Publican Awards 2021
31-Mar-2021 By The Morning Advertiser
Channel Islands-based Liberation Group and Butcombe Brewing Company picked up the Best Managed Pub Company at this year’s Publican Awards.
03-Dec-2020 By Stuart Stone
Pubs, bars and restaurants in Jersey will close for up to a month from a minute past midnight on Friday 4 December in order to tackle a surge in Covid-19 cases on the island.
29-Jul-2020 By Stuart Stone
Channel Islands-based pub company the Liberation Group has announced the creation of two new senior roles as part of its response to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
12-Jul-2017 By Michelle Perrett
Liberation Group is the latest pub chain to stop offering plastic straws in its pubs to help fight environmental waste.
29-Oct-2013 By John Harrington
The six-strong group of pubs that Liberation Group, the Jersey-based pub and drinks business, acquired back in June are delivering ahead of forecast after a period of bedding in, according to chief executive Mark Crowther.
24-Jul-2013 By Gurjit Degun
Jersey-based pub and drinks business Liberation Group is looking for tenants to move to the Channel Islands and take on a pub.
25-Jun-2012
Caught between the cultures of England and France, the last thing you might expect as a signature dish in a Channel Islands pub is a kind of giant Portuguese kebab that comes swinging to your table hoisted on a yard-high wrought-iron gibbet.
30-Aug-2011 By John Harrington
Liberation Group, the Jersey-based pub and drinks business, is setting its sights on new pub acquisitions on the Channel Islands.
Liberation Brewery: The freedom to grow
11-Oct-2010
The Channel Islands might constitute a relatively small land mass, but to visit 65 of its pubs three or four times each during a four-month period is...
Alderney pubs prepare to go smoke free
26-May-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
One of the last places in the UK where customers could still have a cigarette in pubs is preparing to go smoke free. Unlike the rest of the country,...
Liberation Group hails successful first year
22-Sep-2009 By Hamish Champ
Jersey-based pubco and brewer Liberation Group has reported revenues and pre-tax earnings have grown in the wake of its buyout from retail operation...
Island mentality
04-Dec-2008
Just off the coast of Northern France lie the Channel Islands: Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and a few others whose tiny populations apparently...
09-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney
LGV Capital has successfully completed its acquisition of 65 Channel Island pubs and two drinks distribution firms from Sandpiper CI after the deal...
LGV Capital re-enters pub industry with CI Traders' hospitality
05-Jun-2008
LGV Capital, the private equity arm of Legal & General, has stepped back into the pub industry with the acquisition of CI Traders' hospitality...
30-May-2008 By Ewan Turney
LGV Capital has agreed a deal to buy the hospitality division of Sandpiper CI. The division comprises of 65 pubs in Jeresey, Guernsey and Alderny,...
Sandpiper to sell Channel Islands-based businesses
22-Nov-2007
Channel Island-based SandpiperCI has put its pubs, brewery and drinks distribution service up for sale. Sandpiper operates more than 42 pubs in...
Channel Islands' pubs up for sale
18-Nov-2007
Channel Islands retail group SandpiperCI is looking to sell its 60-strong pub estate and brewery interests. It also hopes to offload its drinks...
CI Traders to sell pub estate
13-Sep-2007 By Mark Stretton mark.stretton@william-reed.co.uk
CI Traders, the Jersey-based conglomerate that was taken private this summer, is about to hoist the for-sale sign above its pub estate. The group,...
CI Traders looks to sell up for £230m
27-Jun-2007 By Hamish Champ
CI Traders (CIT), which operates around 70 pubs throughout the Channel Islands, has agreed in principle to sell up to a private investment firm for...
23-Jan-2007
Company says Jersey smoke ban may have hit managed estate
Licensees enforcing Scottish smoke ban
04-Jan-2007 By Iain O'Neil iain.oneil@william-reed.co.uk
A survey has found that some of Scotland's smoke ban enforcers are seriously under-employed, with some councils' officers never having issued a...
CI Traders drops casino plan
26-Apr-2006
CI Traders (CIT) has abandoned plans for a casino development at its St Pierre Park Hotel complex in Guernsey.The Channel Islands' biggest leisure...
CI Traders questions Guernsey casino development
20-Apr-2005
Channel Islands leisure and retail group CI Traders has put a question mark over its proposed casino development on Guernsey.CIT said it is talking...
CI Traders in £51m property deal
23-Aug-2004
Channel Islands leisure group CI Traders (CIT) has agreed a takeover of property group Comprop.The deal will give CIT control of a number of key...
InterbrewAmBev rocks beer stage
08-Apr-2004
Are the Channel Islands destined to play host to the world's biggest brewer? Such a possibility has arisen as Interbrew of Belgium and AmBev of...
CI Traders to invest £20m in new Guernsey casino
16-Jun-2003
The Channel Islands' biggest pub operator is planning to invest £20m on a casino development on Guernsey.Jersey based CI Traders, owner of the Ann...
Three way merger for Ann Street Group
05-Jul-2002
Ann Street Group - which owns Conquest Inns and Lionheart Inns - has merged with C.I. Traders and Le Riche Group.The move will see the Jersey-based...
Profits jump 13 per cent at Ann Street
07-May-2002
Ann Street, the 176-strong publicly-quoted pub operator, has seen profits jump 13.2 per cent against a backdrop of disease and economic...
Bass sells pubs and wholesaler to Ann Street
18-Jun-2001
Ann Street Group has strengthened its pub estate by buying a package of pubs from Bass along with its Channel Islands wholesale business.The £10m...
