Luminar's annual profits fall by nearly a third
14-May-2009 By Hamish Champ
Luminar, the UK's largest nightclub operator, said its profits for the year to February 26, 2009, had fallen by nearly a third to £20.3m, down from...
Retail Response nets TCG deal
07-May-2009 By Ewan Turney
EPoS provider Retail Response has signed a deal to supply hardware support services to all 138 Tattershall Castle Group (TCG) outlets.
Innserve: the verdict
01-May-2009
What general areas have you been advising the pubs on?"Dispense, energy saving and cellar safety."What key changes have you advised the licensees to...
Managed pub bosses flock to MA150 event
26-Mar-2009 By The PMA Team
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23-Mar-2009 By The PMA Team
Eat Your Heart Out, the multiple lessee that was headed by Tony Carson, has gone into liquidation with creditors expected to be out-of-pocket to the...
Eat Your Heart Out collapses with debts of £700k
20-Mar-2009 By Hamish Champ
Eat Your Heart Out (EYHO), the Reading-based multiple pub operator, has gone into liquidation with debts of more than £700,000.The company, which...
17-Mar-2009 By M&C Report
The nightclub operator says it will continue to offer value-for-money promotions.
Luminar to continue with cheap drink promotions
17-Mar-2009 By Hamish Champ
Despite concerns over binge drinking, nightclub operator Luminar will continue selling cheap drink in venues where local competitors have already put...
05-Mar-2009 By Tony Halstead
Family brewer Sam Smith's says it was forced to introduce a swingeing round of cuts to pub staff hours to reduce costs following financial pressure...
Luminar loses finance chief
04-Mar-2009 By Hamish Champ
Luminar, the nightclub operator, has announced it is set to lose its finance chief, Nick Beighton.Beighton is resigning from the group after three...
16-Feb-2009 By Ewan Turney
Hartlepool brewer and operator Camerons has installed beer-flow equipment Brulines in a further 27 tenanted pubs.
Peach Pub Co appoints its first ops director
13-Feb-2009
Multiple pub operator Peach Pub Company (PPC) has appointed ex-Barracuda North of England & Scotland head of operations Paul Cutsforth as its...
Charles Wells looks to return pubco to brewery site
11-Feb-2009 By Hamish Champ
Charles Wells, the Bedford brewer and pub operator, could move its pub operation from its existing premises on the purpose built Morewood Centre back...
03-Feb-2009 By Ewan Turney
Hertfordshire brewer and operator McMullen's has acquired the Bullfinch in Sevenoaks, Kent from Geronimo Inns for an undisclosed sum. Food-led...
Novus Leisure's Xmas boosted by Tiger Tiger shindigs
09-Jan-2009 By Hamish Champ
Parties and event nights helped Tiger Tiger bar operator Novus Leisure post uninvested like-for-like sales growth of 2.9 per cent over Christmas and...
152 Orchid Group staff lose their jobs
23-Dec-2008 By Hamish Champ
More than 150 Orchid Group pub staff have been sacked after administrators failed to secure the future of more than a dozen sites of the collapsed...
Ember Inns celebrates star performers
19-Dec-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Ember Inns managers in the East are celebrating after scooping a host of prizes at the pub group's annual awards.The Essex and East Anglia districts...
Orchid Group announces financial rejig
13-Dec-2008 By Hamish Champ
Orchid Group, the private equity-backed managed pub group, has announced the completion of a financial restructuring which, it claims, will...
10-Dec-2008 By Ewan Turney
Wiltshire-based brewer Wadworth has launched a Pub School for new tenants at its flagship pub — the Green Dragon in Market Lavington. Potential...
Tuppen and Thorley say pubco debt is not a problem
09-Dec-2008 By Hamish Champ
Bosses of the UK's leading pub operators today emphatically denied their companies' massive debts were putting the institution of the Great British...
ALMR chief attacks pubco model
09-Dec-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers chief executive Nick Bish has told MPs the pubco model is not working. Bish was speaking at the second...
Orchid Group denies reports of looming administration
03-Dec-2008 By Hamish Champ
Orchid Group, the managed pub operator backed by private equity group GI Partners (GIP), has claimed reports that it is on the verge of going into...
McMullen chief urges government to resist more regulation
20-Nov-2008
The managing director of family brewer and pub operator McMullen has written to Culture Secretary Andy Burnham urging him not to pursue increased...
19-Nov-2008 By John Harrington
Peter Furness-Smith urges Culture Secretary Andy Burnham to "rise above soundbite politics" and save pubs from the massive regulatory burden
13-Nov-2008 By The PMA Team
North Yorkshire-based dining pub operator Individual Inns has added a fifth venue to its portfolio with the purchase of the Wheatley Hotel, at Ben...
