Mitchells & Butlers “pleased” with performance

Mitchells & Butlers has released a trading update for the 14 weeks ending 4 January 2020. Like for like sales were up 3.5%, with “particularly strong sales growth” in food. Over the three-week festive period, like-for-like sales were up 5.6%. Total sales increased by 2.7% over the full year to date.