Wetherspoon Reports Strong Sales Growth Despite Rising Cost Pressures
JD Wetherspoon has reported encouraging sales momentum across its estate, with like-for-like sales climbing 4.7% in the 25 weeks to 18 January 2026, though the…
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All the latest business news for pubs, bars, clubs, restaurants and hotels in the UK hospitality sector and licensed on-trade.
Almost 9,000 Hospitality Jobs Lost Since the Budget
The latest labour market data from the Office for National Statistics also reveals that hospitality employed 20,014 fewer people in December 2025, compared to September…
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Gavin Stewart is Appointed Area Manager for Croeso Pubs
Gavin Stewart, the man who has helped lead Cardiff city centre venue The Philharmonic to a record-breaking year has been promoted to area manager for…
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UK’s Biggest Hotels & Holiday Parks Urge Chancellor To Implement Hospitality-Wide Business Rates Solution
In a letter to the Chancellor, more than 130 leading accommodation businesses warn that business rates hikes will present the most significant challenge to ongoing…
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Master Innholders Opens Applications for 2026 Membership
The Master Innholders has officially opened applications for hospitality leaders wishing to join its prestigious community of hoteliers in 2026. As a standard-bearer for professionalism…
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Tax Timebomb Poses Existential Threat To High Streets, Government Warned
Small businesses in hospitality and leisure are facing three years of business rates misery with an average 52 per cent hike in bills being piled…
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UK’s Top Hotels, Restaurants And Bars Unite To Launch New ‘Help Out Hospitality’ Campaign
More than 50 of the UK’s top hospitality venues and suppliers are teaming up to attract customers and help combat mounting industry pressures this spring….
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Fullers Report Strong Festive Trading
Fuller, Smith & Turner has reported a strong Christmas and New Year trading period, achieving like-for-like sales of 8.2% for the five-week period, against a…
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Stonegate Moves to Streamline Business Amid Tough Trading Climate
Stonegate Group has reportedly brought in external advisers as it looks to simplify its corporate structure in response to ongoing pressures across the hospitality sector….
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Chancellor Confirms Further Short-Term Business Rates Help For Pubs
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has confirmed that pubs are set to receive additional short-term financial support, following mounting concern across the sector over sharp increases in…
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Scottish Budget: Business Rates Announcement Branded “Underwhelming”
The Scottish Budget has been branded as “underwhelming” in terms of business rates changes announced, according to Louise Daly, Head of Business Rates in Scotland…
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Urban Pubs & Bars Continues London Growth Strategy with Sixth Acquisition of 2026
London independent pub group Urban Pubs & Bars has announced the acquisition of The Birdcage in East London from Brewdog, marking its sixth acquisition of…
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Hospitality Set For 2,076 Closures, Without Sector-Wide Business Rates Solution
Over 2,000 hospitality venues could close their doors during 20216 according to new modelling from sector body UKHospitality. The analysis reveals that six hospitality venues…
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Hospitality Sector Unites In Call For 40% Business Rates Support
Hospitality trade groups have united in a call for a reduction in business rates ahead of next week’s Scottish budget, highlighting the huge disparity in…
Read more...Editor’s Viewpoint: A Pyrrhic Victory?
By Peter Adams, Editor, CLH News. So, the government is set to U-turn on its catastrophic business rates policy for pubs. About time, some might…
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