Gourmet Holdings is to sell its entire pub restaurant operation following a strategic review. The group will concentrate on its Richoux brand, which it believes offers good opportunities for expansio... [more]

Gresham Private Equity is reportedly to sell its majority shareholding in the Individual Restaurant Company, the UK-based restaurant group which owns the Piccolinos and Restaurant Bar & Grill chains. ... [more]

John Jarvis, owner of the Ramada Jarvis brand, is to invest £47m in his chain of 44 hotels with a view to selling the company next year. A flagship Ramada hotel is also under construction at Heathrow ... [more]

Punch Taverns is to acquire Mill House Inns, the chain of 82 pubs in the South and Midlands, in a £164m deal. Mill House's portfolio consists primarily of freehold and long-leasehold neighbourhood pub... [more]

Obviously in the mood for trimming down, Richard Balfour-Lynn has announced plans to sell off the 14-site Greens health club chain. Acquired as part of the earlier takeover of De Vere, apparently the ... [more]

Greens is not the only club on the market - Duke Street has asked Citigroup to circulate a memorandum of sale for the Esporta group. The private equity-owned chain Cannons has just appointed Hawkpoin... [more]

Stanley Leisure, the chain of 45 casinos, has accepted a £639m takeover bid from Genting International of Malaysia. Genting already owns 20 per cent of Stanley Leisure, and will pay 860 pence per sha... [more]

The Yesteryear Pub Company is selling nearly half of its estate of pubs and bars. The Wigan-based business, established seven years ago by pub veteran Tony Callaghan, is selling 10 of its venues as pa... [more]