Revolution

Revolution’s £12.5m fundraising bid, remains confident in expectations

11-Apr-2024 By Gary Lloyd

Revolution Bars Group has announced a restructuring plan that involves raising £12.5m while launching a formal sales process of the business.

Review of the Week

'We're cheaper than McDonalds!'

11-Aug-2023 By Ed Bedington

The Morning Advertiser's Ed Bedington caught up with Revolution boss Rob Pitcher to get his take on the week's news from inflation to late night closures and the opportunities for AI.

Revolution to give away 1,800 tacos

20-Sep-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

Revolución de Cuba, a subset of Revolution Bars Group, has pledged to give away 1,800 free tacos as part of a national treasure hunt celebrating the launch of its new food menu.

Revolution celebrates successful trading results

02-Aug-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

Revolution Bars Group, an operator of 69 bars, has announced its trading and property investment update for the year ended 2 July 2022 (FY22).

£3.5m pumped into first Revolution Bars to open since Covid

07-Jun-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

Revolution Bars group has ploughed £3.5m into its new Exeter, Devon and Preston, Lancashire venues – its first openings since the start of the pandemic.

Newcastle Revolution bar to reopen after £190k investment

04-May-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

Newcastle’s Revolution bar, which came to the city in 2001, will reopen on 13 May after a £190,000 investment.

Revolution Bars Group no longer a minimum wage employer

23-Mar-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

Revolution Bars Group, the operator of bars including Revolución de Cuba, Playhouse, and Founders & Co, has invested £2m in raising wages over minimum wage, as part of the ‘fair day’s pay for hard day’s work’ pledge.

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Revolution Bars Group champions women with new senior appointments

08-Mar-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

Revolution Bars Group has tipped the balance of its executive team to a female majority with two new hires, in a bid to show a positive shift towards diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

‘Covid Passes were this year’s version of the Scotch egg’

20-Jan-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

Covid Passes led to confusion, conflict and cost in what was "this year's version of the Scotch egg", according to Revolution Bars chief executive Rob Pitcher, who said the Government must do more than roll back Plan B restrictions.

Revolution Bars Group to replace passionfruit garnish in its cocktail's

07-Dec-2021 By Rebecca Weller

Revolution Bars Group has announced it will replace all passionfruit garnishes in its Pornstar Martini and Rumtini cocktails with rice paper from this December as part of its initiative to become a NetZero business by 2030.

Reopened Revolution Bars trading at 86% of 2019 levels during roadmap

05-Jul-2021 By Stuart Stone

Revolution Bars Group’s 66 sites have traded at almost 90% of 2019 levels since resuming indoor trade, according to an update ahead of the operator’s year end date on 3 July.

Revolution gains ‘firepower’ after £21m fundraise

26-May-2021 By Stuart Stone

Revolution Bars Group is poised to emerge from the pandemic in a ‘strong position with a fit for purpose balance sheet’ following a successful £21m fundraise.

Indoor reopening confirmation ‘psychological rather than economical’

11-May-2021 By Nikkie Thatcher

The announcement from Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday (Monday 10 May), confirming pubs can reopen inside from next week has been welcomed alongside calls for restrictions to be lifted in June.

Calls for adoption of Australian rent relief model

26-Apr-2021 By Georgi Gyton, MCA

A group of hospitality operators and property agents are calling on the Government to implement the same rent relief scheme as has been adopted in Australia, according to reports by MCA Insight.

Revolution: ‘Bring our ‘national day of freedom forward'

13-Apr-2021 By Stuart Stone

Revolution Bars Group chief executive, Rob Pitcher, has implored the Prime Minister to ‘follow the data, not dates’ and lift legal limits on social contact before Monday 21 June.

Revolution to reopen almost a third of sites in April

05-Mar-2021 By Stuart Stone

Nationwide operator Revolution Bars Group has announced plans to reopen 20 sites for outdoor guests in April ahead of the resumption of trade across its full estate a month later.

Revolution revenue drops by £41.3m – further liquidity secured

17-Dec-2020 By Stuart Stone

The operator of 67 bars under its nationwide Revolution and Revolución de Cuba brands has reported sales significantly down in the first 24 weeks of FY21 as a result of “severe and constantly evolving trading restrictions.”

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Board changes at Camden Town and Greene King, ‘tsunami of job losses’ imminent?

