Heineken and the East London Pub Co have completed a £2.2m investment in the Gun in Spitalfields, London – the brewer’s largest ever investment in a single pub from its Star Pubs & Bars estate.
Staff and regulars at a pub have learned a form of sign language so they can communicate with one of their loyal customers – a five-year-old with Down’s syndrome.
NewRiver has confirmed to The Morning Advertiser's sister title MCA that it has acquired 76 sites from Star Pubs & Bars, taking its Hawthorn Leisure pub arm to over 700.
Work has begun on a £270,000 refurbishment of The Crown at Alrewas in Staffordshire after Inglenook Inns & Taverns signed a substantive lease with Star Pubs & Bars.
Star Pubs & Bars has partnered with Shield Safety health and safety support to offer a bespoke food, fire and health & safety system for leased and tenanted licensees.
North-west pub company Imagine Inns has begun work on the redevelopment of the Railway at Bromley Cross, Greater Manchester, in partnership with Star Pubs & Bars.
Austin Whelan, the man behind the Irish pub chain Whelan’s, is to open a fourth Whelan’s pub in Croydon at the end of August – his sixth site in partnership with Star Pubs & Bars.
Heineken is poised to make its largest ever investment in Star Pubs & Bars, with £44m to be spent during 2018 – more than double last year's expenditure.
A Lancashire pub has struggled with a new 96-hour ordering and delivery regime after the site moved from Punch to Star Pubs & Bars as part of the deal to acquire almost 1,900 pubs.
Completing the biggest pub acquisition deal in recent years is no mean feat, especially when it almost triples the size of your estate. Lawson Mountstevens, managing director of Star Pubs & Bars, explains what went on behind the scenes of this major...
Heineken’s pubco business Star Pubs & Bars has invested “massively” in the systems and processes of its Just Add Talent (JAT) retail turnkey scheme to attract and support new people and talent into the pub sector.
Star Pubs & Bars is adding an expanded support package for its Just Add Talent operators, a year after launching its turnover and profit share agreement.
The former Prince of Wales in Kilburn, London, has reopened as the Kilburn Arms following a £750,000 joint refurbishment by Star Pubs & Bars and multiple operator Beronmoor.
Star Pubs & Bars' welcome pack has assured 1,900 licensees on a number of key issues, including rent and product prices, ahead of taking full operational responsibility following the acquisition of Punch A pubs on 5 March.
BKJ Leisure will conduct a £1m revamp of its first leased pub, the Hurt Arms, Ambergate, Derbyshire, in partnership with Star Pubs & Bars with a view to creating a top-quality country inn and wedding venue.
A new system capping the redundancy settlements to which Heineken UK (HUK) employees are entitled to has been slammed by the company’s staff, The Morning Advertiser (MA) can reveal.
Manchester’s Imperial War Museum played host to this year’s Star Pubs & Bars Awards, which recognise the outstanding work of the pub company’s licensees.
A survey of Star Pubs & Bars licensees has revealed they are optimistic about the year ahead in spite of the uncertainty surrounding Brexit and the UK economy.
Staff at a Star Pubs & Bars site in Greater Manchester were forced to call the police when a fight broke out between 40 people who “refused to leave the pub”.
Following the news that Punch chief executive Duncan Garrood has decided to leave the business, after Patron completed its deal to buy the group's pubs, The Morning Advertiser gets the inside track on why he isn’t staying for the transition period...
Heineken has said it will 'fully integrate' the 1,900 Punch pubs into its existing Star Pubs & Bars estate after completing the acquisition, as part of a back-to-back deal with Patron Capital, yesterday (29 August).
Pub-industry bodies have slammed a report from the pubs code adjudicator containing evidence that pub-owning businesses (POBs) are blocking tied tenants’ access to the market rent only option (MRO) and going against the spirit of the pubs code.
Pub-owning businesses (POBs) are blocking tied tenants’ access to the market rent only option (MRO) and going against the spirit of the pubs code, according to a report commissioned by the pubs code adjudicator’s office.
Retail standards of Star Pubs & Bars outlets have risen 10% in the past three years, with the gap between the highest and lowest scoring pubs smaller than ever, an independent audit has revealed.
The hot summer weather may be but a distant memory, but for many pubs the arrival of summer is hailed as the perfect opportunity to increase trade and footfall by hosting a beer festival.
Heineken is investing £4.6 million into a selection of its Star Pubs & Bars sites in the north-west, including £1.2m in the Liverpool area, as part of a £20m investment programme.
