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22 Monday 26/10/09 thePublican
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The UK Jukebox
Play Chart
October 19, 2009
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1. David Guetta feat. Akon
Sexy Chick
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2. Black Eyed Peas
Why just Jus-Rol? Don’t be gloomy about trade unity –
I Gotta Feeling
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there will be issues to unite around
3. Kings of Leon
Sex on Fire
Dear Editor,
4. Chipmunk
As an avid reader of your great mag I Dear Editor, the Trade and Industry Select
Oopsy Daisy
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was really excited when I read in your I do not disagree with the editor’s Committee which, in 2004, stated
October 12 issue about British Pie dictionary reference for mediation as that it remained unconvinced that
5. Pitbull
Hotel Room Service ➠
Week. “a discussion intended to produce an the benefits of the AWP machine tie
My company is better known as agreement” (The Publican, October outweighed the income tenants lost,
6. Alexandra Burke feat.
“Mad O’Rourkes Pie Factory” and we 19). It was for that reason that the and they recommended that the
Flo Rida ➠
have three freehold pubs in the Black Guild of Master Victuallers decided AWP tie be removed.
Bad Boys
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Country. We make about 10 different to play its part in the mediation The BEC stated that that conclu- 7. Dizzee Rascal
pies and we sell over 1,000 pies a process. sion remained valid today. Holiday
week. We manufacture all our own The Guild took three propositions The Guild stated that licensees
8. Taio Cruz
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pastry and we butcher a lot of our to the process. They were: had no choice in the selection of
Break Your Heart
meat – if you make everything in- • that the tied system was unfair and building insurance providers but ➠
house your end product is better. had no place in the current chal- were restricted to the company’s
9. Beyoncé
But as you might guess this rules lenging environment and should be nominated insurers.
Sweet Dreams
me out of the competition as I do not abolished With the appropriate safeguards to 6. Tinchy Stryder
use Jus-Rol products. I have no prob- • that the amusements with prizes ensure that the building was ade-
You’re Not Alone ➠
lem with Jus-Rol, I just think my (AWP) machine tie could not be quately covered we saw no reason
pastry is better than theirs. Therefore justified and should go why licensees should not seek their
I question your wisdom in using the • that licensees should be allowed own quotation.
term ‘British Pie Week’ as in this case to arrange their own building With regard to trade unity, I am
it’s not! It’s not open to everyone, only insurance. not as gloomy as the editor.
to those using said company. During the process it became clear There will be numerous opportu-
We have won many prizes for our that the abolition of the tie was not nities for the whole of the trade to
This chart is compiled using data from over
pies, this year we won Restaurant/Pub going to be achieved, so the Guild unite. Important issues like Axe the
9,000 pubs in the UK with Sound Leisure digital
of year with Beacon Radio. moderated its position by agreeing to Tax, which the Guild fully support- jukeboxes.
I’m aware that you need sponsors a reform of the tie. ed, and at Budget time. Of course it
The average digital jukebox in the UK takes over
etc. but surely it’s not fair if part of This was in line with the view of becomes more difficult for unanimi-
£90 per week.
the competition is tied to a specific the Business and Enterprise ty when the issues involve the rela-
supplier. As an example, for Best Beer Committee (BEC), which believed tionship between the pubcos and
To find out what the digital jukeboxes in your
of the Year, can you imagine the that each and every existing lessee licensees when discussing terms and
area make contact Soundnet on
uproar if the condition was you can should in a phased programme be conditions.
020 7644 8888 /
sales@soundnet.net
www.soundnet.net/chart
choose any beer as long as Greene offered a choice of being free or
King brews it? being tied. John Madden, CBII
With regard to the AWP tie, the Executive officer
Peter Towler
thepublican.com Poll
Guild’s position reflected the view of The Guild of Master Victuallers
Do you support the Independent
Pub Confederation?
Feed
“In balance, I have to say that the supermarkets are NOT destroying
pubs; it’s their customers who are choosing to stay away from pubs. In
No
20%
the same way that the supermarkets didn’t destroy the local grocer, it
back
was the customers who chose to use the supermarket instead of the
local grocer – nobody forced them. I’m not a lover of the supermarkets
by any means (I don’t use them myself, as I’m one of the few people
who does still support local shops) but I do find it highly hypocritical of
people to slag them off and then go and do their weekly shopping in a
supermarket, simply because they can’t be arsed to visit a few different
shops on the high street, or pay a little extra for local produce. I bet that
Yes
even a lot of the licensees who slag off Tesco are there every week
loading up their cars with the latest wine offer to sell in their pubs... I
80%
also have to agree with them when they say there are a lot of societal
reasons why people are visiting pubs less, and I suspect that price is one
Have your say at of the least important reasons (and yes, the ban is one of them, but not
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Steve Wilson
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