With staff retention at an all-time high, we are delighted to announce the Oakman Group has once again been recognised as one of the UK’s Best Places to Work by The Sunday Times.

Last week was a proud one for the Oakman Training Team as their hard work was recognised by not one but two significant awards. Recognition for the Oakman Ninja Training Programme came with a Princess Royal Training Award and a win at the National Innovation and Training Awards

The Oakman Group Plc has ended its financial year 2021/22, ending 3rd July 2022, and has delivered an excellent trading result despite a year marred by numerous external challenges.

Two Buckingham locals return to town to reopen The Grand Junction. Known by various names over the years, most recently as ‘13’, the Grand Junction at 13 High Street was acquired by Oakman Group Plc in 2019. For the last six months it has been undergoing a major refurbishment, restoration and redesign.

Oakman Group Plc recently informed their Shareholders of a number of corporate activities, the key points of which are outlined below:

There’s been a sense of anticipation and activity in Wokingham’s Market Place as, over the last week, more than 450 locals put the team at the newly opened Rose Inn through their paces before the transformed pub opened to the public on Monday 18th October.

In his latest opinion piece for inews.co.uk, Oakman CEO Dermot King explores how the pandemic how relationships between suppliers and customers, or landlords and tenants, have been left frayed

Part of The Bedford Estates and standing in the heart of one of Bedfordshire’s larger villages, The Woburn, has been closed for over a year. But one of the areas best-known pub companies, The Oakman Group has taken over the lease and their changes to The Woburn’s pub and restaurant interiors will be revealed this Wednesday, 19th May, when it reopens to the public.

The Oakman Group are delighted to announce that they have acquired The Woburn Hotel after signing a 25-year lease with The Bedford Estates.

The Oakman Group is delighted to announce the acquisition of six high quality public houses from the administrators of Seafood Pub Company Holdings Limited. In addition to the restoration of some 150 jobs the deal provides good news for suppliers including the UK’s sustainable fishing industry. The new acquisitions will strengthen Oakman’s aspirations to have 40 pubs in their portfolio by the end of 2021.

As businesses in the hospitality industry remain closed, Oakman Inns CEO Dermot King outlines four things Rishi Sunak can do to save jobs in hospitality in his latest opinion piece for inews.co.uk

Rather than waiting for the green shoots of recovery to appear, the Tring based premium pub company is proactively going out and sowing the seeds of that recovery now.

The Chief Executive of pub and restaurant group, Oakman Inns, Dermot King, is offering to forego The Chancellor’s latest lockdown grant of up to £250,000 if he allows National Health Trusts to use Oakman Inns’ venues as vaccination centres.

In his final opinion piece of 2020, Oakman Inns CEO Dermot King discusses tax breaks for tourism and hospitality industries to help save UK towns.