Fuller’s pub chain issues profit warning, blaming rail strikes

Sales for Christmas and new year period are up on last year but down on pre-Covid trading

The pub group Fuller, Smith & Turner has issued a profit warning, blaming months of train strikes for a 4m slump in sales including a plunge in festive season trade.

Fuller's, which has more than 400 pubs, mainly in London and south-east England, said that since the start of October industrial action on the rail network had cost the business 4m in sales.