Oldham firm Medlock FRB secures projects worth £5.6m with national pub chains

Medlock FRB, the Greater Manchester-based leisure contractor, has secured a string of contracts worth £5.6m with a number of national firms, including its first with pub and restaurant chain Mitchells & Butlers.

As part of its work with Mitchells & Butlers, Oldham-headquartered Medlock was chosen to convert a Ma Potters unit at the Trafford Centre into an All Bar One food and drink venue.

Medlock’s efforts to refit the unit, which is located on the upper floor of the shopping complex’s Orient food court, is due for completion this month.

Elsewhere, the company was tasked with building three Farmhouse Inn restaurants for pub retailer and brewer Greene King, at Birkenshaw near Bradford, Dearne Valley in South Yorkshire and Hanley, Staffordshire.

Medlock has also started work on converting the former Black Bull pub in Brigg, North Lincolnshire, into a Dexters Alehouse and Kitchen venue for Enterprise Inns.

Further, the company is due to refurbish The Great Western pub in the Acocks Green area of Birmingham.

Medlock’s managing director, Andy Dunster, said: “We’re delighted to win our first project for Mitchells & Butlers, which was awarded following a competitive tendering process.

“There is significant potential for repeat business with Mitchells & Butlers, and we look forward to developing a lasting relationship with the company.”

He continued: “[Our] reputation is underlined by our new contracts with Greene King, for whom we have completed 10 new-build projects in the past two years, and with Enterprise Inns.

“The schemes at Brigg and Birmingham will make a total of seven Medlock has carried out for the company over the past two years.”