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MASSIVE AUSTRALIAN JOHNNIE WALKER CAMPAIGN TAKES ‘THE NEXT STEP’

Posted on March 26th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney

Diageo has launched its biggest national brand campaign for a decade, cementing the lucrative Scotch market with an evolution of the iconic Keep Walking and what that means in Australia in 2018. Whiskey and Scotch in particular are growing categories

AUSTRALIA’S FIRST CROWD-FUNDED PUB NOW OPEN

Posted on March 23rd, 2018 by Clyde Mooney

The Sporting Globe Plenty Valley has burst open, the result of an “overwhelming” response to the group’s idea of Australia’s first crowd-funded pub. Courtesy of new crowdfunding legislation passed late last year, The Sporting Globe (TSG) launched a campaign through

O’HARA LISTS BATHURST’S KELSO HOTEL

Posted on March 23rd, 2018 by Clyde Mooney

Liam O’Hara has reluctantly listed his thriving Kelso Hotel in Bathurst, as he looks to develop other businesses and close to 100 villas. Member of the industry stalwart O’Hara family, Liam has owned what was the only pub in the

REILLY UNVEILS SYDNEY PARK HOTEL’S BOUTIQUE ACCOMMODATION

Posted on March 23rd, 2018 by Clyde Mooney

Ray Reilly has built upon his golden triangle, unveiling stage two of three at the landmark Sydney Park Hotel, bringing a new suite of boutique accommodation into his harem. Irish-born Reilly bought the Sydney Park Hotel mid-2016, not long after

CUB LASHED FOR PICKING ON REDHEADS

Posted on March 23rd, 2018 by Clyde Mooney

Carlton & United Breweries has been chastised and ordered to cease a campaign for its Rusty Yak Gingery Ale, after the ad was found to “vilify” people with red hair. The Advertising Standards Bureau received many complaints after the ad

JDA TAKES FULL OWNERSHIP AT AUCTION OF PADSTOW PARK

Posted on March 21st, 2018 by Clyde Mooney

Following an international EOI campaign, the Padstow Park Hotel has sold under the hammer to incumbent operators JDA Hotels. The Padstow was purchased in 2014 by White & Partners for $13.7 million from Coles’ Spirit Hotels, with John Feros’ JDA

WINEMAKER TEMPTED INTO LEURA’S ELEGANT ALEXANDRA

Posted on March 21st, 2018 by Clyde Mooney

A former publican turned winemaker is back in the game after snapping up Leura’s beautiful Alexandra Hotel, in the lower Blue Mountains, outside of Sydney. Once upon a time, Greg Perrett was proprietor of the Bellbird Hotel in the Hunter

AGE 2018 MORE BUSINESS AND GAMING

Posted on March 21st, 2018 by Clyde Mooney

The AGE is reminding hotel operators that the Australasian Gaming Expo is all the best new gaming technology in one place, but also everything else hospitality, and this year with an expanded seminar program. The 2018 Australasian Gaming Expo (AGE)

HURLEYS CELEBRATE NO “X” WITH NEW SA PREMIER MARSHALL

Posted on March 19th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney

People and pubs across South Australia are celebrating a comfortable win by the Liberal party at the weekend’s State election, with a resounding “no” to Nick Xenophon’s anti-pokies SA Best party. In the aftermath of the Tasmanian election, just two