All Operators articles – Page 151

  • News

    Odeon cinema chain placed on the market

    2015-02-26T08:41:00Z

    Terra Firma, the private equity firm led by Guy Hands, is to place its Odeon and UCI cinemas chain on the market, with an asking price of c£1bn

  • News

    Street food operators set for Euston Station

    2015-02-26T08:31:00Z

    Street food operators The Rib Man and Big Apple Hot Dogs are set to be amongst the street food operators to launch units at London’s Euston Station

  • Domino Pizza From oven
    News

    Domino’s FY sales up 14.6%

    2015-02-26T07:16:00Z

    Domino’s Pizza Group has reported that system sales increased by 14.6% to £766.6m in 52 weeks to 28 December 2014, driven by like-for-like sales growth of 11.3% in its 724 UK mature stores

  • News

    Asda takes Walmart’s lead on food offer

    2015-02-25T08:25:07.640Z

    Asda has taken inspiration from parent company Walmart’s in-store food offer in the US, with the launch of one of its latest next generation sites

  • News

    Operational team shake up at G1

    2015-02-24T08:17:00Z

    G1 Group is shaking up its operational team, which will see the departure of directors David Tracey and James Brown

  • Wagamama restaurant
    News

    Analyst corner: Brumby – the only constant with hospitality is change

    2015-02-20T16:27:00Z

    Leading analyst Mark Brumby at Langton Capital says that change is the only constant but asks do operators signing 25-year, upward only leases have this front of mind?

  • News

    Center Parcs appoints banks to work on IPO

    2015-02-18T08:28:00Z

    Blackstone has hired investment banks to oversee the potential £2.5bn stock marketing listing of Center Parcs

  • Mark McQuater of Inventive Leisure
    Analysis & Insight

    Shaken-up

    2015-02-17T08:32:00Z

    Over the last two years Revolution Bars and chief executive Mark McQuater have helped each other restore their reputations. From a failed sales process, the company has dusted itself down and under McQuater impressively re-invented itself leading to a re-engaged consumer and an uplift in sales

  • Ed's Easy Diner
    Analysis & Insight

    Fear factor in market revival

    2015-02-16T07:31:00Z

    Although a return to activity is something to be championed, Dominic Walsh is taking the positivity with a pinch of salt after spotting a few signs that not everything in the garden is rosy.

  • News

    Hard Rock Café suspends Twitter competitions after ASA ruling

    2015-02-11T15:05:20.537Z

    Hard Rock Café UK has been rapped by the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) for the way the way it promoted two competitions on social media.

  • News

    Consortium acquires Italian Secrets

    2015-02-10T08:03:00Z

    Italian Secrets, the corporate catering and cookery business, has been acquired by a consortium of private individuals for an undisclosed sum

  • News

    Scotmid launches food-to-go concept

    2015-02-06T16:20:00Z

    Scotmid, the convenience store chain, has launched The Kitchen, its first ‘food to go’ concept, in its Ratho Station store

  • News

    Motorway service areas owner completes £220m bond

    2015-02-06T08:07:00Z

    Extra MSA Group, which owns 18 motorway service areas (MSAs), has completed a £220m private bond issue on one of its portfolios

  • News

    Downing secures funding for Antic

    2015-01-30T16:52:00Z

    Downing has announced it has secured a new funding package to secure five core sites within the Downing/Antic London estate.

  • News

    Las Iguanas awarded for employee engagement

    2015-01-30T06:58:01.160Z

    Las Iguanas, the casual dining concept backed by Bowmark Capital, has been given the Reward & Recognition Award at the 2015 Employee Engagement Awards for its staff incentive and engagement

  • News

    Oxford next for Deliveroo

    2015-01-30T06:57:52.130Z

    Deliveroo is launching its service in Oxford next week as part of plans to be operational in c.15 cities and towns across the UK by the end of the year

  • News

    LV secures historic Manchester venue

    2015-01-29T08:01:00Z

    Living Ventures Group, the Tim Bacon-led business, has acquired the former Room Restaurant site on Manchester’s King Street to open Grand Pacific restaurant and bar

  • News

    British Land footfall grows 1.3%

    2015-01-27T08:28:00Z

    British Land saw footfall in its shopping areas grow by 1.3% in the quarter ending 31 December.

  • luminar oceana brand
    News

    As you were for UK nightclub sector

    2015-01-16T16:19:19.203Z

    A leading property adviser has said that the UK’s nightclub sector faces “more of the same” over the next 12 months

  • Breddos Tacos (Nud Dudhia and Chris Whitney)
    Opinion

    Street food focus: Breddos Tacos

    2015-01-16T16:18:00Z

    In the second of our monthly street food spotlights, Street Feast organiser Adam Layton shares his thoughts on Breddos Tacos and the changing face of Mexican street food