Группа пабов Дауни зафиксировала рост выручки на 30% и прибыли на 68% в 2025 году

The pub group behind some of Belfast and Derry’s best known bars has reported a year of rising revenue and profit. The Downey Group of pubs, which owns Kelly’s Cellars, McHugh’s and the Thirsty Goat, saw its revenue grow by around 30% to £17.7 million in the year ended November 30 2025. It contributed to a 68% annual uplift in pre-tax profit to £4.7m for the year. The hospitality and property group, which reports its annual accounts as Birch Village Company Limited, it jointly owned by Derry’s former all-Ireland winning captain Henry Downey and his brothers Seamus and John. The name Birch Village is thought to be a nod to the townland of Beagh (or place of the birch trees in Irish), in the family’s native parish of Lavey. Their hospitality portfolio, which also includes The Kitchen Bar, Hellcat Maggies, 21 Social in Belfast, along with Metro and Thirsty Goat in Derry, expanded during the reporting period by the acquisition of Peadar O’Donnell’s on Derry’s Waterloo Street. The value of the April 2025 deal was not publicly disclosed, but it’s thought the Downey Group paid in the region of £5m for the popular venue next to Derry’s historic walls. The deal, which included The Gweedore Bar and nightclub Fifty Seven Waterloo St, came 25 years after the Downey’s opened Sugar Nightclub in Derry city. The acquisition was the second major purchase by the Downey Group inside 13 months after the family-owned hospitality outfit bought one of Belfast’s most famous pubs Kelly’s Cellars for around £6.5m in May 2024. The enlarged pub portfolio contributed to an additional £4m in revenue last year. The latest accounts show Birch Village Company Limited paid a £1.3m tax bill in 2025, well up on the £868,000 from 2024. One of Derry’s best-known pubs acquired by Downey group in multi-million pound deal Opens in new window Kelly’s Cellars bought by Derry’s Downey group in multimillion-pound deal Opens in new window Well-known business and motorsport family revealed as backers of Belfast pub group’s new hospitality venture Opens in new window However, even with the bigger tax bill, the group ended the 2025 trading year with a bottom line profit of £3.45m, some £1.5m up on the £1.95m from 2024. The latest accounts also show the group’s workforce increased from 237 to 256 employees in the year to November 30 2025. Total staff costs in that period rose by around £700,000 to £3.2m last year. The same document value the total equity of shareholders’ funds at 13.85m, up from £10.6m in 2024.