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Weekend Press
Weekend press round-up, 26-27 September
Weekend press round-up, 26-27 September Suppliers Budweiser set to bid £70bn for SAB Miller AB InBev could table a £70bn bid for SAB Miller this week, firing the starting gun on the biggest-ever takeover of a British company. Over recent days the world’s two biggest brewers ...
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Weekend Press
Weekend press round-up, 12-13 September
Top story Yo! Sushi heads for cut-price Mayfair deal A recently launched investment firm has become the new frontrunner to buy Yo! Sushi in a cut-price deal worth less than £100m. Mayfair Equity Partners has replaced Inflexion as the most likely buyer of the UK’s biggest Japanese restaurant ...
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Weekend Press
Weekend press round-up, 20-21 June
Top story Jamie’s 10p ‘sugar tax’ on fizzy drinks Jamie Oliver is imposing his own levy on sweet drinks sold in his restaurants in protest at the government’s refusal to introduce a “sugar tax”. Oliver, the celebrity chef and restaurateur, will add a 10p charge to every drink ...
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Weekend Press
Weekend press round-up 2-4 May
Weekend press round-up 2-4 May Restaurants Las Iguanas circled by private equity firms Las Iguanas, the Latin American dining chain, is being circled by private equity firms in the latest sign of growing investor appetite for restaurant deals. Bowmark Capital, the group’s owner, is ...
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Weekend Press
Weekend press round-up, 28-29 March
b Restaurants, fast food and takeaways /b b Domino’s tech-loving boss likes humble pie with his pizzas /b Patrick Doyle did not pull any punches. “It sickens me,” he told the hundreds of thousands of viewers who watched his online apology. It was just after Easter ...
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Weekend Press
Weekend press round-up, 10-11 January
A round-up of the relevant national and selected local press from the weekend
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Weekend Press
Weekend press round-up, 7-8 June
Companies and results Kaye out for bigger pizza the action Catering to the taste buds of middle England is in the blood of Jonathan Kaye, who as chief executive of Prezzo is preparing for the opening in York of the Italian chain’s 200th restaurant. Diners at its ...
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Weekend Press
Weekend press round-up, 12-13 April
Company results and news Punch Taverns brings in independent restructuring specialist Punch Taverns, Britain’s second biggest pubs group, has brought in an independent corporate restructuring expert to aid long-running discussions over its £2.3bn debt mountain. Dean Merritt, from Talbot Hughes McKillop, is representing the companies that issued ...
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Weekend Press
Weekend press round-up, 22-23 March
b Pubs /b b Pub landlords face tenfold rise in cost of licence /b Pub landlords could be hit by tenfold rises in the cost of their licences under plans put forward by the Government. The Home Office is proposing to hand the power to set ...
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Weekend Press
Weekend press round-up, 15-16 February
Punch Taverns Shareholders in Punch Taverns face being wiped out under fresh restructuring plan from lenders Shareholders in Punch Taverns, Britain’s second-largest pubs group, face being wiped out under a fresh restructuring plan from lenders. Proposals put forward by management and due to be voted on last ...
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Weekend Press
Weekend press round up, 8-9 February
Company results and news Punch Taverns debt deal ‘only benefits shareholders’ Lenders to Punch Taverns, the embattled pubs group, have accused the company of “scare-mongering” in order to push through a £2.3bn debt restructuring deal this week. Bondholders with blocking stakes plan to vote against a restructuring ...
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Weekend Press
Weekend press round-up, 25-26 January
Company results and news How TGI Friday’s boss cut out the obstructive staff Under Karen Forrester, the TGI Friday’s restaurant chain has undergone a big recovery – and it all began with a fire that gutted one of its flagship sites. While most bosses would consider this ...
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Weekend Press
Caprice secures Covent Garden site
Caprice Holdings, the restaurant group led by Richard Caring, is set to open an all-day restaurant in Covent Garden next year
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Weekend Press
Weekend press round-up, 16-17 November
Company results and news R D credits can be found on the menu A Michelin star-winning chef has successfully claimed R D tax credits from HM Revenue Customs in an unusual move for a restaurant. Sat Bains, the celebrity chef who runs an eponymous restaurant in Nottingham, ...
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Weekend Press
Weekend press round-up, 26-27 October
Company results and news £1bn sale on menu at Pizza Express The owner of the restaurant empire behind Pizza Express is finalising plans for a £1bn sale or float. The private equity backer of Gondola Holdings, which also owns the Zizzi and Ask restaurant chains, are expected to appoint an ...
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Weekend Press
Weekend press round-up, 19-20 October
Pubs Pubs call for time over debt One of Britain’s biggest pub operators is planning a new deal with its lenders to ease the burden of its £700m debt pile. Spirit, which owns 1,200 pubs, including the Chef Brewer chain, is due to start repaying its ...