NEW FLINDERS HOTEL OPENS TO REVISED SYDNEY MARKET
Looking to the future, long-standing Sydney local the Flinders Hotel has reopened to a new environment in a new year. Located on Flinders Street, close to gay-central Taylor Square and just inside the wet-blanket lockout zone, the Flinders has had
PADDO PUB CELEBRITY CHEF FASSNIDGE BACK IN BANKSIA
Celebrity chef Colin Fassnidge is back in the pub game, steering the pots at the reinvented Banksia Hotel’s ‘Banksia Bistro’. Fassnidge departed his iconic gastro pub the Four in Hand after its sale in late 2015 to Mitchell Waugh’s Public
BAYFIELDS PUBS RUBY ANNIVERSARY REPUTE
The Bayfield family is celebrating its 40th anniversary in pubs, keeping up business as usual, fighting cancer and brewing ale. On 27 March this year it will be 40 years since the family took possession of the Dee Why Hotel,
SUGAR CAPITAL KALAMIA HOTEL TO MARKET
The refurbished Kalamia Hotel is on the market, in Australia’s sugarcane capital in north Queensland. Ayr is located about 90 kilometres’ south-east of Townsville, part of the Burdekin Shire, which produces the most sugarcane per square kilometre in the country.
BUDWEISER RELEGATED TO MARS
American brewing giant Budweiser recently discussed brewing on Mars at a conference in Texas, but there are more challenges than you might think – as Aussie brewers already figured out. The South By Southwest Conference took place in Austin, Texas,
COOPERS APOLOGY MAY BE TOO LITTLE TOO LATE
Coopers opened a hornets’ nest with its acknowledgement of the Bible Society’s 200th birthday – but now apologises profusely for offending liberal-minded citizens in favour of marriage equality. By offering to commemorate the charitable Society’s bi-centennial with a congratulatory message
NEW BLOOD INTO WATERLOO HOTEL
Hickey and Negas have sold their Grosvenor Hotel in Waterloo for north of $5 million to some industry newcomers looking to get in on the action of Sydney’s thriving inner-west pub scene. Former CCA executive Denis Hickey and businessman Warwick
CELLAR SYSTEM INNOVATION SAVING MORE THAN SPACE
Leading cellar gas supplier SpeedGas has released a new system improving bulk gas storage and delivery, to reduce cost and space. The Brookvale-based company began over 20 years ago supplying helium gas, and diversified into specialty gas and equipment supply
TOWN & COUNTRY OFFERS UP FINAL TWO PUBS
The Town & Country Pubs group is packing up its two remaining pubs, listing its coastal Queens and Tandara Hotels. Queensland-based Town & Country (T&C) is one part of a wider entity that is looking to build a portfolio of
RUMOURS ABOUND, BUT REDCAPE STILL IN THE AIR
Speculation around what is arguably the country’s most talked-about pub group continues, as investment banks look to realise $700m out of Australia’s smokin’ hotel sector. The A-list portfolio that makes up Redcape Hotel Group has been seeking a suitor for
