Clyde Mooney, Author at PubTIC

JOHNNIE MARKS 200 YEARS WITH LIMITED RELEASE AND DOCUMENTARY

Posted on December 16th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney

Johnnie Walker – the world’s most recognised Scotch – is celebrating 200 years, spawning a limited-edition varietal and documentary by acclaimed independent film makers. The iconic Scotch whisky began in Kilmarnock, Scotland, in 1820, in a small grocery shop run

LAUNDY TOPS BIDDERS FOR BIDWILL

Posted on December 14th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney

Pub king Arthur Laundy has snapped up another Top100 pub, paying long-time owner Martin Secheny $35 million for the Bidwill Hotel – the latest addition to the Laundy local area. Occupying a generous 4,300sqm block in the north-western Sydney suburb,

PRENTICE GETTING OUT OF GATTON’S COMMERCIAL

Posted on December 14th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney

Queensland hotelier Tony Prentice is lightening the portfolio, offering up the Commercial Hotel of Gatton after an unexpected 15 years. Built 1927, the Commercial is the pub “Where everyone knows your name” and one of the oldest in the Gatton-Laidley

LION GOING DRY FOR EMERGING MARKETS

Posted on December 14th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney

Lion has begun a “strikingly different” campaign to harness the market appeal for a major launch of a new variant to XXXX – XXXX DRY. XXXX DRY is described as an “easy drinking full strength lager designed to appeal to

ALH FINALLY OPENS NEW BUILD FOREST HOTEL

Posted on December 11th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney

More than a year after its announcement, ALH’s Forest Hotel at Frenchs Forest officially opened today, forming the cornerstone of parent company Endeavour Group’s $45 million redevelopment of the former Parkway Hotel site. “The day is finally here, and our

MALOUFS GET SHEARER’S ARMS OVER THE LINE

Posted on December 11th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney

Recognising the industry is back up and running, the new Malouf partnership has cemented the deal on their first Queensland operation in John Murphy and John Cornish’s Shearer’s Arms Hotel. The newly-formed North South Pub Co (NSPC) is Matthew Coorey

FREE TRAINING TO GET JOB SEEKERS INTO HOSPO

Posted on December 11th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney

As the hotel and foodservice industries continue to feel the effects of staff shortages, a new survey finds most high school students are eager to get straight into work and over two thirds are looking at hospitality. The research found

MOELIS TAKES TAYLOR SQUARE WITH KINSELAS

Posted on December 9th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney

Moelis Australia has announced another big-ticket acquisition in Kinselas Hotel Darlinghurst – unlocking plans to create a consolidated hospitality precinct at Sydney’s iconic Taylor Square. Moelis Australia Limited (MOE:ASX) has exchanged contracts with the Kospetas family to buy Kinselas for

REDCAPE TAKE TWO MORE AS DELAWARE BOWS OUT

Posted on December 9th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney

ASX-listed hotel giant Redcape has announced acquisition of both the Shafston Hotel at Kangaroo Point and Aspley Hotel in Aspley from Delaware North for $27.5 million. Delaware North is a US hospitality giant founded in 1915 that operates hundreds of

SOUTHERN SUNSHINE ON BOBBIE PEELS

Posted on December 9th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney

Victorians are making hay in the sunshine of eased restrictions as opportunities emerge and the countdown to Christmas begins in earnest. This week brought the highly anticipated move to one patron per two square metres and no cap on numbers,