All MCA Insight articles in July 2014 – Page 22
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Analysis & Insight
Sales of takeaway food decline
Sales of takeaway food in the UK fell 3.1% in the year to 31 March 2014, with £17.9bn spent on takeaways during the year and takeaway sales from supermarkets gaining ground, according to new research by the NPD Group
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News
Carluccio’s names Chef of the Year
Carluccio’s has announced its chef of the Year from 75 entrants across its 83 restaurants
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NewsBubba Gump and Smith & Wollensky confirm opening details
US restaurant groups Bubba Gump Shrimp Co and Smith & Wollensky have both confirmed details of their UK debuts
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News
Peach ops director joins Whitbread
Spencer Graydon has left his role as operations director at Peach Pub Company to take a similar role at Whitbread
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Analysis & InsightThe story so far
The first half of this year has underlined the feeling that the UK’s eating and drinking-out sector is slowly, but surely pulling itself out of the downturn. Vibrancy has returned to the market, while even pub groups are looking at entering the fast casual market, but will the next six months and beyond cement this position?
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NewsRoberts to head Kent brewery; raises £600k for expansion
Old Dairy Brewery, the Kent brewer founded in 2010, has raised £600,000 for expansion and announced the appointment of former Fuller’s Beer Company managing director John Roberts to lead a strengthened board as it enters a new phase, M&C Report has learnt
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Analysis & Insight
More Brits leaving lunchbox at home
More Brits are leaving their lunchboxes at home and eating out instead, according to new research
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News
Morrisons launches new café concept
Morrisons has become the latest retailer to eye a greater portion of the eating-out market with the launch of a new café concept in its store in Crawley West Sussex
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NewsTiger Bills signs six-figure dual-territory franchise deal
Lifestyle Hospitality Group, the multi-brand restaurant operator, has signed an eight-country international dual-franchise deal with a hotel operator for territories within the Indian Ocean region including Sri Lanka, Mauritius, the Maldives and the Seychelles
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NewsMarston's agrees £28m newbuild funding deal
Marston’s, the brewer and pub operator, has agreed a £28m forward-funding deal with Standard Life to as part of its newbuild pub expansion programme
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NewsM&C20 sees consecutive gains in leisure sector
The M&C20 Leisure Share Index continued to climb this week as it finished up 13 points to 1,196 with very few losses across the 22 listed companies
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News
West Cornwall Pasty Co CEO steps down
Steve Gipson has stepped down as chief executive of West Cornwall Pasty Company, after attempting to oversee a restructure of the group
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NewsItsu begins regional rollout
Itsu, the company set up by Pret a Manger founder Julian Metcalfe and led by Gerard Loughran, has secured a further regional site in Brighton
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News
Mas Q Menos secures first UK site
Mas Q Menos, the Spanish tapas chain, has secured its first UK site in London’s High Holborn.
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NewsQuiznos grows UK estate
Quiznos, the US sandwich chain, is set to take its UK estate to five with the opening of two more sites in London over the coming months, M&C Report has learnt
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News
Heartstone plans major investments and acquisitions
Heartstone Inns, the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS)-backed freehold pub operator, plans to make major investments in its estate as it moves closer to new acquisitions after raising £2m this year, M&C Report has learnt
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News
Roast concept eyes expansion
Hereford + York plans to expand across London, after opening a pop-up in the Harvey Nichols department store in Knightsbridge
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News
Snog opens in Guildford
Snog, the frozen yoghurt concept in which Unilever Ventures took a stake in 2012, has opened its latest site in Guildford, Surrey
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NewsLuminar opens Jongleurs in Brighton Pryzm
Luminar is to open a Jongleurs Comedy Club within its newly refurbished Pryzm nightclub in Brighton
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News
Arc Inspirations to open Pit within existing venue
Arc Inspirations, the Yorkshire bar operator, is to open a fourth site under its Pit concept in August, and the first to be located within an existing Arc venue