All Domino's articles – Page 33
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News
Bain Capital eyes $3.4bn Skylark deal
Bain Capital, the US-based private equity group, is in the final stages of talks to acquire Skylark, the c.3,680-strong Japanese restaurant chain, from Nomura Holdings for $3.4bn (£2.18bn).According to reports overnight, an agreement between Bain and Nomura over the deal, which will be one of the largest in Japan by ...
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News
Retail Eyes acquired by leading US firm
Retail Eyes, the UK-based customer experience improvement agency, has been acquired by US-based Market Force Information, the world’s leading customer intelligence solutions company, for an undisclosed sum.Under the terms of the deal the Milton Keynes-based Retail Eyes will become the European Centre of Excellence for Customer Intelligence, with the expected ...
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Opinion
A franchise future
Paul Charity looks at how franchise-style agreements could help revive fortunes in the tenanted pub sector.Franchising is a development long overdue in the tenanted pub world. Here’s a universe of 20,000-plus pubs hugely reliant on a fairly narrow type of retail content - selling beer. Until the smoking ban of ...
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Opinion
US eating-out sector continues to amaze
Inside Track by Paul CharityA few things struck me about the American eating-out industry when I ventured across to the National Restaurant Association’s annual Chicago jamboree a fortnight ago. First of all, there’s the sheer scale of it. There’s 40 companies with system sales in excess of a billion dollars ...
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Opinion
High street heroes
Mark Wingett looks at how pubs and restaurants could be the saviours of the declining British high streetEating and drinking out operators your country needs you. Sorry that was a bit dramatic. Let me put it another way. Your high street needs you.The British high street is in decline, some ...