Strategy
This section highlights the strategic moves shaping the UK hospitality and foodservice industry. From brand repositioning and pricing models to diversification plans, leadership changes, and multi-site rollout strategies, our coverage provides valuable insight into how restaurant groups, pub chains, caterers, and bar operators are adapting to shifting market conditions. Whether you’re refining your business model, assessing competitor strategies, or making key investment decisions, this archive offers sharp editorial designed to support strategic thinking at every level of the foodservice sector.
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Aug- 2022 -5 AugustCafes and Coffee Shops
Costa Coffee opens 300th UK drive-thru amid £20m expansion
Costa Coffee has opened a new drive-thru in Peel Centre Retail Park, Sunderland, which marks the 300th drive-thru for the business and forms part of Costa’s £20m expansion strategy for its drive-thru format alone this year. Costa Coffee and its franchise partners will invest in 60 new drive-thrus in 2022,…
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3 AugustBusiness
Just Eat parent suffers €3.5bn write down on US business in H1
Just Eat Takeaway has written down the value of its US subsidiary Grubhub by €3.5bn (£2.9bn), a year after it purchased the food delivery group for $7.3bn (£5.98bn). Meanwhile, Just Eat Takeaway expects its profitability to continue improving going forward and is maintaining its outlook for FY22. Just Eat expects GTV…
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2 AugustPeople
Comptoir Group chair and CEO step down
Comptoir Group has announced that the group’s CEO, Chaker Hanna, and chair, Richard Kleiner, have both stepped down with immediate effect. As a result, Beatrice Lafon and Jean-Michel Orieux have been appointed to the board with immediate effect as independent non-executive chair and independent non-executive director, respectively. It is reported…
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2 AugustPubs and Bars
Revolution Bars sees ‘strong’ LFL sales
Revolution Bars Group plc, has reported its full year like-for-like (LFL) sales increased 1.3% in the year ended 2 July 2022 (FY22), following the lifting of Covid restrictions in England after 19 July 2021. The group said this is a strong result given the disruption caused by the Omicron variant…
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2 AugustPeople
Greggs names new chair as revenues rise
Greggs has announced the appointment of Matthew Davies as an independent non-executive director and chair designate. Davies joins the board with immediate effect, and will be appointed as chair on 1 November 2022, when the current chair, Ian Durant, steps down. He is widely experienced in retail, and during his…
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Jul- 2022 -27 JulyPubs and Bars
Marston’s like-for-like sales drop 2%
Marston’s plc has revealed its like-for-like sales dropped 2% for the 42 weeks to 23 July FY22, compared to the same period in FY2019, due to the reintroduction of trading restrictions in December and January, and the impact on consumer sentiment in H1. However, total retail sales in the group’s…
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26 JulyNews
Restaurant Associates appoints 3 regional managing directors
Restaurant Associates has announced the appointment of three new regional managing directors across its nationwide estate. Sara Senior, previously sales and retention director, moves to regional managing director with a remit to oversee Restaurant Associates’ key London clients. Ming Lai joined Compass Group Australia over a decade ago, before coming…
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22 JulyVenues & Properties
RedCat Pub Company acquires two new sites
RedCat Pub Company, an investment vehicle founded to invest in the UK pub sector, has announced its acquisition of The Meynell Ingram Arms and The Cock Inn Mugginton from Berkeley Inns Limited. The Meynell Ingram Arms Hotel was re-opened by Berkeley Inns in 2019. This historic Staffordshire pub was closed…
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20 JulyBeverages
Follow Leisure acquires Belfast café chain District
Multi-venue hospitality operator, Follow Leisure, has revealed its acquisition of Belfast-based specialist coffee chain, District for an undisclosed figure. District opened its first premises in 2016 on Ormeau Road, adding additional locations throughout South Belfast in Lisburn Road, Stranmillis Road and Saintfield Road. In this acquisition by Follow Leisure, the…
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14 JulyNews
Compass launches strategy aimed at addressing industry inequalities
Compass Group UK and Ireland has announced The Mission to a Million commitment, a new strategy aimed at “addressing the inequalities that create barriers to progress” in the hospitality sector. It will see Compass provide support to one million people, from both within and outside the organisation, by 2030 to…
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