Love Your Pub grows to cover all of the UK
Guide to hospitality firm changes tack after restrictions of lockdown
A FIRM set up as an online guide to hospitality in Portsmouth has grown to cover the entire country – and now offers much more.
David Bevan started Love Your Pub in his back bedroom at his Baffins home in October 2015.
Now five years on and having changed tack through lockdown, Mr Bevan is putting his 13 years’ experience in the industry to work for others.
His firm, now based at Skylark in Whiteley, covers pubs, restaurants, suppliers, breweries and has grown a strong social media following.
Boosted with input from his business partner Danielle Hilarie, the company runs marketing and promotional services for venues.
It has also worked with Fullers, Punch, Hall & Woodhouse and Admiral Taverns to advertise tenancies, lease and freehold arrangements.
David, 36, said: ‘When pubs and restaurants were forced to close. we were massively affected. People had to save costs and we lost a large amount of business pretty much over night.
‘We had to do something different otherwise we might not still be here today.’
The dad-of-one, who has a team of six working for him, added: ‘Our ambition is for Love Your Pub to be the undisputed online hospitality platform in the UK used by trade, as well as the general public.
‘We’re really glad that we have been able to overcome the challenges we have faced and have not only survived what has been thrown at us, but we’ve thrived. Hopefully it’s the start of something even bigger for us.’
His firm now offers help to those in the hospitality industry to find good deals on services, with new brands including Love Your Insurance and Love Your Finance.