All Late Night Bars and Clubs articles
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News
Nightcap promotes Sarah Miller to COO
Miller joined the night time operator as group director of business operations in June 2024, after five years with Stonegate
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News
NEOS plans £3m revamp of Pryzm Kingston
The venue is set for a major refurbishment as NEOS Hospitality plans to split the venue into two distinct concepts, party bar Bonnie Rogues and new nightclub Circuit
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Stonegate launches dancefloor-filler campaign
The group launches its ‘Get Britain Dancing’ campaign this Friday, with free entry to events at select venues and free drinks for guests who sign up via its MiXR app
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Analysis & Insight
Late night venue numbers drop 25% in last five years
Nightclubs and late-night bar numbers may be down but venues operating in the wider evening economy have increased by 3.9% in the past 12 months, according to the new Night Time Economy Monitor
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News
Night time economy staff fear job cuts
The majority of employees (75%) working in the night time economy are fearful that the impact of the Budget could lead to job cuts or reduced shifts, a new poll by the NTIA has revealed.
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News
Alan Lorrimer leaves The Piano Works
The serial hospitality entrepreneur and sector campaigner leaves after Nightcap acquired the interactive music bar concept earlier this year
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News
Nightcap shareholders approve plan to go private
The bar group believes as a private company it will have access to investors more likely to support its strategy of consolidating the late night sector
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News
Nightcap raises additional £1.5m
The bar operator has now received subscription commitments for a total of £2.25m as it looks to capitalise on opportunties to consolidate the bar sector
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News
Nightcap hires director of business operations
Sarah Miller joins after five years with Stonegate, including two years as business unit director for its late night division including Be at One, Slug and Lettuce and Popworld
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News
Nightcap looks to raise £3.5m
The late night group is issuing new shares as it looks to capitalise on stress in the market and consolidation opportunities in the bar sector
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News
Nightcap: Revolution Bars brands could be ‘excellent addition’ to portfolio
The group is assessing options, including the acquisition of sites, subsidiaries, assets and brands of Revolution Bars, as well as a possible offer for its entire share capital
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News
Mayor launches ‘Let’s do Fridays’ travel scheme
Sadiq Khan’s plan to encourage more activity in the capital with off-peak rail travel was hailed as “ground-breaking” and a “much needed shot in the arm” for the sector
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News
Nightcap acquires The Piano Works
Since November 2023, the Piano Works has had a successful residency within Nightcap’s Barrio Covent Garden venue, resulting in a significant uplift in revenues and adding an established, interactive live music entertainment concept to Nightcap’s portfolio
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News
Rekom UK sold for £19.5m in pre-pack
Just one offer was received for the group of companies from a connected party, after it was established that no new investment was available from existing shareholders or secured creditors
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News
Nightcap counts cost of rail strikes
CEO Sarah Willingham railed against the “ruthless continuation” of the industrial action, which is estimated to have cost the company £2.9m in lost revenue, and seen like-for-like revenues decline by 12.5%
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News
Tom Kidd leaves Nightcap
The Adventure Bar Group co-founder leaves the listed late-night operator two years after it acquired his business
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Opinion
Freeing London’s nightlife
Nick Weir, joint managing partner at Shelley Sandzer, argues the capital needs a breath of fresh air and new ideas to rediscover its groove post-Covid
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News
Rekom UK: ‘Our 200-site target might take longer to reach than planned’
The late-night operator is doubling-down on its cluster strategy, which will entail the closure of several single sites in some of the UK’s smaller towns and cities, chairman Peter Marks reveals
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News
Sarah Willingham: Dirty Martini deal was ‘quite uncomplicated’
The Nightcap CEO said aside from Dirty Martini’s debt-laden balance sheet, which led it into a pre-pack administration, the cocktail bar business was quite similar in terms of its P&L to the group’s existing businesses
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News
Nightcap acquires Dirty Martini in £4.65m deal
The late-night bar operator has entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire Dirty Martini’s 10 bars, as well as Tuttons Brasserie in a pre-pack deal