Pubs, Bars & Clubs News – Page 111
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NewsEiG launches food strategy immersion scheme
Ei Group has partnered with University College Birmingham (UCB) for an inaugural food strategy immersion day for regional managers and divisional directors.
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NewsM&B launches sustainable wine collection
Mitchells & Butlers has launched a sustainable range across its All Bar One estate.
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NewsStraight outta Cornwall
For a number of years, Hubbox, the US street food-inspired concept, was one of the West Country’s best-kept secrets but securing new investment and a high-profile chairman over the past 18 months means the business will need to win over new fans. Mark Wingett talks to founder Richard Boon
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NewsQuigley swap Cubitt House for Faucet Inn
Adam Quigley, the former managing director of Cubitt House, has joined Faucet Inn to head up operations for its KuPP casual dining brand and some of its more food-led pubs.
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NewsHeineken to invest record £44m on Star Pubs & Bars
Heineken UK is to make its largest annual investment in Star Pubs & Bars this year, putting in £44m – more than double the £20m it invested in 2017.
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NewsAnalysts corner: Shore Capital on Marston’s
Analysts at Shore Capital have suggested that Marston’s faces its own “Gordian knot of balancing debt, dividend and capital investment” and that the best solution may be an all-share merger with a comparable drinks business, such as C&C Group.
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NewsHall & Woodhouse submits plans for new-build
Hall & Woodhouse has applied to operate a new-build pub as part of a new development in Basingstoke.
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NewsKnife & Fork secures fifth site
Welsh gastropub operator, the Knife & Fork Food Company, has secured its fifth venue.
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NewsSteamin’ Billy secures £1.5m funding from HSBC
Leicestershire-based pub company Steamin’ Billy has secured a £1.5m funding package from HSBC, to support its growth plans.
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NewsLondon Shuffle finds permanent site in Shoreditch
Shuffleboard concept London Shuffle is to move to a permanent home in Shoreditch next month, following three years of pop-up appearances.
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NewsWoodward departs Bermondsey to set up pubco
Richard Woodward has stepped down from his role as operations director at Ei Group’s Bermondsey Pub Company managed arm, to set up his own pub company.
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NewsJW Lees FY lfls up 0.7%
JW Lees saw like-for-like sales grow 0.7% in the year to the end of March, with a rise of 4.1% in the current financial year so far, managing director William Lees-Jones has told MCA.
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NewsRevolution lfs slide 1.7% in H2
Revolution Bars Group has reported like-for-like sales down 1.7% in the second half of its financial year to 9 June, amid “challenging and volatile trading conditions”.
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NewsEgo expands pub estate
3Sixty Restaurants, the James Horler-led group, has secured a further sites for its growing pub arm
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NewsFlying Kiwi Inns down to one site
Flying Kiwi Inns has sold the Ship Hotel in Brancaster, North Norfolk, to the Chaplin Group, taking it down a solo site business.
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NewsPub People appoints retail director
East Midlands-based, The Pub People Company, has appointed former Ei Group divisional director, David McKie, as its new retail director.
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NewsJDW to scrap champagne in run-up to Brexit
JD Wetherspoon is to offer more drinks from UK and non-EU producers and from next month.
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NewsThwaites FY lfls up 2.5%
Thwaites, the Lancashire-based brewer and pub operator, saw like-for-like sales grow 2.5% in the year to 31 March.
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NewsBreathing new life into historic pubs
Ducalian Capital-backed Harcourt Inns is out to revitalise some of the capital’s most noteworthy freehold pubs into multifaceted businesses, offering drinking, dining rooms, private event spaces and accommodation. Jo Bruce met the founders to discuss the group’s rapid growth and further ambitions.
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NewsBlackfinch-backed pubco secures Spectator building
A newly formed pub company, backed by wealth manager, Blackfinch Investments, has taken on the former Spectator magazine headquarters in the City.