Some of Britain’s biggest pub companies are facing fresh scrutiny over the way in which they treat their tenants.
Paul Newby, the pubs code adjudicator, revealed yesterday that he had written to the pub companies over his concerns and would use their response to frame “further interventions” to secure tenants’ rights.
The statutory pubs code was introduced in 2016 after years of lobbying to regulate the relationship between tied pub tenants and the pub companies, the large pub-owning businesses that rent the pubs to them and sell them beer. The companies covered by it are Punch, Heineken’s Star Pubs & Bars, Greene King, Marston’s, Admiral Taverns and Ei.
