All MCA Insight articles in November 2015 – Page 8
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Young to leave Spirit
Nick Young, operations director at Spirit is to leave the business at Christmas, M&C has learnt.
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Analysis & Insight
Sector snapshot: Food in fashion
It’s no accident that Chanel chose to stage a recent catwalk show in a mocked up brasserie. The two worlds of food and fashion are rapidly merging. It’s no longer simply the case that ‘we are what we eat’
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NewsGBK denies sale process speculation
GBK, the Capricorn Ventures-backed chain, has denied speculation that it is at an early stage of reviewing its options regarding its future ownership
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Bison Beer takes on Burger King in fight for first pub
A Brighton craft beer shop has launched a crowdfunding campaign to take over a prominent derelict pub in the city.
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M&B eyes second Manchester All Bar One
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) is lining up a second opening in Manchester under its All Bar One brand, in the city’s Trafford Centre
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Contactless payment up among over 50s
Far from shying away from technology, Baby Boomers are embracing contactless payment technology with more than a third using a contactless card to pay at a restaurant or café
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NewsNetwork Rail Q3 retail sales up 4.47%
New retail sales results from Network Rail’s managed stations revealed that 63.2 million people – almost equivalent to the entire UK population – visited a station retailer between July and September
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NewsCity Pub Co to trial licensed café concept
City Pub Co East is to re-launch a coffee shop it acquired in the centre of Oxford as a licensed café after a period of running the site as a pop-up, M&C understands.
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Grillstock builds pipeline
Grillstock, the fledgling barbecue concept, has continued to strengthen its pipeline of openings for 2016, by lining up openings in Cardiff, Exeter and Reading
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ETM founders launch craft brewery
ETM founders Ed and Tom Martin have launched their own craft brewery in Ealing.
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Trade bodies demand fairer deal on rates
Industry bodies have joined forces to demand a fairer deal for pubs on business rates in next week’s Autumn Statement.
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Pasty Presto rebrands as The Cornish Bakery
Pasty Presto, the Cornish pasty retail chain, has been rebranded as The Cornish Bakery following a successful trial in three stores
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NewsThe Alchemist lines up MediaCity opening
The Alchemist, the Palatine Private Equity-backed cocktail bar and restaurant concept, is set to open a third site in Greater Manchester
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NewsRisk Capital ‘paid £3m for Small Batch Coffee Co share’
The co-founder of Brighton’s Small Batch Coffee Company has said he sold his shares to Luke Johnson’s Capital Risk Partners for £3m.
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Analysis & InsightShopping centres to allocate 20% of space to F&B
Over the past 10 years, food & beverage (F&B) operators have doubled the amount of floorspace they take in shopping centres, from 7% to 15%
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Analysis & InsightSlee: This is a seminal moment for pubs code debate
Punch representative Andy Slee was one of the panel for a heated debate on legislation of the pub sector at last week Tenanted Pub Company Summit. Here he sums up his views and why he hopes the debate was a “seminal moment” in the acrimonious relationship between the sector and pubco reform campaigners.
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NewsCamerons buys GK pub; partners with bbq operator
Camerons has acquired the Eye on the Tyne on the Quayside in Newcastle from Greene King.
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Domino’s CFO steps down
Domino’s Pizza has announced that Paul Doughty, chief financial officer, has resigned and will step down from the board at the end of the calendar year, after less than six months with the company.
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Restaurant chains criticised for seafood sourcing
The majority of UK restaurant chains use unsustainable fish or fail to give transparent information to diners about the origins of their seafood according to findings from the Marine Conservation Society (MCS). It found more than half of the restaurants assessed served seafood from overfished supplies with sea bass, whitebait, ...
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NewsSeven confirmed for Southampton
Gourmet Burger Kitchen (GBK), Costa, Nando’s, The Stable, Mettricks, Neighbourhood and Tapas Barcelona have all been confirmed for the line-up at Southampton’s Arts Complex