Pub Relations

SOLOTEL TIDING FESTIVE WISHES

Posted on November 9th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
One of Australia’s leading hospitality groups is leading a big push to get Australians back out and back into venues for the festive season, with a campaign that pits going to the pub with cringeworthy Christmas snaps. The Solotel campaign

HOSPITALITY DOCTOR’S GUIDE TO POST-PANDEMIC SUCCESS

Posted on August 24th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
Australian hospitality stalwart and honorary doctor Max Hitchins has published a guide for publicans in post-pandemic times, boasting wisdom from strategists around the globe.  Max Hitchins has been a face of Australian pubs for many decades, commonly called both the

OPPORTUNITY RISING IN REGIONAL POST-PANDEMIC

Posted on August 17th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
Signs continue that well-positioned ‘non-metro’ hospitality stands to benefit from the increased need for interstate and intrastate travel, as Australia looks to years of forced isolation in the wake of the pandemic. Both domestic and international travel have steadily trended

THE CAPTAIN SLUGGED FOR NO COOK

Posted on August 5th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
Paddington’s pioneering Captain Cook Hotel has come under fire by some seemingly spoiling for a fight, falsely accused of bowing to the movement challenging Australia’s formative years through the tweaking of its common name. The old pub was taken on

YARAKA HOTEL DECLARES EMU BAN

Posted on July 31st, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
Outback watering hole the Yaraka Hotel has made news around the world after announcing emus would no longer be welcome in the bar. The Yaraka pub is the pride of the central Queensland town of Isisford, around 1,200 kilometres north-west

LAUNDY BACKS THE FRONT OF THE BULLDOGS

Posted on July 29th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
In a synergy of the history of the two entities, Laundy Hotels has secured the Major Sponsorship for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs until the end of the 2022 season. The Laundy family joined the pub game with the Sackville Hotel in

PUB SCHOOLED OVER MISPLACED COVID JIBE

Posted on July 24th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
A pub in Sydney's east has come under fire for displaying coronavirus signs deemed racist and discriminatory, as social tension mirrors the seriousness of the global disposition and not all appreciate attempts to make any light of the situation.  The

ROY MORGAN DATA ON RISING PUB PATRONAGE

Posted on July 15th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
New research from Roy Morgan data reports that pre-COVID-19 the number of Australians visiting pubs was up 10 per cent on figures from 2016. Contrary to their liquid image, it was found the greatest reason for Aussies (over 14 years)

STUDY WARNS OF ‘ZOMBIE’ BUSINESSES ON THE HORIZON

Posted on July 3rd, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
A study of Australian businesses commissioned by Money.com.au has found an alarming number of SMEs have come close to going under, fuelling speculation on the number of so-called ‘zombie’ businesses expected to fold in September. An independent survey of 261

PUBS PREPARE TO BOUNCE BACK

Posted on June 5th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
This week has and will continue to see pubs around the country re-emerge or stretch to renewed diminished capacity in the light of eased restrictions, and operators are wasting no time executing enticements. Never in the field of public houses