Analyst Visit

RNS Number : 1466O

Marston's PLC

24 June 2010

 



                        24^th June 2010

MARSTON'S PLC

Analyst Visit

Marston's PLC, a leading independent brewer and pub operator, announces that it is today hosting an analyst visit to four tenanted pubs located in Stoke on Trent operating under Marston's new Retail Agreement.

The visit will include presentations by senior management setting out how the Retail Agreement allows for significantly greater control over the retail offer than traditional tenanted agreements and leads to improved pub standards for customers together with increased investment in amenities.

Following successful trials, over the next three years Marston's expects to increase the number of pubs being operated under the Retail Agreement to around six hundred pubs from its estate of 1,680 tenanted and leased pubs. There are currently 78 pubs operating under the Retail Agreement. As previously announced, an average of £50k per pub will be invested with a targeted profit improvement from the 600 pubs of £6 million per year. 

During the visit no new material information will be made available.   

A copy of the presentation from the site visit will be made available on the Company's website, www.marstons.co.uk.

ENQUIRIES:

Marston's PLC	Hudson Sandler
Andrew Andrea, Finance Director	Andrew Hayes
Tel: [phone]	Tel: [phone]

NOTES TO EDITORS

NOTES TO EDITORS

○	Marston's is a leading independent brewer and pub operator.
○	It has an estate of 2,167 pubs situated nationally. The estate comprises 1,676 tenanted or leased pubs, and 491 managed pubs.
○	It is the UK's leading brewer of premium cask and premium bottled ales, including Marston's Pedigree and Hobgoblin. The beer portfolio also includes Banks's, Jennings, Wychwood, Ringwood, Brakspear and Mansfield beers.
○	Marston's employs over 12,000 people throughout England and Wales.

 

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