Channel Islands

Publican Awards 2021

Best Managed Pub Company - Liberation Group/Butcombe Brewing Company

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.

Liberation Group ‘disappointed but understanding’ ahead of Jersey hospitality circuit breaker

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.

Liberation Group reshuffles senior team

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.

Liberation Group bans plastic straws

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.

Liberation’s new pubs performing well

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.

Jersey-based Liberation Group looks for new tenants

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.

The Big Interview: Mark Crowther, Liberation Group

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.

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...

Liberation Group to manage LGV Channel Island portfolio

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...

LGV Capital buys 65 Channel Island pubs

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,...

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 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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...