Cheers! Wetherspoons boss Tim Martin cashes in £50m of shares

Cheers! Wetherspoons boss Tim Martin cashes in £50m of shares following successful fund-raising By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:57 GMT, 26 January 2021 | Updated: 23:23 GMT, 26 January 2021 Wetherspoons founder Tim Martin has cashed in £50million of shares following a successful fund-raising. The massive windfall followed two £5million sales last … Read more

MARKET REPORT: Second round of funding to prop up Wetherspoons

Pub group Wetherspoons has gone cap-in-hand to investors for the second time since the pandemic began as it attempts to keep its head above water. It is hoping to raise between £92.1million and £93.7million to see it through the rest of the year, by selling up to 8.4m shares. This would mean offloading them for … Read more

Elderly man is floored when flying chair hits his head in front of stunned drinkers in Wetherspoons

Elderly man is floored when flying chair hits his head in front of stunned drinkers in Wetherspoons pub Man is believed to have been at The Thomas Frost in Liverpool on December 9 CCTV footage shows chair being thrown across room by someone out of frame   Customer is struck on the head and collapses to … Read more

Wetherspoons boss Tim Martin sells £5m worth of shares

Wetherspoons boss Tim Martin sells £5m worth of shares after warning Government’s tier system will keep 366 of his pubs shut By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 2 December 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 2 December 2020 Wetherspoons boss Tim Martin has sold £5million worth of shares in his pub chain … Read more

Tier system is ‘lockdown by stealth’, claims Wetherspoons’ boss

Tier system is ‘lockdown by stealth’, claims Wetherspoons’ boss amid fears four in five pubs will be forced to close By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 27 November 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 27 November 2020 Wetherspoons’ boss has accused ministers of imposing ‘lockdown by stealth’ amid warnings the tier system … Read more

Countdown to Lockdown: Brits stock up at Primark, Aldi and Wetherspoons

Britons today are stocking up clothes and homeware, getting ready for their last night out and squeezing in a final gym session as the UK nosedives into a second lockdown.  Today will be the ‘last hurrah’ for millions of Brits who, from midnight, will find their freedoms curtailed as they are told to remain indoors … Read more

Boris’s lockdown batters the stock market with shares in BA and Wetherspoons among those nose-diving

Boris Johnson’s new lockdown plan sent shares in retail and leisure firms plummeting today as the stock market reacted to his hastily released plans.  British Airways owner IAG, Wetherspoons, Cineworld, JD Sports, EasyJet and pub and restaurant owner Mitchells and Butlers all saw heavy falls in their share price this morning. Airlines, pubs and non-essential retail … Read more

Wetherspoon’s sale: Real ale 99p a pint to clear pre-lockdown stock

Last orders! Wetherspoon’s launches four-day sale with pints of real ale at just 99p in bid to clear stock before winter lockdown kicks in Prices were cut before pubs across the UK close at 10pm on Wednesday night Pints of real ale were reduced to shed stock because they won’t last a month  Cider and … Read more

Wetherspoon’s launches four-day sale with pints of real ale at just 99p in bid to clear stock

Last orders! Wetherspoon’s launches four-day sale with pints of real ale at just 99p in bid to clear stock before winter lockdown kicks in Prices were cut before pubs across the UK close at 10pm on Wednesday night Pints of real ale were reduced to shed stock because they won’t last a month  Cider and … Read more

South Shields football team hits back at Wetherspoons for reporting them for breaking Covid rules

‘Why didn’t they tell us to leave or refuse entry?’: Amateur football team hits back at Wetherspoons staff for reporting them to police for breaking Tier 2 Covid rules after ‘taking their money and letting them drink outside’ Josh Robertson said he was among the team at The Wouldhave in South Shields They were mid-pint … Read more