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Pub operator sharpens focus after tough year

By Pan Kwan Yuk

Published: November 30 2008 19:53 | Last updated: November 30 2008 19:53

To say that 2008 has been a trying year for Tim Clarke, chief executive of Mitchells & Butlers, would be an understatement.

At the start of the year, few in the City could have imagined the 50-year-old would today still be at the helm of Britain’s largest managed pub operator.

Tim Clarke: ‘This company has made some of its biggest market share gains in previous recessions’

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