All JW Lees articles
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NewsAnother year of record sales for JW Lees
JW Lees has achieved sales of £94.3m in the year to March 2024, up 10% year-on-year, according to managing director William Lees-Jones
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NewsOpenings of the week
MCA rounds up the week’s biggest openings stories, including Roxy Leisure, JW Lees, Bewiched, CUPP and more
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InterviewsJW Lees looks to scale accommodation business
The Manchester-based family brewer and pub operator enjoyed a strong festive season as it focuses on adding rooms while acquiring new sites, MD William Lees-Jones tells MCA
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NewsJW Lees reports record turnover
Company revenue was £88m in the year to March 2023, with the pub operator and brewer back on track for future growth and new acquisitions
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NewsSimon Townsend joins JW Lees as NED
The former Ei Group CEO is also a non-executive director at Adnams and Cote Restaurants
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NewsOpenings of the week
MCA rounds-up the latest openings stories from the past week, featuring Marugame Udon, JW Lees, Incipio Group and more
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InterviewsJW Lees: ‘The cost of electricity is devastating our business’
William Lees-Jones, MD at the North West brewer, speaks to MCA about festive trading and his optimism despite a challenging year ahead
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NewsJW Lees returns to profit
The North West pub company and brewer warned older customers were still proving reluctant to return to traditional wet-led pubs
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Analysis & InsightLife after Covid: legacies of the pandemic
While hand sanitiser, face masks and social distancing are being kicked into touch, there are likely to be some positive legacies from the pandemic, as MCA has been hearing from operators
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NewsJW Lees to open first new-build in 10 years
The Greater Manchester-based family pub operator and brewer is opening three pubs in the coming months
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NewsJW Lees returns to profit after restrictions relaxed
The family brewer and pub operator posted a £4.8m loss for the year, but it has become profitable again since restrictions were eased in the spring
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News‘Pubs are all about walk-ins’
JW Lees has hailed a resurgence of walk-ins as good news for the pub industry.
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NewsPub sector rebuffs calorie labelling proposals
The pub sector has challenged the logic of introducing calorie labelling for on-trade drinks at a time when many operators in the hospitality industry are battling for survival.
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NewsJW Lees family members step down
JW Lees has announced the appointment of a new chairman, Jim Tully, who will take over from Richard Lees-Jones.
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NewsWilliam Lees-Jones: ‘A shortage of talent concerns me’
The prospect that staff currently on furlough may not want to return to the business is a big concern for William Lees-Jones, managing director at brewer and pub operator JW Lees.
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NewsSacha Lord: ‘All we’re saying is let’s be fair’
Sacha Lord and Hugh Osmond’s legal challenge against the government’s reopening roadmap has been backed by other senior industry leaders.
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NewsPub leaders call for roadmap as beer losses hit £7.8b
Pub sector leaders have called for a clear timeline and reopening date as new figures reveal the severe losses incurred last year.
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OpinionWilliam Lees-Jones: government policy is a disgrace
Our breweries and pubs have been an integral part of Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire and the North West’s communities for hundreds of years – we are on the ground - we are not running our pubs in a theoretical intellectual and political bubble 200 miles away in Westminster. The current government policy to single out pubs for closure in Tier 3 with inadequate support is a national disgrace. It is clear, and the statistics show, that transmission of the coronavirus is happening in education, care homes, hospitals and the home. Already we have been trading with severe restrictions since July 31 in Greater Manchester but we feel that the government is now going too far and we stand by the stance that Andy Burnham, Mayor of Manchester, is taking
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NewsAlixPartners MD Graeme Smith: Local lockdowns a ‘big worry’ for sector investors
One of the biggest concerns for investors looking to support the sector is the risk of continued local lockdowns, and the impact they could have on business recovery, AlixPartners MD Graeme Smith has said.
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JW Lees appoints director of people
JW Lees has hired Nik Waring as its first director of people