All Pubs articles – Page 43

  • News

    Ducalian completes fundraising for Chiswick pub

    2018-05-03T08:46:00.927Z

    Ducalian Capital has secured the £5.75m it was seeking to acquire and refurbish Carvosso’s At 210 in Chiswick High Road

  • Walkabout
    News

    Pub Invest Group takes on Walkabout Liverpool site

    2018-05-03T08:45:39.010Z

    Pub Invest Group, the Liverpool-based pub and club operator, has taken on the former Walkabout in the city to launch under a new brand, MCA understands.

  • News

    Heartstone has firepower for further growth

    2018-05-02T08:28:00Z

    Heartstone Inns, the South of England-based pub operator, has said it has the firepower for further growth following a year in which saw like-for-like sales increase 3%.

  • News

    Buzzworks to open Ayr pub

    2018-05-02T08:25:54.473Z

    Buzzworks Holdings, the Scottish hospitality group, is opening a pub in Ayr next to its restaurant Tree House on Sandgate.

  • News

    JDW pledges zero landfill target by end of 2018

    2018-05-02T08:25:44.393Z

    JD Wetherspoon has teamed up with waste management company Veolia to help the pub group divert 100% of its waste from landfill by 2018.

  • News

    Innis & Gunn appoints new ops director

    2018-05-01T08:53:29.617Z

    Scottish brewer and operator Innis & Gunn has appointed Steve Drew as director of operations, as it looks to push forward with expansion plans in Scotland and the North of England.

  • News

    Arkell's plans first new-build for 15 years

    2018-05-01T08:02:00Z

    Arkell’s, the Wiltshire brewery and pub operator, has announced its first new-build pub site for 15 years after buying land at Tadpole Garden Village in North Swindon from developer Crest Nicholson.

  • Lawson Mountstevens, managing director of Star Pubs & Bars
    Opinion

    Star is re-born

    2018-04-30T07:35:00Z

    Heineken’s acquisition of 1,900 Punch sites has seen its Star Pubs & Bars estate treble in size, with a vastly expanded retail contracts division. MCA editor James Wallin talks to Star managing director, Lawson Mountstevens, about the challenges of such a mammoth integration programme. 

  • Rising Sun, Bath. The first of Punch's Urban Oasis pubs
    News

    Punch launches two new formats

    2018-04-26T08:43:00Z

    Punch, the Patron Capital-backed pubco, is to launch its Urban Oasis high street bar format in Bath with plans for further openings, MCA understands.

  • Clive Watson
    News

    City Pub Group adds two new sites

    2018-04-26T08:37:00Z

    City Pub Group has acquired The Covent Garden pub and taken on its ninth site in Cambridge, MCA understands.

  • News

    BrewDog to open Manchester brewpub

    2018-04-26T08:30:24.923Z

    BrewDog is set to open a second site in Manchester, and its second under its new brewpub model

  • News

    Red Door closes Leeds bar

    2018-04-26T08:30:16.620Z

    Red Door, the Living Ventures spin-off bar group, has closed its Leeds site in order to concentrate on its two remaining bars, MCA has learnt.

  • News

    Adnams warns of weaker H1 trading

    2018-04-24T08:32:15.003Z

    Brewer and pub operator Adnams has warned that it is likely to report trading for the first half of the year down on the same period last year.

  • News

    WBB secures third pub

    2018-04-24T08:27:18.217Z

    West Berkshire Brewery has secured its third pub – the Oxford in Kentish Town, MCA understands.

  • The Florist, New World Trading Company
    News

    NWTC secures Watford site for third Florist

    2018-04-20T08:41:00Z

    New World Trading Company has secured the third site for its Florist concept, with an opening at Intu Watford.

  • Lawson Mountstevens, managing director of Star Pubs & Bars
    News

    Heineken mulls brand-led bars

    2018-04-20T08:37:00Z

    Star Pubs & Bars managing director, Lawson Mountstevens, has told MCA that the now 2,900-strong group plans to develop bars centred around some of its key drinks brands.

  • Star Pubs & Bars
    News

    Star sees “soft” trading in Q1

    2018-04-20T08:37:00Z

    Star Pubs & Bars has seen a “soft” start to 2018 as poor weather hit sales, but saw trade pick up over Easter, managing director Lawson Mountstevens has told MCA.

  • News

    Social media decision 'unlikely to hit JDW’s bottom line'

    2018-04-19T08:44:25.420Z

    Ditching social media should have little impact on JD Wetherspoon’s bottom line in the long run, according to Stephan Shakespeare, co-founder of YouGov.

  • Alchemist
    News

    The Alchemist set to bolster London presence

    2018-04-17T08:38:00Z

    The Alchemist, the Palatine Private Equity-backed, Simon Potts-led cocktail bar and restaurant concept, is set to increase its presence in the capital, with two new openings, MCA understands.

  • Tim Martin of JD Wetherspoon
    Analysis & Insight

    JDW’s social media stunt goes viral

    2018-04-17T08:30:00Z

    The news that JD Wetherspoon has pulled the plug on all of its social media activity prompted social, as well as the mainstream, media, to go into overdrive. Georgi Gyton asks whether it will have any impact and if it will encourage other food and drink operators to follow suit?