All Pubs articles – Page 268

  • Brasserie Bar Co (Raymond Blanc and Mark Derry)
    News

    Brasserie Bar Co secures £13.5m of new funding

    2014-02-15T19:52:00Z

    Brasserie Bar Co, the owner of the Brasserie Blanc chain and White Brasserie Company, has secured £13.5m of new funding to support the expansion of the group by at least 20 new sites over the next three years

  • Stonegate chairman Ian Payne at Missoula York
    News

    Living Room conversions will have Missoula bias

    2014-02-14T16:22:00Z

    Stonegate’s conversions of its Living Rooms sites will have a “bias” towards Missoula, the group’s new US-inspired concept, chief executive Toby Smith has told M&C Report

  • News

    C&B rolls out new format, targets acquisitions

    2014-02-14T16:19:00Z

    Corney & Barrow Bars, the City-based operator, is to rollout an evolved format featuring a “ramped up” food offer and a greater wine focus, and is also targeting acquisitions, managing director Ed Gardner has told M&C Report

  • News

    FY profit up 8% at Heavitree

    2014-02-14T16:19:00Z

    Heavitree, the Devon-based tenanted pub operator, has reported a small decline in turnover for the year to 31 October 2013, due to a loss in rental income from two houses that were closed and then sold during the year

  • Slug and Lettuce
    News

    Stonegate offers major staff discounts

    2014-02-14T07:34:00Z

    Stonegate, the managed operator, is offering every member of staff 25% off all purchases at the company’s venues under a new employee reward card introduced this month, M&C Report has learnt

  • News

    Stonegate eyes growth for 'phenomenal' Common Room

    2014-02-14T07:34:00Z

    Stonegate, the managed operator, expects to have another dozen sites converted to its evolved student bar concept Common Room after sales grew 60% at the first outlet to operate under the format, chief executive Toby Smith has told M&C Report

  • News

    ​Neapolitan secures second site

    2014-02-14T07:33:00Z

    Raff Mercurio, the ex-operations director of Oakman Inns, has acquired the second pub for his fledgling company Neapolitan Pubs and Bars

  • News

    Pickles Pubs eyes expansion

    2014-02-14T07:33:00Z

    Yorkshire pub group Pickles Pubs is investing over £700,000 in refurbishing three of its existing pubs during 2014, whilst also looking to expand its estate

  • News

    Three Tuns grows pub estate

    2014-02-14T07:33:00Z

    Three Tuns Brewery in Shropshire, reportedly the UK’s oldest brewer, has bought its second pub and is actively seeking further sites as it looks to grow its estate to six

  • News

    Stonegate launches training masterclasses

    2014-02-14T07:32:00Z

    Stonegate Pub Company has launched a series of 14 masterclasses to support its existing programme of ongoing training for new and existing general managers

  • News

    Home Office launches licence fee consultation

    2014-02-14T07:32:00Z

    The Home Office has opened a public consultation on a move from centrally-set to locally-set licence fees

  • News

    C2 looks to consolidate

    2014-02-13T07:44:41.567Z

    C2, the north-west pub operator and brewer, has released two sites as it looks to consolidate its assets, M&C Report has learnt

  • News

    Orange Tree to open 'semi-permanent' pop-up

    2014-02-13T07:44:28.367Z

    Orange Tree Group, the East Midlands-based pub and bar operator, is to open a ‘semi-permanent’ pop-up restaurant at its Obar site in Leicester following a successful trial at the end of last year

  • Jonathan Paveley of Admiral Taverns
    Opinion

    Making Admiral admirable again

    2014-02-13T07:32:00Z

    Admiral Taverns was in far from great shape when Jonathan Paveley stepped in as executive chairman to help lead a turnaround. Here he reveals the steps he took with his team to get business back on track

  • Punch logo
    News

    Bondholders: Alternative restructuring plan for Punch 'well advanced'

    2014-02-12T13:05:00Z

    A group representing senior bondholders of Punch Taverns has urged creditors to support its alternative restructure proposal, which it says is “well advanced amongst creditor groups

  • Grand Union pub
    News

    Grand Union gears up for next stage of growth

    2014-02-12T08:11:00Z

    London-based bar operator Grand Union has unveiled plans to triple the size of its estate and eventually expand outside of the capital, having recently rolled out new food and drink menus across its existing eight sites

  • Heike Funke of Timothy Taylor's
    News

    ​Timothy Taylor’s makes senior ops appointment

    2014-02-12T07:52:00Z

    Timothy Taylor’s, the Yorkshire-based brewer and pub operator, has appointed a former Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers operations manager of the year to the role of pub estate operations manager

  • News

    Punch withdraws debt resolutions for more talks

    2014-02-12T07:06:00Z

    Punch Taverns has withdrawn its proposed debt restructuring proposals that were to be put to its creditors on Friday (14 February) “following feedback from a range of stakeholders”

  • Mitchells & Butlers logo
    News

    M&B: Irish market an attractive one

    2014-02-11T08:12:00Z

    Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has admitted to M&C Report that it thinks the pub market in Ireland is an attractive one, but that it was no closer on making a decision to launch in the country

  • News

    Pub People eyes acquisitions and disposals

    2014-02-11T08:06:00Z

    Pub People Company, the Midlands-based pub operator, is looking to take on the running of five more pubs during 2014 while disposing of around five to eight less profitable sites, M&C Report has learnt