Columbo Group, the London-based multiple operator headed by former Fabric head of promotion Steve Ball and Riz Shaikh, will open its latest site, the Hudson, next month in north west London.
I think that all good operators have come to realise that there is no point having a wonderful pub if their customers can only get there through a war zone. You have got to be part of a thriving town centre.”
Bravo Inns, the Warrington-based pub operator led by Ken Buckley and backed by Albion Ventures, has opened its 30th site in the North West and secured a further three sites.
Charles Wells has bought a London pub from Young’s specifically to let to multiple operator Yummy Pub Company and is looking at opportunities to adopt a similar acquisition strategy going forward, the PMA's sister title M&C Report has learnt.
Cirrus Inns, the investment vehicle launched to back a premium estate of freehold pubs with rooms, has secured five new pubs, including the Yew Tree Inn that was formerly owned by celebrity chef Marco Pierre White.
City Pub Company, the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) funded operator, has secured its sixth site, in Oxford, as it launches a new fund-raising bid and appoints a part-time finance director.
Orchid Group, the managed operator led by Rufus Hall, has handed control of its 33-strong PBR Leisure (PBRL) division to the Avanti Capital-backed Eclectic Clubs & Bars.
TLC Inns, the multi-site operator led by Steve Haslam and Jo Drain, has identified two more sites for the rollout of its American restaurant and bar concept Grand Central.
Looking to grow your pub empire? Think there’s a shortage of money around? Well, think again. There are plenty of potential investors out there — it’s just that the organisations who have got it, are afraid to use it.
Craft Beer Co, the specialist beer bar concept launched by award-winning licensee Martin Hayes, has secured an outlet a Brixton for its third London site.
Luminar boss Peter Marks has admitted that the 58-strong nightclub chain has had to be aggressive on pricing at certain venues midweek to compete with the cut-price alcohol sold in supermarkets.
Phoenix Pub Group, the newly incorporated umbrella company operating c.80 pubs mostly in south-east England, plans to expand to about 120 sites over three years following a period of churn.
For some reason that now escapes me, having carried our desserts across the level crossing, David Bruce and I are eating them off pub crockery balanced on some sort of electrical junction box at Kintbury railway station, eastbound platform, in Berkshire.
Batemans, the Lincolnshire brewer and pub operator, has reported a rise in turnover and operating profit in the year to 31 January, although pre-tax profit fell 40% after a fall in profits from property disposals.
Yummy Pub Co, the venture led by Tim Foster and Anthony Pender, hopes to secure a new site every three months and is focusing on its supper-club concept Ssshh for a rollout that could extend to 20 sites.
The old saying ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ doesn’t quite cut it for Geronimo Inns founder Rupert Clevely, who clearly prefers a different version — ‘if it ain’t broke, it’s still worth tinkering with’.
Hertfordshire brewer and pub operator McMullen’s has reported a 24% rise in profits before tax and exceptional items to £7.3m in the year to 1 October 2011, but said the sector’s tax and regulatory burden is forcing it to reconsider its investment plans.
Caught between the cultures of England and France, the last thing you might expect as a signature dish in a Channel Islands pub is a kind of giant Portuguese kebab that comes swinging to your table hoisted on a yard-high wrought-iron gibbet.
City Pub Company has secured two more sites as it prepares to launch a fresh round of fund-raising to generate c.£8m for further expansion, the PMA's sister title M&C Report has learnt.
Multiple pub operators struggling to deal with higher energy prices have been invited to attend the next meeting of the Hospitality Sector Carbon Reduction Forum, a new cross-sector initiave which offers best advice on cutting energy consumption.
Amber Taverns, the fast-growing managed operator of wet-led freehold community pubs, has reported a 3% rise in like-for-like sales for the year to 29 January 2012, as it opened 14 sites across the North of England during the year.
Kornicis Group, the London-based bar and restaurant group led by Nick Tamblyn and backed by private equity group NBGI, has obtained new funding, which it plans to use to add five sites to its existing 20-strong estate over the next 12 months.
Baa Bar, the Liverpool-based late-night bar operator, plans to double its estate to 20 sites over the next four years and expand beyond its heartland, M&C Report has learnt.
Over 100 delegates, including multiple pub operators and other key industry figures, turned out for the MA250 Business Seminar in Windsor yesterday, hosted by the Publican’s Morning Advertiser.
Labour’s shadow business minister Toby Perkins has said he’ll “make the case” to his party for alcohol duty to be reduced, but fell short of explicitly supporting the move.
The Business Growth Fund (BGF) and NVM Private Equity have announced they plan to invest £10m into Wear Inns, the north-east England-based pub operator, to further aid its growth strategy.
The Business Growth Fund (BGF) and NVM Private Equity (NVM) have announced they plan to invest £10m into Wear Inns, the North east England-based pub operator, to further aid its growth strategy.
If they love you, then you’re made,” says Loungers’ main man Alex Reilley. And the bar and restaurant company is certainly well-loved by its customers.
Peach Pub Company, the multiple pub operator, has received initial financing worth half a million pounds from brewer Molson Coors, with an option to secure more at a later date.
Tadcaster Pub Company, the northern England-based pub operator, has revealed that it has converted four of its tenanted pubs to managed and is looking to convert two more sites in the near future.
Livelyhood Venues, the London-based pub and restaurant operator, has appointed its first operations director as it announces plans to grow to 15 pubs over the next three years.
Imbiba Partnership, the investment company behind Drake & Morgan, plans to launch a new bar and restaurant concept called Darwin & Wallace with the first funds raised through its recently launched Enterprise Investment Scheme, M&C Report understands.
Batemans, the Lincolnshire brewer and pub operator, has opened its first managed pub and is looking to run more sites on a managed basis in the future, M&C Report has learnt.
Former Regent Inns executive and Momo Leisure co-owner Jeremy ‘Jez’ King has teamed up with entrepreneur David Cappendell to acquire the Norfolk-based Animal Inns business from owner Henry Watt for an undisclosed sum.
Pub People Company, the Midlands-based multiple pub operator, has signed a deal with a local brewer to produce bespoke beers that will be available exclusively in its outlets.
After hearing about Charlie McVeigh’s ambitions for his Draft House pub chain, how he aims to double in size to six by the end of this year and get to 15 by 2015, it wouldn’t naturally occur to you say, “Yes, but what else are you doing?” So, leaning...
Momo Leisure, the firm run by former Regent Inns executives David Elphick and Jez King, is in talks with around six late-night bar operators about rolling out Jongleurs comedy clubs into their outlets, M&C Report has learnt.
A multiple operator is offering customers ready meals to take home as part of its Stuff the Supermarkets campaign, in a bid to compete with the retail giants.
Forty years ago Peter Salussolia fulfilled an ambition to run his own business. Since then Glendola Leisure has become a star player among the UK’s multiple operators. But, as he tells Phil Mellows, there’s more to the company than pubs.
Piper, the private equity group, which formerly backed Pitcher & Piano and Las Iguanas, has taken a significant minority stake in Loungers, the fast-growing cafe/bar restaurant group led by Alex Reilley.
The first round bids are due by end of play today for TCG, the 96-strong pub and bar operator, which was placed on the market by its private-equity backer Alchemy Partners at the start of the year.
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