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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May- 2018 -3 MayAdvice
Making Google work for you
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) continues to be a vital and yet tricky marketing tactic to achieve and execute correctly. According to the latest intelligence from Google, 75% of customers use a search engine to find local eateries, with 56% of those searchers looking for a business to visit that day,…
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2 MayCatering Companies
Country Valley Foods appoints former executive chef as new sales manager
Foodservice supplier Country Valley Foods has appointed Richard Chilver, the former executive chef from Lumley Castle, as its sales manager. Richard Chilver, who managed the kitchens, menus, and supplies at the County Durham venue for six years, has returned to the team at Country Valley Foods, where he previously worked…
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Apr- 2018 -24 AprilBusiness
Deliveroo expands beyond delivery with restaurant support scheme
Food delivery company Deliveroo has launched a new support site for restaurants to help them reduce everyday business expenses. The company has also unveiled a new portal offering restaurant staff benefits and discounts to boost staff retention. The brand new Deliveroo restaurant perks website is part of efforts from Deliveroo…
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20 AprilBusiness
Direct Food Ingredients launches new division
The team at Macclesfield-based distributing business, Direct Food Ingredients is celebrating the launch of its brand new division dedicated to herbs, spices and natural health ingredients. This arm of the business will be headed up by new recruit, Dave Wheeler a procurement specialist, with over thirty years’ experience importing ingredients…
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18 AprilCafes and Coffee Shops
Costa Coffee promises to recycle half a billion takeaway cups per year
Costa Coffee has promised that it plans to recycle up to 500 million cups by 2020, the same amount that the chain puts on the market, and the equivalent of a fifth of the 2.5 billion takeaway coffee cups consumed by the nation per year. The announcement came in partnership…
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13 AprilFood and Drink
Easter weekend boosts restaurants following dismal March
Strong trading over the Easter holiday weekend helped lift the gloom for Britain’s managed pub and restaurant groups – after a poor, snow-hit March. Latest figures from the Coffer Peach Business Tracker show that collective like-for-like sales for the four days of Easter were up 5.9% compared to the Easter…
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13 AprilPeople
Nottingham restaurant owner jailed for VAT fraud
The owner of a restaurant in Nottingham’s city centre has been jailed for pocketing the VAT charges made to customers. A HRMC investigation found that Ali Elbahtini Ibrahim, 48, owner of Marrakesh Moroccan bar and restaurant, kept £55,000 in VAT charges for himself. Investigators went to the restaurant and paid…
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12 AprilNews
The City Pub Group reports “pivotal year in the evolution of the business”
The City Pub Group has announced the revenue is up by 35% to £37.4m in what it calls a “pivotal year.” Audited results for the 53 weeks ending at 31 December 2017 showed that like-for-like sales growth was up by 3.8%, driving by growth in drink and accommodation. The Group…
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12 AprilNews
‘Beast from the East’ hits Greene King sales
Greene King Pubs were hit by a fall in like-for-like (LFL) sales for the 49 weeks to 8 April. The pub company LFL sales were -1.8%, with the weather over the last 12 weeks impacting trading. The company reported that destination food-led pubs and on an underlying basis, excluding the…
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3 AprilBeverages
Conviviality may face legal action from investors
Investors in Conviviality are considering the possibility of legal action against the board of the company amid claims they were misled over its financial health. According to The Times, the rapid demise of the drinks retailer and supplier has provoked suspicions about when the board first had concerns over its…
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