All Pizza Hut UK articles
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News
Pizza Hut launches new app
The app will offer exclusive deals, recipes, and live order tracking among other benefits, and is part of the chain’s brand reset announced earlier this year
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Analysis & Insight
Pizza Hut Europe returns to profit
Profit before tax stood at £12.3m in 2023, comparing to a loss of £139.4m the prior year as the group undergoes a ‘brand reset’
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Interviews
Pizza Hut: ‘People change and so must we’
Following a recent brand reset, UK MD Nicolas Burquier speaks to MCA about avoiding complacency, catering to changing customer needs, and withstanding the test of time
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KFC UK reports sales drop
Parent company Yum! Brands recorded a 3% decline in system sales growth for KFC UK in Q2 2024
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Pizza Hut undergoes brand reset
The chain has launched a new Handcrafted range with sourdough-style bases and new toppings, designed to appeal to a new generation of customers
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Mitesh Patel joins Domino’s
Patel joins the pizza business as a non-executive director, after similar experience at Pizza Hut UK between 2018 and 2020
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Yum! Brands trialling more than 40 AI initiatives
The group has reported a 1% decline in KFC UK sales but continues to see opportunity for more than 50,000 restaurants globally, as it looks to become the ’leading digital restaurant company’
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Pizza Hut franchisee places 38 sites on market
Nine Food Group is looking to sell 31 high street Pizza Hut delivery stores alongside seven Pizza Hut Express stores
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Pizza Hut appoints regional CMO
Jana Ulaite, formerly head of marketing at TikTok, is tasked with transforming Pizza Hut into a “younger, more culturally relevant, and digital-first brand”
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Glenshire Group acquires 16 Pizza Hut sites
The Scottish family-owned conglomerate also operates 21 Greens Retail convenience stores and sees “significant synergies” betwween the combined businesses
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Yum! Brands sees strong Q3 momentum
KFC sales across Europe saw year-on-year growth of 13% in the quarter ending 30 September 2023, with the period also seeing record digital sales
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Analysis & Insight
The pizza market in 2023: ‘It’s too crowded’
MCA explores the up-and-coming brands looking to take on the dominant pizza chains, the potential for new innovation to dethrone Neapolitan as the leading trendsetter, and the thoughts of former Fulham Shore boss David Page on how the landscape has changed
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Pizza Hut Europe losses widen
The Yum! operated business reported a loss after tax of $126.1m (£103.7m) for the year ending 31 December 2022, widening from $12.6m (£10.3m) the previous year.
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Pizza Hut partners with Greens Retail
Greens has become the first convenience retailer to operate a Pizza Hut franchise in the UK, with an opening in Fife and more planned across Scotland
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Pizza Hut Restaurants' auditors fire warning shot over UK franchise's future
PwC have warned of “material uncertainty” which has bought into question the future of the British franchise of the US pizza restaurant chain, The Telegraph reports
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Yum! Brands sees growth in KFC UK sales
KFC UK sales were up 10% year-on-year in the second quarter and up 7% in the year to date, while sales remained stagnant for Pizza Hut Europe
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Interviews
Pizza Hut: ‘The power and resilience of the brand will continue’
As the brand celebrates its 50th anniversary in the UK, Pizza Hut UK & Europe CFO Kate Vacovec speaks to MCA about brand evolution, providing a digital-first experience, and tackling Domino’s stronghold in the market
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KFC UK & Ireland grows share of sales
Yum! Brands’ UK KFC business now accounts for 7% of all systemwide KFC sales - up 5% in the first quarter ended 31 March 2023.
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Inflation rises unexpectedly, prompting sector to speak out
Loungers chairman Alex Reilley said ‘energy producers are holding this country to ransom’
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KFC UK sales continue to decline
Yum! Brands has reported its third quarter results, with KFC system sales in the UK falling by 7% in Q3 and by 3% in the year to date