ORIGINAL PALE ALE GOES DOWN WELL AT CRAFTY PUB
CUB has consummated its rebirth of the old Tooth’s brand, with a successful tasting launch hosted by one of the original brewer’s pubs. Tapping squarely into the increasingly sophisticated beer drinkers’ preferences, the Good Beer Company (GBC) operates the Keg
NEW SOLUTIONS EASING LABOUR PAINS FOR PUBS
Amid the increasing need for smart decision-making in a competitive marketplace, hoteliers are turning to bespoke solutions to better guide intelligent solutions. The ATO offers benchmarking tools and advice for small business. As labour-based businesses, it specifies the key benchmarking
LION TAKES FARE SWIPE AT HEALTH ORG OVER “PUBLICITY STUNT”
Lion has hit back at the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE) over the uneducated lampoon of its ‘Beer the Beautiful Truth’ campaign. Initiating the campaign in response to Galaxy Research findings that most Australian (87 per cent) don’t
FEROS UNVEILS THREE NEW AND “UGLY” VENUES FOR THE SHIRE
Feros Group is breathing new life into The Shire, with no less than three new venues about to open, plus work just begun on an all-new pub. Already specialising in booming food establishments such as the award-winning Terrey Hills Tavern,
IRIS AND GALLAGHER TRADE ANOTHER PUB
Dynamic Iris Capital has traded another pub with the booming Gallagher Hotel Group, as leaseholds continue to come to the fore in the hot hotel market. Representing the fifth asset swap for the two groups, Iris has sold Gallagher the
PUB OWNERS “AT FAULT” AFTER COMMUNITY COMPLAINTS UNCHECKED
A Brisbane pub has found itself answering to a powerful community group, after neighbours voiced their complaints – but not to the pub. [caption id="attachment_4649" align="alignright" width="253"] Brooke and Adam Hill in the Birdcage on Derby Day.[/caption] The Boundary Hotel,
PUB ROBBED WITH SWORD IN WELL-PLANNED HEIST
A Berrimah pub and staff member are recovering after a cunning bandit executed a well-planned robbery, wielding a sword. Last Sunday night the manager of the Hidden Valley Tavern was confronted in the office by a masked man holding a
LANTERN SELLS $11m SURRY HILLS DOLPHIN HOTEL
Lantern Hotel Group has divested one of its best city assets to a colourful A-lister of Sydney hospitality. In October the ASX-listed Lantern (LTN) announced a portfolio reshuffle, selling three pubs as part of its “strategic review of the business”,
SOLOTEL “VERY PLEASED” AS SOLOMON DODGES MEDIA BULLET
A week after quiet-spoken hotel doyen Bruce Solomon seized the opportunity to slap some perspective on Sydney’s lockout laws debate, all is quiet on the nanny-state front. Solomon rose to accept his inauguration into the NSW Australian Hotels Association Hall
HURLEY CHAMPIONS RIGHTS OF HOTELS AND LEGITIMATE BUSINESSES
Prominent hotelier and AHA SA President, Peter Hurley, has slammed the “untaxed, totally unregulated” Airbnb, and complicit parties including the former Lord Mayor. Speaking at an AHA Christmas lunch, in front of SA Premier Jay Weatherill and treasurer Tom Koutsantonis,

