World Trading Company

New World Trading Company sales up by 33% on last year

05-Oct-2017 By Helen Gilbert

New openings and positive like-for-like sales have helped New World Trading Company (NWTC) increase sales by 33% to £40.1m for the year ended 31 March 2017.

‘Gin boom will end in two years’ claims expert

22-Sep-2017 By Nikkie Sutton

The gin bubble will burst in two years' time, according to New World Trading Company (NWTC)’s head of bars Nick Whitby.

New World Trading Company announces latest concept

18-Sep-2017 By Georgina Townshend

New World Trading Company (NWTC), known for its Botanist bars, is set to open a brand new concept in Bristol.

How the record-breaking New World Trading Company was built

17-Mar-2017 By Nikkie Sutton

New World Trading Company (NWTC) swept the board at this year’s Publican Awards, winning an unprecedented six awards. But how did the pub company get so far in such a short space of time?

Publican Awards Winners: Best New Pub / Bar sponsored by Heineken - The Club House, New World Trading Company

16-Mar-2017 By Georgina Townshend

Looking like it’s dropped straight from the east coast of the United States of America, and rising up from the shops, flats and restaurants that make up Liverpool One, the New World Trading Company’s (NWTC) Club House is a venue the company is rightly...

Publican Awards Winners: Best Operations Team, sponsored by Farm Frites - New World Trading Company

16-Mar-2017 By The MA

New World Trading Company (NWTC) completed its buyout from Living Ventures in June last year. The business has already grown from 14 sites and revenues of £30m through to 16 sites and sales of £40m.

Publican Award Winners: Best Managed Pub Company (2-50 sites), sponsored by Molson Coors - New World Trading Company

15-Mar-2017 By The MA

It’s been a big year for the New World Trading Company (NWTC), which not only broke away from parent company Living Ventures in 2016, but opened five new sites, launching a new concept in the process.

Publican Award Winners: Best Pub Employer (500+ employees), sponsored by AB InBev - New World Trading Company

15-Mar-2017 By The MA

It has been another fast-paced 12 months for the dynamic New World Trading Company (NWTC), which saw the former Living Ventures-backed group acquired by Graphite Capital, open five new bars and record an excellent year-on-year profit increase of 63%. 

Pub company finalists unveiled for Retailers' Retailer awards

30-Jan-2017 By James Wallin, MCA

Stonegate and the New World Trading Company are among the finalists for this year’s prestigious Retailers’ Retailer of the Year as compiled by The Morning Advertiser's sister title MCA. 

New World Trading Company to launch new concept

27-Jan-2017 By Sara Hussein

New World Trading Company (NWTC) is to launch a new concept in Birmingham this year. 

MA500

New World Trading Company's York site set to create 60 jobs

03-Nov-2016 By James Evison

The New World Trading Company's new site in York is set to create up to 60 jobs as it opens its doors this November.

City news

New World Trading Company profit rises 63%

19-Oct-2016 By James Evison

The New World Trading Company has seen profit increase by 63% and sales rise by 70%, according to its latest financial figures.

In association with Diageo

The diffident bar champion

16-Oct-2016 By Nicholas Robinson

He may have experienced a meteoric rise up the ranks at the New World Trading Company, and he may be in great demand as a cocktail expert, including an appearance on TV, but Nick Whitby is still truly a modest bloke, with his feet firmly on the bar-room...

NWTC's Chris Hill on making a career in the industry

14-Jul-2016 By Oli Gross

New World Trading Company MD and member of the MA500 club Chris Hill reveals how the sector can provide a career for all.Oli Gross reports.

People Development

NWTC launches Tribes employee engagement initiative

13-May-2016 By James Wallin

The New World Trading Company is launching an innovative employee initiative which sees staff across the UK split into six ‘tribes’ competing against each other.

People

Hot Shots: Profiles of two pub trade rising stars

27-Apr-2016 By Mike Berry

Hot Shots is the Publican’s Morning Advertiser’s new campaign to recognise young and upcoming individuals working in the trade; from those running pubs to business ops specialists. Here we profile two of the individuals nominated as rising stars.

Publican Awards 2016: Best pub employer (2-50 sites)

14-Mar-2016 By Ben Winstanley

The New World Trading Company has taken home the gong for Best Pub Employer (2-50 sites), sponsored by Sky, at the 25th anniversary of the Publican Awards, held at Battersea Evolution in London.

Drinks

New world order

21-Aug-2015 By Emily Sutherland

The New World Trading Company is putting interesting drinks at the forefront of its offer as the nine-strong group marches into the UK’s city centres. Liquor sales account for 66% of the group’s sales, and Botanist’s Newcastle branch has sold a cocktail...

MA300

Five minutes with…. Chris Hill, New World Trading Company

17-Aug-2015 By MC Allegra FS

M&C takes five minutes with Chris Hill, managing director of New World Trading Company, to talk about future growth, the twin challenges of soaring property prices and wage pressures and who is doing something special in the sector.

Operators

Publican Awards 2015 winner to open new venue in Liverpool

15-Jun-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

New World Trading Company (NWTC), the Chris Hill-led group, is set to open new bar and restaurant concept the Club House on Liverpool ONE’s Chavasse Park.

Openings

Award-winning pubco opens first London site

11-May-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

New World Trading Company is set to open its first London site next month.

Tim Bacon scoops top prize at Retailers' Retailer of the Year Awards

05-Mar-2015 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report

Tim Bacon, the driving force behind the continued growth, evolution and success of Living Ventures Group, has been singled out by his peers as the stand-out individual in the eating-out and drinking-out market.

MA300: Gusto and New World look to London

02-Oct-2013 By John Harrington

Tim Bacon has set out his expansion plans for the Living Ventures-led Gusto brand and the recently renamed New World Trading Company, his pub-led venture backed by the Hill Capital Partners Food & Beverage Fund.