All Finance articles – Page 77

  • News

    ​Cadwalader eyes growth after new finance package

    2014-01-22T07:34:53.450Z

    Cadwalader Ice Cream, the Welsh ice cream parlour-meets-cafe operator, has announced plans to open four new cafes during 2014 and upgrade existing sites after securing a £750,000 finance package from HSBC

  • Patisserie Valerie
    News

    Johnson acquires stake in stockbroker

    2014-01-17T07:50:00Z

    Serial sector investor Luke Johnson has invested c.£1.4m in buying a 9.75% stake in the small stockbroker Arden Partners, raising speculation that he would look at listing some of the companies he has backed

  • News

    C&C Group reports tough cider market

    2014-01-16T07:44:00Z

    Drinks company C&C Group has reported that trading for its UK cider business remains “challenging”, with volumes down 13.5% in the nine months to November 2013

  • Caffe Nero logo
    News

    M&G eyes more sector investments

    2014-01-14T07:49:00Z

    M&G Investments, the investment fund that recently leant money to Hall & Woodhouse and Caffe Nero, expects to make more investments in the leisure and hospitality sector through its new fund, M&C Report has learnt.

  • Hall & Woodhouse brands
    News

    Hall & Woodhouse secures £20m loan

    2014-01-12T09:30:00Z

    Hall & Woodhouse, the Dorset-based brewer and pub operator, has secured a £20m, three year loan from M&G Investments to help it acquire and and invest in new pubs

  • SSP City Bar and Grill
    News

    EQT plans SSP listing

    2014-01-09T21:24:00Z

    EQT Partners, the private equity firm behind SSP, is accessing its options for the leading travel concessions operator, with the group tipped for a flotation on the London Stock Exchange toward the second half of this year

  • News

    NatWest/RBS launch £250m storm fund

    2014-01-09T10:30:00Z

    NatWest and RBS have launched a £250m UK Storm Business Fund to provide short term, interest free financing to speed recovery for businesses affected by recent floods and gales

  • News

    West Berkshire Brewery launches share offer

    2013-12-29T23:08:00Z

    West Berkshire Brewery (WBB), the independent brewer, which is chaired by brewing and pub entrepreneur David Bruce, is to launch a share offer in the New Year

  • BrewDog Camden
    News

    BrewDog reaches £4.25m fundraising target

    2013-12-23T14:02:00Z

    BrewDog, the Scottish brewer and pub operator, has reached the £4.25m target that the company set for its latest fundraising drive.

  • News

    Imbiba looks to raise £6m

    2013-12-18T07:37:00Z

    Imbiba Partnership is looking to raise £6m from its latest round of fundraising as it looks to add further sites to its Darwin & Wallace (D&W) and Camm & Hooper (C&H) vehicles

  • La Tasca
    News

    La Tasca secures new funding

    2013-12-17T07:39:00Z

    La Tasca is understood to have completed a restructure that will see its existing backers invest additional funds to aid further investment in its current c50-strong estate and back an accelerated acquisition programme

  • Searcys restaurant
    Opinion

    The positive pull of leisure

    2013-12-17T07:09:00Z

    Despite the backdrop of economic doom and gloom the leisure property market is bucking the trend and providing canny investors with impressive returns, argues Mark Sheehan, managing director of Coffer Corporate Leisure

  • News

    AB InBev invests in Bar Pass

    2013-12-13T16:43:00Z

    AB InBev has made an investment in start-up firm Bar Pass, which will see the company’s technology rolled out across the country nest year.

  • News

    Captive Media secures funding for UK rollout

    2013-12-13T07:34:00Z

    Captive Media, the company behind the first interactive washroom media system for on-trade venues, has appointed three new industry figures to its Board of Advisors and secured £300k in new funding to boost the company’s presence across the UK.

  • Analysis & Insight

    Further squeeze on household spending

    2013-12-12T07:42:00Z

    Household spending on alcohol and tobacco declined from £13.60 a week in 2010 to £12.60 in 2012, while spend on restaurants and hotels fell from £42.30 to £40.50

  • News

    Coal secures new funding for growth

    2013-12-11T08:00:00Z

    Coal Grill & Bar has secured a further tranche of funding from existing investors as it looks to add up to 13 sites to existing estate over the next three years.

  • News

    City Pub Co set to close latest fundraising round

    2013-12-09T06:50:00Z

    City Pub Company, the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS)-funded pub operator, is set to close its latest round of fundraising this week, which will see it raise £10m in 10 days, M&C Report understands.

  • News

    Honest Burger secures expansion fund

    2013-12-06T16:17:00Z

    Honest Burgers, the London-based concept led by ex-Bill’s operations director Dorian Waite, has secured a new funding package from Santander to aid its expansion plans in the capital

  • Joseph Evans and Peter Borg-Neal of Oakman Inns
    News

    Oakman raises £5.5m for expansion; names new FD

    2013-12-03T14:26:00Z

    Oakman Inns & Restaurants, the Peter Borg-Neal-led group, has raised £5.5m for further expansion and announced the appointment of Joseph Evans, currently financial controller of Whitbread Hotel and Restaurant Division, as its new finance director

  • News

    Leslau vehicle reports uplift in ETI portfolio

    2013-12-03T08:04:00Z

    Max Property Group which acquired 29 Enterprise Inns in a £44.4m sale-and-leaseback deal in January 2011, has reported a 6.6% uplift in the value of the portfolio for the six months to the end of September 2013