LAUNDY BURGER CHALLENGE TO SUPPORT BREAST CANCER RESEARCH
Laundy Hotels is supporting the National Breast Cancer Foundation throughout March, donating money from every one of their burgers sold from Boss Burgers of Sydney. Key Laundy pubs the Long Jetty Hotel, Plumpton Hotel, South Dubbo Hotel and head office
CHELMSFORD HOTEL’S INAUGURAL MULLETFEST ROCKS THE LOCKS
The Chelmsford Hotel has seen a day of all-too-many bad haircuts and international intrigue over its inaugural Mulletfest event, which took place over the weekend. Laura Johnson’s family have owned the Kurri Kurri pub since 1993, and in 2009 Laura
GRAND VIEW LOOKS TO ‘ENERGETIC’ NEW OWNER
The Grand View Hotel overlooking the Blue Mountains is looking for a loving new owner, as its long-standing patriarch throws in the towel in pursuit of retirement. Vendor Ben Tufrey has owned and operated the Grand View for 16 years,
THOMPSON SETS RED LION ON MARKET
The Thompson family has listed its newly refurbished Moorooka pub, the Red Lion, in Brisbane’s booming south. The Red Lion occupies a prominent corner block on bustling Beaudesert Road, around nine kilometres from the Brisbane CBD. Simon Thompson and partners
SALE & LEASEBACK FOR COOKE-BEAUMONT AT BLAZING STUMP
Peter Cooke and Stephen Beaumont have successfully divested title of their big-format Blazing Stump in another example of the demand for strong commercial assets in Victoria. Occupying 1,780sqm on a 5,708sqm site in the heart of Wodonga, on the Victoria-NSW
ABBOTT’S’ BEER-O-METER SOLUTION TO SUMMER
The bold and beautiful Abbotts Hotel Waterloo has unleashed its ‘Beer-o-meter’ offering hot and thirsty Sydneysiders frosty discounted and potentially free beer when the summer temps soar. Set on Botany Road, on the coal face of gentrification’s spread into the
REDCAPE’S $25m RETURN FLIGHT TO WATTLE GROVE
Australia’s most prominent gaming group has taken another step toward IPO aspirations with a return to Wattle Grove and acquisition from the Malouf family. In 2010 Hedley Leisure – the ancestral base of Redcape Hotel Group – sold the western
LITMUS TEST FOR SA BEST ON POKIES’ ELECTION
Ahead of the State election on 17 March, Nick Xenophon’s all-singing, all-dancing SA Best party has released its new watered-down approach to poker machine reform with a politicised policy set to please nobody. After two decades and three parties, Xenophon’s
WA WELCOMES LIQUOR REFORM TO BOLSTER VENUES AND TOURISM
After years of lobbying by industry, Western Australia yesterday saw the introduction of reforms heralding greater flexibility and opportunity for the State’s licensed venues. The Liquor Control Amendment Bill 2018 tabled in parliament represented the State Government’s reforms to WA’s
COUGHLAN OFFERS UP HIS LADY AS HE EYES FRANK STRONGS
Just over a year since he revived the Hampshire and made it a Lady, Paddy Coughlan has listed the inner-west local to chase opportunities in the craft market. Former Riversdale CEO Coughlan took on the lease of Camperdown’s Hampshire Hotel
