All Star Pubs & Bars articles
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News
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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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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News
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.
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News
‘As good as could be expected’ - operators react to the Budget
In what is now a well-worn routine, Boris Johnson was last week the bearer of bad news, announcing a much slower than preferred roadmap reopening, with hospitality apparently at the end of the queue.
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News
Star to appeal £2m PCA fine
Star Pubs & Bars will appeal the fine imposed by pubs code adjudicator (PCA) Fiona Dickie for what she described as “seriously and repeatedly” breaching the code over nearly a three-year period.
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News
Star Pubs fined £2m over repeated pub code breaches
Pubs Code Adjudicator Fiona Dickie has fined Star Pubs and Bars £2m for “repeated offences” in breaching the code.
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News
Heineken toasts best sales for a decade
Heineken has reported volume sales were up 8.3% last year, its best performance in over ten years. It added net revenue was up 5.6%, with net profits up 4.3%. Chairman and CEO Jean-François van Boxmeer, who announced he would be leaving Heineken on 1 June yesterday, said in 2019 the business had delivered “another year of superior top-line growth, with continued strong performance in the second half.
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News
Mitchells takes Star Pubs & Bars site
Mitchells Pub Management, a subsidiary of pub and hotel operator Mitchells of Lancaster, has taken its third leasehold pub with Star Pubs Bars, the Heineken-owned lease operator formerly known as Scottish Newcastle Pub Company. The Church House in Sheffield opened this week following a £220,000 investment ...