The Rezidor Hotel Group has appointed Olivier Harnisch (45) as Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer. Harnisch will succeed Wolfgang M. Neumann who is taking over from Kurt Ritter as the company’s new President & CEO. Currently serving as Vice President, Northern and Central Europe at Hilton Worldwide, Harnisch will be based at Rezidor’s corporate … [Read more...]
Archives for 2012
Meantime Brewing makes “Brewer’s Dozen” available
Meantime Brewing Company, the Greenwich-based craft brewers, will launch a new range of eleven beers, “the Brewer’s Dozen,” so called because, tradition would have it, the brewer keeps the twelfth for himself. A new beer in the limited edition range will be launched monthly and they will all be available at Meantime’s The Old Brewery and Greenwich Union and a small selection … [Read more...]
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Gordon Ramsay says Jamie Oliver is fat, needs a wash and fancies his wife
Never one short of something to say Gordon Ramsay laid into Jamie Oliver in an outburst on Alan Carr’s Chatty Man yesterday, Ramsay claimed that rival Jamie Oliver is too fat to tell Americans to eat healthily — and that he needs “a good wash”. He went on saying that Oliver, 37, has a “crush” on his wife Tana. Marco Pierre White and Antony Worrall Thompson were also laid … [Read more...]
Vegetable inflation rate over 5% and rising
Catering and hospitality operators are being warned that they will need to take steps to mitigate the impact of a continued surge in food inflation, which is expected to rise further in 2013 and beyond. Food inflation rate up to 4.5% in 2013 Prestige Purchasing’s annual Food Inflation Report shows that the rate of inflation for vegetables, including potatoes, has hit … [Read more...]
Chairman for Perceptions Group
The Perceptions Group was formed by a collection of like minded people who work and operate within the pub and bar sector and whose passion is to raise the profile of the great range of careers that are on offer within the thousands of pub businesses across the country. It has now appointed Keith Knowles, Chief Executive of Beds and Bars as their first Chairman, who … [Read more...]
HOSPA Award winners for 2012
HOSPA Award winners for 2012 HOSPA has announced the winners of its annual Hospitality Finance, Revenue Management and IT Awards for 2012 at its Christmas Awards Luncheon – held at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge, London. 1. HOSPA Hospitality Professionals Award Winners 2012 Hospitality Finance Professional 2012, sponsored by PKF - Adolf Schauer, Financial … [Read more...]
UK hotel transaction market slows
Hotel transaction activity across the UK totalled around £300m in the second half of 2012, significantly behind the volume and values reported in H1 2012 (c. £1bn) and H2 2011 (c. £2.5bn), according to analysis by Deloitte, the business advisory firm. Nick van Marken, global head of hospitality at Deloitte, comments: “Some recovery in the UK hotel transaction market was … [Read more...]
Restaurant design: critical for operators and customers
It’s easy to take for granted the stunning, beautifully finished interiors that feature in so many bars and restaurants. But the immaculate appearance hides the processes – usually difficult and painstaking – that created it. Nor should we forget that bars and restaurants are punishing environments: interiors that must start and remain ‘fit for purpose’, capable of coping … [Read more...]
Wine drinkers: styles of wine reveal customer preferences
Red wine drinkers love to spend money on clothes, white wine drinkers prefer to holiday in the UK, and rosé drinkers enjoy a good gossip on Facebook, a study revealed today. Experts who examined in detail the social habits of wine drinkers found that their lifestyles really can be generalised according to their preferred wine colour. Research was carried out by French … [Read more...]
H&C News supports British Pie Awards 2013
2012 was the most successful year yet for the British Pie Awards, as their reputation, prestige and public ‘reach’ continues to grow. 90 judges required More than 900 pies from over 140 producers were submitted and judged by a panel of 90 judges including celebrity chefs Rachel Green and Phil Vickery; food media/writers including Charles Campion (Evening Standard), Xanthe … [Read more...]
Steelite International acquires Royal Crown Derby
Leading tableware manufacturer Steelite International has acquired British brand Royal Crown Derby to further extend its fine dining range and build on its commitment to high quality UK manufacturing. The deal, which is Steelite International’s first acquisition, will see the launch of ‘Royal Crown Derby Entertains’, a fine bone china range for hotels, restaurants and … [Read more...]
Wadworth opens up London and South East
Wadworth Brewery has re-organised distribution and warehousing to allow their beers to become available across a much wider area, making famous Wadworth ales such as 6X, Corvus, Horizon and Bishop’s Tipple available directly to pubs and free houses across the whole of the South of England including London. This significantly extends the company’s traditional distribution … [Read more...]
Convivial London Pubs grows sales 10%
Convivial London Pubs PLC has confirmed full year results for the period ended 29 September 2012, reporting another dynamic year of development and change. Highlights: Despite the sales of the Tea Clipper at the half year, turnover grew to £5.1m with like-for-like sales up by 10%. Overall Gross margin grew by 2.3% to 72.4% Pub EBITDA at £1.7m was up by 10%, with … [Read more...]
Hotel Marketing Association presents 2012 Awards
The Hotel Marketing Association Awards are the only dedicated recognition scheme which both celebrates good practice in hotel marketing and is judged by industry experts. With a membership of sales and marketing specialists and operators from both independent and chain hotels, this makes the Awards important in identifying the talent that can drive the UK hotel sector forward … [Read more...]
Minimum unit price for alcohol to cost consumers £659m
Minimum alcohol pricing is attracting increasing criticism on many grounds, ranging from its legality to the research and methodology which supports it. SABMiller has now released independent research commissioned from the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) which further undermines the arguments in favour: the research shows that a 45p minimum unit price for … [Read more...]
Tilleys Bar celebrates 150 – and profits!
On 4 December, H&C News wrote about the 150 bottled beers going on sale at Tilleys Bar in Newcastle, as well as their invitation to four of the north east’s most popular breweries to each brew a one-off, unique-formula draught beer - but stipulated beer with huge hoppiness (at least 150 IBUs). See link below for the original article. The breweries to take up the … [Read more...]
