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Domino’s Pizza to focus on business relationship with franchisees as sales continue to soar

Domino's PizzaDomino’s Pizza plans to focus on franchise management in 2007, as it works on increasing the numbers of stores owned by individual franchisees.
Posted: 20 February 2007 | 14:36

InterContinental Hotels Group to return more cash to shareholders

InterContinental logoInterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) is to return a further £850m to shareholders after announcing today that 2006 was a “successful year on all fronts”.
Posted: 20 February 2007 | 11:04

QHotels highest place hospitality company in Sunday Times Deloitte Buyout Track 100

QHotelsQHotels was the highest placed hospitality company in the Sunday Times Deloitte Buyout Track 100, a league table of fastest-growing private-equity backed businesses.
Posted: 19 February 2007 | 10:53

Expect a fall in revenue when smoking ban starts, businesses warned

no smoking signSome hospitality and leisure businesses could face a revenue decline of up to 15% when the smoking ban is implemented this year, with many taking more than three-years to recover to pre-ban levels, experts have predicted.
Posted: 19 February 2007 | 09:00

Chinese restaurant owners found guilty of money laundering

chinese restaurantThe owners of a well known Chinese restaurant in South Wales have been ordered to pay £1.5m after a judge ruled they had been involved in money laundering.
Posted: 16 February 2007 | 15:00

Compass Group 'marginally ahead of expectations'

Compass logoCompass Group reported encouraging trading results for the first four months of its financial year and said business was “marginally ahead of expectations”.
Posted: 16 February 2007 | 10:12

MPs call for curb on venture capitalists

Little ChefThe Government has been urged to reform company law to protect workers' rights and stop venture capitalists stripping companies of their assets.
Posted: 16 February 2007 | 09:30

Hope fades for Benjys after new collapse

Benjys' days look numbered after the troubled sandwich chain collapsed into administration for the second time in a year.
Posted: 15 February 2007 | 00:00

Rezidor reports a rise in revenue and profits

RezidorThe strong economic environment in Europe drove both revenue and profits for a second year running at Rezidor, the hotel group announced today.
Posted: 14 February 2007 | 17:18

InterContinental's shareholders expected to get £800m

InterContinental logoInterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) is expected to return a further £800m to shareholders when it releases it full year results next Tuesday.
Posted: 14 February 2007 | 11:18

European hotel investment reaches £14.4b in 2006

Front of hotelHotel investment levels in Europe reached €21.6b (£14.4b) last year, 37.9% up on 2005 and more than double the deal volume of 2004, research has revealed.
Posted: 13 February 2007 | 10:30

Four Seasons to go private after accepting £1.75b takeover bid

Four SeasonsLuxury hotel chain Four Seasons is to go private after accepting a $3.8b (£1.75b) takeover bid from Microsoft supremo Bill Gates and the Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.
Posted: 13 February 2007 | 10:04

FishWorks names new directors after rescue share offer

Fast-growing but beleagured seafood restaurant and fishmonger chain FishWorks is raising £2.5m through a share placement.
Posted: 12 February 2007 | 15:58

Irish News food critic ordered to pay £25k - For more hospitality stories, see what the weekend papers say

A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Irish News, Fishworks, Bourne Leisure
Posted: 12 February 2007 | 11:56

Newcastle’s @Home bar given £250,000 price tag by administrators

Administrators have put a £250,000 price tag on a trouble-hit luxury Tyneside bar complex.
Posted: 12 February 2007 | 09:30

GS Hotels and Resorts secures more than £30m in funding to expand in Croatia

Hotel Excelsior, DubrovnikThe European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) plans to provide €52.6m (£35.1m) in financing for Croatian hospitality group GS Hotels and Resorts.
Posted: 09 February 2007 | 14:32

ABI gives Compass red card over former excutives' pay

Compass logoCompass Group's slap on the wrist from institutional investors over the controversial pay packages handed out to former executives will not affect the new management team's efforts to reinvigorate the company, experts said this week.
Posted: 08 February 2007 | 17:30

Property price rises curb innovation

The hospitality industry has always been a natural home for entrepreneurs, whether it be Stelios and his EasyHotel chain, Hotel du Vin's Robin Hutson, Simon Woodroffe with his Yo! concepts or Johnny Sandelson's GuestInvest buy-to-let scheme. But it seems that the constant rise in property prices is preventing the next generation of entrepreneurs from flourishing in the sector.
Posted: 08 February 2007 | 00:00

Ultimate Leisure seeks £75m to fund expansion

Bar operator Ultimate Leisure could raise as much as £75m to fund expansion if investors vote for a share placement later this month.
Posted: 08 February 2007 | 00:00

Punch Taverns and Mitchells & Butlers predicted to join FTSE 100

Punch TavernsPub groups Punch Taverns and Mitchells & Butlers look likely to be promoted to the FTSE 100 when the next quarterly review takes place on 7 March , financial analysts have predicted.
Posted: 07 February 2007 | 17:45

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