Star Pubs & Bars

Star Pubs & Bars to pump millions into T&L estate

27-Feb-2019 By Nicholas Robinson

Heineken-owned Star Pubs & Bars is prepared to pump millions of pounds into its tenanted and leased estate this year, managing director Lawson Mountstevens has indicated.

Star launches leased and tenanted business booster

18-Feb-2019 By Nicholas Robinson

Heineken-owned pubco Star Pubs & Bars has announced a raft of new tools to help tenants and lessees increase sales.

Heineken invests record £2.2m in pub upgrade

30-Jan-2019 By Stuart Stone

Heineken and the East London Pub Co have completed a £2.2m investment in the Gun in Spitalfields, London – the brewer’s largest ever investment in a single pub from its Star Pubs & Bars estate.

Amazing gesture for five-year-old with Down’s syndrome

19-Dec-2018 By Robert Mann

Staff and regulars at a pub have learned a form of sign language so they can communicate with one of their loyal customers – a five-year-old with Down’s syndrome.

76 Star Pubs & Bars sites sold to NewRiver

06-Dec-2018 By James Wallin, MCA

NewRiver has confirmed to The Morning Advertiser's sister title MCA that it has acquired 76 sites from Star Pubs & Bars, taking its Hawthorn Leisure pub arm to over 700.

Former Manchester United head chef and nutritionist to run refurbed Inglenook site

16-Nov-2018 By Stuart Stone

Work has begun on a £270,000 refurbishment of The Crown at Alrewas in Staffordshire after Inglenook Inns & Taverns signed a substantive lease with Star Pubs & Bars.

Lancashire licensee celebrates four decades at pub

24-Oct-2018 By Emily Hawkins

An 83-year-old licensee is celebrating four decades of running a pub in Chorley, Lancashire.

SI Leisure partners with Star for £280,000 refurb

16-Oct-2018 By Emily Hawkins

Operator SI Leisure will see one of its Oxfordshire pubs transformed by a £280,000 refurbishment in a partnership with Star Pubs & Bars.

£225,000 transformation for Nottingham Irish bar

02-Oct-2018 By Emily Hawkins

Star Pubs & Bars is investing £225,000 into the transformation of an Irish bar in Nottingham.

Star to hear licensees' thoughts at series of forums

01-Oct-2018 By Emily Hawkins

Star Pubs & Bars will host a series of nine regional forums this month, to hear from licensees.

Star launches health and safety system for licensees

27-Sep-2018 By Stuart Stone

Star Pubs & Bars has partnered with Shield Safety health and safety support to offer a bespoke food, fire and health & safety system for leased and tenanted licensees.

Northants licensee takes on ninth pub

04-Sep-2018 By Emily Hawkins

A licensee based in Northamptonshire has added a ninth pub to his growing estate, with the acquisition of a pub in Daventry.

Pub to honour ex-football chairman with £350,000 refurbishment

29-Aug-2018 By Emily Hawkins

A pub in Burnley, Lancashire will receive £350,000 for a refurbishment that will pay tribute to the pub’s connection to local football.

Second Kent pub for family duo

28-Aug-2018 By Emily Hawkins

A father and son duo have added a second pub to their portfolio of Kent pubs.

Imagine Inns breaks ground on £400k development

14-Aug-2018 By Stuart Stone

North-west pub company Imagine Inns has begun work on the redevelopment of the Railway at Bromley Cross, Greater Manchester, in partnership with Star Pubs & Bars.

Female licensees receive Star treatment

09-Aug-2018 By Emily Hawkins

Star Pubs & Bars treated some of its top female licensees to a spa day as a reward for their hard work in a historically male-dominated industry.

Blind Tiger Inns takes on 13th site

01-Aug-2018 By Stuart Stone

North-west community pub operator Blind Tiger Inns has announced that it will take over the lease of the Rose & Crown in Chorley, Lancashire.

Star Pubs & Bars to invest £6m revamping pub exteriors

30-Jul-2018 By Stuart Stone

Pub operator Star Pubs & Bars is to double what it spent in 2017 on pub exteriors by investing £6m in upgrading the outdoor areas of 260 UK pubs.

