August Card Spending Grows By Just 0.5% But Base Hospitality Sees A 2.5% Increase
Consumer card spending grew just 0.5 per cent year-on-year in August, down from 1.4 per cent in July and lower than the latest CPIH inflation…
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Drinks Sales Growth Tracks Inflation In Solid August
On Premise suppliers and operators pulled close to real-terms growth in the first half of August, CGA by NIQ’s latest Daily Drinks Tracker shows. Average…
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Wetherspoon Raises £25 Million For Chosen Charity
Wetherspoon’s customers and staff have raised £25 million to support children and young people with cancer and their families. The company has been supporting Young…
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Heartwood Collection Launches New Loyalty Scheme “Treats”
With guest retention becoming increasingly essential to pub and bar businesses, pub & brasserie company has released a brand-new loyalty app. Heartwood Inns today announced…
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BrewDog Shows Financial Recovery as Pre-Tax Losses Fall by 38%
Craft beer pioneer BrewDog has demonstrated signs of financial recovery, with the company’s latest annual results showing a significant reduction in pre-tax losses for the…
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Chestnut Appoints Charley O’Toole as Chief of Staff to Champion it’s People-First Culture
Chestnut, the East of England based hospitality group, have announced the appointment of Charley O’Toole as Chief of Staff. A new role created to strengthen…
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Investment and Premium Rooms Business Deliver Strong Like-For-Like Sales In New Year
Pubs and premium rooms business RedCat Hospitality, founded and chaired by Rooney Anand, today reports figures for the first quarter of its new financial year….
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Greene King Opens 20th Franchise Pub Of 2025
Greene King Pub Partners, the leased, tenanted and franchise division of Greene King, has opened its 20th franchise pub of 2025, marking the continued expansion…
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Chancellor Announces Budget As She Admits Britain’s Economy ‘Not Working’
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced the date for the UK’s upcoming annual budget as November 26, admitting the economy “isn’t working well enough”. The announcement…
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New Toolkit to Help the UK’s Hospitality Industry Support Biodiversity
The Hospitality Sector Council in partnership with The Sustainable Restaurant Association (The SRA) has today launched a new Biodiversity Toolkit for hospitality businesses, sponsored by…
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The Nicholson’s Pub Collection And St Austell Brewery Unite To Support Homelessness Charity Social Bite
Two leading British pub businesses have joined forces to raise money for a charity dedicated to helping people break the cycle of homelessness. Nicholson’s Pubs…
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Save the Great British Pub: A Call to Protect a National Treasure
Heston Blumenthal OBE and owner of the Michelin-one starred gastropub The Hinds Head is calling on government and licensees to take urgent action to halt…
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Over Two Decades Behind the Bar, Manager’s Passion for Cheshire Pub Shines On
Salford-based independent brewer and pub company, Hydes is celebrating one of its longest serving and most dedicated team members, Iain Craig, general manager of The…
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Hospitality Groups’ Like-For-Like Sales Flat Again In July But New Openings Fuel Growth
Britain’s top pub, bar and restaurant groups continued a flat summer of trading with a fractional year-on-year drop of 0.1% in like-for-like sales in July,…
Read more...Reform Our Rates: Over 600 Pubs Call On Chancellor To Modernise Unfair Tax System
Landlords of 613 pubs have signed an open letter to the Chancellor urging her to reform business rates to provide “breathing space to invest” in…
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