All MCA Insight articles in September 2013 – Page 23

  • News

    Wahaca moves closer on Brixton site

    2013-09-03T07:44:00Z

    Wahaca, the Mexican street food restaurant concept led by Thomasina Miers and Mark Selby, has moved a step closer to securing a site in London’s Brixton

  • News

    UK contactless spend grows five fold in 12 months

    2013-09-03T07:40:00Z

    UK consumers have made 51 million contactless purchases in the last 12 months, according to figures released today from Visa Europe

  • News

    Retail and leisure chains should pay high street levy

    2013-09-03T07:35:00Z

    Retail and leisure chains that turnover more than £10m a year should invest 0.25% of their sales into a local economy development fund to help revive high streets, a new report has argued

  • News

    SSP UK sees improvement in retention levels

    2013-09-03T07:22:00Z

    SSP UK has said that it has recruited 800 apprentices onto its apprenticeship programme this year and seen its retention levels for new employees improve by 6%

  • News

    BISL signs up leading law firm

    2013-09-03T07:13:00Z

    National law firm Bond Dickinson has become a member of Business in Sport and Leisure (BISL)

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    News

    Punch lfls up 0.4%, to launch restructuring

    2013-09-03T07:13:00Z

    Punch Taverns has reported a 0.4% rise in like-for-like net income across its core estate for the 12 weeks to 17 August 2013 and believes a consensual restructuring can be launched in H2

  • News

    L'Enclume named UK's best restaurant

    2013-09-03T06:56:00Z

    Chef Simon Rogan’s Cumbrian restaurantL’Enclume has been named the best in the country in the Waitrose Good Food Guide 2014

  • News

    Spirit reveals second Premium pub

    2013-09-03T06:53:00Z

    Spirit Pub Company has converted a second site to its new Premium Pub concept with a £260,000 investment at the Cricketers in Kew Green, Richmond

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    Opinion

    End of complacency

    2013-09-02T07:41:00Z

    Parts of the British restaurant scene traditionally dominated by independents are facing fresh competition from dynamic new entrants. It’s a reminder that complacency is not an option, a lesson that’s equally important for the pub trade

  • Weekend Press

    Weekend press round-up, 31 August-1 September

    2013-09-02T06:49:00Z

    RestaurantsCote tempts new suitorRichard Caring is edging closer to a deal to sell his Cote brasserie chain for about £100m. CBPE, the private equity firm that was once part of Close Brothers investment bank, is in talks to buy the 45-strong chain.It has leapfrogged Bridgepoint, a rival firm best known ...

  • Analysis & Insight

    Spending on dates increases

    2013-09-02T06:44:00Z

    A study has found that dating contributes about £3.6bn every year to the UK economy and that this has increased by £200m so far this year, compared with 2011

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    News

    Heineken UK: on-trade dip in 2012, fruit cider lift

    2013-09-02T06:43:00Z

    Heineken UK says the poor summer weather and “challenging” consumer environment in 2012 led to a fall in consumption in the on-trade in the year