The leisure industry has witnessed a number of casualties in the past 12 months and the northwest has not escaped this trend. A grim sign of the tough trading environment on the UK high street has been the number of pubs, bars and restaurants placed into administration. Bars and pubs previously operated by Brannigans, Po Na Na, Porter Black and Balaclava have all been placed with receivers after their parent companies ran into trouble.
Town centres in the northwest are well represented with pubs and bars, some of which one suspects will never be viable. The process of a company going into receivership and a third party buying up the best bars looks set to continue until some of the capacity is taken out of the high street.
