St Austell Brewery
Reporting on strategy, estate activity, and F&B performance at a long-established brewing and hospitality group with operations across the South West. This section covers pub and hotel investments, beer portfolio developments, leadership updates, and guest experience initiatives, offering insight for hospitality professionals tracking regionally rooted operators balancing tradition, innovation, and growth across on-trade and retail channels.
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Oct- 2023 -13 OctoberNews
Today’s news in brief – 13/10/23
Brakspear is investing £2m to refurbish two leased and tenanted pubs in partnership with pub companies Little and Large and Friendship and Beer. These agreements exemplify Brakspear’s commitment to its leased and tenanted estate, recognising the value of partnering with talented operators. The agreements are structured as turnover tenancies, aligning…
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13 OctoberPubs and Bars
St Austell Brewery partners with food waste app
St Austell Brewery has announced its partnership with a food waste app, Olio, to give away surplus food from its South West pubs. Olio is a local sharing app which helps businesses to reduce food waste by re-distributing whatever’s left at the end of each day to nearby residents, by…
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Sep- 2023 -11 SeptemberPubs and Bars
St Austell Brewery acquires The Bath Pub Company
St Austell Brewery has announced the acquisition of The Bath Pub Company, further growing and strengthening its 184-strong West Country pub estate. In the deal, St Austell has taken on the operation of four of Bath’s most popular pubs – Locksbrook Inn, The Moorfields, The Hare and Hounds, and The…
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Apr- 2023 -3 AprilPeople
UKH urges hospitality to sign new wellbeing and development promise
UKHospitality has urged hospitality firms to sign up to a new wellbeing and development promise. The new Hospitality Wellbeing and Development Promise, set up by the sector, spearheaded by the Hospitality and Tourism Skills Board and supported by Government, is designed to ensure all team-members are given the “opportunity to…
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Aug- 2022 -30 AugustBreweries and Distilleries
Pubs and brewers warn of closures amid energy price cap rise
Business leaders from across the brewing and pub industry have signed an open letter to the Government and leadership candidates warning small businesses will close and jobs will be lost if immediate action isn’t taken on energy bills for businesses. The most recent letter, sent on 26 August, signed by…
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15 AugustBreweries and Distilleries
St Austell Brewery appoints COO and commercial director
St Austell Brewery has announced the appointments of Andrew Turner to the newly-created role of chief operating officer and Paul Harbottle as the group’s first commercial director. These appointments come following St Austell’s new leadership team restructure. Turner reportedly joined the company in March 2020 as managing director of beer…
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Jun- 2020 -17 JuneBeverages
Beer and pub sector demands a ‘definitive date’ for reopening
The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) has demanded the UK government give a “clear date” for when pubs can reopen. The trade association said the UK government must give a “clear, definitive date” for when pubs can reopen to give the sector the confidence and certainty it needs to…
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