2019 Winners
Best Accommodation Operator – sponsored by HGEM
This award is presented to a pub company that has focused on offering accommodation as a key part of their business. Accommodation will play a significant part in contributing to the company’s profits and helping drive trade.
WINNER: Fuller, Smith & Turner
The finalists:
- Coaching Inn Group
- Bed & Bars
- Fuller’s
- Cirrus Inns
Best Brewing Pub Company – sponsored by Fentimans
This award recognises companies who operate both a successful brewery and a managed or tenanted/leased pub estate or both. The company will have between 2 and 150 pub sites.
WINNER: J.W. Lees Brewery
The finalists:
- Titanic Brewery
- North Bar / North Brewing Co.
- J.W. Lees
- Lincoln Green
Best Community Pub Operator – sponsored by Britvic
The winning company has a successful pub estate of community focused pubs – community focused meaning trade predominantly targets local rather than destination customers.
WINNER: Stonegate Pub Company
The finalists:
- Livelyhood Venues
- Stonegate Pub Company
- The Craft Union Pub Company
- Greene King
Best Late Night Operator – sponsored by CGA Insight
This award is presented to the late night pub/bar/club operator that demonstrates sales growth; excellent business innovation, drinks retail excellence and strong entertainment and marketing ideas. The award is open to companies whose trading hours operate past midnight.
WINNER: The Deltic Group
The finalists:
- Tokyo Industries
- The Deltic Group
- Stonegate Pub Company
Best Tenanted/Leased Pub Company – sponsored by Kuehne + Nagel
This award is presented to a highly successful tenanted or leased retail estate with over 501 sites.
WINNER: Admiral Taverns
The finalists:
- Punch
- Ei Group
- Admiral Taverns
Best Managed Pub Company (2 to 50 sites) – sponsored by Molson Coors
This award is presented to a highly successful managed retail estate with between 2 and 50 sites, which has shown strong innovation and business performance in the past year.
WINNER: The New World Trading Company
The finalists:
- The New World Trading Company
- Arc Inspirations
- Oakman Inns
- The Inn Collection Group
Best Managed Pub Company (51+ sites) – sponsored by CPL Online
This award is presented to a highly successful managed retail estate, which has shown strong innovation and business performance in the past year.
WINNER: Stonegate Pub Company
The finalist:
- Stonegate Pub Company
- Shepherd Neame
Best Pub Employer (up to 500 employees) – sponsored by MCA Insight
This award is presented to the pub company that provides an excellent working environment for employees including comprehensive training, strong staff motivation and benefits and a meaningful career path/ development structure for employees.
WINNER: The Inn Collection Group
The finalists:
- 16 Hospitality
- Livelyhood Group
- The Inn Collection Group
Best Pub Employer (501+ employees) – sponsored by Carlsberg UK
This award is presented to the pub company that provides an excellent working environment for employees including comprehensive training, strong staff motivation and benefits and a meaningful career path/ development structure for employees.
WINNER: Stonegate Pub Company
The finalists:
- Stonegate Pub Company
- Oakman Inns
- The New World Trading Company
- Coaching Inn Group
Best Pub Operations Team – sponsored by Sky
This award is presented to the pub operations team that best demonstrates its effectiveness in innovation, leadership and business success.
WINNER: Fuller, Smith & Turner
The finalist:
- The Deltic Group
- The New World Trading Company
- Stonegate Pub Group
- Fuller, Smith & Turner
Best Food Offer – sponsored by FoodSpark
This award is presented to a pub company that delivers a successful mainstream food offer across their estate, with food a key part of the company’s total sales. This award is open to companies which average food price for a two course meal (Starter/Dessert and Main) is from £12.50 to £25 per head.
WINNER: The Liberation Group
The finalists:
- The Liberation Group
- Coaching Inn Group
- Seafood Pub Company
- Hippo Inns
Best Premium Food Offer – sponsored by ABInBev
This award is presented to a pub company that delivers a successful premium food offer across their estate, with food a key part of the company’s total sales. This award is open to companies which average food price for a two course meal (Starter/Dessert and Main) is above £25 per head.
WINNER: Cirrus Inns
The finalists:
- Bel & The Dragon
- Cirrus Inns
Best Pub Brand/Concept – sponsored by Asahi UK
This award is presented to the best pub brand/concept. It may be your company’s only brand/concept or one of several brands within the company that demonstrates business success, clear strategies and strong focus on innovation and development.
WINNER: Inception Group – Mr Fogg’s
The finalists:
- Inception Group
- The New World Trading Company
- Stonegate Pub Company
- Pizza, Pots & Pints
Best New Pub/Bar – sponsored by Heineken UK
The winning pub site opened during the past 24 months. The site will either be a new-build pub or substantial re-development and entrants must demonstrate evidence of how effectively trade has been built at the site.
WINNER: The Box – Arc Inspirations
The finalists:
- The Florist, Liverpool
- ATIK, Hull
- The Box, Leeds
- The Royal Foresters, Ascot
- The Coach Makers Arms, Marylebone, London
- Rumba, Congleton, Cheshire
Best Drinks Offer – sponsored by Coca-Cola European Partners
This award is presented to a pub company that demonstrates drinks retail excellence, with drink sales a key part of the company’s total profits.
WINNER: Be At One
The finalists:
- The New World Trading Company
- The Alchemist
- Stonegate Pub Company
- Arc Inspirations
Best Sustainable Pub Company – sponsored by Sky
This award is presented to a pub company that demonstrates a significant and concerted effort to reduce its waste. This includes the reduction and / or redistribution of food waste; energy reduction and management; plastics and single use items.
WINNER: Darwin & Wallace
The finalists:
- Greene King
- Darwin & Wallace
- Oakman Inns
- Liberation Group
Business Leader of the Year – sponsored by Poppleston Allen
WINNER: Simon Longbottom, Stonegate Pub Company
The Morning Advertiser‘s Outstanding Industry Achievement
WINNER: Rooney Anand, Greene King
If you have any questions about the event, please contact Hazel Batchelar on 01293 846551, or Hazel.Batchelar@wrbm.com.
