All Pubs articles – Page 48
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NewsStar Pubs & Bars launches free-from menu
Star Pubs & Bars has launched a free-from menu for its licensees to cater for increasing consumer demand for these options.
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NewsEi Group introduces supplier open morning
Ei Group is to introduce a new open morning allowing suppliers to showcase their products and services to the business.
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NewsRed Mist launches apprenticeship schemes
Red Mist Leisure, the Surrey and Hampshire-based pub group, has announced a partnership with Farnborough College of Technology to develop two new apprenticeship schemes.
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NewsInn Collection sold to Alchemy
Kings Park Capital has sold The Inn Collection Group to a NewCo backed by Alchemy Partners in a deal thought to value the company at c£20m.
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NewsStar Pub sites to form start of new pub group
Jamie and Matt Hanson have taken two additional sites with Star Pubs & Bars, as part of their ambition to create a small pub company in Yorkshire.
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NewsMentor Inns to sell nine pubs
Mentor Inns has brought nine sites across the south and south east to the market.
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NewsSt Austell secures new £15m bank facility
St Austell Brewery has secured a new £15m Revolving Credit Facility (RCF) from HSBC to help further grow its pub estate
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OpinionFuller’s: ‘To become famous for food, we have a formula’
The brewer and pub operator’s director of food, Paul Dickinson, talks to MCA’s sister title Food Spark about his long-term plans for the pub group’s food offering, how he hopes to improve working conditions for chefs and the acquisition of Bel and the Dragon
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NewsParr takes on fifth Star pub
East Midlands multiple operator Johnny Parr has taken on a fifth Star Pubs & Bars site.
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NewsGreene King appoints PwC on Loch Fyne
Greene King has appointed advisors at PwC to oversee the sale of bulk of its Loch Fyne restaurant business
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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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OpinionThe renaissance of the wet-led pub
Wet-led venues are emerging from the shadows of casual dining and gastropubs with buoyant sales and less exposure to headwinds. Investors are clearly taking note, with wet-led businesses at the centre of much of the sector’s M&A activity over the past year. Sapient Corporate Finance founder, Peter Hansen, explains why he sees this segment going from strength to strength.
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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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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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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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NewsEgo expands pub estate
3Sixty Restaurants, the James Horler-led group, has secured a further sites for its growing pub arm