All Pubs articles – Page 69

  • News

    Fuller’s acquires four sites from We Are Bar

    2018-05-03T08:50:00Z

    Fuller’s has agreed to acquire four sites from London-based wine bar operator We Are Bar group.

  • Laine
    News

    Patron completes acquisition of Laine Pub Co

    2018-05-03T08:47:00Z

    Patron Capital, the backer of Punch, has completed the acquisition of Laine Pub Company, the 54-strong, Gavin George-led group

  • News

    Crate Brewery seeks new funding

    2018-05-03T08:46:05.080Z

    Crate Brewery, the Hackney Wick-based business, has become the latest independent craft brewer to seek new funding to grow

  • News

    Ducalian completes fundraising for Chiswick pub

    2018-05-03T08:46:00.927Z

    Ducalian Capital has secured the £5.75m it was seeking to acquire and refurbish Carvosso’s At 210 in Chiswick High Road

  • Walkabout
    News

    Pub Invest Group takes on Walkabout Liverpool site

    2018-05-03T08:45:39.010Z

    Pub Invest Group, the Liverpool-based pub and club operator, has taken on the former Walkabout in the city to launch under a new brand, MCA understands.

  • News

    Heartstone has firepower for further growth

    2018-05-02T08:28:00Z

    Heartstone Inns, the South of England-based pub operator, has said it has the firepower for further growth following a year in which saw like-for-like sales increase 3%.

  • News

    Buzzworks to open Ayr pub

    2018-05-02T08:25:54.473Z

    Buzzworks Holdings, the Scottish hospitality group, is opening a pub in Ayr next to its restaurant Tree House on Sandgate.

  • News

    JDW pledges zero landfill target by end of 2018

    2018-05-02T08:25:44.393Z

    JD Wetherspoon has teamed up with waste management company Veolia to help the pub group divert 100% of its waste from landfill by 2018.

  • News

    Innis & Gunn appoints new ops director

    2018-05-01T08:53:29.617Z

    Scottish brewer and operator Innis & Gunn has appointed Steve Drew as director of operations, as it looks to push forward with expansion plans in Scotland and the North of England.

  • News

    Arkell's plans first new-build for 15 years

    2018-05-01T08:02:00Z

    Arkell’s, the Wiltshire brewery and pub operator, has announced its first new-build pub site for 15 years after buying land at Tadpole Garden Village in North Swindon from developer Crest Nicholson.

  • Lawson Mountstevens, managing director of Star Pubs & Bars
    Opinion

    Star is re-born

    2018-04-30T07:35:00Z

    Heineken’s acquisition of 1,900 Punch sites has seen its Star Pubs & Bars estate treble in size, with a vastly expanded retail contracts division. MCA editor James Wallin talks to Star managing director, Lawson Mountstevens, about the challenges of such a mammoth integration programme. 

  • Rising Sun, Bath. The first of Punch's Urban Oasis pubs
    News

    Punch launches two new formats

    2018-04-26T08:43:00Z

    Punch, the Patron Capital-backed pubco, is to launch its Urban Oasis high street bar format in Bath with plans for further openings, MCA understands.

  • Clive Watson
    News

    City Pub Group adds two new sites

    2018-04-26T08:37:00Z

    City Pub Group has acquired The Covent Garden pub and taken on its ninth site in Cambridge, MCA understands.

  • News

    BrewDog to open Manchester brewpub

    2018-04-26T08:30:24.923Z

    BrewDog is set to open a second site in Manchester, and its second under its new brewpub model

  • News

    Red Door closes Leeds bar

    2018-04-26T08:30:16.620Z

    Red Door, the Living Ventures spin-off bar group, has closed its Leeds site in order to concentrate on its two remaining bars, MCA has learnt.

  • News

    Adnams warns of weaker H1 trading

    2018-04-24T08:32:15.003Z

    Brewer and pub operator Adnams has warned that it is likely to report trading for the first half of the year down on the same period last year.

  • News

    WBB secures third pub

    2018-04-24T08:27:18.217Z

    West Berkshire Brewery has secured its third pub – the Oxford in Kentish Town, MCA understands.

  • The Florist, New World Trading Company
    News

    NWTC secures Watford site for third Florist

    2018-04-20T08:41:00Z

    New World Trading Company has secured the third site for its Florist concept, with an opening at Intu Watford.

  • Star Pubs & Bars
    News

    Star sees “soft” trading in Q1

    2018-04-20T08:37:00Z

    Star Pubs & Bars has seen a “soft” start to 2018 as poor weather hit sales, but saw trade pick up over Easter, managing director Lawson Mountstevens has told MCA.

  • Lawson Mountstevens, managing director of Star Pubs & Bars
    News

    Heineken mulls brand-led bars

    2018-04-20T08:37:00Z

    Star Pubs & Bars managing director, Lawson Mountstevens, has told MCA that the now 2,900-strong group plans to develop bars centred around some of its key drinks brands.