Tony Callaghan

Inn the Pub to expand hotel base

02-Aug-2011 By Lesley Foottit

Lancashire based leisure company Inn the Pub is to focus on the expansion of its hotel operations over the next six months, with the opening of two...

15p pub meal deal hits jackpot

27-Jul-2011 By Lesley Foottit

A Lancashire bar operator has started offering pub meals for 15p in a bid to bring back customers. Tony Callaghan, the Wigan-based owner of 14 pubs,...

Yesteryear Pub Company boss in buyback bid

14-Dec-2009 By Hamish Champ

Tony Callaghan, founder of Wigan-based pubco Yesteryear, is close to buying back some if not all of the company's assets after it went into...

Pubco chief in TV defence

25-Sep-2007

Pubco chief and millionaire Tony Callaghan has defended his decision to take part in Channel 4's reality TV series Millionaires' Mission. Some of the...

A ladies' hour to beat that indecision

12-Jul-2007

Building a ladies' hour into nights out in Wigan, Lancashire, could halve waiting time at the bar, according to a computational flow dynamics...

Yesteryear sells off 9 venues

29-May-2007 By The PMA Team

Yesteryear Pub Company, founded by Tony Callaghan, is selling nine of its north-west sites.

Spiders to clean up gents' loos

07-Oct-2004

Wigan-based pubco Yesteryear is using spiders to slash toilet cleaning costs at its 25 bars in the north of England. The company has bought 105 fake...

Fifteen and counting

07-Sep-2004

Tony Callaghan is leading the way in attracting younger adults to his North West city pubs, finds Tom Sandham.Adorning walls with Victorian porn...