined "Free Trade...
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