The burgeoning Thorpe Hospitality has orchestrated a serious shake-up, divesting flagship The Taphouse while taking on two new venues, and rebranding to become Odd Culture group. James Thorpe’s outfit first entered the Sydney pub scene with acquisition of Darlinghurst sweetheart The Local Taphouse in mid-2017. Around a year later the Thorpe brothers opened their innovative […]
By Grant Jones The Geelong Football Club has divested the Brook Hotel in south-west Melbourne to the Melbourne Racing Club in a play to ditch gaming. The venue at 215-221 Sneezes Rd in Point Cook was first put on the market in 2016, and subsequently leased to the Cats until at least 2029 plus three
The so-called ‘cowboy’ developers that illegally demolished Melbourne’s historic Corkman’s Irish Pub have been jailed for a month and ordered to pay over $400,000 in fines and legal costs. In 2016 news broke of a fire in the pub, which was not trading. Just a week later the old hotel was unceremoniously demolished over a
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
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