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Trading weighs on Luminar as shares slip 32%
A torrid trading update from Luminar, Britain’s biggest nightclub group, sent the shares 32.5% lower today, with the price closing at 27p.The group, which operates the Oceana brand, unveiled full-year results, with losses of more than £120m and current like-for-like sales in the 10 weeks to May down almost 20%. ...
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Pho plans 15 restaurants
Stepen Wall, the man behind Pho, the Vietnamese restaurant chain, has revealed ambitions for the group to expand to 15 sites in the next five years.The operator, which is backed ETM Group, the London-based pub and restaurant company, has just opened its fourth restaurant in the South Lanes area of ...
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Punch to launch West Coast Grill brand
The managed pub arm of Punch Taverns is to launch a new bar brand called West Coast Grill to replace a clutch of outlets that currently trade under the Old Orleans name. Punch is creating the new concept to replace the nine Old Orleans leasehold businesses that reverted to Punch ...
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Harrison buys shares at Whitbread
Andy Harrison, the soon-to-be chief executive of Whitbread, yesterday acquired shares in the leisure company worth £745,000.Harrison, who replaces incumbent Alan Parker later this year, purchased 50,684 shares at 1468.74p.