Punch Pubs

Punch Pubs & Co
Company typePrivate company
IndustryPubs
Founded1997
HeadquartersBurton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England
Key people
Taylor Hunter
(Chairman)
Andy Spencer
(CEO)
Steve Dando
(CFO)
Revenue£420.8 million (2015)
£183.9 million (2015)
£ loss 82.6 million (2015)
Number of employees
409 (2015)
ParentFortress Investment Group
Websitepunchpubs.com

Punch Pubs & Co is a pub and bar operator in the United Kingdom, with around 1,300 leased pubs. It is headquartered in the traditional brewing centre of Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange as a constituent of the FTSE SmallCap Index until its sale in 2016 for £403 million to a private equity fund, Patron Capital, acting in concert with Heineken International who acquired 1,900 of Punch's pubs as part of the deal.