HOSPITALITY PACKAGES May 10, 2012 FRIDAY 8TH JUNE The Ultimate Club Package offers private or shared tables of 8, 10 or 12 Veuve Clicuot Champagne reception with canapes at The Hurlingham Club. There’s a sumptuous lunch at The Hurlingham Club with selected complimentary wines, coffee and chocolates. Full Afternoon Cream Tea in private VIP pitch side enclosure. All day complimentary [...]
ANALYST VIEWS DID SPIRIT’S HALF-YEAR RESULTS MEET EXPECTATIONS? April 18, 2012 PAUL HICKMAN PEEL HUNT Results close to our expectation leave the business model continuing in strong growth, beating most of the pub sector. Technical downgrades may create some short-term weakness, and this represents a buying opportunity. Current trading continues strong, although no numbers are given as they would be artificially high, reflecting the Easter holiday. [...]
ANALYST VIEWS DID SPIRIT’S HALF-YEAR RESULTS MEET EXPECTATIONS? April 18, 2012 PAUL HICKMAN PEEL HUNT Results close to our expectation leave the business model continuing in strong growth, beating most of the pub sector. Technical downgrades may create some short-term weakness, and this represents a buying opportunity. Current trading continues strong, although no numbers are given as they would be artificially high, reflecting the Easter holiday. [...]
FOOD & DRINK NEWS April 3, 2012 Wine website launches Lot 18, a groovy members’ only wine website stocking everything from Château Pontet-Canet Pauillac 1995 to Francis Ford Coppola’s Inglenook Rubicon Estate Blancaneaux 2009, has recently launched in the UK. If you fancy access to wines that are a little harder to find, at good prices for a limited period, it’s probably [...]
FOOD & DRINK NEWS April 3, 2012 Wine website launches Lot 18, a groovy members’ only wine website stocking everything from Château Pontet-Canet Pauillac 1995 to Francis Ford Coppola’s Inglenook Rubicon Estate Blancaneaux 2009, has recently launched in the UK. If you fancy access to wines that are a little harder to find, at good prices for a limited period, it’s probably [...]
Trading hurdles at this summer’s Games July 16, 2012 LOOKING ahead to the start of the Olympic Games, there is no end of attempts to make tie-ins – official or not – with the festival of sport. But who are going to be the real winners and losers in business this summer? Much was made of the effects of the Jubilee celebrations on high [...]
Jubilee weekend highlight: the ultimate Royal pageant May 29, 2012 Without doubt, the focus of the weekend is the Jubilee Pageant flotilla on Sunday 3 June, running from Putney past Tower Bridge. The procession will be led by the Gloriana, a £1m barge built for the occasion, with 18 oarsman including Olympic athletes Sir Steve Redgrave and Sir Matthew Pinsent. The flotilla is so grand [...]
Joe Lewis eyes a takeover of pub chain Mitchells & Butlers September 12, 2011 FOREX billionaire Joe Lewis confirmed he is considering taking control of pub landlord Mitchells & Butlers yesterday in a deal that could value the firm at more than £940m. Lewis, Mitchells & Butlers’ biggest shareholder with a 22.8 per cent stake through his investment vehicle Piedmont, said he may offer to buy the remainder of [...]
Joe Lewis eyes a takeover of pub chain Mitchells & Butlers September 12, 2011 FOREX billionaire Joe Lewis confirmed he is considering taking control of pub landlord Mitchells & Butlers yesterday in a deal that could value the firm at more than £940m. Lewis, Mitchells & Butlers’ biggest shareholder with a 22.8 per cent stake through his investment vehicle Piedmont, said he may offer to buy the remainder of [...]
Enterprise Inns rockets on steady revenue rises February 9, 2012 ROBERT Walker, the chairman of Travis Perkins, was appointed chairman of Enterprise Inns yesterday as the UK’s biggest pub landlord revealed revenue increases. Average income per pub grew one per cent on a like-for-like basis for the 18 weeks to 4 February, while the average pub upped profits by five per cent. Beacon delivered the [...]