Lawler Partners Hospitality

Well known in the club & hospitality industry, Lawler Partners Hospitality boasts a combined 47 years experience, providing advice to Clubs, hotels, hospitality and tourism operations.

Lawler Partners Hospitality is committed to providing value for money advice to all venues regardless of their location, size or particular circumstances. Evidence of this commitment can be demonstrated by our extensive client list.

Lawler Partners

Lawler Partners Hospitality philosophy is based around a simple concept - service, innovation, value and caring about our clients and their relationships with other people.

Lawler Partners Hospitality was nationally recognised for this philosophy when we were named recipients of the respected Business Review Weekly (BRW) – St George Client Choice Awards for Best Small Accounting Firm 2006 and Best Small Professional Services Firm 2006 (turnover under $ 20 million p.a). The Awards acknowledge the achievements of Australia's outstanding professional service firms, including legal, accounting, engineering and business consulting firms.

We bring knowledge with experience

Lawler Partners Hospitality has extensive experience in providing value added services to hospitality & gaming venues throughout Victoria, Queensland, the ACT and New South Wales. We aim to provide service, innovative solutions and sound industry knowledge to enable our clients to grow their businesses, by offering value for money advice, because we care about our clients and their relationships with our people.

This list highlights some of our job experience with hospitality venues, their suppliers, associations and financial institutions: 

Hospitality venues & suppliers 

• Extensive experience in public relations and media management, working with venues to promote their profile and community contributions
• Undertaking major market research projects for hospitality & gaming suppliers including Aristocrat, Fosters, Tattersall’s and other major industry suppliers
• Extensive member and non-member market research over many years for most of the large clubs & other venues in Queensland, the ACT & New South Wales.
• Facility research, market demand studies/positioning studies for venues including the Kirribilli Club, Ashfield RSL, Anzac Memorial Club, South Sydney Leagues Club, Sydney Aussie Rules Club and Taree RSL & Golf Club
• Assisting management teams to develop strategic approaches to marketing and promotions and membership acquisition
• Our team has prepared over 140 Community Impact Assessment's (Gaming), Public Interest Assessment's (Liquor) and the NSW equivalent Social Impact Assessment's (Gaming & Liquor). We are the most successful preparer of these assessments in NSW and have enjoyed significant success in other jurisdictions. Our clients include major clubs, hotels and corporate clients such as Woolworths
• Developing and managing major celebrations and events, including 50th anniversary programmes, new facility launches and major charitable events
• Undertake significant needs analysis /community research for venues, councils and hospitality operations including Redcliffe Council, Ipswich Water, Sanctuary Cove and Redcliffe District Rugby League Football Club
• Design & presentation of the GST Education programme for NSW Clubs which involved 70 workshops covering 3,000 managers & directors
• Liquidation experience in the administration, restructuring and liquidation of Registered Clubs  
• Audit services to over twenty registered clubs
• We have project managed and assisted over 60 NSW Clubs in completing successful amalgamations

Associations

• Delivered training 'road shows' to the industry body on the impact of new legislation in the industry in the areas of:

1. Gaming as a result of the introduction of the Gaming Machines Act
2. Club amalgamations as a result of amendments to the Registered Clubs Act
3. Corporate governance as a result of amendments to the Registered Clubs Act

• Design & presentation of the ClubsNSW Directors Course for many years
• Co-authored modules of the original Club Directors Institute manual for Directors
• Management of the Gaming Tax Campaign for ClubsNSW for almost three years until its successful conclusion in April 2006
• Design & presentation of modules for the Department of Sport & Recreation Manual & course titled 'It's Your Business'
• Working in partnership with the Leagues Clubs' Association for a number of years with their two annual conferences and other marketing aspects of their work, as well as assisting the NSW Golf Association
• Audit services to the RSL & Services Clubs Association, the peak body for RSL & Services Clubs in the state 

Financial institutions

• Provision of information briefings to banks, other accounting firms, solicitors and other parties on industry changes that impact on Registered Clubs
• Provision of pre-lending reports/feasibility studies to assist banks in assessing loan applications from clubs