The challenge to fill staff positions has hit top gear with Australian Venue Co offering sign-on bonuses of up to $1,000 in a bid to secure workers to operate the group’s 150 pubs around Australia. The second wave of the pandemic in Victoria struck a second blow when operators began reopening to find a critical […]
Oscars Hotels has sold the once infamous Plantation Hotel for around $10 million to a Sydney publican and new entrant to the industry. The large-format Plantation occupies a prominent 3,000sqm lot in Coffs Harbour, providing an oversized bar with multiple service points, popular bistro, gaming room with 15 machines and attractive beer garden all under
Johnnie Walker – the world’s most recognised Scotch – is celebrating 200 years, spawning a limited-edition varietal and documentary by acclaimed independent film makers. The iconic Scotch whisky began in Kilmarnock, Scotland, in 1820, in a small grocery shop run by a Mr John Walker. To celebrate the brand’s 200th birthday, the limited-edition John Walker
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Pub king Arthur Laundy has snapped up another Top100 pub, paying long-time owner Martin Secheny $35 million for the Bidwill Hotel – the latest addition to the Laundy local area. Occupying a generous 4,300sqm block in the north-western Sydney suburb, the Bidwill Hotel offers a spacious public bar with single service point, gaming with 30
Queensland hotelier Tony Prentice is lightening the portfolio, offering up the Commercial Hotel of Gatton after an unexpected 15 years. Built 1927, the Commercial is the pub “Where everyone knows your name” and one of the oldest in the Gatton-Laidley LGA, 92 kilometres west of Brisbane and home to around 1,500 people. The Commercial offers
Lion has begun a “strikingly different” campaign to harness the market appeal for a major launch of a new variant to XXXX – XXXX DRY. XXXX DRY is described as an “easy drinking full strength lager designed to appeal to the next generation of beer drinkers” and the release campaign has been specifically tailored to
More than a year after its announcement, ALH’s Forest Hotel at Frenchs Forest officially opened today, forming the cornerstone of parent company Endeavour Group’s $45 million redevelopment of the former Parkway Hotel site. “The day is finally here, and our doors are OPEN!” came the cry on social media. Built to replace popular live music
Recognising the industry is back up and running, the new Malouf partnership has cemented the deal on their first Queensland operation in John Murphy and John Cornish’s Shearer’s Arms Hotel. The newly-formed North South Pub Co (NSPC) is Matthew Coorey and Richard Malouf, in partnership with Ed and Justin Malouf of Royal Hotels fame in
As the hotel and foodservice industries continue to feel the effects of staff shortages, a new survey finds most high school students are eager to get straight into work and over two thirds are looking at hospitality. The research found 83.80 per cent of school leavers are not going to have a “gap” year, due
Moelis Australia has announced another big-ticket acquisition in Kinselas Hotel Darlinghurst – unlocking plans to create a consolidated hospitality precinct at Sydney’s iconic Taylor Square. Moelis Australia Limited (MOE:ASX) has exchanged contracts with the Kospetas family to buy Kinselas for $45 million, following the investment bank’s very recent purchase of the Courthouse Hotel on the
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