Public house - Hospitality

Brits celebrated Christmas 2013 and New Year in restaurants and pubs

16-Jan-2014 By Emma Eversham

Brits decided to celebrate last Christmas and New Year by eating out in pubs and restaurants according to the latest Coffer Peach Business Tracker which found that like-for-like sales were up 3.3 per cent on the same period in 2012.

Pubs and the Economy: Campaign launched to help beat January blues

06-Jan-2014 By Luke Nicholls

The Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) has today launched a campaign to help the pub industry tackle the post-festive ‘hangover by promoting the benefits of pubs to the British economy and encouraging more people to use their local in January.

Statutory code for pubs: Demand for action grows

19-Dec-2013 By Luke Nicholls

The debate over a Statutory Code of Conduct for pubs, which proponents argue would improve the pubco-tenant relationship, has taken another turn this week, with a number of individuals, companies and industry bodies speaking out about the issue.

Evacuate the dancefloor: Visits to nightclubs hit record low

12-Dec-2013 By Luke Nicholls

Britain is ‘falling out of love with nightclubs’, according to a nationwide study of leisure spending habits which found that visits to late-night venues have dropped to the lowest level on record.

Restaurant magazine: How can the hospitality industry tackle the recruitment challenge?

03-Dec-2013 By Emma Eversham

Restaurant magazine looks at the hospitality industry's current recruitment challenges and discusses how they can be tackled in its latest issue, out tomorrow.

BrewDog opens 13th craft beer bar, reveals international expansion plans

02-Dec-2013 By Luke Nicholls

BrewDog has today opened the doors of its 13th craft beer bar in Shepherd’s Bush as the Scottish brewer and pub operator plans to open ‘at least another five’ in the next six months.

Pub operator Spirit Group to look for 20 new managed sites

29-Nov-2013 By Noli Dinkovski

Pub operator Spirit Group plans to expand its Flaming Grill, Fayre and Square and Taylor Walker brands by finding up to 20 new sites over the next 15 months.

Marston’s offloads £90m portfolio as full-year profits grow

28-Nov-2013 By Luke Nicholls

Marston’s has sold more than 200 of its sites for £90m as the brewer and pub operator looks to cut the cost of servicing its £1bn debt and improve the quality of its estate.

Fuller's re-opens Greenwich pub as managed estate sales grow

26-Nov-2013 By Noli Dinkovski

A Greenwich pub has reopened with extra accommodation and a focus on fine dining following a six-figure refurbishment by Fuller’s.

Enterprise Inns chief exec Ted Tuppen to retire

19-Nov-2013 By Emma Eversham

Enterprise Inns founder and chief executive Ted Tuppen has announced that he will retire from the company in February next year.

Strong London market helps boost October restaurant and pub sales

13-Nov-2013 By Helen Gilbert

Britain’s pub and restaurant groups enjoyed a sales boost last month with collective like-for-likes up 1 per cent year on year fuelled mainly by a strong London market.

Loungers wins Operator of the Year at R200 2013 Awards

07-Nov-2013 By Emma Eversham

Informal food-led bar and restaurant operator Loungers has been named the Operator of the Year at the 2013 R200 Awards.

MWB Group Holdings founder to build pub estate

06-Nov-2013 By Mark Wingett

Richard Balfour-Lynn, the founder of MWB Group Holdings, the former owner of the Hotel du Vin and Malmaison chains, is looking to build an estate of pubs in London, according to BigHospitality's sister publication M&C Report.

Admiral Taverns launches social media course for licensees

01-Nov-2013 By Luke Nicholls

With social media tearing up traditional notions of marketing and sales in the pub industry, the UK's largest independent tenanted and leased company Admiral Taverns has launched a new course to help its licensees implement tools and campaigns through...

Bramwell placed in administration

01-Nov-2013 By Luke Nicholls

Bramwell Pub Company, the 185-strong managed pub operator, has fallen into administration with rival firm Stonegate already in ‘advanced talks’ to acquire around 80 of the better performing sites.

Anglian Country Inns adds fifth pub to estate

31-Oct-2013 By Emma Eversham

Anglian Country Inns (ACI), the pub and restaurant company led by James Nye, has taken on its fifth site, the Water Lounge in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire.

Revere reveals two more pubs with rooms

17-Oct-2013 By Luke Nicholls

Revere Pub Company, the premium pub format created by Marston's, is continuing with its plans to open more pubs with rooms having acquired two more sites, in Kent and Sheffield.

Local pubs diminishing as restaurants favoured for socialising

04-Oct-2013 By Luke Nicholls

With the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) recently launching a new campaign to promote the significance of British pubs, a new survey from a separate organisation has discovered that the reality is bleak, as the majority of adults claim they no longer have...

Restaurants and pubs backing Tax Parity Day report 20% sales uplift

30-Sep-2013 By Emma Eversham

Restaurant and pub operators backing last week's Tax Parity Day say cutting their prices by 7.5 per cent for one day helped boost sales by up to 20 per cent.

Entrepreneur creates Glass-Safe tray for busy pubs, bars and restaurants

24-Sep-2013 By Emma Eversham

An entrepreneur has created a new tray called Glass-Safe which allows pub, bar and restaurant staff to transport full and empty glasses to and from tables safely.

Camra launches online national pub guide

23-Sep-2013 By Luke Nicholls

In the same month as the release of its Good Beer Guide, the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) has launched its first ever national pub guide, dedicated to helping UK consumers find the best pubs to suit their needs.

Amber Taverns ramps up expansion plans with £27.5m funding deal

16-Sep-2013 By Luke Nicholls

Amber Taverns, the Lancashire-based community pub operator, is set to acquire around 30 more sites over the next three years after agreeing a major funding deal with Lloyds Bank.

