Luminar warns on profits as young stay at home
25-Sep-2009 By James Wilmore
Luminar, the UK's largest nightclub owner, has warned there is a "significant risk" it will not meet its full-year profit expectations next February,...
Liberation Group hails successful first year
22-Sep-2009 By Hamish Champ
Jersey-based pubco and brewer Liberation Group has reported revenues and pre-tax earnings have grown in the wake of its buyout from retail operation...
ALMR welcomes mandatory code's possible delay
17-Sep-2009 By Hamish Champ
The Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) has welcomed the recommendation by Trade Secretary Lord Mandelson to delay introduction of the...
'Luminar targets 'divorced, single and dumped' market'
15-Sep-2009
If you are single, solvent and looking for love, then Stephen Thomas has a tip: go to one of his clubs. The chief executive of Luminar, the country's...
04-Sep-2009 By The PMA Team
Devizes-based Wadworth saw a 1% drop in turnover to £49.609m in its most recent year to 30 September 2008, but operating profit was down 13% to...
01-Sep-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Managed pub company Tattershall Castle Acquisitions has sold the lease of the Minerva Hotel pub in Hull, East Yorkshire, to local operator Phil Daly,...
Novus enters JV with Mahiki entrepreneurs
28-Aug-2009 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Novus Leisure, the privately-owned bar operator, is to team up with the entrepreneurs behind Mahiki, the high-profile Mayfair nightclub, M&C...
27-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
Lincolnshire brewer and pub retailer Batemans has reported an 8% increase in barrelage in its most recent year to just over 30,000 barrels....
18-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
Nightclub operator Luminar Leisure has announced a 95.5% take-up from shareholders on its plan to raise £35.75, through a new share issue. On 31...
14-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
Loungers, the 10-strong neighbourhood café bar group based in the south-west, is set to add eight new sites by the end of 2010 as it expands away...
12-Aug-2009 By The PMA Team
The group installed ten brewing vessels at its site in Hartlepool which will increase beer production from 375,000 barrels a year to about one...
12-Aug-2009 By Ewan Turney
Charles Wells has sold 11 pubs with a further four under offer of the batch of 24 it put up for sale. The rural and urban pubs range in price from...
03-Aug-2009 By John Harrington
McMullens Brewery boss has given an impassioned plea to the Government to drop plans for its mandatory alcohol retailing code.
30-Jul-2009 By The PMA Team
Hertfordshire brewer and retailer McMullen's believes that it is well-placed to buy pubs after avoiding paying peak-of-market prices in recent years....
Luminar sees 'slight' improvement in tough market
17-Jul-2009
Luminar Group has sounded a cautiously optimistic note about trading conditions in the cut-throat town centre market. Updating shareholders at its...
08-Jul-2009 By Jo Bruce
A Kiwi chef has added a third pub to his group of Norfolk inns. Chris Coubrough, owner of Flying Kiwi Inns, has taken on a private lease at the...
Jobs safe for now as Dark Star Scotland goes into administration
29-Jun-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Scottish bar, restaurant and hotel businesses Dark Star Scotland Limited has been placed in administration.The Glasgow-based company operates a chain...
11-Jun-2009 By Gemma McKenna
Average pub turnover fell by 1.8% last year as costs in-creased 4% to a huge 52% of turnover, according to the ALMR.
01-Jun-2009 By John Harrington
Six out of 10 Wadworth tenants agree their rent is fair, according to survey commissioned by the Wiltshire brewer and pub operator. A total of 60% agreed with the statement "I believe my rent is fair for the business I do".
Foundation duo to run Close sites
29-May-2009 By The PMA Team
The board of the Close Imperial Pub Company has chosen Foundation Inns bosses Ian Grundy and Gavin Drew to run its six-strong estate, following a...
27-May-2009 By The PMA Team
Peach Pub Company has secured its eleventh site and launched a search for its next joint-venture partner. The company will open its second Almanack...
14-May-2009 By Ewan Turney
Late night operator has reported a post-tax loss of £21.5m for the year after writing down the value of its investment in 3D Entertainment.
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...
