CAU, the Equistone-backed brand, has appointed Ian Howe, formerly of Jamie Oliver Enterprises, as its new marketing director, MCA has learnt.
Howe has spent the last four years as head of marketing at Jamie Oliver Enterprises, working across a number of the high-profile chef’s restaurant formats, including Jamie’s Italian.
He will take up his new role at CAU later this month.
CAU, which is led by Richard Clark, recently opened its 23rd site at the Watermark scheme in Southampton.
CAU has a further opening lined up in Exeter.
It recently opened its second site in in Scotland, in Edinburgh, and restaurants in Leeds and Harrogate. It is also in talks on sites in York and Ealing.
