Young & Co’s Brewery will rebrand its Young's managed estate of 125 pubs over the next 24 months, as well as the range of ales it licenses to Charles Wells.
City Pub Company, the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS)-funded pub operator founded by Clive Watson and David Bruce, has appointed chief executives to its two operational arms, so far raised £9.6m through its most recent round of fundraising and acquired...
Rushmore Group, the Jonathan Downey-led members’ clubs, bars and restaurant operator, has netted a further £500,000 through crowd-funding website Crowdcube.
The City of London Corporation – the municipal body for the Square Mile – is introducing a ‘code of good practice’ and ‘traffic light system’ for licenced premises this April.
Maclay Group, the Scottish pub and bar operator, is homing in on three more acquisitions as it looks to have a rolling programme of five or more each year, managing director Steve Mallon has told M&C Report.
McMullen, the Hertfordshire-based brewer and pub operator, is offering four pubs on a ‘try-before-you-buy’ one-year agreement with reduced rent for the first six months.
Lucy Knowles has stepped down as managing director of Corney & Barrow, the City of London-based wine bar operator, after 17 years, with Ed Gardner, group business development director at Corney & Barrow Group, which includes its wine and spirits...
TCG plans to invest in 20 sites during its current financial year after the company’s main backer Irish Bank Resolution Corporation extended its banking facilities for a further 18 months.
Orchid’s Pizza Kitchen & Bar (PKB) concept could “comfortably” grow to 100 sites across the country, commercial and HR director Simon Dodd has told M&C Report.
New Incentive Leisure chief executive Mark McQuater has said that the Revolution Vodka Bar operator has the potential to become a "significant-scale operation" and he will look to make acquisitions.
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Carvery Heaven, the Midlands-based pub carvery operator, has opened its sixth site after taking a lease with Star Pubs & Bars on the Ashfields Hotel at Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
Luminar, the nightclub company, is to spend c£4m transforming its Oceana brand by giving it a third room featuring a “more sophisticated” music genre, chief executive Peter Marks has told M&C Report.
Steve Richards, who has overseen the impressive growth of Novus Leisure, has been singled out by his peers as the stand-out individual in the eating-out and drinking-out market.
Managed pub operator TCG has recognised 17 individuals working in its pubs and bars as well as operations and head office teams, at its annual Awards, held earlier this week in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Pub operators have been encouraged to build relationships with their banks “before they need to” and make sure that the relationship is “multi-layered”.
Inventive Leisure, the Revolution Vodka Bar operator, has found that increasing the level of employee engagement in the business by just 1.5% helps reduce staff turnover by 10%.
Charles Wells, the brewer and pub operator, is to roll out a scheme whereby the company has access to tenants’ profit & loss accounts to help it identify more easily how to improve trade and margins.
Bowmark Capital, the private equity backer of Las Iguanas, the Latin American high-street restaurant chain, is one of the remaining bidders for Drake & Morgan, the highly-regarded bar-restaurant operator, M&C Report understands.
Another subsidiary of Yellowhammer Bars, the bar and nightclub operator, has given notice of its intention to appoint administrators, M&C Report has learnt.
Managed pub company Orchid has created a new umbrella group of quality pubs called ‘Do Drop Inns’ which will replace its current Modern British pubs brand.
Lord Peter Daresbury, the former head of pubs group Greenalls and ex-La Tasca finance director Martin Evans, have taken minor equity stakes in and joined the board of Pesto, the north west-based pub and restaurant chain owned by La Tasca founder Neil...
Be At One, the cocktail bar chain, has agreed a new £4m banking facility and secured three new sites, including its first outside the capital, M&C Report understands.
Brewdog, the Scottish brewer and pub operator, has submitted a licence application for a new site in London’s Farringdon in what appears to be a partnership venture with Danish brewer Mikkeller.
Charles Wells, the Bedford-based brewer and pub operator, hopes to continue acquisitions at a similar rate this year and has bought its ninth pub in France, chairman Paul Wells has told M&C Report.
Charles Wells, the brewer and pub operator, has reported a 10% fall in pre-tax profit to £6m in the year to 29 September as the impact of losing income from beer brands Red Stripe and Corona was felt.
Stonegate, the managed pub operator, has invested £2m across its 38 pubs and nightclubs in the West Midlands in the past year, creating 63 jobs in the process.
Loungers, the fast-growing café/bar-restaurant group backed by private equity firm Piper, has opened a fifth site under its Cosy Club brand in Cardiff, its biggest to date and 28th overall.
Red Oak Taverns, the company set up by two former associates of Robert Tchenguiz, is seeking tenants for the first handful of pubs it has invested in out of the 32 it acquired at the start of this year.
A mixture of private equity groups and trade buyers are believed to have shown an interest in Drake & Morgan, the highly-regarded bar-restaurant operator.
Eclectic Clubs & Bars, the Avanti Capital-backed operator, is developing a third strand to its operations with plans for a new cocktail bar brand called Dirty Blonde.
Novus Leisure, the premium bar and restaurant operator, has reported a 50% increase in EBITDA to £16.7m for the year to 27 June 2012, and said it was engaged in a “number of processes” regarding adding further sites to its 52-strong estate.
Truman’s Brewery, the London-based enterprise re-established in 2010 by Michael-George Hemus and James Morgan, is eyeing plans to establish a pub estate after securing a new brewery site.
Thorley Taverns, the Kent-based pub, restaurant and hotel operator, has placed a couple of sites on the market and is planning some major refurbishments after seeing its pre-tax losses halve in the year to 30 June.
McManus Pub Group, the Northamptonshire-based pub operator, is looking into funding options as it plans expansion, commercial director Chris Wright has told M&C Report.
Arran Brewery, the company formed by the merger of two Scottish brewers, has secured a site in central Glasgow for its first craft-beer bar and told M&C Report it wants to open “as many as we can”.
The Kurnia Group has sold its last remaining outlet, the Cloud Bar, marking the end of the Lincolnshire-based group’s retailing business, which is led by operator Michael Kheng.
Cirrus, the investment vehicle launched to back a premium estate of freehold pubs with rooms, has acquired two pubs from British Country Inns (BCI), the Enterprise Investment Scheme-backed pub company, for an undisclosed sum.
