Private Equity Firms

Morgan: Investors maintain appetite for evolving pub sector

05-Nov-2012 By Neil Morgan

In recent times, the pub sector has been battered by a ‘perfect storm’ of licensing changes, smoking bans, declining beer sales, off-trade competition, increasing taxes, rising costs and anti-social behaviour. Although there have been many casualties,...

'Private equity group plotting bid for Punch Taverns'

05-Dec-2010

Private equity group CVC is thought to be plotting an audacious bid for Punch Taverns, whose leased and managed pub estates have combined debts of...

M&B looking to raise up to £500m through pub sell-off

04-May-2010 By Hamish Champ

Private equity firms are understood to be lining-up to back operators who want to buy some of the hundreds of pubs being sold by Mitchells &...

'Mitchells & Butlers rejects suitors'

12-Apr-2010

Mitchells & Butlers, the pub and restaurant operator, has rebuffed preliminary approaches from a number of private equity firms keen to buy its...

M&B rebuffs private equity interest in brands

12-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team

Managed operator Mitchells & Butlers has rebuffed preliminary approaches from a number of private equity firms keen to buy its Browns and All Bar...

Pubs are a bad bet, say a third of private equity firms

15-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ

A third of private equity firms think the leisure and hospitality sectors are a bad bet, according to new research. A survey by financial advisers...

M&B launches bid for Spirit Group

14-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ

Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has launched an audacious bid for Spirit Group, the managed pub estate owned by Punch Taverns.M&B proposes that...

'M&B could sell stake to private equity firms'

17-Mar-2008

All Bar One and O'Neill's pubs operator Mitchells & Butlers could sell a stake in the business to private equity firms to shore up its balance...