Despite the ravages of Covid-19 on leisure and entertainment companies over the past three months, Hollywood Bowl Group has caught the eye of some of the UK's investment press.
The company, that has 61 locations across the UK, working under the Hollywood Bowl, AMF and Puttstars brands (the latter is mini golf), specialises in operating large, high quality, bowling and mini golf locations, usually of over 28,000 sq.ft.
Normally, the venues would be located alongside cinema complexes with plenty of casual dining, mostly out-of-town locations such as retail parks.
They are designed to offer a family entertainment experience with each location providing bowling or golf, bars, on-site F&B and amusement machines.
In the Sunday Telegraph yesterday, the Questor column chose Hollywood Bowl as a prospective investment, stating: “It represents affordable pastimes as recession bites, with an attractive format to struggling shopping centre landlords keen to fill vacant space.”
It added that the company "came into lockdown strongly", with underlying sales growth of 8.6 per cent in the six months to March, despite disruption at the end of the period.
