Finance – Page 317

  • News

    Calco and Cal Management package marketed

    2013-05-31T14:03:00Z

    A 78-strong package of pubs from the former Calco and Cal Management estates has been placed on the market, M&C Report has learnt.

  • News

    Westmorland secures £20m funding deal

    2013-05-31T07:25:23.380Z

    Westmorland has agreed a £20m funding deal from the Co-operative Bank for its M5 project in Gloucester

  • News

    Pasty Presto secures funding package

    2013-05-31T07:25:00Z

    Pasty Presto has secured a funding package to expand its chain of Cornish pasty shops

  • News

    Innventure on track for £1m FY EBITDA

    2013-05-30T07:50:00Z

    Innventure expects EBITDA to be in excess of £1m in its current financial year

  • News

    Strong interest in Fat Cat sites

    2013-05-30T07:22:00Z

    Strong interest has been shown in the package of six Fat Cat Café Bars placed on the market last month.

  • News

    Turtle Bay secures expansion funds

    2013-05-29T11:33:00Z

    Turtle Bay, the Caribbean restaurant concept has secured funding, which will allow it to open 10 new restaurants.

  • Mitchells and Butlers
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    Jack upgrades M&B

    2013-05-29T09:05:00Z

    Leading sector analyst Douglas Jack has upgraded his recommendation for Mitchells & Butlers to Add from Buy following a recent rise in its share price, despite an increase in its pension deficit.

  • News

    Quilvest not in Byron running

    2013-05-28T13:16:00Z

    Up to five private equity firms are believed to have got through to the next round of bidding for Byron.

  • News

    L&G raises £67m leisure fund

    2013-05-28T13:11:00Z

    Legal and General Property has raised £67m of capital for its latest leisure fund.

  • News

    Shaftesbury and Great Portland report rising demand

    2013-05-28T13:07:00Z

    Two of the biggest property owners in London’s West End have reported rising demand for their properties.

  • News

    M&B lfls up 0.3%, identifies five market spaces

    2013-05-28T13:01:00Z

    M&B has reported a 0.3% rise in like-for-like sales for the 28 weeks to 13 April and set out what it described as its ‘five-star’ approach to the market.

  • News

    FY lfls up 3.3% at Booker

    2013-05-28T11:42:00Z

    Booker, the food and drink wholesaler, has reported a 3.3% rise in like-for-like sales in the year to 29 March, with non-tobacco sales up 4.5% on a like-for-like basis. Overall group revenue increased by 3.5% to £4.bn, while profit before tax climbed 13% to £101.4m. It said that sales to ...

  • St Austell
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    St Austell FY turnover tops £100m

    2013-05-28T10:49:00Z

    St Austell Brewery, the Cornish brewer and pub operator, saw turnover exceed £100m for the first time in its history in 2012.

  • News

    Young's PBT up 13.1% in "exceptional" year

    2013-05-28T10:45:00Z

    Young’s has reported a 13.1% rise in adjusted pre-tax profit to £28.9m in the year to 1 April 2013 in what it called an “exceptional” year.

  • Miller Brands
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    Miller Brands grows revenue ahead of volume

    2013-05-28T10:38:00Z

    Miller Brands increased its full-year revenues ahead of volumes that grew 4% in the 12 months to 31 March, managing director Gary Haigh has told M&C Report.

  • Costa Coffee Photo
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    Rollo: Weather to hit Whitbread restaurants

    2013-05-28T10:20:00Z

    A leading analyst has said that he expects Costa to have seen strong trading (+3%) helped by the poor weather, when it gives its Q1 trading update on 18 June.

  • Spirit
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    Jamie Rollo on Spirit Pub Company

    2013-05-28T10:16:00Z

    Jamie Rollo at Morgan Stanley takes a look ahead to the Q3 update from Spirit Pub Company.

  • News

    Britvic to combine GB and Ireland business

    2013-05-28T09:51:00Z

    Britvic has announced plans to create a combined Great Britain and Ireland business under a single leadership team, which will see the closure of two factories in Britain and a warehouse in Northern Ireland.

  • News

    Analyst positive on SABMiller

    2013-05-24T13:20:00Z

    Leading analyst Anthony Geard has reiterated his Hold recommendation for SABMiller, the global brewer, following its full-year results this week, saying the “overall feel” of its results is “very solid” despite falling marginally short of his estimates. Geard, of Investec, increased his Target Price to “reflect some FX moves and ...

  • Young's
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    Young's: rebrand, bonuses, expansion, events

    2013-05-23T12:20:00Z

    M&C Report takes a closer look at the full-year results to 1 April for Young’s, and speaks to chief executive Stephen Goodyear.