Confidence levels in the eating and drinking out industry are in the balance in early 2019 amid ongoing challenges and anxiety about Brexit, CGA’s 2019 Business Leaders’ Surveyreveals. The exclusive poll, conducted in partnership with CPL Online, finds that around two-thirds (68%) of ...

The latest data released by UKHospitality, the single voice representing the UK’s hospitality sector, has revealed that the UK hotel market is underperforming compared to the EU average on every key metric. As we move into 2019, UKHospitality is urging ...

The government is seeking views on its plans to restrict promotions of food and drink products high in fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) by location and by price. According to government research regular overconsumption of a relatively small number of ...

Concerns are being raised over the health of high street giant Pizza Express. The popular Italian eatery is owned by Chinese private equity firm Hony Capital, however conerns are mounting over how it will repay £650million of debt over the next ...

Oakman Inns have announced strong sales over the important Christmas trading period, continuing the strong growth that the business has seen in the year to date. The Like-for-Like sales for the five weeks ending Sunday 6th January 2019 were up ...

Pub group Young’s has confirmed it is to pay over £100,000 to cover the cost of settled status applications for its employees who are EU nationals. The group, which has 1,800 members of staff from non-UK EU countries, will pay ...

Year on year inflation in wholesale foodservice prices climbed to over 6% in November, the highest point of 2018, the latest edition of the Foodservice Price Index from CGA and Prestige Purchasing reveals. The Index was pushed up by the Milk, Cheese and Eggs category, where year on ...

Best Western Great Britain is toasting a record year of hotel recruitment, with 25 new properties being added to its portfolio in 2018. This represents the brand’s highest annual activation figure in over ten years and takes the membership collection ...

The sale of coffee giant Costa by Whitbread to the Coca-Cola Company for £3.9b has completed. Whitbread now intends to start a share buyback programme, which is likely to follow the release of the company’s third quarter trading update on ...

Sales of sparkling wine and Champagne, combined, reached a record high this year when Brits bought almost £2.2 billion worth of fizz. The Wine and Spirit Trade Association’s latest market report shows that almost 165 million bottles of sparkling wine ...