Large pub operator Stonegate Group has won two awards at the British Institute of Innkeeping’s (BII’S) 2022 National Innovation in Training Awards (NITAs).
Stonegate Pub Partners is offering customers a buy one, get one free deal on selected drinks across its estate to support charity until the end of March 2022.
Stonegate Group’s operations director for its late-night division has said venues still have a responsibility to reduce the spread of Covid, as the sector is finally freed of legal restrictions.
Stonegate Group has filed a £845m lawsuit against its insurers: MS Amlin, Liberty Mutual Insurance Europe and Zurich, in the latest sector dispute over business interruption policies.
The Morning Advertiser's Ed Bedington speaks with the award-winning operator of the Lion in Treorchy to reflect on some of the week's biggest headlines.
Tied Ei Publican Partnerships licensees on substantive agreements in England will receive rent credits until 20 June but The Morning Advertiser understands the credits will stop after this date.
The UK’s largest pub company revealed that the enforced closure of its sites has yielded a £746m loss and forced it to tap investors and debt markets for £1.4bn funding.
Ei Publican Partnerships has unveiled free drinks campaign ‘Here’s to the Pub’ offering a complimentary tipple to guests at more than 1,000 pubs throughout October.
Ei Publican Partnerships, the leased and tenanted division of Stonegate Pub Company, has announced further subsidised rental payments of 40% throughout September – taking its overall support spend past £32.5m.
Ei Publican Partnerships has revealed a “support package” for its tenants, which includes rent credit equivalent to 75% for July and 50% for August for all tied publicans on substantive agreements.
Adrian Emmett explains how he’s readying the Lion in Treorchy to come out of the post-pandemic blocks and sheds light on taking Britain’s Best High Street digital during Covid-19 shutdown.
Staff at London’s Kings College Hospital have paid tribute to a south London publican who has been feeding staff up to 60 free meals per day during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Ei Group has deferred the collection of rent and fees from its licensees for the whole of April – a move that will remain under constant review while the coronavirus pandemic goes on, it has said.
Pubco Ei Group has warned its publicans that if their business is affected by Covid-19, their existing insurance policies will not cover them for “loss of trade”.
The Competition Markets Authority (CMA) has passed the proposed acquisition of Ei Group by Stonegate Pub Company, after the pubcos satisfied the watchdog that a set number of pubs would be sold to avoid potential monopolies.
Ei Publican Partnership has offered a helping hand to a publican to bring the Prince of Wales pub back to its former glory in a £260,000 joint investment.
The Bay Horse Inn pub has been restored to its former glory after licensees Mark and Clare Oglesby and Ei Publican Partnerships pumped £380,000 into its refurbishment.
Ei Publican Partnerships is launching the ‘Cheer Up January’ initiative that will donate 100,000 free drinks to drive footfall and drink sales for publicans during the notoriously quiet post-Christmas period.
It’s been a tumultuous year in the pub trade on the acquisition front but the news that Stonegate was bidding for the much larger Ei Group still caught many by surprise. One of the leading architects of the deal Simon Longbottom reveals all.
Stating that it ‘does not necessarily’ agree with advice issued by the pubs code adjudicator (PCA), Ei Group has refunded tenants who experienced rent increases following the serving of an market-rent-only (MRO) notice.
Stonegate’s intention to buy Ei Group for £1.27bn could make the latter business stronger than ever under the leadership of boss Simon Longbottom, one industry spectator has ventured.
