The institutional bond between pubs and rugby continues, with hotel broker John Manenti taking the legendary Eastwood club to yet another Grand Final victory. Himself the veteran of over 200 first grade games, playing for West Harbour and Sydney University, Manenti has coached Eastwood to back-to-back victories in the Shute Shield Grand Final. The win […]
Last week’s Australasian Gaming Expo saw the launch of industry forum The Drop – pledging “unbiased information” and networking for hospitality professionals. The product of three long-term pub and club industry veterans boasting over four decades combined experience, The Drop offers a free weekly newsletter, product reviews, seminars and events and a job notice board.
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In the context of a watershed year in commercial real estate, the White Group has held its inaugural Connect conference and awards, and praised the “unprecedented” results seen by Ray White Hotels Australia. The sold-out Connect brought together seven group conferences across four divisions for the Group’s “most ambitious event” ever, showcasing guest speakers and
The Sydney and Kings Cross ‘lockout’ laws have claimed another victim, with the acclaimed Hugos Lounge going into voluntary administration. HLB Mann Judd reported to PubTIC that the business has lost $6 million annual turnover since the trading restrictions began in 2012, but that they still hope to sell it as a freehold going concern.
A post-card quaint Irish bar in the town of Athlone is quite possibly the oldest pub in the world. Holding the Guinness Book of World Records’ title to the oldest in Europe, Seán’s Bar has kept people fed and watered since it opened as Luain’s Inn in 900 AD. Brothers Paul and Tim Donovan have
The last of former rich-lister Robert Fraser-Scott’s hotel properties has hit the market after three years languishing under the control of receivers. Surrounded by attractions, the Boathouse Tavern was one of 18 assets seized by Ernst & Young in April 2012, and the last hotel to go to market. Significantly, local portfolio sibling the Coomera
A brawl that twice erupted during last year’s AFL Grand Final has finally ended, with the final offender sentenced to 30 months in prison. Richard Clarke has been jailed for a drunken attack on Aaron Lloyd at the Langwarrin Hotel, in the south Melbourne suburb of Langwarrin. Video showed Clarke punch Lloyd nine times in
It’s a new era at Gladesville, as Australia’s longest-serving barperson hands in her towel. Starting work as a young woman, Lily Fleming was employed at Gladesville’s main road landmark, the Bayview Tavern in the mid-1950s. Since then she has maintained order and broke in new recruits at the popular hotel until reaching the rare milestone
One of Australia’s best-known hoteliers has been awarded ‘Champion of Entrepreneurship’ in the prestigious Enrst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. Starting his career as a bank clerk, Peter Hurley began in hospitality 40 years ago in a country town called Wuddina. He has gone on to build an amazing trail of milestones, notably
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