All Greggs articles – Page 25
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Weekend Press
Weekend press round-up, 3-4 November
Top storyDrinks industry refuses to swallow government line on alcohol pricingDespite general agreement that something must be done about Britain’s booze culture, opinions remain divided over plans to introduce a minimum unit price. By the end of this month, a new wave of alcohol promotions will be launched in supermarkets ...
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News
New restaurant quarter planned for Redditch
Capital & Regional is planning to create a new restaurant quarter for its one million sq ft Kingfisher Centre in Redditch, West Midlands. It has appointed Davis Coffer Lyons to secure operators for four new restaurant units from 3,200 to 7,500sq ft, available to let from 2013, located at main ...
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News
Operators call for 2013 business rates freeze
Leading food and grocery operator have united in a bid to urge the Government to freeze business rates in 2013.Martin Shuker, managing director of KFC, and Ken McMeikan, chief executive of Greggs, joined 12 leading retail operators in signing a letter, written by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) as part ...
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News
Food-on-the-go driving eating-out market
Quality food-on-the-go has become the key growth area in the UK’s eating out market with concepts consistently emerging in transport hubs and shopping centres as well as high streets locations, as consumers increasingly eat when they want, where they want, according to leading foodservice consultancy HorizonsThe group’s the latest Ones ...
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News
Turnover up 5.6% across leading UK chains
The 100 leading UK restaurant chains experienced a 5.6% increase in combined turnover in 2011 an improvement on the 2.6% rise registered in the previous year, according to new research from Technomic, the foodservice consultancy firm.It found that the UK eating-out sector grew in terms of sites by 4.9% to ...
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Weekend Press
Weekend press round-up, 4-5 August
Turnover at Jamie’s Italian hits £72mJamie Oliver enjoyed a boom in trade at his restaurants last year but had to take a £6m hit on a foray into kitchenware house parties. Turnover at Jamie’s Italian soared more than 50% in 2011 to £72m while pre-tax profits at the restaurant chain ...
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Opinion
The changing of the guard
In a week that has seen Steve Easterbrook switch from leading Pizza Express to Wagamama, Jon Midmer, Head of Retail & Leisure at executive search firm MBS Group, looks at the UK eating and drinking-out market’s leadership landscape and how it has shifted over the past year. Tesco and ASDA; ...