All MCA Insight articles in May 2016 – Page 13
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Martin makes Vote Leave donation
Tim Martin, founder and chairman of JD Wetherspoon, has donated £200,000 to the campaign for the UK to leave the EU
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Blanchette team to open second London site
Maxime, Yannis and Malik Alary, the brothers behind the Soho-based Parisian restaurant Blanchette, are set to open a second site in the capital
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Tim Bacon memorial date set
The life of Tim Bacon will be celebrated at a special open invitation memorial service on Monday 16 May (1pm) at Albert Hall, in Peter Street, Manchester
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Dirty Martini to invest £1m on regional debut
CG Restaurants & Bars is to invest c£1m on making its regional debut in Cardiff with its Dirty Martini brand later this summer
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JW Lees appoints director of people
JW Lees has hired Nik Waring as its first director of people
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Krispy Kreme to be taken private
Krispy Kreme is to be taken private by JAB Holdings, which is controlled by Germany’s Reimann family, in a deal valued at $1.35bn
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Chambers to replace Curran as Revolution CFO
Sean Curran is to step down as chief financial officer of Revolution Bars Group later this summer after 13 years with the company
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Pizza Hut Delivery invests £40m to add 200 stores
Pizza Hut Delivery has announced plans to invest £40m in opening 200 new take away stores in the UK & Ireland over the next four years, with its Express format to form a major tranche of the growth.
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Leon to make US debut next year
Leon, the healthy fast food chain, plans to make its debut in the US next year, with a site lined up in Florida
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Dirty Martini plans regional debut in Cardiff
Dirty Martini, the CG Restaurants-owned seven-strong bar brand, is set to make its regional debut in Cardiff
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Altium merges with GCA Savvian Corporation
Altium has announced it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with GCA Savvian Corporation, a global investment bank
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Analysis & Insight
Vital part to play
The last fortnight has seen two deals in the UK’s food-to-go sector, which I believe will mark the start of a period of M&A and consolidation across the category, as more investors and companies look to take advantage of a market that is outperforming the wider eating-out industry
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Greggs lfls up 3.7%
Greggs has reported like-for-like sales at its company-managed stores up 3.7% for the first 18 weeks of the year.
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FY lfls up 6.3% at PAUL UK
PAUL UK, the French bakery and café brand, saw group turnover climb 17% to £28.7m in the year ended 31 December 2015
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City Pub Co grows FY EBITDA 36%
City Pub Company chairman Clive Watson has told MCA the company’s 36% uplift in EBITDA for the year to 27 December shows the group’s “controlled momentum”.
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Koh Group ups openings target
Koh Group, operator of the Koh Thai Tapas and Koh Noi, has upped its openings target to 40 sites opened or in its pipeline by 2021
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StreetDots launch Scotland’s first independent food hub
StreetDots, the pop-up food venture, will launch Scotland’s first independent food hub in Buchanan Galleries
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Bagdai and Bhogal to launch new venture
Ratnesh Bagdai is set to team up with chef and food writer Ravinder Bhogal to open a new restaurant in London’s Marylebone
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Harry Ramsden’s to open second pub this month
Harry Ramsden’s is to open its second partnership with Punch at the Three Bridges pub in South Queensferry, Edinburgh, at the end of this month, MCA understands.
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Ducalian Capital secures Clerkenwell’s Coach & Horses
The Coach and Horses in London’s Clerkenwell has been sold by off a guide price of £2.8m to Ducalian Capital