22:14 : MARKET REPORT: City dealers drink to JD Wetherspoon -
Six-foot-five-inch Tim Martin, chairman of JD Wetherspoon whose favourite tipple is Abbot Ale, forked out around £2.5million on 657,000 shares at 377.4p a pop, increasing his shareholding to 26.56 per cent.
18:13 : JD Wetherspoon boss buys £2.5m of shares -
Tim Martin takes his holding to 26.6% just weeks after pub chain reveals its tax bill would increase by £50mTim Martin, chairman and founder of pub chain JD Wetherspoon, has bought nearly £2.5m-worth of shares in the ...
18:12 : JD Wetherspoon's founder is right to complain of tax burdens -
The founder and chairman Tim Martin points to the widening 'disparity' between taxes for pubs and taxes for supermarketsCan little ol' JD Wetherspoon, the pubs group with 850 outlets, really be correct when it says ...
12:46 : JD Wetherspoon warns 'disappointing' sales -
Pubs chain JD Wetherspoon has warned of "disappointing" sales since the start of the year as founder Tim Martin renewed his attack on the Government for squeezing the industry.
19:14 : JD Wetherspoon founder urges chancellor to cut VAT on pubs -
Tim Martin condemns 'unsustainable competitive disadvantage' of disparity between tax regimes for supermarkets selling alcohol and pubsTim Martin, the outspoken founder and executive chairman of pub chain JD Wetherspoon, ...
12:30 : Wetherspoon boss faces battle to top-up profit -
LONDON (Reuters) - Pubs group JD Wetherspoon is unlikely to increase profit in the current year and faces a struggle to maintain its operating margin as cost pressures bite, chairman and founder Tim Martin told Reuters ...
09:19 : Wetherspoon founder attacks pub taxes -
Tim Martin says 'unsustainable' levies imposed on the pub industry are driving customers to supermarketsThe founder of the JD Wetherspoon pub chain has renewed his attack on the "unsustainable" levies facing the industry ...
07:41 : Wetherspoon faces uphill battle to increase profit -
LONDON (Reuters) - Pubs group JD Wetherspoon is unlikely to increase profits in the current year and faces a struggle to maintain its operating margin at the current level as cost pressures bite, chairman Tim Martin ...