All Star Pubs & Bars articles
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News
Star Pubs & Bars to add 100 operator managed pubs
The Heineken-owned pub company has plans to increase its Just Add Talent (JAT) business to 250 and says the model is particulary attractive in a high inflation environment
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Blind Tiger Inns reaches 20
Blind Tiger Inns has trebled its turnover whilst doubling the size of its estate since 2017, MD Chris Tulloch tells MCA.
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Interviews
Star Pubs & Bars: ‘The great British consumer still loves pubs’
MD Lawson Mountstevens told MCA’s Pub Conference said despite cost challenges, he feels much more optimistic than eight months ago, as consumer demand is coming through strongly on the top line
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Interviews
Punch: Operator managed model makes us better at running pubs
The model is also providing a solution for “very talented” individuals who want to build a career in the sector, Punch CEO Clive Chesser told MCA’s Pub Conference
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Interviews
Star Pubs & Bars: ‘We are focused on premiumising the local pub experience’
The pub company is focused on enhancing the experience at its pubs in order to drive spend and appeal to a broader base of customers, Star Pubs’ property director Chris Moore told MCA.
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Heineken to invest £40m in pub upgrades
Around 570 sites in the Star Pubs & Bars estate are due to benefit from investment, with a key focus on its neightbourhood locals as more pubgoers are choosing to visit a pub that is closer to home
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Star Pubs & Bars aims for net zero by 2040
Star Pubs & Bars aims to decarbonise its estate of 2,400 pubs by 2040, aligned with Heineken’s ‘Brew a Better World’ net zero ambitions
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Operators take individual approaches in paying tribute to HM the Queen
Operators across the sector have taken markedly different approaches to paying tribute to the Queen on the day of her funeral
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Star Pubs appoints central ops director
Caren Geering has replaced Neil Convery as the central operations director for Star Pubs & Bars
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Star Pubs & Bars announces energy deal to aid licensees
The scheme will bulk buy energy for licensees when the market is at its lowest, helping them navigating rising energy costs
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Interviews
Star Pubs: ‘New ways of working are creating opportunities for pubs’
The hybrid working model is creating opportunities for great pubs in the suburbs – but that doesn’t mean city centres are dead, Star Pubs MD Lawson Mountstevens tells MCA
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News
Star Pubs to invest £42m in pub upgrades
The Heineken-owned pub company is to update more than a quarter of its estate in 2022, with 660 pubs to benefit from its annual capex investment programme
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News
Star to build operator managed estate in Scotland
The pubco will use insights from its growing Just Add Talent (JAT) estate in Scotland to help build its leased & tenanted estate
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Interviews
Star Pubs MD optimistic on consumer confidence
Confidence is growing week by week as the pub sector emerges from the pandemic, according to Lawson Mountstevens
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News
Star Pubs pledges further support for Scottish and Welsh pubs
Star Pubs & Bars is to offer a 30% rent reduction to all of its pubs on core leased and tenanted agreements in Scotland and Wales
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Analysis & Insight
Signalling interest - could a sale of Punch be on the cards?
Could a sale of Punch be on the cards? With Fortress Investment Group reported to be in the running, MCA takes a look at what the deal could mean for Punch and the wider pub market
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News
Star MD: L&T sector in ‘watershed moment’
The leased & tenanted pub sector has been a through “watershed moment” during the pandemic, showing the strength of the partnership model, Lawson Mountstevens, MD of Star Pubs & Bars has said.
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Heineken to invest £38m in Star Pubs estate
Heineken has announced it will be investing £38m in its Star Pubs & Bar estate in a new programme to benefit 700 venues in England and Wales by the end of this year.
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Beer & Coffee plots ten Pug Pubs
Regional pub operator Beer & Coffee plots ten Pug pubs Co is opening its fourth leased pub with Star Pubs & Bars under its pug brand, with plans to grow the collection to ten overall.
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Star Pubs offers further rent concessions worth £19m
Star Pubs & Bars is to extend its 90% rent reduction for pubs and core leased and tenanted agreements in England, until 16 May.