All Operators articles – Page 160
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Analysis & Insight
UK franchise businesses report best performance since 2008
Franchise businesses across the UK are operating at their best level since the country entered into recession in 2008, according to new research
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Analysis & Insight
Despite recovery, decline in distress may only be temporary
The decline in business distress and in businesses being sold out of distress continued in 2013 as an inevitable consequence of the continuing economic recovery
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Analysis & Insight
Private equity to the fore across leisure sector
The influence of private equity, evident for many years in the leisure sector, was once again to the fore in 2013 across the wider leisure sector, according to Christie + Co director and head of leisure Jon Patrick
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OpinionRise of the hybrids
There’s a shift away from comforting ‘crisis’ foods that prevailed since the recession began. And you can watch this evolution beginning to become mass market entry points for more unusual cuisine and ethnic influences reaching and mixing across menus. But Mike Palmer, the founder of food and drink consultancy Lostincatering.com, asks when will large-scale operators pick it up?
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NewsNew Year, new record for M&C20
A new year, and a record week for the M&C20 Leisure Index, which leapt 5.3% to a new high of 1,232 – driven by stellar share price performances from some listed pub and restaurant companies
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NewsGov't launches £8m tech scheme for high streets
An £8m initiative under which businesses will compete for funding awards in order to trial innovative ways to attract people back to the UK’s high streets has been announced by the Government
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NewsEQT plans SSP listing
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
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News
NatWest/RBS launch £250m storm fund
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
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News
Johnson to make bingo call
Luke Johnson has hired a former Gala Coral executive to head a new bingo business, fuelling fresh speculation that he could launch a bid for at least part of the Gala Bingo chain, writes The Times
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Analysis & InsightTime to check in?
The need to provide room service has always been one of the main stumbling blocks barring a successful partnership between hotel and restaurant operators. However, a proposal by Hilton Worldwide to replace room service at its full service properties with cafeteria-style eateries as the company moves toward a more limited-service offer could finally open up new partnerships and avenues to expansion
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Analysis & Insight
Who are the new generation?
A new generation is here. You probably didn’t notice. They didn’t upset music, politics or fashion. They didn’t make mothers blush or old men angry. They didn’t break anything. They quietly arrived at adulthood – 100 million 16-24s in the US and Europe alone – with a different outlook to those before them, says Luke Mitchell, head of insight at research firm Voxburner.
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NewsTesco CEO calls for obesity law
Philip Clarke, chief executive of Tesco, has told the Government to bring in a law to tackle obesity and that legislation might be required to “level the playing field” with restaurants, takeaways, cinemas and other retailers
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NewsOlympics hits Beds & Bars
Beds & Bars said the London Olympics caused its UK accommodation income to fall 8.5% in the year to 31 March, although there was growth in its mainland Europe business.
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News
£100m Ealing Filmworks scheme given green light
Plans by Land Securities to develop the £100m Ealing Filmworks scheme in west London have been given the go ahead
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News
Restaurant Choice voucher tops £1m
The Restaurant Choice Gift Voucher has marked its first year-end with sales in excess of £1m
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News
SSP to launch real-time feedback programme
SSP, the leading travel concessions operator, is to give its customers the opportunity to provide instant feedback about their experience at its bars, restaurants and cafes
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OpinionNow the fun begins…
Rewind 12 months ago and 2013 was being labelled as empty and difficult compared to the Olympic-driven 12 months previous. What rubbish. Without trying to sound too much like a BBC4 documentary presenter, sector commentators may look back in years to come and describe 2013 as one of the most important years in the evolution of the UK’s eating and drinking out sector and a launch pad for a new era of sustained growth and investment
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News
Domino’s makes non-exec changes
Domino’s Pizza Group has announced changes to the roles of three of its non-executive directors and to the membership of some of the Committees of the Board
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News
Odeon to anchor Bournemouth scheme
A number of leading operators are set to open in Bournemouth after cinema group Odeon agreed to anchor the £50m West Central scheme in the town
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News
F&B drives Network Rail growth
Retail sales at Britain’s biggest and busiest railway stations continue to significantly outperform the high street, aided by an increase in sales across food retailers, pubs and bars, latest figures from Network Rail show