Demand
Understand what’s driving, or dampening, customer demand across restaurants, pubs, bars, cafés, and contract catering. Our focused reporting features dining trends, footfall patterns, booking behaviour, menu shifts, delivery and takeaway volumes, and the wider economic factors impacting consumer spend in hospitality. Whether you’re adapting to shifting weekday trade, reacting to seasonal fluctuations, or planning promotional strategies, this archive offers data-driven insights to help operators, chefs, and F&B leaders align operations with real-time market dynamics.
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Aug- 2024 -5 AugustPubs and Bars
Liberation Group sees LFL sales rise 6.4% in H1
Liberation Group, a privately owned premium pub operator and brewing group with sites stretching from Mayfair in London to St Aubin in Jersey, has reported a 6.4% increase in H1 LFL sales. The group’s LFL growth was delivered in all markets and channels, with a “standout” performance in food at…
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1 AugustNews
Today’s news in brief – 01/08/24
Stonegate Group has secured a refinancing deal from TDR Capital, following strong demand from investors. This refinancing will extend the group’s maturities on the revolving credit facility and the senior secured notes to January 2029 and July 2029 respectively, and reduce leverage from 8.2x to 6.5x RR EBITDA today. Restaurant…
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1 AugustPubs and Bars
Stonegate Group secures refinancing deal from TDR Capital
Stonegate Group, the UK’s largest pub company, has secured a refinancing deal from TDR Capital LLP, a UK-based private equity firm. Stonegate Group has agreed to refinance £3.0bn of debt, following strong demand from investors. As part of the deal, funds managed by TDR Capital will make a £250m shareholder…
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Jul- 2024 -30 JulyBeverages
Diageo FY sales fall 1.4% amid weaker demand in Latin America
Diageo has revealed that its reported net sales fell 1.4% to $20.3bn(£15.8bn) for the year ended 30 June 2024. The company has put this down to an unfavourable foreign exchange impact and organic net sales decline, partially offset by hyperinflation adjustments. Its organic net sales declined by $129m (£100.4m) or…
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25 JulyBeverages
Ireland drinks sales rise by 4.6% as customer habits shift
Drinks sales in Ireland pubs rose by 4.6% in the last 12 months fuelled by major shifts in people’s habits, CGA by NIQ has revealed. According to CGA’s On Premise User Survey, more than three quarters (78%) of people now typically visit drink-led pubs at least monthly, and nearly a…
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22 JulyNews
The Woodsman receives 2 AA Rosettes
The Woodsman, located within Hotel Indigo Stratford-upon-Avon, has been awarded 2 AA Rosettes for food quality for the first time. The Woodsman is headed up by restaurateur Mike Robinson, co-owner of the Michelin-starred Harwood Arms in Fulham, whose passion for British produce and sustainable wild food is “well renowned”. Led…
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15 JulyVenues & Properties
Market activity for pubs and restaurants improves in H1
Pub and restaurant market activity has seen an improvement in the first half of 2024 compared with the “subdued” levels seen last year, according to Christie and Co’s Pubs and Restaurants Mid-Year Market Insight report. It comes as the property adviser’s transactional metrics trended upwards since January this year, albeit…
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10 JulyNews
Today’s news in brief – 10/07/24
SSP Group will maintain its profit guidance for the year as Q3 sales rose 16%. Due to an increasing demand for leisure travel, the operator of F&B outlets in travel locations has also reported that the second half of 2024 started off well with a strong sales performance across all…
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10 JulyCatering Companies
SSP Group maintains profit guidance as Q3 sales rise 16%
The operator of F&B outlets in travel locations, SSP Group, has revealed its full-year guidance will remain unchanged as it recorded a sales rise of 16% during the third quarter to 30 June. It comes as the group’s like-for-like sales grew 6% during the period off the back of its…
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Jun- 2024 -28 JuneFood and Drink
Heavenly Desserts set to open new Solihull venue
Heavenly Desserts has revealed that it is set to open a new venue in Shirley, Solihull on Saturday 6 July. Located in Parkgate Shopping Centre complex in Solihull, the 44-capacity restaurant will replace part of the old Pizza Express unit. The launch brings Heavenly Desserts closer to 60 sites around…
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