Hospitality

A wellness retreat has launched an intellectual property suit against luxury Queensland resort Elysium Noosa, claiming that a recent rebrand amounts to passing off.

The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal has given the operator of the Ibis Sydney Airport hotel in Mascot another chance to seek a liquor licence, finding a deferred commencement condition did not mean a development consent was not 'in force'.

Receivers for Jon Adgemis' Public Hospitality Group are planning to put the South Bondi Hotel on the market by the end of the year.

Bakers Delight has lost its appeal of a decision that found it was subject to a statutory reverse onus to disprove record-keeping claims in underpayments proceedings against a franchisee.

Sydney pub baron Jon Adgemis has been declared bankrupt and his properties have been sequestered, with the Federal Court finding the former KPMG partner owes $1.8 billion to creditors.

On the eve of a Federal Court bankruptcy hearing, Sydney-based publican Jon Adgemis and founder of Public Hospitality Group has declared bankruptcy, days after five of his pubs were placed into receivership. 

Deutsche Bank has appointed receivers to five pubs owned by Public Hospitality Group ahead of a bankruptcy hearing against the group’s owner and former KPMG partner, Jon Adgemis.

Bucketty’s Brewery has failed to convince the NSW Land and Environment Court to order security against a community group seeking to overturn a local council’s approval of the brewery’s plan to build a new pub and cafe.

Hotelier Mark Barry has sold the iconic Fire House Hotel for a reported $35 million, in the first freehold hotel transaction in North Sydney's CBD in more than 40 years.