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09 April 2025
Steve Alton, CEO of the British Institute of Innkeeping (BII), has today written to the Chancellor following the stark results of their recent survey.
08 April 2025
The British Institute of Innkeeping (BII) has today called on the Government for meaningful support for pubs, not empty words, following the results of their latest survey.
02 April 2025
The British Institute of Innkeeping (BII) and the Licensed Trade Charity (LTC) have joined forces to help more businesses in the hospitality sector thrive, by supporting the wellbeing of the people wh
02 April 2025
13,000 apple trees will be planted in Somerset this week as Thatchers Cider plants a brand-new 50-acre orchard – roughly the size of 31 football pitches.
17 March 2025
Liverpool hospitality leaders are set to vote on whether to adopt a proposed £2 a night charge on visitors to the city. Administered and managed by Liverpool’s Accommodation BID, the levy could be
17 March 2025
JD Wetherspoon is set to introduce a new “gourmet range” of menu items in May, which are being swapped in for some less popular dishes. The Big Smoke, Buffalo, and Cheese Meltdown burgers will arr
14 March 2025
Brewer and retailer Black Country Ales has acquired a further pub in Staffordshire, The Bitter Suite in the city of Lichfield. The pub in Upper John Street becomes the company’s 53rd site.
14 March 2025
Graphite Capital-backed pub restaurant group The New World Trading Company (NWTC) has consolidated its management team, which has led to the departures of people director Karl Jolly and property direc
13 March 2025
Stonegate Group, the UK’s largest pub company, has placed a 25-strong free-of-tie pub investment package on the market, with a combined value of circa £26m, Propel has learned.
12 March 2025
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has warned that “chaotic” new recycling rules will cost pubs an extra £60m a year – equivalent to 5,000 workers. It said the government’s new ext
11 March 2025
Nightcap – the owner of The Cocktail Club, the Adventure Bar Group and the Barrio Familia group of bars – has promoted Sarah Miller to chief operating officer.
10 March 2025
The team behind the Southampton Arms in London’s Kentish Town is opening a second site. The Pocket in Islington, which is launching in the former Four Sisters site in Canonbury Lane, is described as
07 March 2025
JD Wetherspoon has told Propel it is “exploring other opportunities” in the franchise market – adding to its current handful of holiday park and university campus partnership locations.
06 March 2025
Richard Lewis, group chief executive of RedCat Hospitality, the recently rebranded operator of Coaching Inn Group and RedCat Independent Pubs, has told Propel that after a period of stabilisation, the
04 March 2025
Suffolk brewer and retailer Adnams has placed the freehold of The White Horse in Blakeney, Norfolk, on the market. The grade II-listed property, spanning circa 8,150 square feet, comprises a detached
