Redcape Focused on Venue Renewal and Team Development
Article Info
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Outlet | The Shout / Australian Hotelier |
| Byline | Vanessa Cavasinni |
| Published | 2026-02-26 |
| Language | en |
| Scan Bucket | customer |
| URL | https://theshout.com.au/australian-hotelier/redcape-focused-on-venue-renewal-and-team-development/ |
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## Original Content에 원문 그대로 보존되어 있습니다.
- 호주 대형 펍 운영사 Redcape의 상무이사 Chris Unger가 2025년 실적을 바탕으로 2026년에도 “venue renewal(매장 리뉴얼)“과 팀 역량 강화에 집중하겠다고 밝힘.
- 2025년 한 해 노후 매장 리퍼비시에 3천만 달러 이상 투자, 2026년에도 “훨씬 더 많은” 투자 예정. 시드니 Gladstone Hotel 마무리 작업 중, Kinselas 지하에 라이브 음악공간 Dead Set 오픈.
- 남동부 퀸즐랜드(Sunshine Coast Maeva 포트폴리오, South Bank Plough Inn) 인수로 지역 내 입지 확대 — 장기 성장 전략으로 지속 확대 예정.
- 일부 시드니 펍 부지에는 주거용 아파트 개발도 검토 중이나 신중하게 접근, 한 부지엔 120룸 호텔 개발 신청(DA) 예정.
선정 사유 (Curation Note)
Bucket: customer. 펍/호텔 F&B 운영사의 매장 리뉴얼 투자는 상업주방·냉장설비 교체 수요와 직결된다 — 특히 “노후 매장 리퍼비시”는 낡은 냉장고 교체가 포함되는 경우가 많다. Turbo Air의 딜러 판매실적 데이터(TAB 영업 판매실적 데이터 (2021-2026))에 잡히는 다수의 딜러(Alpha Catering, SCK 등)가 이런 호텔/펍 리노베이션 프로젝트에 냉장설비를 공급하는 구조이므로, Redcape 같은 대형 운영사의 투자 계획은 딜러망을 통한 간접 수요 신호로 유효하다.
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Redcape continues to focus on portfolio expansion and renewal – and all the while is building great teams to service its venues.
Redcape’s managing director, Chris Unger, believes the group’s strong performance in 2025 has laid the foundation for an even stronger 2026.
“2025 has been an excellent year for Redcape…It has been a year that exceeded its potential and, even more pleasingly, established an exciting base for 2026 to be even better.”
In 2025, Redcape made a concerted effort to gain more of a footprint in south-east Queensland.
“We really like the growth dynamics and prospects in the region at a macro level and we think these will be favourable for the sector, so we have leaned into it further,” stated Unger.
“We think there is good long-term growth ahead, so we see it as a long-term play for us and a strategy we want to keep building through 2026 and beyond.”
Key transactions in the region include the Maeva portfolio of pubs on the Sunshine Coast, and the high-traffic Plough Inn in South Bank.
“The Maeva transaction gave us immediate scale in a high growth area with venues that were already well loved and trading well. Those venues lent themselves well to our operating model and the strategy we have so it was easy to see how that transaction was going to be additive from the outset,” explained Unger.
“The Plough is a real treat. It is in such a great location with enormous passing foot traffic, which means it does its thing week-in week-out and keeps on being busy… Additionally, in all these acquisitions, the existing teams have been great, and they’ve continued to trade well without any real changes needed.”
Key drivers
For Unger, the two main highlights for 2025 remain the focuses for 2026: continuing with venue renewals, and building strong teams. Last year, Redcape spent more than $30m on refurbishing its older venues, with “much more of that to come.”
To start, Redcape is currently putting the finishing touches on the Gladstone Hotel in Sydney’s inner-west, and has recently unveiled Dead Set, a live rock’n’roll music room in the basement of Kinselas.
“We will [also] continue to push ourselves on our bars and food channels. We have made some major leaps in those areas in the last few years with some amazingly talented people, and we have more exciting plans ahead,” stated Unger.
Redcape is also looking into building residential apartments at a few of its Sydney pub properties, but this is being approached cautiously.
“We will be careful not to get too distracted on this. There are a number of venues where adjacent uses on the surplus land makes great sense, and we will go forward with that, but only where it can enhance the pub,” said Unger.
“We have cut the alternate usage options of our venues every way possible, and pubs are almost always the highest use of property… So we will advance this in a delicate way, where we can have a viable project and improve the pub at the same time in surplus areas. We do expect to submit a DA for a 120-room hotel build on one site which is quite exciting too.”
None of this can be implemented without great teams, and this remains a key focus for Redcape, with additional investment to be made in people and capability across its marketing, entertainment, events and functions teams, plus “a major transformation” of its approach to training and development.
“One of the major limiters to the growth we can achieve is the team we have, so it has been a pleasing highlight to see the capability that we have built across many fronts over the last year and the continuation of our people-first culture along with it,” stated Unger.
“That puts us in a great place for ‘26 and beyond.”