The Cat & Wickets Pub Company Ltd.

Name

The Cat & Wickets Pub Company Ltd.

Legal name

The Cat & Wickets Pub Company Ltd.

Website

https://thecatandwickets.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Cat & Wickets Pub Company Ltd. is a privately held UK gastropub operator running three venues (The Tap & Run, The Griffin Inn, The Long Hop) across the East Midlands, founded in 2016 by ex-England cricketers Stuart Broad and Harry Gurney, generating revenue primarily through on-site food and beverage sales to consumer diners.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Gastropub Hospitality Services

NAICS

Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages) (7224)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro primary industry

Pubs & Gastropubs (THAFAEAB)

Keywords

• Gastropub dining
• Pub and bar services
• Restaurant hospitality
• Food and beverage
• Event venue hosting

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Others, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Food and Beverage Sales: Revenue generated from serving food and drinks at three gastropub locations. The company has grown turnover from £1.2m to over £6.5m since 2021 under current MD Harry Gurney.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

The Cat & Wickets Pub Company Ltd. operates a portfolio of three branded gastropubs in the UK East Midlands — The Tap & Run, The Griffin Inn, and The Long Hop — providing dine-in food, drinks, cocktails, wine, Sunday lunches, and event hosting. The company also sells digital gift cards via mytoggle.io, with a focus on premium, sustainably sourced ingredients and a strong team culture.

Product overview

The Cat & Wickets Pub Company Ltd. is a hospitality company operating a portfolio of three gastropubs in the UK East Midlands: The Tap & Run in Upper Broughton, The Griffin Inn in Swithland, and The Long Hop in Burton-on-Trent. Founded in 2016 by former England cricketers Stuart Broad and Harry Gurney, the company provides food, drink, and hospitality services across its individual pub locations, each with its own distinct brand identity and website. The pubs operate as separate branded establishments offering dining experiences, cocktails, wine, and events, unified under the Cat & Wickets parent company which handles shared functions including recruitment, marketing, operations management, and sustainability sourcing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• The Tap & Run A gastropub located in Upper Broughton, East Midlands, offering food, cocktails, wine, and team events. Known for exceptional food quality and hospitality service, and is the flagship location of The Cat & Wickets Pub Company.
• The Griffin Inn A gastropub located in Swithland, East Midlands, recognized for its transformation under new management and excellent food and service in the local area.
• The Long Hop A gastropub located in Burton-on-Trent, offering Sunday lunches, garden seating, and relaxing drinks in a beautiful venue with quality food and service.
• Cat & Wickets Pub Co Gift Card Digital gift cards sold online via mytoggle.io that can be redeemed across the company's three gastropubs.

Quantifiable outcome

• Turnover grew from £1.2m to over £6.5m under current MD Harry Gurney since May 2021

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Aubrey AllencoreOthersFamily-run, award-winning meat supplier sourcing from high-welfare farms in UK and Ireland. Provides top 1% grass-fed cattle for beef, matured for at least 28 days.
• Jimmy Butler's Farm (Suffolk)coreOthersFamily farm in Suffolk providing free-range pork for the company's gastropubs.
• Direct SeafoodscoreOthersProvides fresh seafood with line-caught fish when possible. All seafood adheres to MSC or BAP sustainability standards.
• Kale and DamsoncoreOthersSmall, family-run supplier providing all fruit and vegetables from carefully selected farms across UK and Europe.
• Net Zero NowminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEnvironmental partnership to calculate carbon footprint and reduce emissions through industry-leading best practices as part of sustainability journey.
• Suffolk SalamiminorOthersSpecialty supplier known for exceptional quality and commitment to excellence.
• Jude's Ice CreamminorOthersSpecialty ice cream supplier known for exceptional quality and commitment to excellence.
• TracklementsminorOthersSpecialty condiments and accompaniments supplier known for exceptional quality.
• SavoursmithsminorOthersSpecialty supplier known for exceptional quality and commitment to excellence.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Hall & Woodhouse: Hall & Woodhouse is a regional UK pub operator (Dorset-based) with a curated portfolio of premium food-led pubs. Comparable as a similarly-positioned regional gastropub operator with strong food sourcing identity, though concentrated in a different geography.
• Brunning & Price: Brunning & Price is a UK gastropub operator with a portfolio of premium food-led pubs across the Midlands and North. Comparable as a directly adjacent gastropub operator with overlapping regional footprint in the East Midlands/Midlands and similar premium food and drink positioning.
• Peach Pubs: Peach Pubs is a UK gastropub operator founded by Lee Cash (now NED at Cat & Wickets). Peach scaled to 21 pubs before selling to Revolution Bars in 2022 for £16.5m. It is the most directly comparable operator given identical gastropub concept, shared leadership DNA, and East Midlands/South East overlap.
• Heartstone Inns: Heartstone Inns is a small UK operator running a curated portfolio of premium gastropubs, focused on quality food and drink in destination locations. Comparable as a similarly-sized premium independent gastropub operator with a multi-site growth model targeting similar customer occasions.

Broad incumbents

• Greene King: Greene King is one of the UK's largest pub retailers and brewers, operating thousands of managed and tenanted pubs. While most volume is in community/value pubs, its premium food-led formats compete in the same gastropub category as Cat & Wickets, making it a relevant scaled incumbent comparable.
• Mitchells & Butlers: Mitchells & Butlers operates large UK pub and restaurant estates under brands including Harvester, Toby Carvery, and All Bar One. Its premium dining and pub propositions compete for similar consumer occasions and occasions-based dining spend as Cat & Wickets' gastropubs, making it a relevant broader-market comparable.
• Young's (Young & Co's Brewery): Young's operates a premium UK pub portfolio focused on London and the South East, with food-led gastropub sites. Comparable business model and customer demographic to Cat & Wickets, though more regionally concentrated in southern England and operating at significantly larger scale.
• Marston's: Marston's is a UK pub operator with a national estate of managed and franchised pubs, including premium food-led sites. Comparable in overall pub operating model and customer demographic, though at significantly larger scale and with brewing operations.
• Fuller's (Fuller, Smith & Turner): Fuller's is a long-established UK pub operator and brewer with hundreds of managed pubs and tenanted estates, including premium gastropub formats. Comparable because it competes in the same UK premium-pub category with overlapping customers and similar food-led positioning, though at much larger scale and with own-brewery infrastructure.

Emerging players

• Honest Burgers: Honest Burgers is a UK independent restaurant group with multiple sites focused on premium, ethically-sourced food. Comparable as a similar-sized UK independent hospitality brand with premium food positioning and a growth/rollup trajectory, though operating in casual dining rather than the pub format.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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