All MCA Insight articles in August 2015 – Page 6
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Analysis & Insight
Food to go market to be worth £7.8bn
The food-to-go mission value to the UK’s convenience store sector is set to be grow from £4.8bn this year to £7.8bn by 2020
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News
Brompton Food Market owners to open a pub
The owners of the Brompton Food Market are to open a pub I South Kensington next month.
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News
Garrood re-structures Punch team
Punch Taverns’ recently appointed chief executive Duncan Garrood has announced a re-structure aimed at driving future plans and maximising potential across the pubco’s estate.
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News
VUE acquires Dutch cinema chain
Cinema group VUE has acquired the second largest cinema chain in the Netherlands, JT Bioscopen, for €85m.
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News
D’Acampo teams up with IRC for new brand
High-profile chef Gino D’Acampo is to make his first move into the premium casual dining market, in partnership with Individual Restaurant Company
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Speciality coffee sector to double in value by 2020
The speciality coffee market is set to double in value by 2020 as established coffee brands, pubs and restaurants try to compete with artisan operators.
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Jack: Punch set to complete non-core disposal plan by 2018
Leading analyst, Douglas Jack, of Numis, has said Punch Taverns’ sale of 158 pubs to NewRiver Retail will bring forward the likely completion date of its non-core disposal programme from 2019 to 2018.
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Analysis & Insight
Delivery is US order of the day
Online food delivery services and the healthification of fast food are the main issues shaping the US restaurant industry
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News
Punch agrees £53.5m disposal to NewRiver
Punch Taverns has this morning confirmed it has agreed to sell a package of 158 non-core pubs to NewRiver Retail for £53.5m
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News
Cote refutes service charge criticism
Cote has strongly refuted criticism that it is retaining the entire service charge it automatically adds to bills rather than giving it to staff as tips
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News
Rocket Leisure secures third Records site
Rocket Leisure is eyeing further expansion in the capital for its Records concept, after securing its third outlet on the edge of Shoreditch
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News
Keown swaps DCL for British Land
Alice Keown has stepped down as an associate director of leading property agency Davis Coffer Lyons (DCL) to join British Land
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Analysis & Insight
Tipping point
With staff recruitment and retention at its most challenging and when consumers are demanding more transparency, is it time for sector wide legislation on service charge to be implemented to take out the grey?
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News
Hawksmoor performance on track
Will Beckett, co-founder of Underdog Restaurants, the operator of Hawksmoor, has said that the group’s performance this year is “on track”
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Byron cements openings pipeline
Byron has a pipeline of 13 secured sites and is in advanced legals on almost the same number
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Muffin Break sets out expansion plans
Muffin Break plans to open 16 more stores in the next financial year, including its first train station site
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Whyte & Brown appoints new MD
Whyte & Brown has appointed Emma King, one of the co-founders of Gail’s Bakery, as its new managing director
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Young’s appoints head of tenanted operations
Young’s has appointed Rob Ward to the role of head of tenanted operations.
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News
Pizza Hut Express ‘could grow to over 100 in UK’
Raphael Miolane, chief executive of the delivery arm of Pizza Hut UK & Ireland, has told M&C he thinks the company’s Express format could grow to over 100 sites across the region.
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Shepherd Neame rolling out tapas menu across London pubs
Shepherd Neame, the Kent-based brewer and pub operator, is rolling out its British Tapas menu across its London estate, M&C has learnt.