All MCA Insight articles in March 2016 – Page 7
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News
Coco di Mama up to 10
Coco di Mama, the Azzurri Group-owned, quick-service Italian concept, will open two sites next month in the City
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News
Punch to absorb duty freeze
Punch has become the first pubco to announce it will absorb the increase in duty included during this year’s Budget.
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News
Georgel: Social media under-utilised in tenanted sector
The tenanted pub sector has yet to exploit the full potential of social media to compete with marketing messages from the managed sector, Admiral Taverns chief executive Kevin Georgel has said.
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Deltic FY turnover up 8%
Deltic Group saw turnover rise 8% in the year to February with the company seeing returns from its increased spend on entertainment.
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Analysis & Insight
Growth in consumer spending slows
Consumer spending grew by 3.3% in February, the second consecutive monthly slowdown since year-on-year growth reached a peak of 4% in December 2015
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News
Noble Inns founder to take on MD role
Noble Inns will not be replacing former managing director Simon Holroyd and instead founder Scott Hunter will step into the role, MCA understands.
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Sourced Market reveals 50 site goal
Sourced Market founder Ben O’Brien has told MCA he has plans for up to 50 of the hybrid casual dining-farmers market concept.
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News
Giggling set for Norwich
Giggling Squid has further strengthened its openings pipeline by securing a further site in East Anglia
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Analysis & Insight
Shopping centre traffic down 8.3%
Footfall to shopping centres last week fell significantly with an annual decline of 8.3%
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News
SSP to launch Beer House in Cardiff
SSP, the travel food specialist, is to continue the expansion of its pub format – The Beer House – to Wales, with an opening at Cardiff Airport.
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Moonshine Bars acquires Old Monk
Moonshine Bars has secured a third site in the capital for a new German-influenced Beerhaus format.
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News
Starbucks UK expands apprenticeship programme
Starbucks is expanding its apprenticeship programme to include those with higher degrees by offering apprenticeships in management and leadership roles
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ETI launches Bermondsey Pub Co apprenticeship
Enterprise Inns has announced a new apprenticeship scheme for its Bermondsey Pub Company managed division.
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RHWB estate comes to the market
Red Hot World Buffet has placed its entire six-strong estate on the market with a valuation of c£5.5m
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IRC reports “best ever year”, refinances
Individual Restaurant Company, the 33-strong operator of the Piccolino and Restaurant Bar and Grill brands, is set to report turnover of c£65m in the year to 31 March 2016 (2015: £59.4m)
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Opinion
Inside Track: NewRiver rising
Former Punch director Jackie Moody-McNamara returned to the sector at the end of last year when she was appointed the first ever pub portfolio director at NewRiver Retail. James Wallin met her to discuss the creation of a new pubco and how NewRiver is applying lessons learnt from its shopping centres portfolios into its pub estate.
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Golfrate seeks to consolidate London pub estate
Golfrate, the London-based property management company, has put the freeholds of two London pubs on the market.
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Collyer: Will BEPS changes hit pubcos?
Leading analyst Geof Collyer, of Deutsche Bank, has highlighted a key area of the budget for pub groups.
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News
£150m Cains Brewery development unveiled
Plans have been unveiled for the £150m Cains Brewery Village development in Liverpool.
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News
Tenant Track ‘underlines investment in people’
Admiral Taverns chief executive Kevin Georgel has said the MCA Tenant Track survey shows that pubcos are investing in their relationship with tenants more than ever before.