All JD Wetherspoon articles – Page 17

  • News

    FY EBITDA up 10.1% at Hawthorn

    2017-07-20T08:50:00Z

    Hawthorn Leisure saw group EBITDA increase 10.1% to £9m in the year to 25 December 2016

  • News

    Conviviality Direct FY sales up 6.4%

    2017-07-17T07:40:00Z

    Conviviality has reported that its wholesale division – which incorporates Matthew Clark and Bibendum – saw revenues grow 6.4% to £1.04bn in the year to 30 April.

  • Opinion

    Pubs: Turnover rents; wet-led success and tenanted moves

    2017-07-14T16:22:48.927Z

    CBRE’s Simon Johnson gives his views on the current state of the pub sector, including tenanted operators’ increasing use of turnover-related agreements and why we could see some managed operations moving into tenanted.

  • News

    JDW lfls up 5.3%

    2017-07-12T07:18:11.140Z

    JD Wetherspoon has reported like-for-like sales up 5.3% for the 11 weeks to 9 July, with total sales up 3.6%.

  • Alexander Graham Bell, JDW
    News

    JDW brings more pubs to market

    2017-07-11T08:37:00Z

    JD Wetherspoon has appointed CBRE and Savills to sell The Alexander Graham Bell on Edinburgh’s George Street.

  • News

    Analyst corner: Rollo on pubs

    2017-07-07T16:32:21.913Z

    Leading analyst Jamie Rollo, of Morgan Stanley, discusses why the wholesale shift into food by by most of the major pub operators over the last decade has not proved to be they antidote they may have hoped for.

  • News

    Analyst corner: Jack on JDW

    2017-07-05T08:38:00Z

    Leading analyst Douglas Jack at Peel Hunt has changed his recommendation on JD Wetherspoon’s shares from Hold to Reduce

  • News

    JDW to develop £13m Dublin pub and hotel

    2017-06-26T08:16:37.950Z

    Wetherspoon is to spend around £13m developing a new pub and 98-bedroom hotel in Dublin city centre.

  • Opinion

    Managing expectations

    2017-06-26T08:16:00Z

    Brakspear’s chief executive Tom Davies talks about the group’s fast-growing managed estate, the challenges facing its 120-strong tenanted portfolio and the return to its 300-year association with brewing.

  • News

    JDW scraps ‘intrusive’ newsletters

    2017-06-23T08:29:25.320Z

    JD Wetherspoon is to stop sending monthly newsletters and delete its database of customers’ e-mails.

  • News

    JDW raises £14m for CLIC Sargent

    2017-06-20T07:21:08.273Z

    JD Wetherspoon staff and customers have now raised £14m for CLIC Sargent.

  • Analysis & Insight

    Tuned in to the frequency

    2017-06-19T07:15:00Z

    MCA’s Eating Out Panel looks at three key factors when analysing data – participation, frequency and average spend. Here, Steve Gotham takes a look at descending figures for the start of the year

  • News

    JDW PBT likely to be 2%-3% higher than expected

    2017-06-14T08:31:00Z

    Leading analyst Simon French, of Cenkos, has suggested that JD Wetherspoon is likely to report full-year pre-tax profits up 2-3% on expectations.

  • News

    Hawthorn abandons Stone & Taps concept

    2017-06-13T08:05:01.993Z

    Hawthorn Leisure has abandoned its student-focussed Stone & Taps concept, MCA has learnt.

  • News

    Urban acquires Kentish Town site

    2017-06-02T15:57:54.177Z

    Urban Pubs & Bars has secured its 11th site and has two more in the pipeline, MCA understands.

  • News

    Rushton to head up Which Wich UK operations

    2017-06-02T08:27:14.173Z

    James Rushton, formerly of PizzaExpress and EAT, is to aid the UK launch and roll out of Which Wich

  • Analysis & Insight

    Knives are out for Frankie’s

    2017-05-26T08:32:32.223Z

    This week saw shares at The Restaurant Group fall 7% on the back of a note from UBS, which said Frankie & Benny’s new menu was still 22% more expensive than branded pub chains despite cutting prices.

  • Analysis & Insight

    JDW retains dominance among pub brands

    2017-05-25T08:32:16.377Z

    The latest Pub Brand Monitor from MCA has shown that despite site closures over the past year and a fall in its share of breakfast and dinner visits, JD Wetherspoon remains the market leader.

  • News

    Stringer leaves We Are Bar

    2017-05-23T08:19:16.983Z

    We Are Bar Group, formerly Kornicis, has announced the departure of chief executive Richard Stringer with immediate effect.

  • News

    Prime time for pubs in Q1

    2017-05-18T08:27:00Z

    Pub restaurants were the most frequently visited channel in the eating out sector, despite a fall in the proportion of consumers visiting the channel overall, MCA analysis has found.