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Mollie’s has announced ambitious plans to expand to 100 sites over the next ten years through site search and acquisition, both in roadside and city centre locations.
The brand launched in 2019 with a motel, diner and drive-thru in Buckland, Oxfordshire, followed earlier this year by the second at Cribbs Causeway, Bristol, where the group invested in excess of £15m.
A third, larger hotel in the former Granada TV Studios in Manchester city centre is scheduled to open in 2022 with Soho House located above Mollie’s on the building’s top floors.
A further ten locations have already been earmarked as part of the immediate expansion plan.
With “significant” investor support from leisure property specialists Fleurets, the brand aims to grow to 100 sites in the next 10 years.
Paul Hardwick, head of hotels and Kevin Conibear, head of Urban Markets at Fleurets, said: “We are delighted to be working with Mollie’s to grow this exciting challenger concept in the hotel and leisure market. Mollie’s has reinvented the perception of the roadside hotel and diner, with high quality accommodation and dining, but at affordable prices.
“The customer response to Bristol has been hugely positive and this is a welcome addition and enhancement to the vibrancy of our city centres and edge of town, roadside locations.”
