All Suppliers articles – Page 60
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Healthy & natural foods to be top trends
A focus on health and ‘freshness’ of food as well as tailoring a food order to an individual customer’s taste topped the trends at this year’s National Restaurant Association show in Chicago
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Booker plans to grow sales to £6.6bn
Food and drink wholesaler Booker’s CEO Charles Wilson wants to grow sales to £6.6bn from £4.4bn by continuing the implementation of customer satisfaction strategies such as ensuring availability of products, driving down prices and increasing online sales
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Booker FY PBT grows 25% after Makro acquisition
Booker, the food and drink wholesaler, has reported a 2.1% rise in like-for-like sales (excluding its Makro business) in the year to 28 March as it saw profits before tax and exceptionals rise 25% to £118.7m following its acquisition of Makro
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NewsBritvic GB revenues grow 5%
Britvic saw revenues from its GB carbonates business grow 6.8% to £284.6m in the 28 weeks to 13 April, with still GB revenues up 2.3% to £167.4m despite a volume fall in that segment driven by Robinsons and J20
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Matthew Clark buys stake in marketing agency
Matthew Clark, the drinks wholesaler part-owned by Punch Taverns, has bought a 51% stake in London-based marketing agency Elastic for an undisclosed sum
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Second generic pro-beer campaign to launch
Major brewers have funded a second generic TV advertising campaign for beer under the strapline, “There’s More to Beer”, according to Marketing Week
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Warning over 'digital cynicism'
F&B operators need to ensure that the benefit of new technology for customers is clear to them in an era of “digital cynicism”, a leading brand design expert has told the Allegra Restaurant Leaders Summit 2014
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Bacardi names interim CEO
Bacardi has announced the appointment of Michael Dolan, who was most recently chairman and chief executive of sports, fashion and media firm IMG Worldwide, as its interim chief executive
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NewsDiageo on-trade sales director van Buuren to retire
Diageo has announced that its on-trade sales director Martijn van Buuren will retire from the business at the end of the summer
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BT signs up 19,000 commercial premises
BT Sport has signed up 19,000 commercial premises in the year since its launch, the “majority” of which are pubs, the broadcaster has revealed
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CPL and BII agree £1m partnership deal
CPL Training Group has announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with the BII to deliver all BIIAB qualifications across the UK for the next five years
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NewsZonal collects family business of the year award
Zonal Retail Data Systems, the Edinburgh-based leading EPoS provider to the hospitality industry, won Family Business of the Year at this year’s Scottish Business Awards
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Analysis & Insight
Consumers seek out gluten-free options
Over a third (37%) of consumers would visit foodservice outlets more often if they offered gluten-free options
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OpinionThe changing face of foodservice
Rob Sexton, chief executive of the Soil Association, looks at how foodservice operators are reacting to changing consumer attitudes to what they eat, and why, despite some good progress being made, there is still more work to be done by major high street dining brands
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Matthew Clark sees 7% growth in wine sales
Matthew Clark, the nationwide drinks supplier to the on-trade, has seen sales of wine increase by 7% in the face of market-wide decline of 13% over the past 12 months to January 2014
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Waitrose to open King’s Cross cookery school
Waitrose has agreed a deal with King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership to open a food and wine shop and cookery school in one of the development’s listed buildings
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NewsCarlsberg Q1 UK beer volumes dip
Carlsberg has predicted that Western European beer markets will “decline slightly” in 2014 as it reports a decline in beer volumes in the UK in the first quarter of this year
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Junk food is today’s gruel
Junk food has become the modern equivalent of gruel, public health experts have said as they urge the Prime Minister David Cameron to act on the rising numbers of children suffering from hunger and malnutrition
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Sky partners with CPL on live sports training
Sky has launched a new online training course to help operators “reap the full benefits” from showing live sport in their pub.
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NewsAdnams eyes 'major' brewery project
Adnams, the Suffolk brewer, pub operator and distiller, is considering undertaking a “major project” to enhance its “brewing capacity and flexibility”