Living Ventures

Skills shortage

Living Ventures launches chef academy to fight shortage

13-Oct-2016 By Nikkie Sutton

North-west-based Living Ventures has teamed up with The City of Liverpool College to launch its Chef Academy in a bid to help tackle the chefs shortage.

Future Trends: Spirits

'Proper' training could lift spirits sales by more than £7,300

12-Oct-2016 By Nicholas Robinson

Giving staff diverse training to sell spirits could increase bar profits by £7,346, reveals research by a major international training organisation.

City news

New World Trading Co acquired by private equity firm

09-Jun-2016 By MCA

Graphite Capital, the private equity backer of Hawksmoor and Corbin & King, has acquired the fast-growing pub and restaurant business New World Trading Company (NWTC), in a £50m deal, MCA understands.

Living Ventures' Tim Bacon passes away

03-May-2016 By MCA

Manchester hospitality legend passes away following a long battle with cancer.

The Big Interview: Tim Bacon

13-Jan-2012 By Phil Mellows

After 25 years running bars and restaurants Tim Bacon, the founder and managing director of Living Ventures, has suddenly discovered pubs. And, as Phil Mellows discovers, there’s none so zealous as the converted.

Bacon plans two more Manchester bar-restaurants

20-Aug-2010 By The PMA Team

Tim Bacon, the entrepreneur behind Living Ventures, is lining up two more bar-restaurant openings in Manchester — the Alchemist and a concept with...

Minister checks out new pub apprenticeship

28-Apr-2009

The new apprenticeship for people looking to develop the skills to run a pub or bar has been commended by Andy Burnham MP, Secretary of State for...

Restaurant Group takes stake in Living Ventures

31-Mar-2005

The Restaurant Group has tied up its deal with Living Ventures, initially acquiring a 40 per cent stake in the upmarket bar business.In a complex...