Star Pubs & Bars to revive pub closed after brutal attack

30-Jul-2018 By Emily Hawkins

A Croydon pub will target families and young professionals as it is set to be reopened following an assault on a refugee near the premises last year.

Bolton Inns partners with Star Pubs & Bars on West Midlands pub

19-Jul-2018 By Emily Hawkins

Multiple operator Bolton Inns has partnered with Star Pubs & Bars in the relaunch of a West Midlands pub.

Multiple operator to open sixth site following £400,000 investment

17-Jul-2018 By Stuart Stone

Austin Whelan, the man behind the Irish pub chain Whelan’s, is to open a fourth Whelan’s pub in Croydon at the end of August – his sixth site in partnership with Star Pubs & Bars.

Rotational craft beer scheme for Star Pubs & Bars

11-Jul-2018 By Emily Hawkins

Star Pubs & Bars has introduced a new scheme that will allow its pubs to widen their variety and feature changing guest beers.

Heineken to make £44m investment in UK pub estate

18-Jun-2018 By Stuart Stone

Heineken is poised to make its largest ever investment in Star Pubs & Bars, with £44m to be spent during 2018 – more than double last year's expenditure.

Operators Whelan and Star to open their first Irish bar in south-west London

11-Jun-2018 By Claire Churchard

Multiple operator Austin Whelan is working with Star Pubs & Bars to open a new site in Kingston-upon-Thames.

Pub struggles with slower delivery regime under new pubco

11-Jun-2018 By Claire Churchard

A Lancashire pub has struggled with a new 96-hour ordering and delivery regime after the site moved from Punch to Star Pubs & Bars as part of the deal to acquire almost 1,900 pubs.

Star Pubs & Bars extends range to include beers from 900 UK breweries

04-Jun-2018 By James Beeson

The pubco is increasing its cask beer range to over 300, meaning its licensees now have access to beers from 900 brewers across the country.

The Dolphin, Newbury, opens after £500k refurbishment

16-May-2018 By Stuart Stone

The Dolphin in Newbury has opened following a half million pound transformation by Buff & Bear Saloons and Star Pubs & Bars.

Big Interview: Star Pubs & Bars’ Lawson Mountstevens

08-May-2018 By Claire Churchard

Completing the biggest pub acquisition deal in recent years is no mean feat, especially when it almost triples the size of your estate. Lawson Mountstevens, managing director of Star Pubs & Bars, explains what went on behind the scenes of this major...

Star Pubs & Bars MD explains ‘massive’ investment to attract new talent to pubs

23-Apr-2018 By Claire Churchard

Heineken’s pubco business Star Pubs & Bars has invested “massively” in the systems and processes of its Just Add Talent (JAT) retail turnkey scheme to attract and support new people and talent into the pub sector.

Star introduces support package for Just Add Talent operators

09-Apr-2018 By Stuart Stone

Star Pubs & Bars is adding an expanded support package for its Just Add Talent operators, a year after launching its turnover and profit share agreement.

Beronmoor opens fifth pub with Star after £750,000 joint revamp

04-Apr-2018 By Stuart Stone

The former Prince of Wales in Kilburn, London, has reopened as the Kilburn Arms following a £750,000 joint refurbishment by Star Pubs & Bars and multiple operator Beronmoor.

Star Pubs & Bars licensee defends SIBA Beerflex scheme

14-Feb-2018 By James Beeson

Elaine Hamer, licensee of the Plough in Lancashire, described the Society of Independent Brewers’ (SIBA) beer distribution scheme as a “godsend”.

Star seeks to assure Punch pub operators on key issues

06-Feb-2018 By Georgina Townshend

Star Pubs & Bars' welcome pack has assured 1,900 licensees on a number of key issues, including rent and product prices, ahead of taking full operational responsibility following the acquisition of Punch A pubs on 5 March.

Derbyshire multiple operator takes on first leased pub

26-Jan-2018 By Stuart Stone

BKJ Leisure will conduct a £1m revamp of its first leased pub, the Hurt Arms, Ambergate, Derbyshire, in partnership with Star Pubs & Bars with a view to creating a top-quality country inn and wedding venue.

