All MCA Insight articles in December 2015 – Page 2
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Film producer Thykier is director of Soho House restaurants
Film producer Kris Thykier and Enrique Banon, founder of private equity group White and Blue Capital, have both become directors of Quentin Restaurants, the holding company set up to oversee Soho House’s restaurant concepts, M&C understands. Earlier this year, Soho House sold a 50% stake in its restaurant operation, which ...
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Analysis & Insight
Decorations top demand for Xmas meals out
Decorations are more important than the menu for customers eating out at Christmas, according to a survey by Greene King.
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Iberica founder developing paella restaurant concept
Founder of Spanish restaurant group Iberica, Marco Fernandez Pardo, is developing a paella restaurant concept with yet another Michelin starred chef, M&C understands.
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Inception Group to open new Bunga Bunga in Covent Garden
Charlie Gilkes, co-founder of Inception Group, has told M&C the company has secured a site for its second Bunga Bunga pizzeria.
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LV’s Artisan reports double-digit sales growth
Artisan, the casual-dining bar restaurant site from Living Ventures, experienced double-digit growth in the year to 31 March 2015
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POD appoints new director of food
POD has appointed Sean Burlinson, formerly of Harris + Hoole and Spirit Pub Company, as its new director of food
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Growth Tracker 2016 open for entries
M&C Allegra is once again teaming up with leading advisory firm AlixPartners to identify the top 50 private firms with the fastest-growing profits in the UK eating and drinking-out sector.
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Harvester donates 5,000 meals to local causes
Harvester, the Mitchells & Butlers-owned chain, has treated a multitude of charities local based near its 230 sites to free Christmas meals
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BrewDog seeks to protect itself from takeovers
BrewDog is proposing amending its articles of association ruling out a takeover by any “monolithic purveyor of bland industrial beer”.
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H&W eyes tenanted growth and more investment
Hall & Woodhouse is gearing up for expansion in its tenanted arm and is likely to match this year’s record capex spend of £3.5m in the estate, M&C has learnt.
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Heineken takes over distribution of Red Stripe
Heineken UK has confirmed it will take over all marketing, distribution and sales rights for Red Stripe in Britain from 1 January.
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Chicken Shop set for St John’s Wood
Soho House has lined up a further site for its Chicken Shop concept in St John’s Wood
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Porky’s to launch crowdfunding campaign
Memphis barbeque restaurant Porky’s is launching a crowdfunding campaign next year to raise funds for further expansion M&C has learned.
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Interviews
Sector snapshot: Shaking up the UK burger market
M&C talks to Randy Garutti, chief executive of Shake Shack, as the company launches its fourth UK site and its first outside London, in Cardiff today. He discusses how operating in the UK has made Shake Shack “up our game” back home, his plans for UK expansion, how the company is coping with wage increases on both sides of the pond and what trends he sees developing in 2016.
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Leon to begin overseas expansion
Leon is to make its overseas debut next year with a launch in Holland, at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport
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Bagelman drops franchising plans
Brighton-based café operator Bagelman has dropped any franchising plans and is instead focusing on expanding its company owned stores in the south with a £160,000 crowdfunding campaign, M&C has learned.
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Darby paid £878k in final year at M&B
Alistair Darby received £878,000 in his final year as chief executive of Mitchells & Butlers and was paid the equivalent of his £540,000 annual basic salary as payment for loss of office.
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FY lfls up 6.9% Gusto
Gusto has reported a 6.9% rise in like-for-like sales for the year to 31 March 2015, with overall sales up 22% to £18.2m.
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Revolution strengthens food team
Revolution Bars Group has announced the creation of three new group management positions in its catering team
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Analysis & Insight
Going out drives consumer spending
Consumer spending increased at the fastest pace in at least four years in 2015, according to Barclaycard