Luminar banking on a busy Christmas
30-Oct-2008
Late night operator Luminar is hoping that its core 18 to 24 year-old market will put their worries aside this Christmas and enjoy the party season....
City Pub Life to go national
28-Aug-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
A successful website that has helped pubs in the South East market themselves is going national. For the last seven years City Pub Life has helped...
Welcome to Wadworthshire
20-Aug-2008
ONLY FOUR years to go to the London Olympics and they're in training for their share of gold amid the verdant dells and thatched roofs of...
Private equity firm buys Jamies wine bar sites
13-Aug-2008
Private Equity financier NBGI has backed former Chorion chairman Nick Tamblyn in a buyout of selected Jamies wine bar and Henry J Bean assets from...
12-Aug-2008 By Ewan Turney
Charles Wells has acquired the Black Horse in Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire from a private seller. The destination food outlet, which will now...
'Health campaigners condemn Luminar's 80p-a-drink plan'
03-Aug-2008
A nightclub chain which has slashed the price of its drinks to 80p has been condemned as "irresponsible" by health campaigners. Pub and club giant...
31-Jul-2008 By The PMA Team
TCG Acquisitions, the managed company owned by Alchemy Partners, is preparing to split itself into as many as five different legal entities. The...
28-Jul-2008 By The PMA Team
The award-winning Bar Sport chain, which runs four sites, has gone into administration with Butcher Woods after over-investment. Bar Sport, which...
24-Jul-2008 By The PMA Team
Luminar boss Stephen Thomas has defended offering all drinks on selected nights for 80p or 90p. The company is trialling a number of discount...
Luminar denies making informal bid for Regent Inns
21-Jul-2008 By Hamish Champ
Luminar, the nightclub operator, has denied press speculation it has tabled an informal offer for troubled Regent Inns, which runs the Walkabout...
09-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney
LGV Capital has successfully completed its acquisition of 65 Channel Island pubs and two drinks distribution firms from Sandpiper CI after the deal...
Moleface lines up next site
26-Jun-2008
Moleface Pub Company, the Midlands-based gastro-pub operator, has snapped up its second pub, the Lord Nelson, an Enterprise leasehold in Burton...
Orchid Group's backer slams whispering campaign
20-Jun-2008 By Hamish Champ
The backer of the Orchid pub group has slammed a 'whispering campaign' which has suggested the business is in financial trouble.Having acquired the...
McManus Pub Co sails off with Estuary Pub Company
06-Jun-2008
McManus Pub Company, the Northampton-based operator has acquired full control of the six-site Estuary Pub Company after buying the outstanding 50 per...
05-Jun-2008 By Graham Ridout
Punch operations director Kevin Georgel and head of recruitment Adam Smith tell Graham Ridout about their attitude to multiple managed operators A...
30-May-2008 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Cavendish Bars, the company formed out of various Luminar nightclub assets, has put 14 sites up for sale. Most of the clubs and bars included in the...
MA100 line-up revealed
29-May-2008 By MA Reporter ma.editorial@william-reed.co.uk
Next event will be on 23 and 24 June The list of speakers for the next seminar for members of MA100, the club for multiple independent retailers, has...
JW Lees: "We're serious about growth
28-May-2008
JW Lees claims a series of management changes show it is "serious about growth when most companies are cutting costs". Simon Cross is taking over as...
Suburban Bar Co creates new group to run wet-led pubs
12-May-2008 By Hamish Champ
Suburban Style Bar has created a subsidiary company to manage the 10 freehold wet-led pubs it bought earlier this year. Beacon Pub Company will run...
Luminar sells 26 sites to new company
17-Apr-2008
Luminar has agreed the transfer of 26 units to a new operator, Cavendish Bars.The disposal, which will see Luminar make a net loss on disposal of...
17-Apr-2008 By Ewan Turney
Luminar Leisure has sold 26 nightclubs for 19p each to Cavendish Bars. Cavendish has agreed to buy the leaseholds via the sale of five disposal...
Bank/Zinc acquisition boosts Individual Restaurant Group
31-Mar-2008 By Hamish Champ
Steve Walker, chief executive of the Individual Restaurant Company (IRC), acknowledged the eating out market was getting more "challenging" but said...
Novus Leisure snaps up Soho Clubs & Bars
18-Mar-2008 By Hamish Champ
Novus Leisure, the private equity-backed Tiger Tiger operator, has completed a deal to buy most of Soho Clubs & Bars (SC&B) from its...
ALMR launches annual operations managers' awards
11-Mar-2008
The Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) is inviting entries to its annual Operations Managers Awards.This year's event is being...
Suburban Style Bar Company goes down wet-led route for £4.5m
11-Mar-2008 By Hamish Champ
West Yorkshire-based Suburban Style Bar Company has shelled out £4.5m on 10 wet-led pubs, effectively trebling the size of its North of England...
