Union Hanover Securities will have its first extended-stay Urban Villa hotel trading in November after it acquired 100 serviced apartments from Barratt London at its Great West Quarter (GWQ) scheme in Brentford. Only last month, hotel developer and operator Union Hanover unveiled a new team and a substantial equity injection, with which it announced it will grow its £350m … [Read more...]
Search Results for: hotel acquisition
Free Advice at the Buell Business Advice Clinic
Hotelympia has partnered with hospitality consultants and recruiters the Buell Group to offer free specialist business advice to visitors across all four days of the show (28 April-1 May). Places are going fast for the Buell Business Advice Clinic – located in the Technology Section at Hotelympia – offering ‘money can’t buy’ one-to-one, specialist mentoring on some of the … [Read more...]
Fuller’s adds two new riverside sites
Fuller, Smith & Turner P.L.C., the London brewer and premium pub company, has completed the purchase of two new freehold sites on the banks of the River Thames. A site in Fulham Reach will open later in 2014 and a second new site in Greenwich will open in early 2015. The Tideway The Fulham Reach site is part of a new development and will include a large, south-facing … [Read more...]
Celebrity chefs to host Culinary Journeys on Belmond British Pullman
A new series of pop-up evenings aboard Belmond British Pullman will be hosted by an array of award-winning celebrity chefs, together with Executive Head Chef Robbie Gleeson. The line-up includes household names and will bring cuisine from all over the globe to the 1920s vintage carriages of London’s iconic train, sister train to the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express. ‘Pub food’ … [Read more...]
The Old Ship: second to set sail under Realpubs
The Old Ship Inn in Hackney has been sold by Davis Coffer Lyons - the leisure specialists - to Urban Pubs & Bars Ltd - the new company set up by the founders of Realpubs, Malcolm Heap and Nick Pring, last year (2013). This purchase follows the opening of the company’s first site Whippet Inn in Kensal Rise last month. Urban Pubs & Bars is now looking to grow an estate … [Read more...]