
Potential buyer for TRC may have been put off, says insolvency expert
After reading over The Revel Collective’s financial figures, any potential purchaser of the business may have been put off buying it, according to an insolvency expert.
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After reading over The Revel Collective’s financial figures, any potential purchaser of the business may have been put off buying it, according to an insolvency expert.

The Revel Collective has confirmed it will file a notice of intention to appoint administrators to the company and certain of its subsidiaries.

The number of bars opening grew by 1.0% in the last quarter of 2025 while the casual dining and restaurant sector suffered 19 closures per week.

Many of your customers might still be trying to a stick to their health kick as we enter late January but it would be useful to all pubs and bars to know which drinks will be popular in 2026.

THE LOW & NO PROJECT
Low & no alcohol wines are a category being missed by pubs – mainly through a lack of visibility for the category.

Hospitality sites in Aberdeen are celebrating after the city’s licensing board granted a blanket 3am extension for the entirety of the football World Cup this summer.
RedCat Hospitality has reported “exceptional results” for the festive period for its estate of The Coaching Inn Group sites.

Lucky Saint managing director Emma Heal has stated pubs are “overtaxed” and, along with other industry leaders, is lobbying the Government for a 20p tax discount in the business rates multiplier for pubs.

Manchester-based brewer and pub operator JW Lees has hailed its record performance during the festive period.

Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has celebrated festive trade at its sites after seeing like-for-like (lfl) sales growth of 7.7% during the core three-week period.