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10/08/2022

Domino’s Pizza says Arrivederci, as it leaves Italy after failing to win over local customers

Domino’s Pizza officially closed its shops in Italy, after locals favoured their native restaurants over the American fast-food chain. The last 29 pizza shops just closed, nearly seven years after the company launched its first location in the country. Domino’s had initially planned to open up to 880 stores in Italy.

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06/08/2022

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26/07/2022

The coolest thing in coffee?
Nescafé Gold ice cream breaks new ground

Nestlé is creating a buzz in the ice cream world with the first product launch featuring Nescafé, which breaks new ground by using real coffee in both the coating and the ice cream core, as opposed to coffee flavors.

The coating or 'ganache' that covers the Nescafé Gold Cappuccino Ice Cream is made using Nestlé's patented 'soft coating' technology. In contrast to the hard coatings used in typical chocolate-based stick ice creams, this soft ganache uses Nescafé Gold coffee, which also features in the ice cream core.

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22/07/2022

Marks and Spencer buys 'not just any transport company' it aquiries Gist

Marks and Spencer Group has acquired Gist, the principal contract logistics provider to M&S Food, for £230m and said the move will accelerate its plan to modernise the food supply chain network. The British retailer said it spied substantial opportunities to create a more efficient supply chain and could reduce costs, update legacy systems and improve automation. Gist has worked with M&S for decades, as well as providing logistics services for third parties and freight forwarding work for BOC.

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21/07/2022

Ocado has revealed an interim loss before tax of -£211m, for the 26 weeks ending on 29 May, which it said “reflects increased depreciation and amortisation costs with the ongoing roll out of OSP, and reduced exceptional insurance income received in the period, compared with the prior year”.

Meanwhile group revenues fell 4% to £1.3bn, while retail revenues fell 8% to £1.1bn. The group said this offset was created by “strong growth in international solutions and UK solutions and logistics”.

International Solutions revenues more than doubled to £59m.

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21/07/2022

Premier Foods, the maker of Mr Kipling cakes and Oxo cubes, increased sales more than expected in the past three months as households returned to home cooking in the face of a squeeze on the cost of living.

The London-listed foods group said sales of branded groceries such as Batchelors sauces and Nissin noodles were especially strong, helping to push up overall sales by 6 per cent from the previous year to £197mn in the three months to July 2.

Premier sells Nissin products in the UK on behalf of the Japanese company, which is also its largest shareholder.

The growth was driven by price rises as the company seeks to recoup cost inflation. Sales volumes were close to those recorded a year earlier, when strict Covid-19 restrictions elevated Premier’s sales by forcing households to spend long periods at home.

Premier said: “Good value meal solutions [are] proving increasingly popular as household budgets become ever stretched.”

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21/07/2022

Waitrose announce their new partnership with Dobbies Garden Centres, the UK's leading garden centre retailer. This announcement comes as part of their continued plans to reach new customers by growing its convenience business. 🌻

These plans will eventually see a dedicated area offering 2,000 products in more than 50 of Dobbies’ foodhalls across the UK. The first launch will be at the Dobbies garden centre in Edinburgh by the end of July, followed by Atherstone in Warwickshire and Brighton in August.

More locations will be added later this year and throughout 2023. These include around 20 new towns and cities not currently served by a Waitrose & Partners shop.

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21/12/2021

Apparently more than half of the UK's pubs and restaurants saw sales fall off by 45% last weekend as consumers deserted pubs and restaurants in the run up to Christmas this is an issue that's reverberating all the way back along the food supply chain.

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21/12/2021

Rishi Sunak pledges additional £1bn in financial support for COVID-hit hospitality sector with £6k grants for businesses.

Rishi Sunak came under fire last week for failing to act swiftly to offer support to businesses hit hardest by this new COVID slowdown. Now at leat there is a package on the table. We are reading through the fine print. More later.

20/12/2021

Leon Plans Expansion Programme with 50 New Restaurants in 2022

Glenn Edwards, managing director, Leon restaurants, said: “For the first time we will be taking Leon across the country, driving regional growth at speed. The new formats in this rollout will build on our traditional restaurants and form a base for further growth. Making Leon even more accessible is at the heart of this strategic expansion.”

20/12/2021

JD Wetherspoon Promotes Pub Managers to its Board

Managed pub operator JD Wetherspoon has put its faith in its employees by recruiting four current pub managers to its board in an an attempt to boost its business by having additional ‘pub experience’ at board at a senior level.

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