Whitbread to sell Premier Inn sites
Whitbread is to sell seven Premier Inn sites to real-estate investment firm LaSalle Investment Management for £53.8m in a sale and leaseback deal.
Archives for August 18, 2011
Licensee to pay £14,509 electricity bill
A licensee in Cornwall has reached an out-of-court settlement with energy company Opus to pay electricity bills worth over £14,000. Gary...
Christie appoints Owens to valuation role
Christie + Co, the licensed property agent, has appointed Stephen Owens as head of the company's corporate pubs, bars and restaurants valuation and advisory team.
Blue Star Pub Co pays down £14m
Blue Star Pub Company, the 400-strong freehold tenanted pub firm owned by Heineken, has paid down £14m of its original £180m purchase price in the...
Milk vending machine a great hit at pub
A licensee in Staffordshire has installed a vending machine outside his pub after the local council refused him permission to open a shop on the...
Three Tuns aims for five
Fast-growing Shropshire brewery the Three Tuns has revealed plans to operate an estate of five pubs after opening its first outlet. The company...
Jim Walsh funeral details released
The funeral of respected pub operator and industry figure Jim Walsh will take place next Wednesday, 24 August at 1.30pm at Ampleforth Abbey in York....
Is it only football that's commercial?
I have been pondering a question for a little while … it is one that will either make me appear incredibly thick (some would enjoy that) or will...
Good Food Guide 2012 Pub of the Year is named
The Duke of Cumberland Arms in Henley, West Sussex, has been named Pub of the Year in the Good Food Guide 2012 Editors' Choice Awards. Simon...
Hosts hail freehold deals
Licensees who bought their freeholds from Punch Taverns two years ago say the move has paid off with bigger profits being achieved, allowing greater...