Australia’s media watchdog has fined Tabcorp millions for breaches of anti-spamming laws after it sent thousands of text messages to VIP customers. The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) penalised Tabcorp Holdings Limited (ASX:TAH) $4,003,270 after conducting an investigation that found the company had sent over 5,700 marketing messages to customers in its VIP program. […]
Ayr’s landmark Queens Hotel has reopened its doors following an extensive renovation, reigniting community passion for the storied venue. Positioned prominently at the corner of Queen and Edwards Streets, the Queens Hotel is the city’s oldest hotel and has been a local institution since its original construction in 1892. At one stage it featured landscaped
Pub brewer Mountain Culture has finalised the deal to acquire Fox Friday, adding three new venues to the stable as it looks to connect with fans of its chart-topping beers in person, at the pub. After major financial challenges all too common in the craft beer sector, Fox Friday Brewing and its subsidiaries went
Melbourne hotelier Marcus Johns is looking to divest the operation of the Westernport Hotel in Hastings, as Victoria’s gaming market enters an upswing. The Westernport is a handsome mostly two-storey pub, established in 1890. It holds a commanding corner in Hastings’ High Street retail precinct, in Victoria’s coveted Mornington Peninsula, a stone’s throw from
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Jim Knox is divesting his big-format Gem Hotel in Griffith, described as a “trophy-grade” asset believed to be the highest-performing and most profitable pub sent to market in regional NSW. The large hotel resides on a commanding 2,547sqm site in the heart of the CBD, fitted out with a sophisticated interior design by Paul Kelly.
New research has focused on how Aussies feel about US-style tipping in venues, finding most not embracing the concept, saying it has “no place” in Australia. The survey by Pureprofile was commissioned by Money.com.au, garnering a nationally representative sample of more than 1,000 Australians, by gender, age, and location. The project asked participants how they
AVC is evolving the celebrated former Crafty Squire in Melbourne’s CBD into a new four-level pub with an old name, through a lavish $6.5 million transformative renovation and new Carlton Draught bar. The Crafty Squire has been a landmark venue, on the bustling corner of Melbourne’s Russell and Little Collins Street, since 2015. It
The Exchange Hotel in Kyogle is being sold by Ashton Waugh’s Watering Hole Hotels, presenting a well-rounded business in a growing northern rivers municipality. Set on a high street corner of Summerland Way, the two-storey brick hotel includes a popular public bar, bistro, well-equipped commercial kitchen, dining room, function room, and expansive beer garden and
A gaming manager is one of three people being sentenced over the staged theft of $320K from the Golden Fleece in Melton, after police found instructions and a map in the defendant’s homes. According to documents presented in Court, in the early hours of 12 October 2023 Andrew Cini gained entry to the Hotel in
Police have begun no less than two investigations after a 17-year-old girl armed with a knife was shot in the beer garden of a Townsville pub. Responding to a report that a young woman was armed and making threats, officers were dispatched to the West End Hotel, around 5:30pm on Tuesday. Going around to the
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