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Be At One appoints permanent FD
Be At One, the 12-strong London-based cocktail bar chain, has appointed Toby Rolph, of the Academy Music Group, the leading owner and operator of live music and club venues in the UK, as its new finance director, M&C Report has learnt.Rolph, who will officially join the bar operator in April, ...
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Be At One appoints interim FD
Be At One, the 12-strong London-based cocktail bar chain, has appointed Simon Rowe, former group financial officer at Paramount Restaurants, as its interim finance director, M&C Report understands.Rowe, who is also currently part-time finance director at Princi - Alan Yau’s restaurant and bakery venture in London - stepped down from ...
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Weekend Press
Weekend press round-up, 3-4 December
Please see below a round up of this weekend’s newspapers:Interest rates on hold until 2014Interest rates could stay at their record low of 0.5 per cent until 2014, leading economists believe. The prediction, a consequence of sharp revisions in the outlook for the UK’s growth, comes ahead of the Monetary ...
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Piper takes stake in Be At One
Piper, the private equity group, which formerly backed Pitcher & Piano and Las Iguanas, has taken a significant minority stake in Be At One, the London-based 12-strong cocktail bar chain.Piper has invested £8m in Be At One, valuing the business at close to £20m.The investment will aid an aggressive rollout ...
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Orchid: inspired by “peasant food”
Rufus Hall, the chief executive of the 299-strong Orchid Pub Company, told the UK Pub Retail Summit that its food offer inspired by “peasant food” - pizza and Asian food - has the highest GPs in the company.Orchid has 20 or so Bar Room Bar sites focused on pizza and ...
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Pho appoints advisors after approaches
Pho, the Vietnamese fast-casual concept, is thought to have appointed Zolfo Cooper to advise on its investment options for future growth, as it looks to grow its five-strong estate to up to 25 sites over the next four years, M&C Report understands. The company, which is led by entrepreneurs Stephen ...
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Be at One seeks backing; LFLs up 8.5%
Be At One, the London-based cocktail bar operator, has appointed Zolfo Cooper to advise it on its investment options for future growth, as it looks to double to size of its 10-strong estate in London and eventually grow outside the capital.As revealed by M&C Report earlier this month, the group, ...
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Be At One in private equity talks
Be At One, the highly-regarded cocktail bar operator, is sounding out a number of private equity firms regarding the next stage of its growth, M&C Report understands.The group, which was founded in 1998 by three former TGI Friday’s bar staff Steve Locke, Rhys Oldfield and Leigh Miller currently has 10 ...
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Pho appoints first FD
Pho, the Vietnamese fast-casual concept, has appointed Zoe Tindall, a former finance director of Yo! Sushi, as its first financial director, M&C Report has learnt.Tindall joins the five-strong group after a stint as acting financial director at Be At One - the burgeoning London-based cocktail bar chain.She joins the group, ...
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Diary
Diary: G1, Henry's, Fastcask, ETM Group and more
M&C Report previews all the latest City & Business gossip from Morning Advertiser editor Paul Charity.King in the pinkTop-class Scottish managed operator Stefan King, who heads the funky G1 Group, took a diversion into leased and tenanted pubs a few years back. What’s less known is that Scottish & Newcatle ...
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Pho appoints first operations director
Pho, the Vietnamese fast-casual concept, has appointed Tim Mills, a former Paul UK executive, as operations director - a newly-created position for the growing group.He joins the group, which is led by entrepreneurs Stephen and Juliette Wall, as it prepares to expand materially over the next three-to-five years, primarily in ...
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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 ...