All Pubs articles – Page 9
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NewsWetherspoon keeps up like-for-like growth
The pub group reported 8.8% like-for-like sales growth over the festive season, as it prepares to launch its first site in mainland Spain next month
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NewsCoaching Inn sales up 11.7% over Christmas
The update comes after parent company RedCat Hospitality announced plans to divest of its managed pubs business in order to focus on pubs-with-rooms
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NewsInda Pubs reports significant uplift in turnover
The West London pub company, chaired by City Pub Group founder Clive Watson, saw turnover reach £14.45m in 2025, with a 39% uplift seen in the last six weeks of the year
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NewsAlmost 9,000 hospitality jobs lost since November budget
Labour market data shows the sector employed 8,784 fewer people in December 2025, compared to the month before, despite the festive season traditionally being a time that businesses staff up
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InterviewsAmber Taverns: 'Big difference in North vs South pricing'
CEO Mark Brooke speaks to MCA about building the group’s presence in the Southeast, offering a competitive proposition, and achieving 9% like-for-like sales growth
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NewsChris Guy steps down as CFO of Heartwood Collection
Guy remains with the business in an advisory capacity, with finance director Henry Olney taking on the role of interim CFO
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NewsStrong Christmas for Amber Taverns
The pub group delivered like-for-like sales growth of 9% over the festive period as it looks to add 20 sites per year to its growing estate
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NewsJohn Ayton MBE: ‘Pubs are not just businesses’
Ayton, who chairs coffee chain Grind and owns The Horse & Groom near Chichester, has called on the government to understand the impact of cumulative policy decisions on pubs
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NewsHeartwood Collection reports ‘sustained momentum’ across estate
The Alchemy-backed operator of Heartwood Inns and Brasserie Blanc has said it is on track to achieve £100m in turnover, with record trading over the festive period
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NewsStonegate announces new charity partnership
The group is aiming to ‘bring suicide prevention into the heart of Britain’s pubs, bars and venues’ thorough a partnership with the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM)
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NewsRooney Anand: ‘We need to support and use pubs’
The RedCat Hospitality chairman encouraged consumers to make their local a choice of venue for more than just a pint - and cautioned against the dwindling numbers of UK pubs
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Analysis & InsightDrinks sales up 10.7% on New Year’s Eve week
Trading flattened in early January, as consumers returned to work, tightened their spending, and particpated in Dry January, according to NIQ’s Daily Drinks Tracker
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OpinionRichard Bailey: Labour tax policies ‘vandalising communities’
Pubs are ‘under siege’, with government tax increases ‘decimating’ the country’s cultural heritage, according to the Thwaites and Independent Family Brewers of Britain chairman
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Weekend Press‘We saved our local pub, now we can’t find anyone to run it’
The search for a landlord at The Fishers Arms in Horncliffe, Northumberland, comes as publicans grapple with a sharp increase in costs, The Telegraph reports
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Opinion‘If a pub disappears it’s a tragedy. A chain restaurant doesn’t have the same cache’
Despite pressure to widen relief to the whole sector, the Chancellor has repeatedly emphasised pubs as the category most in need of support
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NewsRedCat Hospitality to exit managed pub business
The Rooney Anand founded business will bring together its pubs-with-rooms sites into one division led by the Coaching Inn Group, creating a 43-strong portfolio of premium inns across the UK
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NewsJW Lees Christmas sales up 14%
The Greater Manchester-based family brewer and pub operator said there was relief after the Budget was ’not as grim for consumers as had had been trailed in the media’
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NewsPressure piled on Chancellor for meaningful rates relief
Business leaders have urged the Treasury to capitalise on a drop in the cost of borrowing to extend business rates relief for the hospitality sector
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NewsGovernment considers banning zero-alcohol drinks for under-18s
Labour ministers have said they will consider making it illegal to sell no-alcohol products, such as 0% beers, to 16 and 17-year-olds
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NewsFuller’s toasts ‘outstanding’ Christmas and New Year season
The pub company says it has maintained growth momentum in the year to date, bolstered by a like for like sales rise of 8.2% over the festive period