All news articles – Page 1517

  • Whitbread beefeater 09
    News

    Whitbread secures record amount of space

    2014-03-12T07:39:00Z

    Whitbread Hotels & Restaurants acquired a record 1.6m sq ft of hotels and restaurants in the year to the end of February

  • News

    Luminar to spend £1.3m on Leeds Pryzm

    2014-03-12T07:34:00Z

    Luminar is to spend £1.3m on its latest conversion from Ocean to Pryzm, in Leeds

  • News

    ​Eataly sells stake, eyes flotation

    2014-03-12T07:27:00Z

    Eataly, the Italian food emporia and restaurants group that’s reportedly in talks with the family behind Selfridges about bringing the concept to London, has sold a 20% stake to Italian investment firm Tamburi Investment Partners (TIP) as part of a move to list on the stock exchange

  • News

    Venners appoints new food consultant

    2014-03-12T07:26:00Z

    Venners, the Christie Group-owned auditing and consultancy firm, has promoted James Shanks to head its food consultancy arm

  • News

    Wellstead to step down as AG&G chair

    2014-03-12T07:19:00Z

    Colin Wellstead is to step down from his role as chairman of property adviser AG&G after 6 years with the company

  • News

    ​Molson Coors names new Scotland sales and ops director

    2014-03-11T22:07:25.353Z

    Molson Coors has appointed Hugo Mills, previously of Diageo and Gruppo Campari, as director of sales and operations for Scotland

  • Wetherspoons logo
    News

    JDW secures Essex pub

    2014-03-11T22:07:00Z

    JD Wetherspoon has completed the acquisition of a pub in Maldon, Essex, for more than the £350,000 asking price

  • Brigid Simmonds of the BBPA
    News

    Two thirds of adults support beer duty cut or freeze​

    2014-03-11T10:33:00Z

    The YouGov poll for the British Beer & Pub Association found that almost a fifth of workers are putting off going out to the pub until payday because they can’t afford it

  • Harris + Hoole
    News

    H+H eyes overseas expansion

    2014-03-11T08:02:00Z

    Harris + Hoole, the Tesco-backed chain, could eventually look at expansion opportunities overseas, according to its chief executive Nick Tolley

  • Jonathan Kaye
    News

    Prezzo lines up further Cleaver conversions

    2014-03-11T07:58:00Z

    Prezzo, the Jonathan Kaye-led group, is believed to be lining up two further conversions of its existing estate to its fledgling Cleaver brand

  • Tortilla
    News

    Tortilla flags up nutritional credentials

    2014-03-11T07:56:00Z

    Tortilla has moved to highlight its nutritional credentials by reporting independent, in-depth research which has determined that its burritos were higher in protein and lower in fat and calories than most high-street sandwiches

  • News

    Bacon secures original site for The Botanist

    2014-03-11T07:54:00Z

    Tim Bacon, the Living Ventures founder, has secured the first site he ever owned in Manchester for a further opening under New World Trading Company brand - The Botanist

  • News

    Pepe’s Piri Piri grows UK pipeline

    2014-03-11T07:52:00Z

    Pepe’s Piri Piri, the takeaway chicken operator with c25 sites across the country, has secured its first site in Northern Ireland as it grows its UK pipeline

  • McDonalds restaurant
    News

    McDonald’s sales drop in February

    2014-03-11T07:50:00Z

    McDonald’s has reported that global comparable sales decreased 0.3% in February, despite a 0.6% increase in Europe, aided by a continued strong performance in the UK

  • Greene King logo
    News

    Greene King makes management change

    2014-03-11T07:50:00Z

    Greene King is understood to have appointed Clive Chesser, senior operations director at its tenanted arm Pub Partners, to the role of business unit director in the division, following the resignation of Pub Partners managing director Simon Longbottom, M&C Report has learnt

  • Byron MK
    News

    Byron opens at centre:mk

    2014-03-11T07:48:00Z

    Byron, the premium burger restaurant group, has opened a new 4,500sq ft restaurant at centre:mk

  • News

    Pix Pintxos eyes fifth site

    2014-03-11T07:47:24.663Z

    Pix Pintxos, the late-night Spanish pinxto bar concept, is believed to be close to securing its fifth site in London’s Soho

  • News

    Martinez to open Lima Floral

    2014-03-11T07:45:35.860Z

    Peruvian chef Virgilio Martinez, whose Lima-based restaurant featured on last year’s World’s 50 Best list, has confirmed he will open a second site in London’s Covent Garden

  • News

    Nose Ltd secures third gastropub site

    2014-03-11T07:45:00Z

    Nose Ltd, the pub and restaurant group led by Ged Lynch, will open the third site under its Pointing Dog gastropub format this spring in Sheffield

  • News

    Flat Iron secures second site

    2014-03-11T07:45:00Z

    Flat Iron, the ‘single-steak’ dining concept, has secured a second site in London, after the success of its debut unit in Soho’s Beak Street