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Friday Wrap: A round-up of the week's hospitality news

Neil Gerrard
Friday 20 August 2010 17:03
Mitchells & Butlers chief executive Adam Fowle

STORY OF THE WEEK:  M&B sells 333 pubs for £337m
Mitchells & Butlers has sold 333 pubs for £373m to Stonegate Pub Company. M&B said the move was in line with its plan to dispose of 'non-core' properties in the lower-price, drinks-led market and late-night high street bars.  
 

MORE NEWS

Michael Caines launches scheme to further female chefs' careers
Adnam’s interim profits tumble by 27%
Tourism can save economy, says Cameron
Time Out names the finalists for its 2010 food awards
Hotel worker who stole £76,000 spared jail
Kudos wins £1m contract renewal with Hamilton House
Burnside pub and restaurant group calls in the administrators
London restaurant prices show slowest growth in a decade, says Harden's
Yo! Sushi boss joins Marston's as non-exec director
Claire Clark to run pop-up patisserie at Harvey Nichols London
Simon Binder set to open new City bar and bistro
Heston Blumenthal confirms 1 December opening for first London restaurant
Marco Pierre White is Manchester City FC's latest signing
Penny Newman leaves Fifteen
Hakkasan to open second London site in Mayfair


EDITOR'S PICKS
 
Team-ups between Michelin-starred chefs and contract caterers
Table Talk: Is Michelin losing its way
Buy It! competition: Win a stylish breakfast buffet kit worth £1,250
Raymond Blanc: Dress Code - take off the jackets, undo the ties
Kitchen Rat: Hilton heiress to offer everyone a chance of one night in Paris 
 

QUOTE OF THE WEEK
 
"Tourism is a fiercely competitive market, requiring skills, talent, enterprise and a Government that backs Britain. It's one of the best and fastest ways of generating the jobs we need so badly in this country."
Prime Minister David Cameron puts tourism at the centre of the Government's economic policy 

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