Kerb
Reporting on street food innovation, trader development, and F&B incubation from a platform known for supporting independent food businesses across London and beyond. This section covers market activations, vendor success stories, site partnerships, and operational strategy, offering insight for chefs, entrepreneurs, and hospitality professionals exploring flexible formats, food hall models, and community-driven dining experiences.
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Jun- 2025 -23 JunePubs and Bars
Star Pubs to spend £4.5m upgrading outdoor spaces and exteriors
Heineken UK-owned Star Pubs has announced plans to invest £4.5m in refurbishing the exteriors of 171 pubs across the UK this year, with a focus on improving outdoor trading areas and enhancing kerb appeal. Some 88 pubs will receive garden makeovers, a quarter of which will be themes around Heineken…
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May- 2025 -8 MayFeatures
The future of food halls: why Kerb is appealing to indie street food traders
The traders at Kerb made more than £32m last year. That’s 37% higher than 2023. In just two years, their collective revenue has nearly doubled. For a group once seen as just an ensemble of scrappy street food vendors, the numbers tell a different story now. Kerb is not alone.…
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Mar- 2025 -31 MarchNews-In-Brief
Today’s news in brief – 31/03/25
Kerb has seen its trader revenues rise by 37% to over £32m in 2024, up from £23.5m a year prior. This marks an 89% increase since 2022 when it first generated £17m in revenues for its food stalls. Kerb’s flagship food hall, Seven Dials Market, has welcomed on average 30,000…
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31 MarchFood and Drink
Kerb trader revenues rise by 37% to over £32m in 2024
Street food collective and hospitality group, Kerb, has seen its trader revenues rise by 37% to over £32m in 2024, up from £23.5m in 2023. This marks an 89% increase since 2022 when it first generated £17m in revenues for its food stalls. Kerb’s flagship food hall, Seven Dials Market,…
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Feb- 2025 -19 FebruaryPubs and Bars
Greene King’s The Railway to reopen following £1m refurb
London pub the Railway in Liverpool Street is set to reopen next week following a £1m investment from owner Greene King. The investment has been designed to transform both the exterior and interior of the pub in order to elevate it to a flagship site within the Greene King’s pub…
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Mar- 2024 -21 MarchNews
Today’s news in brief – 21/03/24
Shepherd Neame has reported record revenue growth of 4.3% to £89m in H1 2024. For the 26 weeks ended 23 December 2023, the group also saw its underlying EBITDA increase 5.2% to £12m and its underlying profit before tax grew by 9.9% to £3.8m. Retail like-for-like drink and food sales…
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21 MarchFood and Drink
KERB welcomes most profitable year as sales exceed £23.5m
Hospitality business KERB has announced its most profitable year at its annual member summit last week, as gross sales surpassed £23.5m in 2023 across a membership base of 150 traders. This comes as KERB bounced back from the pandemic, delivering almost 1,800 market trading days, almost 500 event opportunities, and…
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Jan- 2024 -3 JanuaryNews
Today’s news in brief – 03/01/24
Black Sheep Coffee turnover has doubled to £21.3m in the year ended 31 December 2022 from £10.7m the year before. The company’s net assets surged to £33.7m from £4.9m in 2021. Expanding aggressively, they opened 11 new stores, now operating over 70 across the UK. With a strategy spanning both…
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3 JanuaryNews
Seven Dials Market to welcome new food traders in January
KERB, a hospitality organisation founded in 2012, has announced that Seven Dials Market is parting ways with four of its most lucrative traders in order to provide opportunity for new food talent. Having built credible reputations supported by KERB and its trading opportunities, the four members – Truffle, Club Mexicana,…
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Oct- 2023 -16 OctoberNews
Today’s news in brief – 16/10/23
Loungers reported H1 total revenues of £149.6m, marking a 22.3% increase from the previous year. They achieved one-year like-for-like sales growth of 7.7% over the 24 weeks ending 1 October, showing an acceleration from the 5.7% growth reported for the 12 weeks ending 9 July. The company opened 16 new…
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