Bar operator Rekom plans to open at least 10 new venues in the UK as the night-time economy emerges from the pandemic.
Rekom, which owns the Pryzm and Atik nightclubs, said vistor numbers to its 48 sites were now on par with pre-pandemic levels.
“I am cautiously optimistic,” said Peter Marks, chief executive of Rekom. He will open the UK’s second Heidi’s Bier Bar in Birmingham next month to be followed by its first Proud Mary bar in Swansea, both tried-and-tested concepts of the group’s Scandinavian owners.
Copenhagen-based Rekom expanded into the UK in 2020, buying 42 of the former Deltic Group’s UK clubs and bars out of administration in January 2021, leaving 10 destined for closure. The group has now built back to 48 UK outlets, taking back some of its former sites and adding new ones.
