After his appearance on Desert Island Discs Tim Martin, the chairman of JD Wetherspoon, may be Britain’s most famous publican. Ask anyone in the pub industry to name the person they regard as the best chief executive of the past decade or so, however, and the chances are that a good few might go for Greene King’s Rooney Anand. In the dozen years since he took over at the Suffolk-based company, Mr Anand has transformed what was a vertically integrated regional brewer into a high-quality national pub retailer with a strong beer business. Today it is a FTSE-250 company with 3,000 pubs, hotels and restaurants across the UK. Only four months after Mr Anand was promoted to the top job in 2005, he led a…

Source: The Times December 23, 2017 00:02 UTC