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Beefeater Closes Final 106 Restaurants as Whitbread Completes Major Hospitality Restructuring

Beefeater has this week closed its remaining 106 UK restaurants, bringing the long-running restaurant brand to an end as parent company Whitbread presses ahead with a major restructuring of its hospitality operations.

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Stonegate Group Raises £500,000 for CALM

The achievement comes on World Suicide Prevention Day (10 September), marking extraordinary fundraising efforts by pub operators, publicans, general managers, venue teams and support centre colleagues across the UK’s largest pub company.

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Hospitality Could Offer £2.3bn Economic Benefit As NEET “Experience Trap” Fuels UK’s Youth Unemployment Crisis

Britain is facing a ‘first jobs’ crisis which is costing billions of pounds a year, a new report has revealed. Analysis by Hilton (NYSE: HLT) and WPI Economics estimates that moving one young NEET…

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Trade Mark Dispute is Brewing for Cornerstone Inns CIC and Greene King

A small pub group based in Cheshire is considering going head-to-head with Greene King, one of the largest pub companies and brewers in Britain, over an attempt by the latter to block its trade mark application.

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Britain’s Oldest Brewer Takes Over Mayfair’s Oldest Pub

An elegant horse-drawn carriage drew crowds as the show-stopping centrepiece of the reopening of Mayfair’s oldest surviving pub, The Coach and Horses, following a major refurbishment by independent family brewer and pub company Shepherd Neame.

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