Euros bolster Wetherspoon sales

EURO 2012 and the Diamond Jubilee are credited with bolstering JD Wetherspoon’s sales. The pub group, which has 800 outlets across the UK, including more...

Chardon reshuffles hotel portfolio

GLASGOW-based hotel operator Chardon Management is to lose four Holiday Inn hotels from its portfolio – but gain three new properties down south. The conclusion...

Intelligent way to boost values

New partnership aims to help hoteliers PROPERTY agent Jones Lang LaSalle has joined forces with hotel software supplier Guestline in a new partnership designed to...

Arran chief in mag move

THE owner of Arran Brewery has moved into the publishing world. Gerald Michaluk’s Marketing Management Services has acquired the rights to Beers of the World...

New pub is the full shilling

EDINBURGH-based pub operator The Shilling Group has launched its sixth venue in the capital. The company recently bought and refurbished the Fountain bar on Dundee...

Drinks firm takes business gong

THE firm behind Crabbie’s Alcoholic Ginger Beer and Lambrini has been recognised in this year’s Liverpool Regional Business Awards. Liverpool-based Halewood International was named KPMG...

Sixth in the city for budget firm

Travelodge to open new Glasgow hotel ahead of Commonwealth Games TRAVELODGE is to open its sixth hotel in the Glasgow area in time for the...

Bars popping up in the capital

‘POP up’ bars are proving all the rage in the capital this summer, with two venues playing host to the latest temporary bar operations....

Work starts on Dundee hotel

A NEW Malmaison hotel is set to open its doors in Dundee next summer. Work to revamp the former Tay Hotel got underway last month,...

Time to take on the health lobby

The arguments against minimum unit pricing are overwhelming IT is very rare for a politician not to take the credit for a favourable trend or...

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