Private equity
Reporting centres on investment activity across the UK hospitality and foodservice sector, with analysis of buyouts, growth capital, and ownership changes involving restaurant groups, pub companies, and catering operators. Coverage includes deal flow, fund strategy, portfolio performance, and investor outlook, offering valuable intelligence for senior executives, founders, and stakeholders navigating funding, expansion, and exit planning.
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Jun- 2021 -21 JuneRestaurants
Itsu to open 100 new stores after securing investment deal
Itsu, an Asian-inspired restaurant chain, has announced plans to create 100 new venues across the UK as part of its partnership with private equity firm, Bridgepoint. Founder of Itsu, Julian Metcalfe, said the new partnership “secures tremendous growth” for the restaurant group – which is recovering from the impact of…
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16 JuneRestaurants
Hostmore named as TGI Fridays’ demerged owner
Electra Private Equity, the owner of TGI Fridays, has revealed Hostmore PLC as the trading name of its new parent company for the group’s hospitality brands. Hostmore will control Electra’s firms that are set to be demerged and admitted to the main market of the London Stock Exchange in Q3…
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May- 2021 -24 MayBusiness
Electra plans TGI Fridays FTSE demerger
Electra Private Equity, the owner of TGI Fridays, has revealed that plans to list the restaurant chain on the FTSE Main Market in Q3 of this year are “well advanced”. The announcement came as a part of the group’s results for the half year to 31 March 2021, where it…
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20 MayPubs and Bars
Maven Leisure secures £4.3m funding for acquisition spree
Maven Leisure is set to raise £4.3m through private equity investment firm Growthdeck in a bid to open a host of new London bars upon the lifting of lockdown. The new venture, which is led by the founders of ETM Group, is looking to use the funds to launch seven…
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Apr- 2021 -27 AprilPeople
Malhotra appoints new head of finance
Malhotra Group has announced the appointment of Kathryn Nicholson as its new head of finance. Nicholson will join the North East hospitality group, which owns some of Tyneside’s most popular hotels, bars and restaurants, in July and will work alongside Malhotra’s chief financial officer. Prior to joining the group, Nicholson…
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Mar- 2021 -3 MarchFeatures
An insight into the pub sector’s investor interest
Following a spate of high profile investment rounds and acquisition rumours within the UK’s pub sector, a number of questions have been raised. Why has investor interest recently spiked within the industry? Why are a number of high profile deals falling through? And more simply, what do these kinds of…
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Feb- 2021 -26 FebruaryPeople
Yo Sushi appoints new chair
Yo Sushi has announced that John Walden has joined the group as its new chairman. It comes as present chairman Eric Nicoli is stepping down to pursue other interests, having joined the group in 2015 following the acquisition of the company by Mayfair Private Equity. According to the group, he…
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24 FebruaryRestaurants
TGI Fridays to ‘emerge strongly’, plans new openings
TGI Fridays is reportedly well-positioned to “emerge strongly” from the pandemic, despite the massively fluctuating trading conditions of 2020, according to parent company Electra Private Equity. It said the restaurant group’s agility in responding to changing conditions, combined with careful financial and cash management, allowed it to end the year…
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23 FebruaryRestaurants
The Bok Shop eyes double-digit portfolio expansion
The Bok Shop, a Brighton-based fried chicken and vegan chicken restaurant group, has announced plans to open 10 sites across the UK over the next two years. Founded in 2017, the group expanded its portfolio a year later with the addition of a 90-cover restaurant in Eastbourne. Despite the constraints…
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11 FebruaryPubs and Bars
Platinum abandons Marston’s takeover
Platinum Equity, a US-based private equity firm, has confirmed that it will no longer move forward with a proposed takeover of Marston’s, after the pub group “unanimously rejected” its proposal earlier this month. Last month, Marston’s confirmed that Platinum put forward an unsolicited, non-binding proposal of a possible cash bid…
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