All MCA Insight articles in December 2016 – Page 13
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Livingbridge set to complete Rhubarb deal
Livingbridge is set to announce that it has acquired a majority stake in Rhubarb, the event caterer and restaurant operator
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Tortilla appoints new ops director
Tortilla has appointed Jason Salt, former regional director of KFC UK & Ireland, as its new operations director
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McFarlane swaps Charles Wells for Fuller’s
James McFarlane, the former director of sales, national on-trade for Charles Wels, has joined Fuller’s.
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Admiral: Acquisitions, alternative models and MRO
MCA talks to Admiral Taverns chief executive Kevin Georgel on the back of the announcement of the group’s full-year results.
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London rents up 22% since 2010
Fleurets latest annual rental survey has shown prices in London continuing to rocket and predicted that Brexit is only likely to exacerbate the situation.
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Stonegate to acquire Intertain
Stonegate Pub Company has this morning announced that it has reached agreement to acquire Walkabout operator Intertain from Better Capital, in a deal valued at £39.5m
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Analysis & Insight
Over five thousand restaurant companies risk insolvency
A total 5,570 restaurant companies have at least a 30% chance of going insolvent within the next three years
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TRG appoints interim CMO
The Restaurant Group (TRG) has appointed Lucinda Woods, formerly of Paddy Power, as its interim chief marketing officer
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Chinese investor acquires The Plough at Cadsden
A Chinese investment company has acquired the Plough at Cadsden, the pub which hit the headlines late last year when the then Prime Minister David Cameron took China’s President Xi Jinping there
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Analysis & Insight
2016: A year of disruptions
MCA’s Peter Linden looks backs on a year of disruption in the eating out sector and ahead to prospects for the sector in 2017.
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Admiral FY turnover up 1.7%
Admiral Taverns has received just four requests about conversions to a Market Rent Only (MRO) option agreement since the pubs code came into force.
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Sector celebrated in Fast Track 100
City Pub Company and Hotcha were both new entrants in the top 50 fastest-growing companies in the UK, according to the Sunday Times’ annual rundown.
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Route Restaurants grows to four
Route Restaurants, the Devon and Cornwall-based American diner concept is to open its fourth site.
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Patisserie Holdings in talks to acquire Maison Blanc
Patisserie Holdings, the AIM-list parent company of Patisserie Valerie, is in advanced talks to acquired Maison Blanc
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Deadline approaches for new Chefs’ Choice awards
The deadline is fast approaching for Chefs’ Choice, a new set of awards to recognise excellence in foodservice
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Garston joins BGP to head up new tenant department
BGP has announced that Nick Garston has joined its team as a director to head up a new tenant representation department
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Government sugar levy response due Monday
The Government is to announce it will press ahead with plans for a fiscal levy on added-sugar soft drinks, when it publishes its consultation on the sugar levy on Monday.
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Mitch Tonk protégé doubles fish and chip restaurant
Mitch Tonks protégé Gary Rosser is doubling this size of his award-winning Bath fish and chip restaurant and takeaway The Scallop Shell and would like open in Bristol, MCA has learnt.
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Diary: Greene King; Just Eat and Deliveroo
In this week’s Diary round-up Just Eat talks robots, Deliveroo blows bubbles and Greene King celebrates the duo keeping the family in the brewer. Taste the future Imagine how you’d feel – you’re starving, your takeaway is late and someone keeps ringing your doorbell and running away before you manage ...
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Power of good for D&W chief
As Mel Marriott prepares to unveil the fifth Darwin & Wallace pub, this time at the new Battersea Power Station site, she talks to Mel Flaherty about how the area provides the style for each outlet and the potential for expansion, especially outside London