All MCA Insight articles in April 2019 – Page 9
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Joe & The Juice secures Mayfair site
Joe & The Juice is to open its next London site at 20 North Audley Street in Mayfair later this month.
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PubLove to expand partnership with Ei Group; debuts pizza offer
Publove is to open its first new site since its joint partnership with Ei Managed Investments began – the Rose & Crown near London Bridge, with several other sites in the pipeline.
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Foxlow Soho to close
Foxlow, the sister brand of Hawksmoor, has announced that it will close its Soho site.
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Dum Dum opening in Bluewater
Dum Dum, the baked doughnut concept, is opening at Bluewater shopping centre.
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Talk Talk's Ferry joins Greggs board
Greggs has appointed Kate Ferry, chief financial officer of TalkTalk Group, as an independent non-executive director.
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Diageo appoints Crew as NED
Diageo has appointed Debra Crew, the former president and chief executive of Reynolds American, as a non-executive director.
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Hollywood Bowl HY lfls up 4.4%
Hollywood Bowl has announced revenue growth of 5.3% and like-for-like revenue growth of 4.4%.for the six months ended 31 March 2019.
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Goodlife Projects liquidated
Goodlife Projects, the brand, marketing and consultancy business which launched Rum Kitchen, Passo and Foley’s, has gone into liquidation, MCA has learnt.
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Analysis & Insight
Mildness boosts March spend
March’s mild weather compared to last year’s Beast from the East led to double digit year on year growth in spending in restaurants and pubs, Barclaycard data reveals.
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Dodo Pizza hires Sweeney to lead UK development
Dodo Pizza, the Russian c450 strong brand, has hired David Sweeney, formerly of Burger King, Papa John’s, to lead its development in the UK, MCA has learnt.
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Simmons achieves 8% rise in lfls
Lonsdale Capital-backed bar group Simmons has achieved a like-for-like sales (lfls) increase of 8% for the full year to 31 March 2019, MCA has learnt.
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Island Poke lines up eighth site eight, develops ordering app
Island Poke, the White Rabbit Fund backed concept, will open its eighth site in the South Bank Place development later this year, while it is preparing to launch a consumer app amid growth of its click and collect business, MCA has learnt.
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City Pub Group’s new structure ‘could support over 100 sites’
City Pub Group chairman Clive Watson has told MCA that the group’s new regional structure gives it the capacity to eventually operate over 100 sites.
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Fast food brands top fastest growth index
The top three fastest growing brands in the UK eating out sector in 2018 were fast food brands, the latest MCA data shows.
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Analysis & Insight
Gender pay gap reporting: Has progress been made?
With the deadline now passed for operators to report their gender pay data for the second year running, MCA takes a look at the numbers from last year to see how they compare.
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Analysis & Insight
Burger King – Still in McDonald’s shadow?
Eighteen months after Bridgepoint acquired the UK master franchise rights for Burger King, how is the brand performing in its long-fought rivalry with McDonald’s? MCA market insight director, Steve Gotham, looks at what consumer data can tell us.
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Radio Alice secures third site
Radio Alice, the Azzurri Group-backed pizza concept, has secured its third site – after taking on the former GBK unit in Canary Wharf’s Jubilee Place, MCA understands.
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TRG brings 22 more sites to market
The Restaurant Group (TRG) has confirmed it is marketing 22 sites as part of a process to rationalise its estate.
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Taco Bell aims for 20 further UK locations in 2019
Taco Bell is looking to open 20 UK sites during the course of 2019, as it aims to reach c170 sites in the next five years, MCA has learnt.
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Analysis & Insight
Japanese whiskey and vermouth among most fashionable drinks
Japanese whiskey and vermouth are among the most fashionable drinks in high-end London bars, according to a new Influencers Report from CGA and DrinkUp.London – a guide to drinking in the capital.