All Pubs articles – Page 56
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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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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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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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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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NewsKnife & Fork secures fifth site
Welsh gastropub operator, the Knife & Fork Food Company, has secured its fifth venue.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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NewsDan Doherty acquires Golden Age pub
Dan Doherty, former executive chef at Duck and Waffle, has acquired Marylebone pub, the Royal Oak, from Golden Age Pubs.
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NewsMcMullen continues phase out of Baroosh concept
McMullen is to continue phasing out its Baroosh cocktail bar concept, with the doors to close on its Fore Street site in Hertford next week ready for redevelopment.
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OpinionMartin: ‘It only takes one optimist to agree a daft rent’
JD Wetherspoon’s outspoken founder and chairman Tim Martin shares his thoughts on ‘the insane rent review market’, and why it’s not necessary clear who’s to blame
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NewsFuller’s acquires Bel & The Dragon
Fuller’s has acquired the six-strong Bel & The Dragon business in deal valued at £18.5m
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NewsCharles Wells opens sixth PPP
Charles Wells has continued the expansion of its Pizza, Pots & Pints managed pub concept with a sixth opening, in Oxford.
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NewsJDW set for St Pancras International
JD Wetherspoon is to operate new pub The Barrel Vault, which will open at St Pancras International this autumn
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NWTC plans Bath opening
New World Trading Company has submitted plans to bring its The Botanist brand to Bath