Laurel

Two companies to emerge from Laurel

27-Mar-2008 By The PMA Team

Industry rumours suggest Laurel will split into two companies

New groups buy Laurel Pub Company operations

27-Mar-2008 By Hamish Champ

Laurel Pub Company owner Robert Tchenguiz has put the group into administration and two new companies have immediately repurchased 293 sites. The two...

Laurel poised for administration

18-Mar-2008 By The PMA Team

Laurel Pub Company is poised to enter a controlled administration after opting to close another 60 high street pubs. The move means the company has...

Laurel puts 100 pubs up for sale

27-Feb-2008 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report

Laurel has instructed agents to sell almost 100 wet-led leasehold pubs

Laurel Pub Company puts 94 sites on the market

26-Feb-2008 By Hamish Champ

In an anticipated move, Laurel Pub Company has put 94 of its struggling leasehold sites on the market.The properties predominantly include wet-led...

Burdens and shocks

25-Feb-2008 By Hamish Champ

Despite seeing his 550p a share bid for Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) politely but firmly escorted out of the room a couple of years ago, it...

Charity: Laurel's slippery slope of toxic leases

21-Feb-2008 By The PMA Team

MA deputy editor The PMA Team gives expert commentary on the Laurel controlled administration Laurel Pub Company is pondering the best way to ditch...

Laurel prepares to close 22 pubs

21-Feb-2008 By The PMA Team

Robert Tchenguiz's Laurel Pub Company is to close 22 pubs next week

Laurel to ditch 40 ailing pubs

21-Feb-2008 By The PMA Team

Pubco hatches plan to rid itself of sites hit by smoke ban

Business Opinion

21-Feb-2008 By with The PMA Team

Laurel's slippery slope of toxic leases Laurel Pub Company is pondering the best way to ditch its toxic leases, which are bleeding cash. A controlled...

Laurel to ditch 40 ailing pubs

21-Feb-2008 By The PMA Team

Pubco hatches plan to rid itself of sites hit by smoke ban The devastating effect of the smoking ban has forced Slug & Lettuce operator Laurel...

Charity: Laurel's fast-casual dining future

22-Nov-2007 By The PMA Team

MA City expert The PMA Team mulls over Laurel's investment strategy in the fast-casual dining market

Tchenguiz plans to use Laurel for dining consolidation

10-Apr-2007 By The PMA Team

La Tasca deal has Laurel eyeing consolidation of the casual dining market

Laurel Pub Company gets its second major shake-up in a year

28-Sep-2006 By Hamish Champ

Laurel Pub Company's new chief executive Paul Symonds has revealed details of the pub and bar group's second major divisional overhaul in less than a...

Laurel investment rolls on with £1.25m venue

06-Jul-2006 By The PMA Team

Laurel Pub Company, the managed operator owned by Robert Tchenguiz, has opened a new £1.25m Ha! Ha! Bar & Canteen venue in London's Victoria as...

New look, new Laurel?

15-Feb-2006

Laurel Pub Company has subjected itself to a major restructuring exercise. Hamish Champ spoke to chief executive Julian Sargeson about the...

Payne returns as Laurel chairman

02-Feb-2006

Former Laurel chief executive Ian Payne is to re-join the company as its chairman with a brief to buy another 600 managed pubs. He will succeed...

Property company in the bidding for Laurel

04-Nov-2004

by The PMA Team A property company has been named as the third bidder in the Laurel Pub Company auction. St James Place Capital, the majority...

Laurel to go under hammer

23-Sep-2004

MidOcean Partners , the private equity firm that operates Laurel Pub Company, is to start a formal auction for the business. Laurel, which now runs...

Making changes

27-Jul-2004

Laurel Pub Company had big plans to develop its pub estate. Chief executive Ian Payne tells Lorna Harrison how its recent pub sale has brought a new...

Laurel honours its top pubs

22-Apr-2004

The Skyrack in Leeds, which makes £1m a year in profit, and Casa in Solihull have been named as Laurel Champion Pubs of the Year in a glittering...

Laurel-VBM row set to spill over into court

16-Feb-2004

The row between Laurel Pub Company and Vodka Bar Management dramatically escalated this week to threats of liquidation and lawsuits.Both sides claim...

Laurel to unveil 'new look' Hogshead

14-Aug-2002

Laurel Pub Company will unveil its revamped Hogshead brand across four sites next month. If successful, the company will convert the rest of the...

What the Sunday papers said - 18 November

19-Nov-2001

The Mail on SundayFresh merger talks between Pubmaster and Laurel Pub Company were abandoned after just two days. Pubmaster wants to buy Laurel's...