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Thanks for looking those up!

As these things go, this appears like quite a good deal - seven upmarket hotels / inns in well-heeled tourist locations for £40m, and it looks like the beer offer should improve too, going by those...

So that's four owners for this 'lucky' 45 in four years: Spirit > Greene King > British Land > Apirose?

Nicholson's is part of Mitchells & Butlers, and Brunning & Price is part of The Restaurant Group (which has just announced a big deal buying Wagamama), so it sounds like crossed wires to me.

Even this shoddy tosh isn't quite as blatant as Young & Co's Brewery PLC...

New River Retail - 344 (http://www.nrr.co.uk/portfolio/pub-portfolio)

Sam Smiths - "in the region of 200" (https://www.samuelsmithsbrewery.co.uk/pubs/)

And some more numbers here (although its not clear how up-to-date this is):
http://www.pubexpertsguide.co.uk/listing.cfm?CategoryID=7

A few more minor players from the Independent Family Brewers of Britain website:
Arkell's - 103
Bateman's - "nearly 70"
Brakspear - "over 150"
Everards - "over 175"
Harvey's - 49
Holts - 122...

I've just read in another Camra newsletter that Hawthorne Leisure have 255 pubs.

From 'London Drinker' (August/September 2017):

"M&B have sold 73 pubs - 65 freeholds and eight leaseholds - to a property investment group called Aprirose for £40 million. According to a report...

This report quantifies Stonegate's estate as 665, rather than 800...

Eh? (part 1)


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