All MCA Insight articles in June 2013 – Page 14
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Opinion
The late-night challenge
A new report into the UK’s nightclub industry makes for sobering reading, with the value of the sector said to have fallen 28% since 2008. However, the Mintel report gives some grounds for optimism, as Phil Mellows reports
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News
YO! makes burger move
YO! Sushi looks to ‘reinvent the burger’ with the launch of the £8 YO! Burger
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News
Crowdcube used for brewery launch
A City banker and home-brew enthusiast is aiming to launch his own brewery backed by crowd-sourced funding
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News
BHA urges Government help for sector
The British Hospitality Association (BHA) has outlined four key areas on which the Government should act to help the hospitality and tourism industry
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News
Sector pledges 30k more jobs for young people
A number of companies in the hospitality and tourism sector including Whitbread and SSP have between them pledges to create a further 30,000 new jobs for young people by 2015
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News
Tuppen challenges CAMRA on tenant earnings
Enterprise Inns CEO has refuted CAMRA’s assertion that 84% of licensees tied to the big pubcos earn less than £15,000 a year
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News
Loungers could accelerate openings
Loungers could accelerate its opening programme to 15 outlets per year and is on course to reach its 70-site target earlier than anticipated, MD Alex Reilley has told M&C Report
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News
VIDEO: Punch Taverns chairman Stephen Billingham outlines financial restructuring proposals
The group requires the support of stakeholders, but still hopes to implement refinancing by the end of June
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Weekend Press
Weekend press roundup, 8-9 June
Roadside servicesBetting tycoon takes punt on giving lorry drivers a break from open roadThe man who built Betfred from a single bookies in Salford to a nationwide chain is taking a gamble on motorway services and plans to open truck stops nationwide over the next five years.Only a couple of ...
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News
Loungers FY EBITDA grows 41%
Loungers has reported a 41% rise in EBITDA to £4.42m before central overheads in the year to 30 April as it opened nine sites in the period
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Opinion
Fuller's joins cider gold rush
With the London brewer entering the cider category with its acquisition of Cornish Orchards, John Harrington examines the opportunities that the sector holds
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News
Billingham: not much leeway on Punch restructure plan
Punch Taverns executive chairman Stephen Billingham also wanrs stakeholders that the consequences of not supporting the plan “are possibly quite severe”
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News
Punch announces revised restructuring proposals
Punch Taverns hopes to complete restructure this month as it reports a 0.7% decline in net income in Q3
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News
Apostrophe grows underlying sales, losses widen
Apostrophe, the London-based patisserie café operator, saw underlying sales rise 5.2% in the year to 31 August although losses widened
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News
Grand Union reveals growth targets
London-based group eyes at least a 20-strong estate after Luke Johnson takes a 50% stake in the business
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News
M&C20 share index launched to track sector performance
Today marks the launch of a new service from M&C Report to provide insight into the performance of the shares of publicly quoted companies in the sector
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News
Shonhan eyes Bone Daddies expansion and evolution
Former Zuma head chef tells M&C Report he’d like to expand Bone Daddies in various forms to 10 sites over four years
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News
Fuller's: cider, Heathrow, expansion, analysts
M&C Report takes a closer look at the full-year results for Fuller’s, the London-based brewer and pub operator, for the year to 30 March and talks to chairman Michael Turner
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News
Nine of 18 Orchid disposals sold
Hertfordshire-based McMullen’s among the buyers of the Orchid pubs that are up for sale with Fleurets and CBRE, M&C Report has learnt
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News
Batemans trials snack food offer
Batemans is trialling a snack food offer for wet-led pubs at two managed houses before introducing it into its tenanted estate