All Pubs articles – Page 73
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NewsBrakspear eyes 20 managed sites by 2020
Brakspear chief executive Tom Davies has told MCA the group is targeting 20 managed sites by 2020 and has developed its first rollout vehicle.
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NewsEiG announces Three Cheers as latest Managed Expert
Ei Group, formerly Enterprise Inns, has announced that its next managed operator partnership will be with Three Cheers Pub Co – the London-based gastro pub operators.
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News
Wadworth acquires GK pubs
Wadworth, the Wiltshire-based brewer and pub operator, has revealed details of a £6.5m investment in its managed house estate with the acquisition of three sites.
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News
Amber grows Hogarth’s estate to 12
Amber Taverns has lined up two more openings for its Hogarths gin palace format – to take the estate to 12, MCA has learnt.
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Portfolio of Punch and GK pubs sold for £9.5m
A pub portfolio including sites let to Punch and Greene King has been acquired for £9.5m.
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Opinion
For Everards and a day
As Everards lays the groundwork for its new brewery and headquarters, managing director Stephen Gould tells Finn Scott-Delany about the company’s progressive attitude to tenant relations, stable growth and not losing sight of the day job.
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News
Mcaneney launches Scottish-themed concept with Star
Scottish hospitality entrepreneur Billy Mcaneney has launched a new partnership with the operator of Glasgow Café Antipasti, Neil Douglas.
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NewsCity Pub Co sales up 43%
City Pub Company has seen revenue in the first 21 weeks of the year grow 43% year-on-year, MCA has learnt.
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News
Craft Union announces raft of new openings
Craft Union – Ei Group’s largest managed house division – has added 31 sites in the past three months.
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NewsM&B: Consumer confidence; innovation ethos; early tech trialists
MCA talks to Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) chief executive Phil Urban about the consumer landscape; the value equation; the return of the company’s innovation ethos; the optimum size of a concept’s estate and how new format Son of Steak might potentially become a solution for part of the company’s retail & leisure parks estate.
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News
Revere closes Cardiff site
Revere, Marston’s premium managed arm, is closing its Locke & Remedy site in Cardiff.
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Revolution grows FY lfls 1.7%
Revolution Bars Group has given a brief update on expectations for the 52 weeks to 1 July, reporting like-for-like sales up but saying new sites are taking longer than expected to hit full profitability.
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NewsCharles Wells eyes group pub deals
Charles Wells chief executive, Justin Phillimore, has told MCA that the company will target group acquisitions alongside organic growth of its managed estate, following the sale of its brewing business to Marston’s.
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NewsMarston’s: Charles Wells; pub deals; pricing and lodges
MCA talks to Marston’s chief executive Ralph Findlay and managing director of Marston’s Beer Company, Richard Westwood, on the back of the £55m acquisition of Charles Wells.
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News
Shepherd Neame to launch keg-only format
Shepherd Neame’s new opening in a retail unit at Chatham’s marinas will be a keg-only offer, MCA understands.
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Townsend: Punch deal great for sector
Simon Townsend, chief executive of Ei Group, has told MCA that he sees Heineken’s imminent acquisition of rival Punch as “a great statement of confidence in the future of UK pubs”
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News
Couchman swaps GK for SSP
Shirley Couchman has stepped down as operations director at Greene King to join SSP
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News
Prime time for pubs in Q1
Pub restaurants were the most frequently visited channel in the eating out sector, despite a fall in the proportion of consumers visiting the channel overall, MCA analysis has found.
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News
Chapmans extend South Coast Inns estate
South Coast Inns has acquired the Royal Victoria & Bull Hotel in Dartford, Kent, for its ninth site and first in Kent
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Cloverleaf founders exit JV with Joseph Holt
John Winder and Gary Douglas, the Cloverleaf founders, have told MCA their joint venture with Joseph Holt – Touchwood Restaurants - has now reached a conclusion.