19-Nov-2020 By Stuart Stone

While stakeholders in the late-night sector warn of a looming ‘tsunami of job losses’, Greene King, Camden Town Brewery, St Austell Brewery and Revolution Bars Group announced senior shake-ups.

Revolution CVA approved, six sites to close

16-Nov-2020 By Nikkie Thatcher

Revolution Bars Group has had a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) for subsidiary Revolution Bars Limited approved.

Revolution Bars Limited CVA launched

27-Oct-2020 By Stuart Stone

Nationwide bar operator Revolution Bars Group has launched a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) of subsidiary Revolution Bars Limited in a bid to improve the wider group’s long-term financial position.

Revolution Bars Group considers CVA

28-Sep-2020 By Stuart Stone

The nationwide operator of 74 Revolution and Revolucion de Cuba bars has confirmed it is working with advisors to secure its long-term viability.

Revolution seeks ‘meaningful discussions’ with landlords amid EOTHO sales boost

03-Sep-2020 By Stuart Stone

While post-lockdown trading has exceeded its best-case scenario trading forecasts, Revolution Bars Group continues to seek rent relief discussions with commercial landlords at almost half its sites.

Revolution Bars to kick off phased reopening on 6 July

02-Jul-2020 By Stuart Stone

Revolution Bars Group has outlined plans to gradually reopen its 74-site stable post-lockdown with measures such as cashless payments and mobile ordering in place.

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Revolution launches £15m share placing to support ‘best case’ August reopening

05-Jun-2020 By Stuart Stone

Revolution Bars Group has revealed that it intends to raise up to £15m through share placings as it prepares for life after Covid-19 lockdown.

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£16.5m cash injection for Revolution Bars Group to fight Covid crisis

26-May-2020 By Stuart Stone

Revolution Bars Group has announced that a £16.5m loan provided under the Government’s Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS) will help the operator survive the novel coronavirus emergency.

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Revolution furloughs 98% of staff and halves directors’ salaries

14-Apr-2020 By Stuart Stone

Nationwide bar operator Revolution Bars Group has taken a number of steps to ‘secure the future’ of its business amid the ongoing Covid-19 crisis.

Revolution Bars to ‘resume site expansion’

26-Feb-2020 By Stuart Stone

Revolution Bars Group has registered a 3.5% increase in revenue for the six months to 28 December 2019 as it prepares to resume expansion plans.

More sites next year says Revolution boss

21-Jan-2020 By Emily Hawkins

Revolution Group chief executive Rob Pitcher has confirmed the bar chain still aims to open new sites in the near future after closing a handful of underperforming venues.

Adjusted profits and like-for-like sales fall at Revolution Bars Group

01-Oct-2019 By Stuart Stone

Despite a drop in adjusted profits and like-for-like sales over the past 12 months, Revolution Bars Group remains ‘stable’ according to its latest results statement.

Revolution Bars Group to halt new site openings

01-Mar-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Cocktail bar group Revolution Bars Group has blamed a slump in profits for a lack of investment into its Revolution sites, in its interim trading report.

Revolution Bars Group suffers £3.6m loss

02-Oct-2018 By Emily Hawkins

Revolution Bars has blamed periods of extreme weather and England’s unexpected football success for a £3.6m loss in its full-year results.

Revolution growth plan will target Millennials

09-Aug-2018 By Emily Hawkins

Bar group Revolution is set to open six new bars during the next 12 months, with a new marketing strategy focused on those aged between 20 and 40.

Revolution Bars Group underpays workers

10-Jul-2018 By Emily Hawkins

Revolution Bars Group were among more than 200 employers that had not paid staff the correct wages, according to Government findings.

Banks wouldn't pull the plug on rent strike-hit pubcos. Would they?

19-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ

The threat by a small group of licensees to withhold rent payments from their pubco landlords could fizzle out like a rocket firework on a damp...

Pub Food in Focus: Head to Head

17-Aug-2009

Head to Head: Revolution vs Slug and Lettuce Both Slug and Lettuce, owned by Bay Restaurant Group, and Inventive Leisure's vodka bar brand...

Onwards and upwards

15-Sep-2006 By Hamish Champ

To suggest it has been an 'interesting' year for Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) would be an understatement. Having seen off the advances of one R....

Inventive Leisure back on the expansion trail

22-Mar-2005

Inventive Leisure, operator of the Revolution vodka bar chain, is looking at expansion after restoring sales growth in the business.Inventive says it...