SALE & LEASEBACK FOR COOKE-BEAUMONT AT BLAZING STUMP

Peter Cooke and Stephen Beaumont have successfully divested title of their big-format Blazing Stump in another example of the demand for strong commercial assets in Victoria. Occupying 1,780sqm on a 5,708sqm site in the heart of Wodonga, on the Victoria-NSW

ABBOTT’S’ BEER-O-METER SOLUTION TO SUMMER

The bold and beautiful Abbotts Hotel Waterloo has unleashed its ‘Beer-o-meter’ offering hot and thirsty Sydneysiders frosty discounted and potentially free beer when the summer temps soar. Set on Botany Road, on the coal face of gentrification’s spread into the

REDCAPE’S $25m RETURN FLIGHT TO WATTLE GROVE

Australia’s most prominent gaming group has taken another step toward IPO aspirations with a return to Wattle Grove and acquisition from the Malouf family. In 2010 Hedley Leisure – the ancestral base of Redcape Hotel Group – sold the western

LITMUS TEST FOR SA BEST ON POKIES’ ELECTION

Ahead of the State election on 17 March, Nick Xenophon’s all-singing, all-dancing SA Best party has released its new watered-down approach to poker machine reform with a politicised policy set to please nobody. After two decades and three parties, Xenophon’s

WA WELCOMES LIQUOR REFORM TO BOLSTER VENUES AND TOURISM

After years of lobbying by industry, Western Australia yesterday saw the introduction of reforms heralding greater flexibility and opportunity for the State’s licensed venues. The Liquor Control Amendment Bill 2018 tabled in parliament represented the State Government’s reforms to WA’s

COUGHLAN OFFERS UP HIS LADY AS HE EYES FRANK STRONGS

Just over a year since he revived the Hampshire and made it a Lady, Paddy Coughlan has listed the inner-west local to chase opportunities in the craft market. Former Riversdale CEO Coughlan took on the lease of Camperdown’s Hampshire Hotel

PUB-GRUB AND CASK ALE HITTING THE SPOT WITH SYDNEYSIDERS

The unmistakably British Duke of Clarence in inner Sydney reports a great response to its themed pub, serving up a new home-style menu and flirting with serving warm(er) beer to Aussies. Liquor industry stalwarts Mike Enright and Julian Train are

WOMEN TRADE HISTORIC COLBINABBIN PUB LEGACY

The two women that saved the Colbinabbin Hotel have passed the baton to another two women, carrying on the legacy of the Victorian pub. The red brick pub has stood on the main road of Colbinabbin, about two hours north

L&G ANNOUNCE LICENSEE AND MANAGER TRAINING

Liquor & Gaming NSW has announced new compulsory training for all licensees and managers of licensed venues across NSW. The courses are expected to run for one day, available either face-to-face or online, with assessment at the end, and will

LAWLER BUYS FIRST PUB, HARVEY-PILON HEAD TO AMAROO

Public House Management Group CEO Ben Lawler has taken the plunge with his first title in Dubbo’s Commercial Hotel, as vendors Brett Harvey and Greg Pilon pick up a local freehold. Around five hours’ drive north-west of Sydney, Dubbo is