All MCA Insight articles in March 2014 – Page 9
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Eagle Eye plans flotation
Digital loyalty company Eagle Eye, which works with hospitality and food service groups including Mitchells and Butlers, Gondola Group, Tragus and Greggs, has announced its intention to float on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM).
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Gusto UK eyes second craft beer bar
Gusto UK, the Newcastle-based bar and coffee shop operator, plans to open a second craft beer bar after the launch of its first in the city, M&C Report has learnt
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Fever Bars takes former Que Pasa in Taunton
Fever Bars, the retro music bar operator, has taken the 22,000 sq ft site of a former Que Pasa nightclub in Taunton, Somerset, for a new twin venue
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Kosmonaut team to open second site
The team behind the award-winning Kosmonaut bar in Manchester’s Northern Quarter venture will open their second site in the city’s Stevenson Square this summer
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Glass recycling target cut ‘could save pub industry £20m’
Industry figures have welcomed the Government’s decision to lower glass recycling targets
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Chelmsford considers late-night levy
Chelmsford City Council is to formally discuss the possibility of consulting on a late-night levy tonight
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Pickled Walnut: new investment, eyes expansion
Pickled Walnut, the Birkenhead-based catering and events company, has secured new investment as it looks to acquire its own venues, according to the North West Caterer
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Enterprise 'to benefit most from beer duty cut'
Enterprise Inns is the pub company that will benefit most from the cut in beer duty in terms of the impact on pre-tax profit, according to leading analyst Douglas Jack, who estimated that the beer duty reduction should be worth £30m to pubs based on sales last year
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Essenden to raise £100m acquisition fund
Essenden said yesterday that it is to tap institutions for at least £100m of new equity to fund acquisitions, which could include a move into the restaurant sector
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NewsPizza Hut: Getting family experience right critical
Pizza Hut Restaurants had stopped seeing things through children’s eyes and had become too corporate, according to its marketing director Kathryn Austin. Speaking at the CGA Peach Consumer Insight & Marketing Conference 2014, Austin said those looking to do well in the family-dining space must see their “offering through the kids eyes, otherwise you will lose out on a £1.9bn market”
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Analysis & Insight
Major operators 'to take market share from each other'
The opportunity for major operators to win market share from independents is reducing, meaning they will either have to take share from each other or increase spend per head, Horizons managing director Peter Backman has told M&C Report
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NewsSector welcomes 'Budget for business'
Industry leaders and experts have given a generally positive response to yesterday’s Budget. We outline their views -
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Meatliquor heads West
Meatliquor, the fast-casual concept led by Yianni Papoutsis and Scott Collins, is close to securing its first site in the South West
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Kerbisher & Malt sets out growth plans
Kerbisher & Malt, the London-based contemporary fish and chip shop concept, has set out plans to add at least three further sites to its estate this year, after opening its third site in East Sheen yesterday
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Palmers signs up first apprentice to take pub
Palmers, the Dorset brewer and pub operator, has signed up its first apprentice as a pub tenant, tenanted trade director Jayson Perfect has told M&C Report
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Award-winning pub manager eyes growth for new venture
Award-winning front-of-house manager Mike Champion has set up a new pub company with plans to open five sites during as many years, M&C Report has learnt
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NewsQuiznos: pre-pack to have little impact on UK
The pre-pack restructuring of Quiznos, the US sandwich chain, is expected to have no impact on the UK business, which has agreed heads of terms on a further three sites in London, M&C Report has learnt
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NewsNeame: let's keep our foot on the pedal
The industry “shouldn’t take its foot off the pedal” in lobbying the Government despite the very positive news in the Budget, according to Jonathan Neame, chairman of the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) and chief executive of Shepherd Neame
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Dunstall steps down from Rosinter
Ian Dunstall has followed Kevin Todd in stepping down from Russia’s largest casual restaurant chain, where he had been senior vice president marketing
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NewsIntu to create Bromley leisure development
Intu has submitted a planning application to create a leisure development to provide more choice and variety in Bromley as part of the company’s £24m investment plans for the scheme