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Biggest fall in UK alcohol consumption in 60 years
9/3/2010 11:07:01 AM
UK drinkers are continuing to reduce their alcohol consumption, with 2009 seeing the sharpest year-on-year decline since 1948, according to newly published figures from the British Beer & Pub Association from their St...
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Proposal for Scottish minimum drink price of 45p per unit
9/2/2010 12:57:08 PM
The Scottish government has proposed that alcohol should be sold at a minimum of 45p per unit.
The SNP's minimum price plan is contained in an amendment to its Alcohol Bill, which is about to enter the second stage...
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Next stage for anti-drunkenness marketing campaign
9/2/2010 12:09:51 PM
The drinks industry is launching the next stage of its marketing campaign aimed at altering young people’s attitudes towards drinking and drunkenness.
A £5m outdoor campaign with the headline message “Why let good ...
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Fairer beer tax 'would create win-win situation' says BBPA
9/1/2010 11:10:03 AM
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) said taxing alcohol according to its strength would create thousands of jobs and bring in around £250 million in extra revenues from employment taxes and corporation tax.
I...
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UK hotel managers confident despite public sector cutbacks
9/3/2010 11:15:30 AM
Looking ahead, 33% of general managers who participated in the Tri HotStats Hotel Confidence Monitor consider the most significant threat to hotel trading to be a double dip recession. In contrast, 26% of respondents ...
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Downward forecast for new hotel openings in 2012
9/2/2010 12:22:24 PM
Lodging Econometrics (LE) has just released its 2012 Forecast for New Hotel Openings in the EMEA region, as well as making downward revisions to year-end totals for 2010 and 2011.
322 hotels/67,680 rooms are expec...
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Hotel News
New hotel for Nottingham
9/3/2010 11:51:22 AM
New hotel is to be built in Nottingham with the opening of a venue in the Lace Market conservation area of the city.
The city council's development control committee has approved plans for the 65-bedroom hotel, whi...
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Bayswater’s Leinster Inn Hotel for sale
9/3/2010 11:50:52 AM
Carven Properties Ltd is selling the former Leinster Inn Hotel in Bayswater, London, with offers invited for the freehold interest of the property.
The 122-bedroom Leinster Inn Hotel, which occupies six adjoining...
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Peel grows hotel portfolio
9/2/2010 11:41:21 AM
The Peel property group has bought the Holiday Inn Express at Liverpool John Lennon Airport for an undisclosed sum, taking the number of hotels it owns to eight.
A Peel subsidiary Peel Leisure acquired the hotel fr...
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Luxury Lanarkshire hotel to be sold
9/2/2010 11:40:43 AM
Acting on behalf of Elizabeth G Mackay, Fraser J Gray and Anne O’Keefe of Zolfo Cooper, Joint Administrators of Gold Smith Leisure Limited, Christie + Co is marketing the luxury 48-bed Shawlands Park Hotel near the to...
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Berners Hotel in London up for sale
9/1/2010 10:30:18 AM
Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels has been appointed by the administrators of Berners (BVI) KPMG, to sell The Berners Hotel in London.
The west end freehold property, which is currently closed for refurbishment and is avai...
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Pub News
Tokyo Industries purchase Tru
9/3/2010 12:04:43 PM
Tokyo Industries have purchased Tru nightclub in York from Luminar. The club will be converted to its Tokyo brand and re-opened by the 22nd September.
Tokyo Industries, who own and operate nineteen live music and n...
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Amber Taverns boosts acquisition funds
9/1/2010 10:31:09 AM
Amber Taverns has secured a further £6.25m credit facility from Lloyds TSB to continue its acquisition plans of 15 pubs a year.
The latest deal takes its total credit facility to £20m.
Amber was set up in 2005 a...
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Joel Cadbury buys Bel and The Dragon
8/31/2010 11:35:39 AM
Longshot Ltd, the company that Joel Cadbury runs with long-term business partner Ollie Vigors, has bought the Bel and The Dragon chain of four pubs for around £4m from Orchid Group. The first steps for the company in ...
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All Bar One to open first new sites in a decade
8/27/2010 1:55:27 AM
The first new sites for All Bar One in over 10 years are opening next month.
The first will open at the Sir Paul Pinder site at Bishopsgate in London, and is scheduled to open on 10 September.
The other is at th...
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Wetherspoon's takes over Crouch End pub
8/27/2010 1:40:29 AM
Wetherspoon's is set to open in Crouch End - the first in more than 20 years.
The company will take over the prominent site at the corner of The Broadway and Crouch Hill - left vacant by All Bar One, which closed o...
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Restaurant News
UK's biggest restaurant to open in Croydon
9/3/2010 11:00:12 AM
The twelfth branch of Cosmo, the Pan Asian restaurant chain is opening at Valley Leisure Park in Croydon on November 13, with seating for 800 diners.
Cosmo serves Pan Asian dishes from nine countries (China, Japan...
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3G buys Burger King for $4.0 billion
9/2/2010 2:37:28 PM
3G Capital has announced it is to buy Burger King for $24.00 per share, or $4.0 billion, including the assumption of the company's outstanding debt.
Under the terms of the agreement, which has been unanimously appr...
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Carluccio's agrees £90.3m takeover by the Landmark group
9/2/2010 1:44:59 PM
Carluccio’s has agreed a £90.3m takeover by the middle eastern retail and leisure group Landmark.
The Board of C1 Acquisitions Limited ("C1") and the Independent Directors of Carluccio's plc have just announced tha...
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TRG announce "excellent" interim results
9/2/2010 12:00:55 PM
The Restaurant Group this morning announced "excellent results" in its interim results statement for the 27 weeks ending 4 July 2010 with adjusted EBITDA up 10% at £39.8m. The group said it had achieved record interim...
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New Greek restaurant at Merry Hill
9/2/2010 11:40:00 AM
Olive Oil and Oregano, the Greek restaurant chain has launched its first ever UK store at the Merry Hill shopping centre in Birmingham.
The group first launched in Northern Greece in 2000 and will open its second U...
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