Pubs, Bars & Clubs News – Page 264
-
News
JDW hits back over ‘inaccurate’ comments on traveller case
JD Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin has hit back at ‘inaccurate’ newspaper coverage of the second case in a month in which the company had to apologise to a group of travellers.
-
News
Knowles to become Yummy Pub Co chairman
Keith Knowles, chief executive of Beds & Bars, is to join Yummy Pub Company as chairman.
-
NewsGK raises £1.6m for cancer charity
Greene King has exceeded its £1m fundraising target and secured a total of £1.6m for Macmillan Cancer Support over the past three years.
-
News
Birmingham duo named Licensees of the Year
Husband and wife team, Keith and Diane Marsden from the Prince of Wales in Birmingham, have been named as the 2015 Licensees of the Year.
-
NewsBrewDog publishes target site list
BrewDog has published its key target locations for this year including further sites in London and Manchester, as well as debut sites in Oxford, Cambridge and Norwich among others.
-
NewsTCG celebrates internal talent
TCG the managed pub operator has highlighted the achievements of six of its best performing general managers including the winner of M&C Report’s Rising Star award Matthew Evans
-
NewsStonegate appoints new ops director
Carl Uttley, who has spent 11 years at JD Wetherspoon, has rival Stonegate Pub Company as an operations director
-
News
Punch executive chairman joins Balfour Beatty board
Punch Taverns has announced that its executive chairman Stephen Billingham has joined the board of construction firm Balfour Beatty, as the pubco prepares for the arrival of its new chief executive.
-
News
McMullen operator agreement offers ‘genuine partnership’
Peter Furness-Smith, managing director of McMullen, has told M&C Report the company’s operator agreements have proved a huge success but has said entrepreneurial licensees will be hardest hit by the death of the tied model.
-
NewsThe Stable secures first London site
The Stable, the pizza and cider concept in which Fuller’s has a majority stake, is set to open its first London site.
-
News
White Brasserie expansion continues
White Brasseries has lined up a further three openings in the South East and completed the sale and leaseback of an existing site
-
News
Analyst corner: Rollo on pub stocks
Leading analyst Jamie Rollo at Morgan Stanley has said that the P/E multiple for pub company stocks remains the furthest away from its 2007 peak
-
News
Indigo secures Seven Stars site
Indigo Pub Company has continued its expansion in the city with the acquisition of the Seven Stars pub from Young’s
-
News
Lacons to open first pub in 50 years
Historic Norfolk brewery Lacons is partnering with pub entrepreneur Henry Watts to open its first new pub in more than 50 years at Honingham, Norfolk
-
NewsPeach Pubs criticises rivals’ poaching bids
Lee Cash, co-founder of Peach Pubs, has told M&C Report that the company’s innovative approach to training has been the key to retaining staff in the face of ever more aggressive approaches from rivals.
-
News
Average pub lease length falls in Q1 2015
The latest RICS pub benchmarking survey has shown the average lease fell to five years in Q1 2015, having stood at an average of seven throughout 2014.
-
NewsUpham secures 13th pub
Upham Pub Company, which saw turnover rise 77% to just over £8m for the year to 4 January 2015, has acquired its 13th pub, M&C Report has learnt.
-
NewsPunch invests in sixth Champs
Punch Taverns is investing £430k in its sixth Champs sport bar and grill to bring the concept to the south for the first time
-
NewsNWTC to launch beer clubs
New World Trading Company is to launch beer clubs at three of its sites, including a purpose built Beer Room at the new Trading House in Glasgow, managing director Chris Hill has told M&C Report.
-
NewsJDW found guilty in second traveller discrimination case
JD Wetherspoon has been forced to apologise, for the second time in a month, to a group of travellers refused entry to its pubs.