Anger over proposed Heineken redundancy scheme restructure

04-Dec-2017 By James Beeson

A new system capping the redundancy settlements to which Heineken UK (HUK) employees are entitled to has been slammed by the company’s staff, The Morning Advertiser (MA) can reveal.

Star Pubs & Bars Awards winners unveiled

17-Nov-2017 By Claire Churchard

Manchester’s Imperial War Museum played host to this year’s Star Pubs & Bars Awards, which recognise the outstanding work of the pub company’s licensees.

Stalwart licensee lands top food role at Star Pubs & Bars

14-Nov-2017 By Georgina Townshend

Star Pubs & Bars has appointed its new food strategy and implementation manager.

Star Pubs & Bars licensees ‘positive’ about year ahead

25-Oct-2017 By Claire Churchard

A survey of Star Pubs & Bars licensees has revealed they are optimistic about the year ahead in spite of the uncertainty surrounding Brexit and the UK economy.

£350k refurbishment for Star Pubs & Bar site

09-Oct-2017 By Georgina Townshend

Work has started this week on a £350,000 refurbishment to a Star Pubs & Bars site in Chelmsford, Essex.

40-man brawl breaks out at Star pub

21-Sep-2017 By Georgina Townshend

Staff at a Star Pubs & Bars site in Greater Manchester were forced to call the police when a fight broke out between 40 people who “refused to leave the pub”.

Cask Marque accredited Star sites doubles

12-Sep-2017 By Georgina Townshend

The number of Star Pubs & Bars sites with Cask Marque accreditations has doubled since the beginning of 2017.

Great British Pub Awards 2017

The Eagle and Child wins John Smith’s Great British Pub of the Year 2017

08-Sep-2017 By Ed Bedington

A socially conscious pub was celebrating after taking the title of John Smith’s Great British Pub of the Year 2017.

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Outgoing Punch chief executive on the future for Punch pubs

06-Sep-2017 By Claire Churchard

Following the news that Punch chief executive Duncan Garrood has decided to leave the business, after Patron completed its deal to buy the group's pubs, The Morning Advertiser gets the inside track on why he isn’t staying for the transition period...

Heineken completes acquisition of 1,900 Punch pubs

30-Aug-2017 By Georgina Townshend

Heineken has said it will 'fully integrate' the 1,900 Punch pubs into its existing Star Pubs & Bars estate after completing the acquisition, as part of a back-to-back deal with Patron Capital, yesterday (29 August).

Pub-industry bodies slam PCA’s MRO report as ‘one-sided and opaque'

23-Aug-2017 By Claire Churchard

Pub-industry bodies have slammed a report from the pubs code adjudicator containing evidence that pub-owning businesses (POBs) are blocking tied tenants’ access to the market rent only option (MRO) and going against the spirit of the pubs code.

PCA to confront pub owning businesses over MRO blocking

23-Aug-2017 By Claire Churchard

Pub-owning businesses (POBs) are blocking tied tenants’ access to the market rent only option (MRO) and going against the spirit of the pubs code, according to a report commissioned by the pubs code adjudicator’s office.

Star Pubs & Bars' retail standards show 'significant improvement'

22-Aug-2017 By Georgina Townshend

Retail standards of Star Pubs & Bars outlets have risen 10% in the past three years, with the gap between the highest and lowest scoring pubs smaller than ever, an independent audit has revealed.

North-west pub operator Ian Molyneux opens fifth site

15-Aug-2017 By Fred A'Court

North-west pub operator Ian Molyneux is halfway to his goal of creating a 10-strong pub group. 

How can tied pubs still host beer festivals?

11-Aug-2017 By James Beeson

The hot summer weather may be but a distant memory, but for many pubs the arrival of summer is hailed as the perfect opportunity to increase trade and footfall by hosting a beer festival. 

D&G Pub Company and Star Pubs & Bars invests £300,000 in two Darlington pubs

08-Aug-2017 By Fred A'Court

Two Darlington pubs are having a £300,000 makeover to better cater for drinkers' and diners' changing tastes.