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The Restaurant Group (TRG), owner of the Brunning & Price pub chain, Frankie and Benny’s and Chiquito brands, has completed a refinancing exercise that has given the business a new five-year, £140m bank facility.
Stonegate, the TDR Capital-backed managed pub operator, is understood to be running a slide rule over Barracuda Pub Company, the c.200-strong pub group, prior to a possible bid for the business, the PMA has learnt.
Trade leaders have urged the Government to use VAT as the lever to level the playing field with the cheap supermarket deals and combat binge drinking rather than follow Scotland’s lead on minimum pricing.
This magazine has been charting the rise of the multi-site operators for a while now, through our MA250 programme, adding around 50 companies a year to the membership.
Greene King, the brewer and pub operator led by Rooney Anand, has launched its new franchise model called Meet & Eat after receiving British Franchise Association accreditation.
The sport and leisure industry can create a further 100,000 jobs by 2014 with Government support, claims the Business In Sport & Leisure chief executive Dominic Harrison.
The business development manager (BDM) is the linchpin role for the tenanted and leased-pub business. So it is puzzling that as an industry we don’t spend more time focusing on it — and talking about it — given the extent of its impact on the businesses...
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Soft drink J2O is to under-go a major relaunch and healthier reformulation next spring, the Publican’s Morning Advertiser can exclusively reveal.