All JD Wetherspoon articles – Page 31
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Analysis & InsightManaging expectations
The pub market is expected to reach a value of £24.3bn by 2018. This growth will be driven mainly by managed & branded pubs, but the challenge for this sector is to manage expectations as consumers increasingly measure operators against their restaurant peer group
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Analysis & InsightWet is the new dry
Amber Taverns has made a mockery of the industry adage that pubs need to serve food to succeed. James Wallin spoke to the founders to find out how they kept faith with the old-fashioned wet-led boozer
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OpinionUpholding the McMullen values
Venerable family brewer McMullen was ahead of much of the sector in recognising the need to diversify from a tied tenanted estate. James Wallin talks to the latest McMullen to sit on the board and current managing director Peter Furness-Smith to share two centuries of wisdom on the pub sector
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OpinionYoung's at heart of M&A theory
There has been movement in the acquisitions market, talk of a flotation and likely responses to the market rent-only option (MRO) recently, and Dominic Walsh thinks there may be more on the horizon
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Nottingham Brewery buys second pub, eyes estate
Nottingham Brewery, run by the founders of Castle Rock Brewery, has bought the second of a planned estate of pubs after bringing in JD Wetherspoon stalwart Andy Heath to run them.
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French: Expect strong growth for three years
Leading analyst Simon French, of Cenkos, has predicted pub and restaurant groups will see up to three years of above average earnings growth driven by like-for-like sales rising above inflation, new site openings, a benign cost environment and selective M&A.
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NewsProfit taking hits M&C20 after buoyant weeks
The M&C20 outperformed the All Share index this week, down 0.7% against the All Share’s 2.6% drop
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Stonegate appoints new director of corporate affairs
Stonegate Pub Company has appointed Daniel Wilkinson, formerly of Greene King, as its new director of corporate affairs
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JDW hits back over ‘inaccurate’ comments on traveller case
JD Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin has hit back at ‘inaccurate’ newspaper coverage of the second case in a month in which the company had to apologise to a group of travellers.
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NewsStonegate appoints new ops director
Carl Uttley, who has spent 11 years at JD Wetherspoon, has rival Stonegate Pub Company as an operations director
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McMullen operator agreement offers ‘genuine partnership’
Peter Furness-Smith, managing director of McMullen, has told M&C Report the company’s operator agreements have proved a huge success but has said entrepreneurial licensees will be hardest hit by the death of the tied model.
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NewsGrexit overhangs M&C20
In what was a half term week of fairly low volumes in the stock markets, the M&C20 outperformed the All-Share Index, rising 0.3% while the wider market fell 0.2%
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NewsJDW found guilty in second traveller discrimination case
JD Wetherspoon has been forced to apologise, for the second time in a month, to a group of travellers refused entry to its pubs.
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Sports Bar & Grill’s Piccadilly site marketed
Bar Holdings – the company behind the Sports Bar & Grill chain – has placed its site in London’s Piccadilly on the market, M&C Report understands. The six-strong group, which attracted interest from JD Wetherspoon earlier this year, has placed the Sports Bar & Grill on Rupert Street on the ...
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NewsEnterprise has Eureka moment
Enterprise Inns has launched a new company Eureka Inns Ltd to oversee its new “managed expert” model
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Analysis & InsightValue operators winning across the market
Brands that offer good value at low prices continue to see the strongest growth in the restaurant market
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NewsJDW adds three to Republic estate
JD Wetherspoon is to open three new pubs in the Republic of Ireland in the coming months
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JDW guilty of discriminating against eight travellers
Central London County Court has ruled on a case after a group of Irish travellers sued JD Wetherspoon for discrimination when they were turned away from a north London pub in 2011.
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NewsJDW threatens legal action over meal deal copyright
JD Wetherspoon has threatened to take legal action against competitors including Stonegate, Greene King, Whitbread and Mitchells & Butlers over meal deals which it says are infringing its copyright.
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NewsTim Martin: Election; discounts; coffee wars and GK/Spirit impact
JD Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin has backed the incoming Conservative Government as good for the pub sector but said coalition politics helped to create a more measured legislative programme.