Landlords so Bitter About Brewery Ties Landing Their Families with Huge Debts

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After spending two years wrestling with Burton-based Punch Taverns, a Derbyshire publican has come up with an alternative business model for giant pub companies.

Dave Mountford, who runs The Rising Sun in Middleton, believes tied tenancy agreements, which are used by the likes of Punch, Marston's, Enterprise and the other industry big hitters are fatally flawed.

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Landlords so Bitter About Brewery Ties Landing Their Families with Huge Debts

According to Dave, the smoking ban, the recession, increases in beer duty and cheap booze in supermarkets do not in themselves cause dozens of pubs to close down each week.

But he argues that even when times are good and credit is readily available, the pub companies can profit from the ti...

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