Great British Pub Awards 2013: Winners revealed

13-Sep-2013 By Luke Nicholls

The Red Lion Inn, based in Cricklade, Wiltshire, has been crowned the BT Sport Great British Pub of the Year at the 2013 Great British Pub Awards.

Good Beer Guide 2014: Pub of the Year finalists revealed

12-Sep-2013 By Luke Nicholls

The 16 regional finalists of Camra’s Pub of the Year competition have been announced today, marking the launch of the 2014 Good Beer Guide.

2013's hot summer continued to boost food sales at restaurants and pubs

11-Sep-2013 By Emma Eversham

The hot summer weather continued to boost trade at the UK's restaurants and pubs according to the Coffer Peach Business Tracker, which shows a like-for-like growth of 1.9 per cent in August compared to the same month the previous year.

Spirit doubles up on Premium Pub offering

10-Sep-2013 By Luke Nicholls

Following the successful launch of The George on Havestock Hill in London earlier in the year. Spirit Pub Company is opening a second venue under its ‘Premium Pub’ concept next week having extensively and refurbished of one of its sites in Richmond.

Drinks supplies at risk as delivery workers plan strike

06-Sep-2013 By Luke Nicholls

Unite Union members at Kuehne & Nagel Drinks Logistics (KNDL) are planning to strike for 24 hours next week over jobs and working conditions, leaving drinks supplies to some of the UK’s largest pub companies at risk.

The Olive Branch, Clipsham named The Good Pub Guide's Pub of the Year 2014

29-Aug-2013 By Emma Eversham

The Olive Branch in Clipsham has been named The Good Pub Guide's 2014 Pub of the Year for its quality service and 'sublime food'.

Pub of the Future: Wi-Fi crucial for attracting more young people, finds report

19-Aug-2013 By Luke Nicholls

A report into the use of technology and marketing in pubs has found that members of ‘Generation Y’ are 67 per cent more likely than their elders to choose a pub offering Wi-Fi, yet the exact same percentage of venues still don’t offer any connectivity.

Chameleon’s change of colours pays dividend

16-Aug-2013 By Luke Nicholls

Chameleon Bar & Dining, which operates six pubs across Yorkshire and Lancashire, has reported healthy annual accounts in the year to 31 March, with turnover up and margins improved following a shift of focus towards becoming ‘destination food venues’.

Stonegate acquires The Living Room from Premium Bars & Restaurants

13-Aug-2013 By Emma Eversham

Stonegate Pub Company has acquired 13 Living Rooms sites from Premium Bars & Restaurants.

Brewing up a storm: Craft beer sales continue to climb

13-Aug-2013 By Luke Nicholls

While many drinks categories in the UK on-trade are declining in sales, craft beer is bucking the trend, with a sales growth of 79 per cent in the past year equating to 74 million pints being sold in pubs and bars across the country.

Husbands and wives breathe life back into the Dragon

09-Aug-2013 By Luke Nicholls

A consortium of local investors has stepped forward to take over the reins at one of Montgomery’s leading hotels.

Six London pubs go on the market as Convivial sells estate

30-Jul-2013 By Emma Eversham

Six London pubs, including The Mitre in Greenwich and The Lamb Brewery in Chiswick, have been placed on the market as owner Convivial London Pubs PLC looks to sell of its estate.

BBPA admits 'challenging' beer market remains as on-trade sales fall again

26-Jul-2013 By Peter Ruddick

The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has admitted the beer market remains 'very challenging' after its Beer Barometer found on-trade sales fell by 5.8 per cent in the last three months.

Peach remains confident after 'difficult' year

24-Jul-2013 By Luke Nicholls

Independent pub operator Peach Pub Company has admitted that 2012 was a ‘difficult’ period for the business as pre-tax profits dropped by 39.7 per cent to £375,128.

‘We have waited long enough’: MPs demand action on Statutory Code for pubs

22-Jul-2013 By Luke Nicholls

The Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Committee has today published a report welcoming the Government’s recent consultation on a Statutory Code of Conduct, but it warns that any more delays in bringing forward the legislation would be ‘unacceptable’.

Pubs & Charity Month: Pint-sized fundraisers raise the profile of British pubs

03-Jul-2013 By Luke Nicholls

Despite being continually battered by a perfect storm of high taxes, cheap supermarket alcohol and grim economic times, pubs across the UK remain resolute in their work with charities, raising more than £106m in the past year alone – an average of £2,742...

Strong food, wine and coffee sales push Greene King's profits up 7%

27-Jun-2013 By Emma Eversham

Strong sales of food, wine and coffee across Greene King's pub and restaurant estate over the last year helped push sales up 4.8 per cent to £1.194m and pre-tax profit up almost 7 per cent to £162m it reported today.

Brakspear to re-open Stow-on-the-Wold pub as second managed site

20-Jun-2013 By Peter Ruddick

Brakspear has announced it is to re-open reopen the Royalist pub in Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, as its second managed site.

Amber Taverns to extend wet-led pub model further south with Midlands acquisitions

19-Jun-2013 By Peter Ruddick

James Baer, managing director of successful community pub operator Amber Taverns, has told BigHospitality he believes the company's wet-led pub model could work in areas in the south of the country.

The London Edition: Lifestyle hotel brand enters UK, Jason Atherton to head up restaurant

18-Jun-2013 By Luke Nicholls

American entrepreneur Ian Schrager, the man behind five star properties Sanderson and St Martins Lane, is returning to London for the first time in 15 years to launch The London Edition – a brand he conceived in partnership with Marriott International.

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