Brown’s Hotel, the 17th century coaching inn in Tavistock, Devon has been acquired by JD Wetherspoon for its burgeoning, now 30-plus strong, hotel brand. The 21-bedroom, award-winning, coaching inn was sold by specialist property adviser Christie + Co.off a guide price of £1.5 million for the freehold. In addition to being Grade II listed, Brown’s Hotel holds a 4-Star … [Read more...]
Travelodge looks for 10 sites in Scotland
Travelodge has announced that it is continuing to expand in Scotland and is looking for ten new hotel sites across the country. This represents an investment of £75 million and means the creation of 200 new jobs, including the following: Hotel Manager, Assistant Hotel Manager, Receptionists, Housekeeper and Guest Room Cleaners. Travelodge introduced the budget (value) hotel … [Read more...]
Pubs get ‘Tour Fever’ with Team Sky
Pubs along the route of the Tour de France Grand Depart showed their support for Team Sky, donning the black and blue colours of Chris Froome and his teammates. Once in a lifetime opportunity Sky supplied a selection of pubs across all three stages of the Tour with bunting, banners and branding in the build-up (pictured above) and throughout the three days that the … [Read more...]
Casual Dining wins Best Trade Show Award
Casual Dining’s organiser Diversified Communications UK is celebrating a big win at the exhibition industry’s annual AEO Excellence Awards, just four months after the show first made its debut at the Business Design Centre in London. Best Tradeshow Exhibition under 2,000sq.m Casual Dining – the UK’s first dedicated trade event for the multiple and independent pub and … [Read more...]
Wetherspoon reduces opening hours in response to late night levy
J D Wetherspoon plc has issued a pre-close statement prior to the end of the current financial year on 27 July 2014. Their preliminary results are due to be announced on 12 September 2014. Current trading For the 10 weeks to 6 July 2014, like-for-like sales increased by 4.9%, and total sales increased by 10.3%. In the year to date (49 weeks to 6 July 2014), like-for-like … [Read more...]