All MCA Insight articles in October 2015 – Page 22
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PizzaExpress seeks marketing director
PizzaExpress is seeking a new marking director, after Charlotte Maxwell steeped down as its commercial director
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Davies eyes Delisserie expansion
Ian Davies, the founder of The Rotisserie and Delisserie concepts, is looking at further expansion opportunities for the latter
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Soho Coffee Co enters c-store market
Soho Coffee Co has made its debut in the convenience store market after linking up with national chain Budgens
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Camerons: Pubcos need to think tenant relationship
Joe Smith, operations director at Camerons Brewery, has said the company is striving to change the relationship between pub companies and their tenants.
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SABMiller NPR up 4% for H1
SABMIller has reported net producer revenue up 4% for the six months to 30 September and said performance in the UK was in line with last year.
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Malevo Group founders part ways
Diego Jacquet, co-founder of the Malevo Group has left the group to focus on new ventures in the UK and internationally
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NewsCraft Union rollout underway at ETI
Enterprise Inns has revealed more about the agreement underpinning its Craft Union Pub Company managed house division.
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NewsFrench: Chance for Urban to stamp authority on M&B
Leading analyst Simon French, of Cenkos, has said new Mitchells & Butlers chief executive Phil Urban has the “chance to stamp his authority on the lacklustre M&B”.
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NewsGreggs Q3 lfls up 4.9%
Greggs has reported own shop like-for-like sales up 4.9% for the 13 weeks to 3 October and 5.6% in the year to date.
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Research shows rapid growth in cocktail market
Cocktails are now sold in around a quarter of the UK’s on-trade outlets with restaurants an increasingly popular destination to drink them, according to new research.
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Dempsey joins Staycity board
Former managing director of Whitbread Hotels & Restaurants Patrick Dempsey has joined serviced apartment operator Staycity as a non-executive director
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Gordon Ramsay Group reports FY lfls up 4.2%
Gordon Ramsay Group has reported like-for-like sales in its UK restaurants up 4.2% for the year to 31 August
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JDW returns to Muswell Hill with £3m investment
JD Wetherspoon is making its return to Muswell Hill, in north London, 36 years after founder Tim Martin opened his first pub in the area.
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Analysis & InsightWage wars
At a time when people are the “magic dust” that divides an evenly matched sector, a number of companies have started to factor in increased investment on attracting and retaining staff. With others likely to follow, what will suffer, expansion plans or refurbishment targets? And will the issue finally force the Government to create a more level playing field with the supermarkets on tax?
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‘Hold your nerve’ on Christmas pricing
Operators ordering essential seasonal produce such as turkeys have room for negotiation with suppliers thanks to lower costs this year
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NewsBlagden: There is a limit on growth in the UK
Simon Blagden, chief executive of Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group, has said that there is a limit of how many restaurants the group will open in the UK
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NewsPizzaExpress: Delivery, Reys, acquisitions, overseas concepts
M&C talks to Richard Hodgson, chief executive of the Hony Capital-backed PizzaExpress, about the group’s move into the delivery market; the potential for its chicken-led concept Reys; scope for acquisitions and introducing Far East-based brands into the UK
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NewsTGI’s Cheetham: recruitment is a game of two halves
Dawn Cheetham, head of culture development at TGI Friday’s, has said that the group is seeing a real crisis develop around recruiting kitchen staff
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FOLD on a roll
FOLD, the Vietnamese restaurant serving rice paper-based dishes, has been designed to roll-out after proving the concept at the first store which opens later this month
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Profit boost for Stein
Rick Stein’s restaurant group The Seafood Restaurant, has reported a rise in gross profit of £58k for 2014 to £1.16m, up from £1.1m the previous year