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Opinion
Little Chef brand set to disappear
The iconic restaurant brand could disappear from the UK’s roadsides after a number of potential buyers indicated that they may want to rebrand the 83-strong business.
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Weekend Press
Weekend press round-up, 25-27 May
Please see below our roundup of this weekend’s newspapers: Pubs Britain’s pubs face lost decade The pub industry faces a lost decade with sales unlikely to hit 2007 levels for at least another five years despite the government’s efforts to reduce the cost of beer in the latest budget. Tightened ...
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OpinionFull of beans
Here’s a question for you, what constitutes a coffee shop these days? According to the latest figures, there are c15,700 coffee shops in the UK,
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Opinion
The method man
Chief executive Mike Tye is committed to putting a great guest experience at the heart of Spirit’s culture.
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NewsWhitbread CEO receives share options worth £1.4m
Andy Harrison, chief executive of Whitbread, has been awarded shares worth £896,854 under a new three-year incentive scheme, in addition to shares to the value of £492,594 as a bonus for the company’s recent strong performance.Under the long-term incentive plan, which relates to performance across the three years to 29 ...
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News
Collyer upgrades Whitbread to Buy
Leading analyst Geof Collyer has upgraded Whitbread from Hold to Buy saying that he saw the self-help element of the company’s long term growth story as “fundamentally appealing, providing a significant degree of comfort for our forecasts over the next five years”.He said: “Whilst we do not at this juncture ...
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News
Campbell to become Whitbread Restaurants COO
Neil Campbell, international operations excellence director at Costa, is to replace Peter Blake as chief operating officer at Whitbread Restaurants, M&C Report understands.
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News
Current trading at Whitbread to be mixed
A leading analyst has said that Whitbread’s full-year results, which are due at the end of this month, should come in-line or slightly ahead of expectations but current trading is likely to be mixed.Jamie Rollo at Morgan Stanley said: “We forecast EBIT of £379m (+10%), PBT of £353m (+10%), EPS ...