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How does French hospitality trade post-lockdown?

27-Jul-2020 By Elaine Beckett, Darls communication

Hospitality trade communications specialist Elaine Beckett writes about what it’s like in French bars and restaurants post coronavirus lockdown.

Charles Wells to invest £8m into French estate

06-Aug-2018 By Emily Hawkins

Brewer Charles Wells will invest €9m (£8m) into the growth of its French estate of managed pubs over the next three years.

6 ways to make black truffles go further

24-Aug-2017 By Nicholas Robinson

They are potentially the most expensive fungi known to man, with prices regularly exceeding £30 per gram, but there are ways to extend the use of truffles beyond thinly shaving them over a dish.

Euro 2016

13 Charles Wells France pubs sell 225,000 pints during Euros

18-Aug-2016 By Oli Gross

Charles Wells France sold 225,595 pints during Euro 2016 as the company saw a massive increase in sales.

Heineken signs Eric Cantona for Kronenbourg’s #LeBigSwim campaign

01-Jul-2015 By Jessica Mason

Heineken has signed French footballer Eric Cantona for a new digitally led campaign for its Kronenbourg 1664 lager brand.

Alcohol Concern advertising report dismissed as 'seriously flawed'

12-Jun-2013 By Noli Dinkovski

The body that represents UK advertisers has slammed Alcohol Concern’s latest report on alcohol advertising as “seriously flawed”.

Hamish Champ: Why can't the UK be a bit more like France?

12-Jul-2010 By Hamish Champ

Travel, they say, broadens the mind and by golly they're right. I recently whizzed around Northern France on my motorbike and found the people in...

Wells to expand in France

17-Apr-2009 By The PMA Team

Charles Wells Pub Company plans to extend its French connection by adding seven more pubs to its French estate over the next four years. The...

French invasion boosts pub's trade

20-Jan-2009

While most pubs have to work hard to drive trade during January, handing the business over to a team of chefs and waiters from France is a solution...

Charles Wells sells two central London pubs

05-Jun-2008 By Joe Lutrario

Buyer plans two mixed-use sites

Charles Wells set to double French estate

29-May-2008 By Tamara Sender, M&C Report

Charles Wells Pub Company is looking to more than double its existing estate in France to 10 sites within the next three years. The group currently...

Hamish Champ: Drinking lots of beer in Paris has consequences

22-Oct-2007 By Hamish Champ

Sometimes one comes across cultural differences between the peoples of two nations that are so stark, so… gulf-like in their make-up, that one...

Chris Maclean: what's up with the French?

19-Jul-2007 By Chris Maclean

Last week's trip to France was quite an eye-opener in many ways. I often visit northern France and know many areas quite well but I am surprised at...

What the papers say - July 2, 2007

02-Jul-2007 By Eleanor Goodman

Kraft, the maker of Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers, is understood to be in talks to buy the biscuit and cereal-products division of France's Danone,...

Magic with mushrooms

01-Sep-2006

The mushroom season is upon us, opening a luscious variety of tastes, textures and colours from the delicate to the pungent. So how about creating a...