Dunn's, winner of the 2007 bar refurbishment of the year award, has undertaken a grand total of nine redesigns for Dark Star Scotland within a year, resulting in Scotland's leading complete design and build specialist to the hospitality sector being named as Dark Star's preferred contractor.

According to Michael Dunn, Managing Director of Dunn's, the relationship between his company and Dark Star is a textbook example of just what can be achieved from forming an established professional partnership when faced with challenging trading conditions.

Euan Bain of Dark Star Scotland said: "We've been engaged in a rolling programme of rebranding, refurbishing and repositioning various Bar Budda outlets since acquiring them last year and Dunn's advice and service throughout that process has proved invaluable.


"The redesign of many of our outlets has proven extremely successful and popular with regular customers and helped attract new patrons, giving a new lease of life to many of our outlets. We know from the figures that the redesigns undertaken by Dunn's have helped refreshen and revitalise a range of outlets at the very time when trading conditions are widely acknowledged to have become more challenging."

Amongst the various projects undertaken by Dunn's for Dark Star over the course of the last year are: a £150,000 facelift of the popular Bar Budda in Sauchiehall Street; a £100,000 design of Ambar, a late night lounge bar located in the basement below Bar Budda on St Vincent Street in Glasgow's city centre; a £250,000 transformation of September 31 into Riverbank in Kilmarnock; the extensive rebranding and redesign of the former Bar Budda at Langside Monument in the southside of Glasgow as The Church on the Hill and the transformation of the former Bar Budda in Dumbarton into The Clipper, a family-friendly bar and restaurant.

(GK/JM)