Dayuse, the world's first website where consumers can book hotel rooms for daytime use, has just surpassed 220,000 bookings worldwide, since its inception in 2010. Guests' reasons for hotel usage are changing Dayuse, which was set up by former hotelier David Lebée, recognises that guests' reasons for hotel usage are changing, and enables rooms at its participating hotels … [Read more...]
New World Trading Company joins Liverpool ONE with The Club House
Grosvenor has announced that New World Trading Company (NWTC) is to open a 7,446 sq ft bar and restaurant in a specially-created pavilion-style building on Liverpool ONE’s Chavasse Park. Called The Club House (above), the latest addition to Liverpool ONE’s dining and leisure offer will trade from two floors, including a first floor terrace. The building has been granted … [Read more...]
Luke Johnson joins Eclectic Bar Group as Executive Chairman
Eclectic, one of the leading operators of premium bars in the UK, has announced that Luke Johnson, the serial leisure entrepreneur, intends to subscribe for 3,000,000 new ordinary shares of 25 pence each in the capital of the Company at a price of 50 pence per Ordinary Share. In conjunction with the Subscription by Luke Johnson, he has been appointed to the Board as … [Read more...]
Britannia Hotels continues expansion with two hotel acquisitions
Acting on behalf of The Hotel Collection, specialist hotel property adviser Christie + Co has sold The Palace Hotel, Buxton and Basingstoke Country Hotel, Hampshire. Palace Hotel Buxton Britannia Hotels, who have a reputation for restoring Grade Listed Hotels, have acquired the Palace Hotel Buxton. Designed by Henry Currey and set in five acres of landscaped gardens in … [Read more...]
The Restaurant Group to grow to 1,000 sites?
Reflecting on a site visit with The Restaurant Group (Buy, TP: 860p), Douglas Jack of Numis is impressed by the “depth of the business in relation to management and the range of successful brands that can be rolled out to potentially take the company to 1,000 restaurants (from c.480) over the next eight years”, pointing to a number of key indicators on which this is … [Read more...]