New World Trading Company (NWTC) swept the board at this year’s Publican Awards, winning an unprecedented six awards. But how did the pub company get so far in such a short space of time?
AB InBev has announced the return of an iconic brand partnership by reuniting Boddingstons and TV presenter Melanie Sykes two decades after the first airing of the much-loved adverts.
Ordering a glass of house wine in the local used to result in receiving a drink that tasted more like sulphuric acid than Syrah. Thankfully for customers’ stomach linings, those days are over.
New World Trading Company (NWTC) completed its buyout from Living Ventures in June last year. The business has already grown from 14 sites and revenues of £30m through to 16 sites and sales of £40m.
In the space of five years the Botanist has gone from being the latest spark of invention from the Living Ventures stable to an established brand with national coverage, and some extremely punchy growth plans.
Looking like it’s dropped straight from the east coast of the United States of America, and rising up from the shops, flats and restaurants that make up Liverpool One, the New World Trading Company’s (NWTC) Club House is a venue the company is rightly...
Novus Leisure has 40 sites across the UK, which are largely London-based. These encompass a number of brands including Tiger Tiger as well as a number of individual concept sites.
Pioneering food couple Tim Bird and Mary McLaughlin have used their vast experience in the foodservice sector to build their growing fleet of seven food-led pubs.
Stonegate operates 72 businesses under its late night ‘venues’ division, encompassing brands such as PopWorld, Missoula, Reflex and Flares as well as many unbranded sites, such as the massively popular Salsa in Soho and a huge range of gay clubs and bars.
Tavistock Hospitality operates five Sonnet 43 sites across the north-east, selling extremely well-priced dishes cooked with fresh, locally-sourced produce.
If there is one thing I am sure of, it is that politics should never enter the kitchen. You don’t want chefs engaging in heated debate in the vicinity of six-inch knives.
Winners of this year's Publican Awards have spoken to The Morning Advertiser about how important these awards are to them and their company, featuring a video message from David Beckham.
The Immigration Act 2016 has had a significant impact on operators of licensed premises and is set to make further amendments affecting premises and personal licence holders.
JD Wetherspoon (JDW) chairman Tim Martin will hack 7.5% off all food and drink prices for one day across his 900+ pub estate later this year to demonstrate the effect a VAT cut could have on the hospitality industry.
Scottish brewer and pub operator BrewDog has admitted it is considering the timescale for a potential initial public offering (IPO) and has been in discussion with investors about selling almost a third of the company.
Food safeguards and allergen protection for consumers will be moved up a gear by local authorities, and will be core to delivering a better system of control to ensure a higher level of confidence in UK food.
The Chancellor has backtracked on plans to increase national insurance contributions (NICs) paid by self-employed people, which if implemented would have affected the majority of freehold and tenanted-pub operators.
A group of tied-tenants renewed calls for the pubs code adjudicator (PCA) to step down during a protest right outside the PCA’s head office in Birmingham on Wednesday.
You’ve all seen the pictures – a flaccid steak sits on a stained wooden board, drenched in greyish peppercorn sauce slowly seeping to the edge. It's futility incarnate.
A top gastropub operator has told of his despair upon learning his thriving pub’s business rates charges will increase by 300% over the next two years.
There’s a real sense of drive within the Greene King Pub Partners team, and judges felt there was real evidence of a shift in tone when it came to operator relationships, with the company seeking to work more truly as a partnership with tenants.
Everards is a traditional multi-generational family brewer with a large regional estate of more than 170 pubs, centred mainly in the Midlands, but with an estate stretching to a 70-mile radius around the city of Leicester, where it is based.
This award is the third victory in this category for the excellent Oakman Inns & Restaurants which continues to push industry boundaries with its community engagement ideas and positioning.
North Brewing – a 15-brewer’s barrel (15-bbl) brewing operation in an industrial estate on the fringe of Leeds – has evolved out of the operator, North Bar, which has seven sites across the greater Leeds area. The two directors of the pubco and brewery,...
The Coaching Inn Group operates 13 landmark pubs with rooms in towns across England and Wales, from Conwy, in North Wales, to Richmond, in North Yorkshire, to Hungerford, in Berkshire, employing nearly 500 people.
It has been another fast-paced 12 months for the dynamic New World Trading Company (NWTC), which saw the former Living Ventures-backed group acquired by Graphite Capital, open five new bars and record an excellent year-on-year profit increase of 63%.
The Publican Awards 2017 is over for another year, and what a night it was. There were laughs, shocks, and shots aplenty at Battersea Evolution last night – let’s take a recap…
Stonegate Pub Company, the managed operator with about 700 pubs in its estate, stood out for its continually evolving people-led culture and its ability to operate numerous different and successful concepts across town and city centres.
It’s been a big year for the New World Trading Company (NWTC), which not only broke away from parent company Living Ventures in 2016, but opened five new sites, launching a new concept in the process.
A phenomenal and varied drinks offer that deep-dives into every category, along with increased sales and perfectly manicured sites, gave the New World Trading Company (NWTC) the upper hand in the Best Drinks Offer Award.
Successfully rebranded as the Coaching Inn Group in 2015, this fast-developing and well-funded pub company is acquiring, refurbishing and breathing new life into faded and underperforming historic market-town coaching inns.
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has urged pubs to get involved in a first-of-its-kind live-music census to measure its cultural and economic value.
Well, the dust has settled and the winners revealed at the hospitality industry’s biggest awards event – an award-winning event in its own right, no less.
Almost 30% of pubs in England won’t pay any business rates over the next five years, starting from April 2017 when new property valuations come into force, according to figures from rates experts CVS.
The rights of EU workers to stay in the UK after Brexit remain uncertain after parliament passed the bill that will allow Prime Minister Theresa May to trigger Article 50 to leave the bloc.
Pubs code adjudicator (PCA) Paul Newby has been slammed for the way he described his role in enforcing the pubs code during an interview with BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours programme this week.
Courage will make its return to London brewing for the first time after years away from the capital in collaboration with Southwark Brewing Co to celebrate its 230th anniversary.
