All MCA Insight articles in October 2015 – Page 8
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Inquiry launched into apprenticeships
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Visitor Economy has launched an inquiry into apprenticeships and skills development in the hospitality and tourism industry.
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Sutton and Sons up to three
London based independent fishmonger Sutton and Sons has opened its third fish & chip shop and restaurant in Islington. The site on Essex Road, which opened this week, joins the original site at Stoke Newington and a second at Shoreditch’s Boxpark. The group, headed up by Hana and Daniel Sutton, ...
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Analysis & Insight
Steadying the McDonald’s ship
It’s been eight months since Steve Easterbrook stepped into the position of McDonald’s chief executive. Since then, he argues that the company has made meaningful progress to fuel its turnarounds and begin repositioning the brand as a modern progressive burger company
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Laine Pubco rebrands Brighton pub
Laine Pub Company has completed the latest refurbishment in its Brighton estate and brought a successful feature at one of its London pubs down south.
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Forum Cafe Bars rebrands and expands
Forum Café Bars, the Sheffield-based pub company owned by Kane Yeardley, has re-branded as the True North Brew Co and added two venues to its portfolio
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Easterbrook: Enthusiasm for all-day breakfast rollout high
Steve Easterbrook, chief executive of McDonald’s. has said that the brand’s owner/operators in the US have “really embraced” the national rollout of the group’s all-day breakfast
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Liberation Group acquires second hotel
Liberation Group chief executive Mark Crowther has told M&C the group’s latest acquisition – the Chez Andre on the island of Alderney is likely to be launched in the Spring.
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BrewDog takes on Roast head chef to develop food offer
BrewDog is working with Wyatt Shevloff, who has spent the past four years as executive head chef at Roast, to develop its food offer.
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NHS chief urges Cameron to take action on sugar tax
The head of the NHS has warned David Cameron to take “comprehensive action” over a report which recommends implanting a sugar tax.
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Brewhouse & Kitchen has potential to be 50-strong venture
Brewhouse and Kitchen has a vision of building a group of more than 50 pubs across the country
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Debenhams targets 10% food sales mix
Retailer Debenhams wants food to make up 10% of its sales in the medium term
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Novus wins safety award
Novus Leisure saw its flagship Forge Bar share the ‘Premises of the Year’ award at the recent Safety Thirst Awards
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McDonald’s reports first US lfl rise for two years
McDonald’s has reported global like-for-like sales up 4% in its third quarter.
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GBK to launch new apprenticeship course
GBK is to launch a new apprenticeship course aimed at recruiting and training more grill chefs for the 66-strong brand
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Rollo: Blurring format boundaries an opportunity and threat
Leading analyst Jamie Rollo at Morgan Stanley has said that the blurring of the boundaries between formats is an opportunity as well as a threat for Greene King
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Greene King to reduce number of brands
Leading analyst Jamie Rollo at Morgan Stanley believes that Greene King’s main thrust for achieving revenue synergies on the back of its acquisition of Spirit will come from simplification and improvement of its brands
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Boris Johnson pledges support for pubs in noise legislation debate
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has thrown his weight behind the ‘agent of change’ principle in an attempt to put a stop to the “catastrophic” loss of London’s live-music venues, including scores of pubs.
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Cote lines up Weybridge opening
Cote has further strengthened its openings pipeline for next year, after securing a site in Weybridge.
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Analysis & Insight
Quarterly spending growth dips in Q3
Barclaycard’s latest quarterly consumer spending analysis shows that annual retail spending growth in the third quarter of this year slowed to 3.8%,
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Le Bab founders want to ‘redefine the kebab’
Stephen Tozer, the co-founder of ‘better kebab’ concept Le Bab has told M&C he hopes he can redefine attitudes towards the dish, in the same way that mentor Iqbal Wahhab did for Indian food.