MCA’s July edition features in-depth analysis and commentary on the eating and drinking out sector. This month we explore whether confidence in the market is prompting a return to M&A activity, the challenges The Restaurant Group faces from activist investors and how it might turnaround its share price and the buoyant growth of the UK dessert café sector. There are interviews with MCA’s Retailers’ Retailer Award winners McDonald’s, Itsu and Imbiba and coverage of MCA’s annual Pub Conference earlier this month – with further coverage to appear in our August edition. Regular industry commentators, Peter Martin, Dominic Walsh and David Read share their views on topics effecting the sector including sustainability, the need for a VAT cut and business buzzwords, while Lumina Intelligence unpicks examples of innovation in the pub sector.