ALMR unveils shortlist of UK best late-night operators

The ALMR has announced the short-listed finalists for the 2016 Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) Late Night Awards.

The nominees include businesses from right across the late-night sector and represent the best of an innovative night-time economy.

ALMR chief executive, Kate Nicholls said, “This year’s nominees are the strongest group yet and we have been overwhelmed by the number of responses. We are seeing nominations from across a broad spectrum of businesses, highlighting what a fantastically varied sector and exciting time this is.

“The ALMR’s Late Night Awards are judged by a panel of industry leaders and peers making them the most comprehensive awards of their kind. We are all very much looking forward to honouring the businesses that are at the cutting edge of the late-night economy.”

The finalists are as follows:
Late Night Food: Bodeans (pictured), Living Ventures, MeatLiquor, and Revolution.
Late Night Drink: Be At One, Dirty Martini (Covent Garden Restaurants), Inception Group, and New World Trading Co.
Entertainment: Colombo Group, Deltic Group, Intertain, and Tokyo Industries.
Training and Innovation: Be At One, Beds and Bars, and Stonegate.
Marketing and Promotion: Intertain, Maxwell’s, and Novus.
Best New Late Night Venue: Albert’s Schloss (Mission Mars), Pryzm Birmingham (Deltic Group), Red Door, and Trade Union (Grand Union).

The winners will be announced at this year’s Dusk ’til Dawn ceremony, in association with Propel Info, on Tuesday, 11 October at Cafe de Paris, London.