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Published by: Mintel International Group Ltd.
Published: Oct. 1, 2006 - 75 Pages
Table of Contents
- ISSUES IN THE MARKET
- Definitions
- ABBREVIATIONS
- MARKET IN BRIEF
- It’s a pretty stable market, overall
- A universal appeal
- But a broad church, too
- Is it a dry-led future?
- But there must be limits to the pub-food trend
- Tradition is preferred, along with familiar faces
- Time to diversify?
- Going ‘Green’
- The future, in perspective
- INTERNAL MARKET ENVIRONMENT
- Changing attitudes towards drinking
- Figure 1: Agreement with lifestyle statements on drinking, 2000 and 2005
- From pub grub to gastronomy
- Falling gaming machine revenue
- Negative factors:
- Positive factors:
- New licensing regimes
- BROADER MARKET ENVIRONMENT
- The consumer economy
- Figure 2: Trends in personal disposable income and consumer expenditure, 2001-11
- Population trends and projections
- Figure 3: Forecast adult population trends, by lifestage, 2001-11
- Figure 4: Forecast adult population trends, by socio-economic group, 2001-11
- Drinks market trends: the ‘big night in’
- Figure 5: UK consumer expenditure on alcohol, 1995 and 2005
- Other lifestyle factors
- COMPETITIVE CONTEXT
- Figure 6: Comparison of spend on selected leisure activities, 2000 and 2005
- Figure 7: Regular leisure activities undertaken in free time, April 2006
- STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES IN THE MARKET
- Strengths:
- Weaknesses:
- MARKET SIZE AND FORECAST
- Figure 8: UK pub market, 2001-11
- Pubs on a plateau
- Anxious times around the corner
- The longer term view is more optimistic
- SEGMENT PERFORMANCE
- Figure 9: Main products sold in UK pubs, 2002-06
- Wet or dry?
- Young or old?
- Quiet or lively?
- The chameleon solution
- PUB COMPANIES: NEW MOVERS AND SHAKERS
- Figure 10: Leading pub operators, by total outlet numbers, September 2006
- THE PROPERTY GIANTS: PUNCH AND ENTERPRISE
- NEWER BODIES: ADMIRAL, LONDON & EDINBURGH, LAUREL
- THE MANAGED-HOUSE INNOVATORS: M&B, WETHERSPOON, REGENT INNS
- RISE OF THE REGIONALS: GREENE KING AND WOLVERHAMPTON & DUDLEY
- OTHER NOTABLE PUB OPERATORS
- TRADE PERSPECTIVE
- OPENING HOURS: THE EXPERIENCE OF THE FIRST SIX MONTHS
- SMOKING BANS: HEAVEN OR HELL?
- THE NEED TO ENTERTAIN
- SKY TV: A MIXED BLESSING?
- THE INEXORABLE RISE OF PUB FOOD
- THE BROADER IMPACT OF THE PUB-RESTAURANT TREND
- THE BIG ISSUES? THEY VARY FROM PUBLICAN TO PUBLICAN
- BRAND COMMUNICATION AND PROMOTION
- Key points:
- Figure 11: Pub companies, by media expenditure, July 2005-June 2006
- Greene King - a sign of things to come?
- FREQUENCY OF PUB VISITING
- JUST A QUICK DRINK OR STAY FOR A MEAL?
- Figure 12: Frequency of visiting a pub to drink and eat in, June 2006
- DETAILED DEMOGRAPHICS: FREQUENCY OF PUB VISITORS
- Figure 13: Frequency of visiting a pub to drink in, by gender, age, socio-economic group, marital and working status, detailed lifestage and age of own children, June 2006
- Figure 14: Frequency of visiting a pub to drink in, by region, ACORN category, media, Internet and supermarket usage, and commercial TV viewing, June 2006
- ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE SMOKING BAN
- Figure 15: Attitudes towards the smoking ban, by consumers who have eaten and drunk in a pub, June 2006
- ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE SMOKING BAN: DETAILED DEMOGRAPHICS
- Figure 16: Attitudes towards the smoking ban among pub drinkers, by gender, age, socio-economic group, marital and working status, detailed lifestage and age of own children, June 2006
- Figure 17: Attitudes towards the smoking ban among pub drinkers, by region, ACORN category, media, Internet and supermarket usage, and commercial TV viewing, June 2006
- TRADITIONAL VERSUS TRENDY PUBS
- WHAT THE PUB VISITOR IS LOOKING FOR
- Figure 18: Attitudes towards pubs, June 2006
- Regulars want the social side
- Figure 19: Most popular attitudes towards pubs, by frequency of visiting for a drink, June 2006
- Quality is important for the ‘occasionals’
- Figure 20: Next most popular attitudes towards pubs, by frequency of visiting for a drink, June 2006
- Smoke needn’t be part of the traditional atmosphere
- Figure 21: Most popular attitudes towards pubs, by attitudes towards the smoking ban, June 2006
- Consumers who visit urban pubs will find the smoking ban the most intrusive
- Figure 22: Next most popular attitudes towards pubs, by attitudes towards the smoking ban, June 2006
- It’s a social visit
- Figure 23: Most popular attitudes towards pubs, by attitudes towards pubs, June 2006
- Polarisation: some want the friendly local, others want a repertoire
- Figure 24: Next most popular attitudes towards pubs, by attitudes towards pubs, June 2006
- ATTITUDES TOWARDS PUBS: DETAILED DEMOGRAPHICS
- Most popular attitudes towards pubs
- Figure 25: Most popular attitudes towards pubs, by gender, age, socio-economic group, marital and working status, detailed lifestage and age of own children, June 2006
- Figure 26: Most popular attitudes towards pubs, by region, ACORN category, media, Internet and supermarket usage, and commercial TV viewing, June 2006
- Next most popular attitudes towards pubs
- Figure 27: Next most popular attitudes towards pubs, by gender, age, socio-economic group, marital and working status, detailed lifestage and age of own children, June 2006
- Figure 28: Next most popular attitudes towards pubs, by region, ACORN category, media, Internet and supermarket usage, and commercial TV viewing, June 2006
- APPENDIX: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
AbstractThe UK’s 70,000 publicans have every justification to feel the media has harshly treated them in recent years. Having waded through the re-licensing procedure in 2005 - in most cases, pubs countered the allegations about ’24-hour drinking’ by simply opening a bit earlier to serve breakfasts or afternoon teas - the pubs now find themselves having to handle draconian legislation against smoking, on top of their existing problems: staff shortages, mountains of red tape, supermarkets selling cut-price beer by the cartload and an increasingly militant anti-alcohol lobby.
The landlord can, therefore, be excused for having a quiet moan behind the bar, but in reality the prospects are now more cheerful than they have been for a while, and this Mintel report looks to the future with some optimism. Smoke-free pubs will, in the long run, be far more conducive to broadening the pub’s appeal; the licensing situation, although controversial, is much clearer as regards opening hours and the provision of entertainment; and pubs are starting to reap the benefits of some fascinating innovations and diversifications of the new century.
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