Sales
This section brings together all our editorial coverage related to sales performance, revenue growth, and commercial strategy across the UK foodservice sector. From quarterly trading updates and like-for-like sales trends to group-level reporting and market analysis, we provide restaurant operators, pub groups, catering firms, and F&B executives with timely insights into what’s driving turnover, and what’s dragging it down. Whether you manage a single site or a national portfolio, our sales reporting is geared to help hospitality leaders benchmark performance, identify consumer trends, and shape strategies that drive sustainable growth in a volatile trading environment.
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Nov- 2021 -18 NovemberPubs and Bars
Fuller, Smith and Turner returns to profitability in H1
Fuller, Smith and Turner pub group has revealed that it has returned to profitability for the 26 week period ending 25 September 2021. Pre-tax profits rose to £10.6m from a previous year’s loss of £23m and was boosted by steady growth in Central London pubs. Revenue and other income also…
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16 NovemberNews
Eurest appoints joint managing directors
Eurest, the UK workplace food service provider and part of Compass Group UK and Ireland, has promoted two of its most senior business directors to joint managing directors. Paul Williams and Nick Haynes, who have both worked for Compass for nearly 10 years, take up the positions, effective immediately, and…
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16 NovemberPubs and Bars
Revolution Bars Group FY21 losses narrow to £26.3m
Revolution Bars Group has revealed its pre-tax losses have narrowed to £26.3m from £31.7m for the full-year ending 3 July 2021. Total Sales were 64.2% lower at £39.4m than £110.1m in 2020 as a result of the various Covid-19 lockdowns and restrictions throughout the entirety of FY21, compared to just…
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15 NovemberPubs and Bars
Sales down 4.5% for managed pubs, bars and restaurants, CGA reveals
The rolling 12-month sales to the end of October 2021 were down by 4.5% on the previous year as businesses “continue to feel the effects of Covid and lockdowns”, the CGA has revealed. The tracker, produced by CGA in partnership with TheCoffer Group and RSM, revealed that October was a…
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15 NovemberPubs and Bars
Nightcap sees FY21 losses widen to £5.3m
Nightcap has revealed that its pre-tax losses for the full-year ending 27 June 2021 have widened to £5.3m from £616,301 the previous year. Despite the losses, revenue grew to £5.9m from £5.2m and was boosted by the acquisitions of The London Cocktail Club Limited and its subsidiaries. In addition to…
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12 NovemberBusiness
Hospitality remains an ‘industry in peril’, UKH warns
The hospitality sector is ‘an industry in peril’ according to the latest edition of the UKHospitality and CGA Quarterly Tracker, which has revealed both Q3 2021 sales and full 12-month figures are nearly half what they were over the same period pre-pandemic. The data shows a 45% drop in sales…
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11 NovemberCatering Companies
Contract catering sales up 52%, CGA reveals
Contract catering sales during the period July to September 2021 were up by 52% when compared to 2020, according to the latest edition of CGA’s Contract Caterer Tracker. However, the tracker also indicated a 36% drop in third-quarter sales from the same period in 2019, when businesses were trading as…
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10 NovemberPubs and Bars
JD Wetherspoon sees LFL sales fall 8.9%
JD Wetherspoon has revealed that like-for-like sales for the first 15 weeks of the financial year were 8.9% lower than the record sales achieved in the same period in 2019. During the period, bar sales were 9.6% lower, food sales dropped 8.1% and fruit/slot machines were down by 12.3%. However,…
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8 NovemberFeatures
Q&A with Alan Morgan, CEO of The Big Table Group
What is the history of the business? The Big Table Group was formed last summer to acquire and operate the Bella Italia, Café Rouge and Las Iguanas restaurant brands. In a process handled by AlixPartners, parts of the business formerly known as Casual Dining Group were acquired from administration, preserving…
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3 NovemberPubs and Bars
Nightcap Q3 sales hit £7.6m
Nightcap has reported a 68% increase in total net sales to £7.6m for the 13-week period ending 26 September 2021. This is an increase compared with the same period in 2019, when there were no Covid restrictions on trading. The board said it now expects that its full-year results will…
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