All MCA Insight articles in September 2013 – Page 12
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NewsPrezzo raises £70,000 for charity
Prezzo, the Jonathan Kaye-led operator, has raised more than £70,000 for charity after taking part at the tri for life 2013 triathlon
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Dabbous sets up Barnyard Restaurants
Ollie Dabbous, whose eponymous restaurant won its first Michelin star eight months after opening last year, is believed to have picked the name Barnyard for his mooted second site, which is thought will be located at Somerset House
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Analysis & Insight
Students driving eating-out market
Students eat out more often than the population of the UK as a whole, with 60% eating out at least weekly, compared to 41% for public as a whole, according the latest Peach BrandTrack consumer survey
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NewsNorman joins Intertain
Kevin Norman, who stepped down as head of acquisitions at Novus, earlier this month, joins Intertain, the Walkabout brand operator, today, as an acquisitions consultant
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Amber secures new funding
Amber Taverns, the fast-growing operator of wet-led community pubs, is set to acquire another 30 sites after it increased its debt facility with Lloyds Banking Group by £5m to £27.5m
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OpinionThe investment case
At four o’clock last Wednesday morning the deal for Cote, which had been nearly a year in the making, finally got over the line. Many had questioned whether it would actually happen, with rumours of a parked process and complications over finding a chairman, but there was always a sense that this was one deal that would go through. So what next for the brand and for the leisure sector as a whole and what further opportunities are on the horizon?
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Rate relief delay could cost pubs £15m
Failure to extend small business rate relief from April 2014 could cost pubs £15m over the next year, according to the British Beer and Pub Association
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'Thousands of outlets' to cut prices on Tax Parity Day
A source close to the campaign to cut VAT for the sector to 5% has estimated that between 10,000 and 15,000 outlets will reduce their prices on the national day of action
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Intu plans £100m Watford redevelopment
Intu has submitted a planning application to redevelop Charter Place and substantially refurbish Intu Watford, which will include a new restaurant hub
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Aubaine seeks new Manchester site
Aubaine, the French restaurant and patisserie concept, is looking for a new site in Manchester, as its agreement to operate in the city’s Selfridges nears an end
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Thecentre:mk eyes premium brands
Hermes Real Estate Investment Management has appointed a new agent team for thecentre:mk to spearhead a drive to attract more premium brands to the centre
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Real China takes Redditch site
Real China, the Chinese buffet chain, has secured a further site in the Midlands and is believed to be close on exchanging on a further two units
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Coffee#1 up to 35, lines up two more
Coffee#1, the brand owned by SA Brains, will open its 35th site this month and its most easterly one so far in Shirley, Southampton
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Chapel Down: £4.5m funding, poor harvest hits H1
Chapel Down, the wine maker, has raised £4.35m in new funding for expansion as it reports a halving of EBITDA to £145k in the six months to 30 June
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NewsPizza Hut launches cheeseburger pizza nationwide
Pizza Hut launches cheeseburger pizza nationwide in the UK for the first time for a limited period
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Chipotle launches environmental film and game
Chipotle Mexican Grill, which operates six restaurants in London and over 1,500 in the US, has launched “The Scarecrow,” an arcade-style adventure game for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, along with a companion animated short film of the same nam
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Nextep Inns in administration
Nextep Inns, the North West-based pubco launched by brothers John and Peter Knowles, has been placed into administration
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Rodizio Rico founder to launch new concepts
Michael Nayla, the founder of Rodizio Rico, the London-based Brazilian restaurant operator, is to launch two new concepts at Birmingham’s The Cube later this year
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Downing pub EIS buys new site; raises £9.5m
Autumn Pubs, the freehold pub company whose sites are managed by Pub People Company, has secured its fourth pub with funding from the pub-focused Enterprise Investment Scheme fund from Downing Corporate Finance
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Filmore & Union lines up Leeds site
Filmore & Union, the independent café and deli chain, is understood to have lined up its first site in Leeds as it looks to expand further growth in the North East