All MCA Insight articles in December 2015 – Page 2
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Analysis & Insight
Loyalty linked to charging facilities
Operators who have mobile charging facilities are likely to see consumers more inclined to spend longer in their venue
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News
Grand Union announces partners for Wapping concept
Grand Union has announced the coffee provider and barber it will partner with for its new site in Wapping, as well as unveiling a new brand identity.
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NewsPizza Hut launches apprenticeship scheme
Pizza Hut Restaurants has launched its first ever apprenticeship scheme with plans to create 1,500 apprenticeships over the next five years
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NewsHazzard steps back from Burning Nights for new venture
Burning Nights co-founder Alex Hazzard has stepped back from the group to concentrate on his new venture Way Out West Pub Company, M&C understands.
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News
Cheshire Cat Pub Co takes on first Midlands site
Cheshire Cat Pubs and Bars has taken on its first site in the Midlands, with a lease of the Fitzherbert Arms in the village of Swynnerton.
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NewsLondon Union raises £2.5m toward expansion
London Union, parent company of Street Feast, has announced it has raised £2.5m on crowdfunding platform Seedrs
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Two big disrupters for 2016 have nothing to do with food
New York-based food and restaurant consultancy Baum + Whiteman insists that “the two most noteworthy trends in for 2016 have nothing to do with food
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News
Coyle leaves Marston’s to become Innis & Gunn MD
Scottish brewer and pub operator Innis & Gun has appointed Marston’s Beer Company’s deputy manging director James Coyle as its new managing director.
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NewsLords push for MRO to go into second bill
The deadline for the first part of the pubs code consultation has been extended, while the peers have called for the Market Rent Only option to be enshrined in a second piece of legislation.
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OpinionGym buddies
With the opening of the vast German Gymnasium in King’s Cross as well as a revamp of a number of its most recognisable sites, D&D London has smartened up its act, says Stefan Chomka
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News
Patty & Bun confirms Soho site
Patty & Bun has confirmed it has lined up its fourth site in London, with an opening set for Soho
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News
Draft House sets out expansion plans
Draft House, the London-based craft beer bar concept led by Charlie McVeigh, has set out its growth plans for the next three years
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News
Novak secures second Stampede site
Steve Novak, the founder of the Cattle Grid brand, has secured a further site for his yet-to-be launched new fast casual concept Stampede, in Leeds
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NewsOakman eyes aggressive expansion in 2016
Oakman Inns chief executive Peter Borg-Neal has told M&C the company has enjoyed a buoyant start to its H2 and that after a period of consolidation it is eyeing “aggressive” expansion in 2016.
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News
Peach Pub Co adds three new partners
Peach Pubs has made three more of its key staff partners in the business.
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NewsCMA approves bowling merger
The Competitions and Markets Authority has approved the Original Bowling Company’s acquisition of Bowlplex.
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News
One year on Scottish drink driving changes “catastrophic”
The chief executive of the Scottish Licensed Trade Association has told M&C that one year on from the change to drink driving laws the effect on the sector north of the border has been “a catastrophe”.
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News
TLG lines up Guildford opening
The Thai Leisure Group has taken a step closer to making its debut in the south east
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NewsGK: Growth brands; restructure and daytime trading
M&C speaks to Greene King chief executive Rooney Anand on the integration of the Spirit estate during H1 and the strategy for the rest of the financial year.
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NewsCamerons grows Head of Steam estate
Camerons Brewery is launching its latest Head of Steam, this time in Norton High Street in Teesside.