News Update!! 08-02-2010

The UK job market is currently in an extremely depressed condition (read article below from the British Beer and Pub association).

HOWEVER, The Original London Pub Co continues to successfully sort jobs for their applicants. We have more than 500 pubs in many parts of England including London and southern England and throughout the midlands and northern England. Because we have been in operation for more than 13 years and we have so many pub Managers on our books, we are still operating successfully in this market and placing all our applicants.

IMPORTANT, It is no longer wise to expect you can quickly sort work in the UK on arrival and many thousands of Australians, New Zealanders and Canadians are currently in the UK and failing to find themselves live-in jobs.

APPLY NOW, with The London Pub Co Application Form

E C O N O M I C  T R E N D S  I N  T H E  B E E R  A N D  P U B  S E C T O R

• Britain’s brewing and pub sector is experiencing one of the most severe and sustained periods of pressure on record.
• The effects of longer term socio‐economic trends have been dramatically sharpened by the current economic downturn and exacerbated by Government tax and regulatory policy which has severely constrained the flexibility of the sector to adapt to change.
• Pubs play a vital role in community cohesion and social life in Britain. They are frequently one of the few remaining places where communities come together to socialize.
• Total beer sales are down 8 million pints a day since the peak of 1979. Beer sales in pubs are down 16 million pints a day over the same period. Beer sales in pubs are now at their lowest level since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
• Pub closures have climbed from two a week from 2000 to 2005 to the record rate of 36 a week – five a day.
• 44,000 jobs have been lost across the sector in the last five years and a further 43,000 are projected to be lost in the next five years.
• Pint for pint, beer sales in pubs and clubs create 18 jobs for every three jobs created by sales in supermarkets and off-licences
• Through beer duty alone, the Government now makes 50 times the profit of the four largest brewers on each pint sold.
• It is widely assumed we have a national culture in which alcohol consumption is on the increase. In fact average consumption has been falling since 2004. For men it fell from 17.2 units to 14.9 units between 1998 and 2006. By women, it fell from 6.5 to 6.3 (having risen to 7.6 in 2002).
• With drinking trends shifting, household and business budgets under pressure, now is not the time for Governments to be introducing policies that will force up prices and costs for all. Targeting the problem few would be more effective.
• The Government should abandon its plans for a beer tax escalator.
• The Government should abandon its plans to introduce new regulations on the brewing and pub sector such as statutory codes of practice on how alcohol should be sold.
• The Government should enforce existing laws rather than create new ones.
• The Government should start to support the Great British Pub as a vital part of local community life in Britain.

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