0 a company that owns a chain (= group) of pubs in the UK:
A "beer tie" obliges landlords to pay high prices to the pubco for their supplies in return for cheap rents.
That means they have to buy their drinks from the pubco suppliers, too, at a huge premium to market prices.
I looked into about 100 pubs over a year, tied and untied pubs, and a pubco pub just seemed too financially risky.
NIEUWE WOORDEN
European
May 10, 2021
WOORD VAN DE DAG
Shimmer
pubco