Pub commandant Stephen Hunt has tempted Newcastle region locals to Shoot Your Local, offering $5,000 cash for capturing the heart of Hunter pubs. The competition welcomed both amateur and professional contenders residing in the Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and Port Stephens regions, targeting local watering holes. Entrants were asked to snatch photographic depiction celebrating beauty […]
Marcello Colosimo, CEO of Momento Hospitality Group, learnt the virtues of hospitality at a young age, working weekends at the family bottleshop, front of house, and as a kitchen hand at the Castle Hill Tavern. These days Marcello’s primary passion is community. Firing up the north-west of Sydney with some of the finest venues, he
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Making hay ahead of the coming sunshine, Sydney’s City Central Liquor Accord has launched an interactive map marking its member venues and their proximity to transport including the long-awaited light rail. As the city anticipates the heralded relaxation of the trade-smothering ‘lockout laws’ and dragged-out construction of the light rail route, which has brought chaos
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By Sam Trattles The key to successful partnerships is to first look inward, then step up to the negotiating table. Here are five areas of focus to help channel your thinking, so you know where you have flexibility. Know why you want to use sponsorship as part of your marketing mix. Are you looking for
Colonial Leisure Group’s Newtown Hotel is taking strides to stand out from the pack, giving Australia’s most famous horse race the bird in homage to its left-leaning locals. The world-famous Melbourne Cup began in 1861, growing to become the annual highlight of the Australian racing calendar, enticing even once-a-year punters to have a flutter. But
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The red centre has been set ablaze again with the fourth annual Broken Heel Festival booming and breaking records over the weekend. The four-day festival is a celebration of the appearance of Broken Hill – aka the ‘Silver City’ – in 1994 cult movie The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. This year’s festival
Public House Group’s Narellan Hotel is gorging on the success of a good ol’ fashioned eating challenge, recently daring punters to take on the 3-kilogram bucket of ‘Grim Reaper’ chilli chicken wings. The promotion is dubbed the Naz Man Challenge, and a follow-up to November’s offering of a 1-kilogram chicken schnitzel and toppings. The bucket
The competition to own James Sneddon’s Das Hund Haus bier bar has ended, with a man pocketing his own pub and Sneddon scoring a big win from the exercise. Entries closed to buy the pub’s two-for-one voucher last Thursday at 5pm, each coming with five complementary tickets to win Das Hund Haus (The Dog House),
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Accountant-turned-publican James Sneddon is set to give away his pub tomorrow in an attempt to revolutionise the treatment of STIs. Following launch of a campaign earlier this year to give away his Das Hund Haus (The Dog House) German bier café in Hamilton, over 11,000 hopefuls have bought one of the two-for-one meal vouchers that
As Solotel prepares for major initiatives in the latter half of the year, PubTIC speaks with high-profile agency man Dan Lacaze, who has been engaged as Solotel’s first Group Marketing Director. Bruce Solomon and Matt Moran’s Solotel has come to boast 30 brands in hospitality, incorporating some of Australia’s best-known hotels and restaurants. Before the
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