All MCA Insight articles in November 2016
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Turbulent time for food inflation
Foodservice operators and caterers are on the front line of price inflaiton, Prestige Purchasing has warned.
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Dough Boys Pizza reveal roll out plan
Dough Boys Pizza, the Leeds based slice bar, has found a second site and hopes to roll out across the North of England, MCA has learnt.
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NewRiver joins FTSE 250
NewRiver, the UK REIT which owns 360 pubs, has announced its inclusion in the FTSE 250 for the first time.
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DP Poland sells four stores for £350k
Domino’s Pizza Poland has sold four of its 32 stores to a Polish company set up by a former Domino’s UK area manager for £350,000.
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Alcuin acquires stake in Koh Thai Tapas
Alcuin Capital Partners has acquired a significant stake in the Koh Group, operator of the Koh Thai Tapas and Koh Noi concepts, in a deal believed to be valued at c£10m
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Analysis & Insight
Handmade history
The founders of Handmade Burger Co have given a snapshot about how keeping it in the family, forging strong relationships and never compromising on quality is the route to their ongoing success.
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Handmade appoints Bacon as chairman
Handmade Burger Co has appointed Kevin Bacon as its new non-executive chairman
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Sussex Pub Co takes seventh site
Sussex Pub Company owner Nick Sutherland believes his new high end ‘restaurant with rooms’ can fill the space left by Chichester’s surplus of branded restaurants.
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Carlsberg unveils new premiumised Export
Carlsberg is relaunching its flagship Export lager brand from January 2017 with a £15m marketing campaign designed to appeal to millennial drinkers.
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Tim Hortons lines up Glasgow launch
Tim Hortons, the Canadian coffee chain, has lined up a site in Glasgow to make its debut in the UK
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Bella set to complete refresh programme
Bella Italia, the Casual Dining Group-owned brand, is closing in on completing the investment programme across its existing estate
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Innis & Gunn to bring forward English rollout for Beer Kitchen
Scottish brewer and pub operator Innis & Gunn has said it is bringing forward its plans to expand its Beer Kitchen pub concept into England after overfunding in its Crowdcube campaign.
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Consumer appetite for healthy and on-demand food fuels delivery spending
Consumer appetites for healthy and on-demand food is fuelling a boom in delivery spending, new research has found.
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Analysis & Insight
Food to Go accounts for 43% of all eating out visits
The Food to Go (FTG) market now accounts for over two in every five eating out occasions, the latest MCA data has shown.
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GK H1 sales over £1bn for first time
Greene King has seen total revenue for its half-year grow above £1bn for the first time.
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SSP to launch Knead with Hollywood
SSP has said it plans to roll out several Knead sites, its new “upmarket bakery concept” in partnership with Paul Hollywood
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Costa Express extends Shell partnership
Costa Express has announced the renewal of its UK contract with Shell for a further five years
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Better Capital – Intertain is ‘exit ready’
Better Capital has this morning reported that it believes that Walkabout operator Intertain is ‘exit ready’, valuing the business at the end of September at £38m
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Analyst corner: Brumby on Whitbread’s Capital Markets Day
Leading analyst Mark Brumby at Langton Capital takes a look at the update from Whitbread on its Capital Markets Day yesterday
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Patisserie Valerie to focus on alternative routes to growth
Patisserie Holdings chief executive Paul May has told MCA that the group sees “plenty of opportunity” for further partnerships in motorway service stations and with operators such as Debenhams.