The number of insolvencies among pub and restaurant companies fell in the first quarter of 2013 compared to the same period last year, according to new figures from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) seen by M&C Report.
The Publican Awards, in association with Sky, was a night for celebrating in the company of friends, colleagues and competitors — in the way that only our industry knows how to do.
Guy Ritchie-owned pub the Punchbowl in London's Mayfair is set to be acquired by Cirrus Inns, the investment vehicle launched to back a premium estate of freehold pubs with rooms.
Carvery Heaven, the Midlands-based pub carvery operator, has opened its sixth site after taking a lease with Star Pubs & Bars on the Ashfields Hotel at Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
Former SSP brands director Wayne Chapman has been appointed chief executive of the four-strong Ribble Valley Inns, the food-led pub business owned by the Northcote Group.
The Government could create a major loophole in which developers find it easier to turn a pub into housing if it goes ahead with proposals, according to leading figures in the pub trade.
John Lovering, the former chairman of Laurel Pub Company and Mitchells & Butlers (M&B), is backing a new food-led pub group called Fireside Pubs & Restaurants, which plans to expand to around 20 sites across the South of England over the next...
Fewer than half (48%) of all bottom-end freehold pubs sold in the year to 30 September went for alternative use - six percentage points fewer than last year - and the slowdown in conversion rates is expected to continue, according to Fleurets.
A journalist from Singapore contacted me recently wanting to know what I thought of the “global proliferation of gastropubs, particularly in a place like Singapore”. For someone who has always avoided anything British themed when abroad, “horrified” seemed...
Whitbread, the leisure group, has reported a 4.2% rise in like-for-like sales for the 11 weeks to 16 August, driven by a 5.7% rise in sales across its Costa Coffee estate and a 4.9% increase in sales through its 389-strong pub restaurant division.
Charles Wells-owned pub the Anchor & Hope, in the Cut, Waterloo, has been nominated as having the best bar/pub food in Harden’s London Restaurants 2013 guide.
Bravo Inns, the Warrington-based pub operator led by Ken Buckley and backed by Albion Ventures, has opened its 30th site in the North West and secured a further three sites.
The Restaurant Group (TRG) has acquired the freehold interests of four of the pubs it operates under its Brunning & Price (B&P) and Home Counties pub divis-ions from Enterprise Inns, for a sum believed to be in excess of £5m, M&C Report has...
Phoenix Pub Group, the newly incorporated umbrella company operating c.80 pubs mostly in south-east England, plans to expand to about 120 sites over three years following a period of churn.
Brakspear, the Henley-based tenanted pub operator, has bought two freehold pubs from Enterprise Inns, its first pub acquisitions in six years, and says further acquisitions are “likely” this year.
Peter Salussolia, founder of pub, bar and restaurant company Glendola Leisure, has received an OBE for services to the hospitality industry in the Queen’s birthday honours list.
Livelyhood Venues, the London-based pub and restaurant operator, has appointed its first operations director as it announces plans to grow to 15 pubs over the next three years.
The Cotswolds is proving a popular area for selling and buying a pub as an “unusual” number of properties are being matched by an increasing number of people looking for business opportunities.
Batemans, the Lincolnshire brewer and pub operator, has opened its first managed pub and is looking to run more sites on a managed basis in the future, M&C Report has learnt.
Young’s-owned pub operator Geronimo Inns plans to add five outlets per year, its co-founder revealed, as the company took back control of its first-ever site.
The former boss of JM Inns, which operated circa 50 pubs across the south coast in the 1980s and 1990s, is eyeing plans to start a new pub group in the UK, M&C Report has learnt.
Fuller’s, the London-based brewer and pub operator, has added an extra site to the package of pubs acquired from Enterprise Inns, bring the total to 16 pubs for £25.4m.
Punch has been found in minor breach of its code of practice by using “incorrect” and “misleading” comparables in its rent review of Dave Mountford of the Rising Sun, Middleton, Derbyshire.
So the mild winter had the last laugh, with the snow covering most of the country like a proverbial kick in the Nobby’s Nuts, sweeping in on a Saturday night and wiping out Sunday trade.
Ten years ago John Longden launched Pub is the Hub, the scheme that’s helped hundreds of rural pubs deliver services to their villages. It’s the social impact that drives him, he tells Phil Mellows, not to mention the fear of the executioner’s axe.
GRS Pubs, the c.200-strong pub group formerly owned by London Town, swung into profit for the 12 months to 26 December 2010, in what the company described as a “good, solid year”.
Living Ventures Management, the restaurant and bar company led by entrepreneurs Tim Bacon and Jeremy Roberts, will open its latest venture in Manchester — Peppermint Bay, a café-deli concept — next week.
The licensee of a popular Cotswolds pub has closed its doors until 1 April next year, blaming “astronomical” utility costs and a “dependency on tourism and seasonal trade”.
Busy location on coastal main road
Extensively renovated detached public house
Five trade areas (100)
Sizeable refurbished 4-5 bedroom accommodation
Newly created beer garden (125)
Established and popular business...
