Peach Pubs
Coverage of estate strategy, team culture, and F&B development at a gastropub group focused on delivering quality food, service, and community-led hospitality. This section explores site activity, sustainability practices, leadership updates, menu direction, and guest experience, offering insight for operators, chefs, and hospitality professionals tracking premium pub models that blend local sourcing, chef-led kitchens, and values-driven growth.
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Oct- 2025 -24 OctoberPubs and Bars
Revel Collective launches strategic review amid weak trading
The Revel Collective has launched a strategic review that could lead to a sale of the company or parts of its business after continued weak trading and rising costs. The board of the premium bar and gastro pub operator said it was considering “all options”, including a formal sales process…
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Jul- 2025 -30 JulyPubs and Bars
Revel Collective FY25 revenues fall amid tough trading conditions
The Revel Collective has reported a fall in revenues to £117.1m for the year to 28 June 2025, down from £149.5m in the previous year. On a like-for-like basis, group revenues declined 7.9% to £113.2m, compared with £122.9m in financial year 2024. Despite the wider downturn, the group’s Peach Pubs…
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Jun- 2025 -11 JunePeople
The Revel Collective appoints new CFO
The Revel Collective, an operator of premium bars and gastro pubs, trading mainly under the Revolution, Revolución de Cuba and Peach Pubs brands, has appointed Matthew Fowler as chief financial officer, effective 16 June. Fowler is an experienced public markets chief financial officer, having most recently held the same position…
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Mar- 2025 -27 MarchPubs and Bars
The Revel Collective CFO to exit
The Revel Collective has announced that Danielle Davies, its chief financial officer, has tendered her resignation to take up another opportunity. Davies will be leaving the business during the summer, focusing until then on the delivery of the group’s full year results and the effective transition of her responsibilities. Prior…
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4 MarchPubs and Bars
The Revel Collective H1 sales fall 22% amid bar brands challenges
The Revel Collective has reported that sales for the 26-week period to 28 December 2024 were 22% lower at £64.2m than in the same period last year, due to “challenging” conditions in bar brands which made recovery “slower than expected”. The fall in sales reflects a “significant” reduction of venues…
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Jan- 2025 -31 JanuaryRestaurants
Loungers agrees to £354.4m Fortress takeover deal
Loungers has revealed that 94% of its shareholders have voted in favour of accepting Fortress Investment Group’s £354.4m takeover bid. News comes after Fortress submitted a revised deal after its first attempt of 310p a share was opposed by Loungers shareholders. The revised deal of 325p implies an enterprise value…
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23 JanuaryPubs and Bars
The Revel Collective sees strong Christmas sales but warns of £4m Budget impact
The Revel Collective has reported “robust” festive trading but has warned that the changes announced in the annual Budget will have a £4m impact on its annual profit. For the weeks from 7 December 2024 to 3 January 2025, the group saw its group like-for-like sales increase by 1.6%. Prebooked…
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Oct- 2024 -25 OctoberAnalysis
The Revel Collective’s journey through four rebrands
The Revel Collective has only recently announced this latest reinvention. But this is not the first time it has happened. Tracing its inception back to 1991 in Greater Manchester, the group we know today has gone by – in chronological order – Inventive Leisure, The New Inventive Bar Group, Revolution…
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22 OctoberNews-In-Brief
Today’s news in brief – 22/10/24
The Revel Collective has seen its FY losses before tax widen to £36.7m. The group said that the result was mainly due to non-cash exceptional impairment charges from its restructuring plan. Despite strong festive trading and the annualisation of the acquisition of Peach Pubs, the closure of 13 loss-making bars…
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22 OctoberNews
The Revel Collective FY losses widen to £36.7m
The Revel Collective, former Revolution Bars Group, has seen its loss before tax widen to £36.7m in its preliminary results for the year ended on 29 June. The group said that the result was mainly due to non-cash exceptional impairment charges from its restructuring plan. Despite strong festive trading and…
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