Lion has announced the next stage in its strategy to grow burgeoning brands, with the acquisition of boutique brewery Byron Bay Brewing Co. It is almost a year to the day since Carlton & United Breweries announced it was cutting ties with the NSW North Coast brewery. This came roughly a year after the ACCC […]
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The Denmeade family has divested a landmark Wollongong pub to Damian Kelly’s Peak Investments as the Illawarra region continues to run hot. After operating Wollongong’s large format Corrimal Hotel for nearly two decades, Andrew Denmeade has determined to change up the portfolio and listed the pub following his purchase last year of the Unanderra Hotel
One of the most intriguing hotel sales of recent times has concluded, with Pyrmont’s long-vacant Terminus Hotel selling for around $5 million. The heritage-listed Federation style building sits quietly on the corner of Harris and John Streets in Pyrmont, and was built in the early 1900s. It was originally named The Cooper’s Arms Inn, but
NEW OWNER NEW BEGINNING FOR ENIGMATIC TERMINUS HOTEL Read More »
The 2016 Australasian Gaming Expo (AGE) will take place in August, and reflecting the cutting edge technology of the show, a shiny new updated AGE App will further improve the visitor experience. It’s less than four months until the latest and greatest AGE, and owners of the event, the Gaming Technologies Association (GTA) report preparation
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Three men from two late-trading Melbourne music venues have been charged with drug trafficking offences, drawing attention to operator regulation in Victoria. Manager Paul Polito and Chris Lytras – believed to be the owner – of Brunswick’s Railway Hotel appeared before Melbourne Magistrate’s Court yesterday following a raid on the hotel last Friday (15 April).
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A Melbourne company is harnessing the power of technology to keep pub patrons engaged with the age-old notion of Happy Hour. Beginning as a website, The Happiest Hour (THH) was started by Chris Canty when his favourite pub stopped serving $5 jugs. After ticking along for seven years, it grew into a viable business model
Built on a passion for beer appreciation above and beyond merely brewing the stuff, 4 Pines has released another special edition ‘Black Box’ nod to beer history. GM Jaron Mitchell spoke with PubTIC about the origins of the concept and the beers. Located on Sydney’s idyllic northern beaches, 4 Pines Brewing is one of the
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Veraison Wines is a wholesale distributor of premium Australian and imported wine, founded in 2012 by Sam Biddle, following a career in sales, marketing and senior management with Australian and multi-national alcoholic beverage producers. Biddle offered PubTIC the following insight to the world of on-premise wine. The recent Wine Australia survey of wine production,
ON-PREMISE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER IN TODAY’S WINE MARKET: CONTRIBUTOR Read More »
The Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) has painted a somewhat rosy picture of the role of The Star in alcohol-related violence in Sydney. Today releasing data from the beginning of 2009 until December 2015, the figures on recorded assaults present a fairly clear before and after picture, despite covering less than two years
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Gold Coast gold mine Melba’s on the Park has sold for a sunny $12.5 million to former Sydney publican Bob El’s Leda Holdings. Vendor George Fleming had owned the Gold Coast institution for several years, and executed a massive reinvigoration that brought about huge increases in the business, including a 245 per cent increase in
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