All Starbucks articles – Page 46
-
Weekend Press
Greggs in recession sales boost
Greggs, the high street baker, is on course for a 3% increase in sales to £649m for the year.The company, which has an average customer spend of £2, has benefited during the recession and is also on course to achieve a 2% rise in pre-tax profits to £45m.Ken McKeikan, chief ...
-
News
Fast food brand values grow 16%
Brand names have shown staying power despite the recession, with the brand value of the top 100 growing by 2% to $1.95tn (£1.32tn) in 2009 compared with the previous year.The latest Brandz Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands survey found that the fast food sector ranked fourth in overall brand ...
-
News
US restaurants see sales growth slow
US restaurant chains saw annual sales growth slow to 3.4% in 2008 - due to a decline in consumer spending and increased cost pressures, according to new research. The latest annual data on the top 500 US restaurant chains from Technomic showed that many companies had scaled back their expansion, ...
-
News
Coffee shops to go skinny
The UK’s biggest coffee shop operators will today announce plans to reduce salt and fat in sandwiches and cakes they offer.Starbucks, Costa Coffee, Pret A Manger, Caffe Nero, Eat, Greggs are all understood to be the latest operators to sign up to a Food Standards Agency (FSA) commitment to help ...