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News
Coffee chains defend milk prices
The UK’s leading coffee chains have defended the price they pay for milk after being criticised for not taking their responsibilities to British dairy farmers seriously enough.According to M&C Report’s sister publication The Grocer, the UK’s coffee shops use between 130 million and 150 million litres of liquid milk a ...
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News
Turnover up 5.6% across leading UK chains
The 100 leading UK restaurant chains experienced a 5.6% increase in combined turnover in 2011 an improvement on the 2.6% rise registered in the previous year, according to new research from Technomic, the foodservice consultancy firm.It found that the UK eating-out sector grew in terms of sites by 4.9% to ...
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Opinion
The changing of the guard
In a week that has seen Steve Easterbrook switch from leading Pizza Express to Wagamama, Jon Midmer, Head of Retail & Leisure at executive search firm MBS Group, looks at the UK eating and drinking-out market’s leadership landscape and how it has shifted over the past year. Tesco and ASDA; ...
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News
United pub/beer campaign 'could succeed'
A single, unified campaign aimed at gaining economic incentives for pubs and beer would have a “very decent” chance of success, an influential regional brewery MD has argued.Stephen Gould of Leicestershire-based Everards told the Tenanted Pub Company Summit that he was inspired by a speech from the chief executive of ...