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 whatโs driving turnover, and whatโs 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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Sep- 2023 -21 SeptemberNews
SSP expects revenues of ยฃ3bn amid strong trading
SSP Group has upped its guidance and is expecting revenues to be at 116% of 2019 levels for the 16 weeks between June and September. For the full year, group revenues are expected to be ยฃ3bn compared to ยฃ2.2bn in the prior year, representing growth of 37% year-on-year. EBITDA is…
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21 SeptemberPubs and Bars
Adnams operating losses widen to ยฃ2.4m in H1
Adnams has revealed that sales in the first half of 2023 were level with last yearโs total of ยฃ30m, as input costs continued to climb and contributed to operating losses widening to ยฃ2.4m.ย ย The pub operator attributed its performance to Q1โs subdued sales, as inflation peaked. However, lighter evenings and…
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20 SeptemberNews
Todayโs news in brief – 20/09/23
Food hall operator Market Halls reported a remarkable 155% revenue increase to ยฃ22m in the year ending July 2023 due to a 40% like-for-like sales growth. EBITDA before company costs reached ยฃ2.6m, as sales at their London sites exceeded pre-Covid levels. As a result, the company plans to open two…
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20 SeptemberPubs and Bars
Arc Inspirations sales jump 7.5% amid expanded estate
Bar group Arc Inspirations has announced an annual sales growth of 7.5% up to ยฃ40.8m for the year ended 26 March 2023. Alongside this the company posted an adjusted EBITDA of ยฃ3.84m, overcoming economy-wide inflationary and staffing pressures. Company EBITDA for the year was lower than the previous period, which…
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20 SeptemberNews
UK delivery and takeaway sales rise 6%, says CGA
Britainโs top managed restaurant groups secured a third successive month of year-on-year growth in delivery and takeaway sales in August, according to the CGA.ย The latest CGA by NIQโs hospitality at home tracker shows revenue from orders was 6% higher than in August 2022.ย The news extends a run of…
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20 SeptemberFood and Drink
Market Halls revenues surge 155% to ยฃ22m in FY23
Food hall operator, Market Halls, saw revenues grow 155% from ยฃ8.6m to ยฃ22m in the year to July 2023, as like-for-like sales leaped 40% since the Covid-related โsoft tradingโ in the previous year.ย The group also announced that EBITDA before company costs grew to ยฃ2.6m in the year, as it…
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18 SeptemberNews
Todayโs news in brief
In Q2 2023, pub closures in England and Wales surged 50%, with 77 shutting down monthly, up from 51 in Q1. The total number of pubs, including vacant ones, fell to 39,404. During H1 2023, 383 pubs vanished, slightly less than 2022’s total. Wales lost the most at 52, while…
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18 SeptemberNews
Drinks sales leap 16% amid September heatwave, CGA finds
Britainโs early-September heatwave helped Britainโs on premise to double-digit drinks sales growth last week, according to the CGA.ย CGA by NIQโs daily drinks tracker shows average sales in managed venues in the week to Saturday (9 September) were 16% ahead of the same period in 2022, as consumers flocked to…
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14 SeptemberNews
Hospitality sales rise by 5.3% despite cool summer, CGA says
Britainโs managed restaurant, pub and bar groups overcame some dismal summer weather to record like-for-like sales growth of 5.3% in August 2023, the latest Coffer CGA Business Tracker shows. The tracker, produced by CGA by NIQ in partnership with the Coffer Group andRSM UK, has now been in year-on-year growth…
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12 SeptemberNews
TRG offloads leisure business to Big Table Group
TRG has announced that it has entered into an agreement for the proposed sale of its leisure business comprising 75 trading sites and associated restaurant and management team employees to the Big Table Group.ย ย As part of the transaction, TRG will pay a cash contribution of ยฃ7.5m to the Big…
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