There are likely those that have almost tired of me banging on about Kings Cross and The Bourbon, but the subject deserves at least one more hit. It was with mixed feelings this week I reported the sale and purchase of one of Sydney’s most famous pubs. After every reasonable attempt to set the example […]
Bourbon “vision” quashed as Chris Cheung sells Kings Cross icon The Bourbon to Iris Group amid trading collapse in the precinct. “It is with a heavy heart that we made the decision to put the hotel on the market,” Cheung lamented to PubTIC. “We were challenged with our master plan for The Bourbon due to
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The blood bath continues in the greyhound racing industry as an already banned trainer is jailed for intimidating a key witness. The Four Corners expose in mid-February that showed clandestine footage of trainers including well-known identities using possums, rabbits and piglets as live bait, sparked community outrage and a series of investigations. Within weeks five
Sydney craft brewers have helped bring attention to climate change by making a nasty beer – Drought Draught. Earth Hour commissioned GPY&R to draw attention to the plight of climate change and rural conditions by engaging craft beer aficionados Young Henrys and Willie The Boatman to make a beer representative of drought-stricken ingredients. The campaign
With the ink still drying on his Newport Arms acquisition, Justin Hemmes’ Merivale has leapt into Newtown with the purchase of the Queen Victoria Hotel. Very close to Newtown station on Enmore Road, the Hotel is the first inner-west venue for the leading pub group, which has been aggressively expanding its portfolio and offerings in
The publicly listed Newhaven Hotels has divested another pub from its portfolio, selling the Bateau Bay Hotel to Laundy Hotels for $11 million. Speaking to PubTIC, Newhaven chairman Fred Kelly said the timing was right. “The directors of Newhaven believe it is in the interest of all our shareholders to sell at this time and
A landmark case that saw hotel staff charged after a drunk patron died in a road crash has reached trial, but the hangover isn’t over yet. In mid-2013 Kangaroo Island resident Anthony Read crashed his ute into a tree driving from the Penneshaw Hotel, where he had reportedly consumed 22 drinks before being sold a
The Newtown Hotel is running its second annual cider festival this weekend, as crafty drinkers continue to lap up the growing category. Located in the highly gentrified and almost dangerously hipster inner-Sydney suburb of Newtown, the eponymous hotel stands on the cutting edge of the ‘trend factor’. It launched its Cider Fair last year in
Amid the noise of products and software around POS and loyalty systems, Australian company Clipp is fast becoming the option of choice for a lot of Sydney venues. Fundamentally, Clipp gives patrons a quick, convenient way of paying a bar tab, without pulling out money or cards or queueing up. Venues may offer loyalty rewards
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As businesses around the country lick the wounds inflicted on P&L by the Easter weekend, the debate around penalty rates continues to brand employers the ‘bad guys’. In terms of public opinion, the problem would largely appear to stem from the misconception that hospitality and retail businesses enjoy huge profit margins. Member surveys by the
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