After considerable resistance, ALH will soon begin construction on its $45 million redevelopment of the Parkway Hotel, having cleared final hurdles. Back in 2015 the majority Woolworths-owned Australian Leisure & Hospitality (ALH) submitted plans for a massive re-working of the Hotel site in Frenchs Forest, just 600 metres from the massive new Northern Beaches Hospital. […]
Speculation is rife Woolworths and the Mathieson family are poised to announce sell-off of the $3.6 billion ALH pubs portfolio. Senior management of Woolworths Group and Bruce Mathieson Jr are believed to be back at the negotiating table, discussing plans to de-couple the ‘Fresh Food People’ from the hotels business, motivated by the unfavourable public
Sam Arnaout’s Iris Group has snapped up another massive Sydney pub, securing the freehold operation of ALH’s high-performing Cambridge Hotel in Fairfield for $56 million. Still celebrating last month’s milestone acquisition of Manly’s The Steyne, Iris continues its rapid portfolio expansion with a complex deal on both the freehold and lease of the western Sydney
ILGA has announced the conviction of the former operator of Kings Cross’ Dollhouse, and disciplinary hearing against two ALH pubs over serious gaming breaches. In March, the regulators handed down a lifetime ban to Ulysses Flevotomos for activities at Potts Point strip club Dollhouse, the NSW Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority (ILGA) chair Philip Crawford
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Three years after on-selling the leasehold interest, Australia’s biggest pub group ALH has resumed control and re-opened The Archer in North Adelaide. Australian Leisure & Hospitality (ALH) sold the business to Bloody Mary Group’s Huntsman Hotel P/L in 2016. The new owners initially spoke of a $2 million overhaul of the heritage-listed building. But plans
Perth icon the Vic Hotel is being offered as a rare freehold going concern, as the local operator and landlord team up and head to market amid surging local activity. Established 1898, on arterial Hay Street through the west Perth suburb of Subiaco, the two-storey pub is an integral part of the precinct’s dining and
ALH’s Royal Oak Hotel is the subject of commentary suggesting the world has “gone mad” with political correctness, after a 72-year-old regular was banned for commenting on a staffer wearing shorts in a heatwave. Leonard Lee is a retired screenwriter, best known for the 1992 hit animated film Blinky Bill, as well as award-winning documentaries
The freehold interest of ALH’s Royal Hotel Sunbury has been sold on a tight return between two pub families. The Royal enjoys a prominent corner in the heart of Sunbury, around 45 minutes’ north-west of Melbourne’s CBD, in a significant growth corridor. The Woolworths-Mathieson controlled ALH Group is 15 years into the original 25-year lease,
The controversy over ALH’s gaming room practises continues, but at least one stakeholder has voted with financial results over purported ethical obstacles. Earlier this year anti-pokies campaigner Andrew Wilkie MP unveiled allegations that Australian Leisure & Hospitality (ALH), majority owned by the Fresh Food People, Woolworths, was systematically targeting big players of its EGMs in
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Fairfax has published a damning expose on the alleged workings of Woolworths-backed ALH and its approach to optimising gaming revenue through patron monitoring and inducements. Yesterday’s story in the Sydney Morning Herald alludes to a company-wide system of recording and sharing detailed information on gaming regulars, including gambling habits and conversational prompts, for the purpose
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