All Coffee shops & Cafes articles – Page 48
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Abokado strengthens ops team
Abokado has announced it has further strengthened its operational team with the appointment of two operations managers
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Doubts cast on future of Suchef
Doubts have been cast on the future of Suchef, the healthy fast food concept from the Aroma Food Group (UK), after the company sold its site near St Paul’s to a new fast casual concept, Vita Mojo. Suchef, which launched last year and has four further sites in the capital ...
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Itsu to make North West debut
Itsu, the Julian Metcalfe-founded, Asian-inspired brand, is to make its debut in the North West in Manchester’s Spinningfields
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Patisserie Holdings: New formats, Debenham’s and Ireland growth
Luke Johnson, chairman of Patisserie Holdings, has told M&C the group’s flexibility will be key as it proves it can operate profitably in a variety of locations and formats.
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Entrepreneurs and freelancers waste £5.8k in coffee shops to kill time
Entrepreneurs and freelance workers who do not have a fixed office space in London spend an average of £5,824 in coffee shops and bars to pass time in between meetings in the capital
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Costa to test new store concept
Costa is to test a new store concept called Costa Fresco in London
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Hart becomes Crussh chair
Jonathan Hart, the former UK managing director of Caffe Nero and chief executive of Thorntons, has joined Crussh as its new chairman
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Brains secures new £85m funding package
SA Brain is to ramp up the expansion of its Coffee#1 coffee chain after securing a new £85m funding package
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Patisserie Holdings grows FY EBITDA 22.9%
Patisserie Holdings, the parent company of the Patisserie Valerie chain, has reported a 22.9% rise in adjusted EBITDA to £18.8m for the year to 30 September.
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Vital eyes 70-strong estate
Vital Ingredient is eyeing an eventual estate of up to 70 sites across the UK, including c50 within London
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Pret confirms Victoria relocation
Pret a Manger has confirmed it is to relocate its head office in London’s Victoria station to Tishman Speyer’s nearby Verde development
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Caffe Nero acquires H+H sites
Caffé Nero has acquired a small package of sites from Harris + Hoole, the Tesco-backed brand
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Check out in sight
Despite full-year losses of c£25m, the Tesco-backed Harris + Hoole has experienced improving fortunes over the last eight months as the retailer has looked to stabilise the coffee chain it launched as a joint venture in 2012
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Big Issue vendors to sell coffee
Big Issue vendors are to start selling coffee in a bid to cash in on the takeaway coffee market
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Wrapchic eyes shopping centre roll out
Wrapchic has lined up a further two shopping scheme openings as it looks to ramp up its expansion programme over the next 12 months
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Batram: PV update should make pleasant reading
Leading analyst Nick Batram at Peel Hunt has said that the second full-year update as a listed company from Patisserie Holdings should make for “pleasant reading”
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Deli No1 to rival high street chains
North east coffee shop brand Deli No 1 has told M&C it will build a regional cluster of 14 units before expanding nationwide.
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Pasty Presto rebrands as The Cornish Bakery
Pasty Presto, the Cornish pasty retail chain, has been rebranded as The Cornish Bakery following a successful trial in three stores
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Risk Capital ‘paid £3m for Small Batch Coffee Co share’
The co-founder of Brighton’s Small Batch Coffee Company has said he sold his shares to Luke Johnson’s Capital Risk Partners for £3m.