RedCat Pub company adds Wynnstay Hotel & Spa to growing portfolio

RedCat Pub Company, founded and chaired by former Greene King chief executive Rooney Anand, has acquired the Wynnstay Hotel & Spa in Oswestry, Shropshire.

Owned by the Woodward family for the last 30 years, the hotel has 31 bedrooms, a large function suite, a gym, spa and pool, a fine dining restaurant and two bars.

The hotel will be operated by RedCat’s subsidiary, the Coaching Inn Group, which it acquired last August, taking the portfolio to 25 coaching inns in market towns across the UK. Since acquiring the group, RedCat has added seven further sites.

RedCat was launched in February 2021 and the transaction takes its total estate to approximately 100 pubs and pub hotels.

Kevin Charity, chief executive of the Coaching Inn Group, said: “I’m pleased that our expansion is continuing at pace, following the latest addition of the Wynnstay Hotel & Spa to our estate. "RedCat’s support is bearing fruit and we’re working hard to keep our momentum going and expand our estate of historic coaching inns further in the coming months.”

Anand said: “RedCat are delighted to be supporting the Coaching Inn Group as it continues to identify and run high quality pub hotels across the UK. Kevin and his team are doing an excellent job and the RedCat team are working closely with them to help drive their continued growth.”

Monique Royle, divisional director of Fleurets, said: “I am delighted to have acted on behalf of the Coaching Inn Group to secure the purchase of this iconic building. It is a place very dear to me, being the place where my parents first met. I know that the business will be in safe hands and continue to go from strength to strength under the Coaching Inn Group brand.”