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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Jul- 2022 -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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11 JulyRestaurants
Gusto to open Oxford site by end of year
Gusto Italian has announced the latest step in its expansion strategy, with its 14th site set to open in Oxford by the end of the year. The new Gusto Italian restaurant and bar will open in the Mitre Hotel building on Oxford High Street, with further ambitions to open its…
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11 JulyPeople
Domino’s welcomes new CFO
Domino’s Pizza Group Plc has announced the appointment of Edward Jamieson as its new chief financial officer. It said Jamieson, who is also set to join the board of Directors in October 2022, brings experience as a senior leader in the consumer, digital, and food sectors. He has most recently…
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6 JulyFood and Drink
Island Poké appoints new head of property
Island Poké has announced the appointment of Hux Norman as the company’s new head of property ahead of its plans to embark on a period of “huge” growth. Norman reportedly joins from the UK café, bar, and restaurant operator, Loungers, where he was property manager. It is reported that he…
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5 JulyPeople
McDonald’s unveils leadership promotions
McDonald’s has announced it has promoted Kevin Ozan to senior executive vice president of Strategic Initiatives, Ian Borden to chief financial officer, and Marion Gross to global chief supply chain officer, effective 1 September 2022. Current global chief supply chain officer, Francesca DeBiase, is set to retire from McDonald’s, effective…
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5 JulyPubs and Bars
Young’s Q1 revenues increase 39.7%
Young & Co.’s Brewery (Young’s) has announced that in the first thirteen weeks of 2022 (Q1), revenues increased by 39.7% in total and by 34.9% on a like-for-like basis against last year, building on the “strong” trading momentum achieved in the final quarter of 2021. Young’s said that this year…
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4 JulyNews
John Lewis launch chef academy to help hospitality sector
John Lewis Partnership (the Partnership) has launched its own Chef Academy to help address the current shortage of qualified chefs in the UK A joint survey released last week by UKHospitality, the British Institute of Innkeeping, and the British Beer and Pub Association, revealed that staff shortages in the hospitality…
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Jun- 2022 -29 JunePeople
Whitbread names Domino’s boss as new CEO
The board of Whitbread PLC (Whitbread) has announced that Dominic Paul has been appointed as its next CEO. He will succeed Alison Brittain, who has decided to retire from full time executive life at the end of the financial year 2023. Paul will join the company early in January 2023.…
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