All Pubs articles – Page 71
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NewsDraft House completes Grand Union deal
The Draft House has completed the acquisition of the six-strong Grand Union Group business, for an undisclosed sum
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EiG admits value food offer is a challenge
Ei Group commercial director Paul Harbottle has said the company has considered a QSR model to make the most of the breadth of its estate.
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NewsGreene King FY managed lfls up 1.5%
Greene King has reported a 1.5% increase in like-for-like sales across its managed division in the 52 weeks to 30 April 2017
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Brunning & Price takes former Jamie's site
Brunning & Price, The Restaurant Group-owned pub operator, has taken on the former Jamie’s Italian site in Cheltenham. The company has submitted plans to transform the grade II listed former County Court building in Regent Street, Gloucestershire Live reports. According to planning documents the group plans to convert the building ...
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Top pubs' rateable value up 57% - ALMR
New analysis by the ALMR has highlighted how the pub trade is disproportionately penalised by the current business rates regime.
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NewsFurness-Smith to step down as McMullen’s MD
Peter Furness-Smith, the joint managing director of family brewer and pub operator, McMullen’s, is to retire this summer after two decades with the group, MCA has learnt.
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Forest calls for smoking ban review
Smoking advocacy group Forest has called for a review of the smoking ban, and the introduction of smoking annexes in pubs, after a report claimed the ban had decimated the trade.
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Liverpool gastro-pub closes
Liverpool gastro-pub The Old Blind School has closed “until further notice”, The Liverpool Echo reports.
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NewsCMA - Heineken remedy 'might be acceptable'
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which is considering Heineken’s proposals to sell pubs in certain areas to preserve competition, has suggested the remedy “might be acceptable”.
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Red Oak founders eye next stage of growth
MCA speaks to Red Oak Taverns founders Aaron Brown and Mark Grunnell about how they brought their experience at some of the biggest pub companies in the country into their own business
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JDW to develop £13m Dublin pub and hotel
Wetherspoon is to spend around £13m developing a new pub and 98-bedroom hotel in Dublin city centre.
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Opinion
Managing expectations
Brakspear’s chief executive Tom Davies talks about the group’s fast-growing managed estate, the challenges facing its 120-strong tenanted portfolio and the return to its 300-year association with brewing.
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Revere interested in further group deals
Colin Sadler, managing director of Marston’s premium arm, Revere, has told MCA that the success of the integration of the Pointing Dog pubs has given the group confidence to look at other small group deals.
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Charles Wells to open third Pizza, Pots & Pints
Charles Wells is to open the third iteration of its Pizza, Pots & Pints managed model.
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‘M&A activity in next few years depends on realistic sellers’
M&A activity in the pub sector is still likely over the next two years, although sellers must ensure they have realistic expectations, according to Sapient Corporate Finance founder, Peter Hansen.
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NewsCity Pub Co close to appointing advisors
City Pub Co expects to appoint advisors next month ahead of its IPO and build a £40m war chest to add a further 25 sites.
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Nye: First outside investment ‘an eye opener’
James Nye, managing director of Anglian Country Inns (ACI), has told MCA that bringing in outside investors for the first time has been ‘an eye opener’.
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Upham poll shows rural pubs ‘must stick to their roots’
Upham Pub Company has said its bespoke survey has shown that rural and out-of-town pubs to stick to their roots and preserve what it means to run a traditional country inn.
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Craft Beer Co closes in on Shoreditch site
The Craft Beer Co, which operates sites across London and one in Brighton, is close to securing a site in Shoreditch, MCA understands.
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Bitters n Twisted to ‘hunker down’ in tough climate
Matt Scriven, the founder of Birmingham-based Bitters n Twisted Venues, has told MCA the group is likely to scale back on expansion because of the increasingly competitive market.