Like-For-Like Sales

Pubs and restaurants see 1% rise in July

16-Aug-2011 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report

Despite unhelpful weather and the continuing squeeze on consumer spending, pubs reported a slight rise in like-for-like sales in July.

Fuller's: 3.2% rise in like-for-like sales

29-Jul-2011 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report

Fuller's has this morning reported a 3.2% rise in like-for-like sales across its managed pubs and hotels division for the 16 weeks to 23 July 2011.

Pubs and restaurants bounce back in June

19-Jul-2011 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report

Pub and restaurant groups reported a rise in like-for-like sales in June, due to the half-term holidays and the "World Cup effect".

JDW reports slowdown in like-for-like sales

13-Jul-2011 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report

JD Wetherspoon (JDW), the managed pub operator, has reported a slowdown in like-for-like sales over the 11 weeks to 10 July.

Pubs and restaurants report March slowdown

18-Apr-2011 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report

Pub and restaurant groups reported a slowdown in like-for-like sales in March, but the eating-out market continued to outperform the retail sector....

Pub chains report rise in February sales

14-Mar-2011 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report

Pub and restaurant groups reported a rise in like-for-like sales in February against a strong comparative period in 2010, helped by a month of fair...

Punch reports a step-change in managed performance

10-Mar-2011 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report

Punch has reported a step change in the performance of its managed estate, which has seen an 8.6% increase for the 12 weeks to 5 March.

Whitbread buys Coffee Nation

02-Mar-2011 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report

Whitbread, the leisure group, has this morning reported a 6.7% increase in like-for-like sales for the 50 weeks to 17 February 2011, driven by strong...

Bumper Christmas fuels M&B growth

27-Jan-2011 By Ewan Turney

Strong food sales and a bumper Christmas helped Mitchells & Butlers increase like-for-like sales 3.1% for the 17 weeks to 22 January.

Another link in Wetherspoon's chain

18-Sep-2010 By Hamish Champ

It's easy to imagine some pub tenants cheering local councillors in Lymington for saying 'no' to JD Wetherspoon's application to open one of its pubs...

Marston's boosted by managed pubs

04-Aug-2010 By Ewan Turney

Marston's has reported recent trading has been "encouraging" due to the good summer weather rather than the World Cup. Like-for-like sales at its...

Young's: sales flat, profits up

03-Jun-2010 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report

Young's has this morning announced a 1.4% rise in pre-tax profits to £19.4m, with like-for-like sales flat on last year.

Value fuels Whitbread pub restaurant growth

29-Apr-2010 By Ewan Turney

Whitbread's focus on value fuelled a 1.7% increase in like-for-like sales at its pub restaurants for the year to 4 March. The operator, whose...

'Sharper' food pricing stalls Punch managed sales slide

25-Aug-2009

Punch Taverns has seen an improvement in like-for-like sales in its managed estate through reduced food prices and a boost to service. However, the...

Sales up at The Restaurant Group

04-Mar-2009 By Ewan Turney

The Restaurant Group has reported a 1.5% uplift in like-for-like sales across its 354 restaurants and pubs for the year ended 28 December.

Value food offer fuels M&B uplift

25-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney

Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has reported a 1.1% rise in like-for-like sales for the 10 weeks to 19 July fuelled by its value food offering.

Fuller's reports strong results

06-Jun-2008 By Ewan Turney

London brewer and operator reports 4% jump in adjusted profit before tax

The Restaurant Group reveals sales increase

05-Mar-2008 By Ewan Turney

Restaurant and pub operator The Restaurant Group has revealed a 5.5% increase in like-for-like sales on last year. The company, which acquired the...

Whitbread combines management of hotels and pubs

28-Feb-2008 By Hamish Champ

Whitbread has today announced a number of sweeping changes to its structure, including combining the management of its hotels and pub restaurant...

MyShout

21-Feb-2008

The prospect of an M&B/Punch merger is changing the landscape of the industry, says Neil Morgan Can you name one of the few pub groups to report...

Like-for-like sales up 1.8% at Luminar

01-Nov-2007 By Mark Wingett mark.wingett@william-reed.co.uk

Luminar, the quoted nightclub group, which operates the Liquid, Oceana, and Lava & Ignite chains, has reported a 1.8% increase in like-for-like...

Sales up at Luminar

30-Oct-2007 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report

Nightclub operator Luminar Leisure reports a 1.8% increase in like-for-like sales

Luminar reports like-for-like sales drop

23-Mar-2006 By Mark Stretton

Luminar, Britain's biggest nightclub business, has reported, as part of a trading update, a 0.6% like-for-like sales decrease in its core business....

Wetherspoon sales down across summer

02-Sep-2005

Wetherspoon has seen its like-for-like sales decline further across the summer, as competition from supermarkets and public concern about...

The great like-for-like debate

07-Apr-2004

Like-for-like sales are the usual barometer for the health of a business. But are they valid? By Mark Stretton.It was a classic triumph of spin over...

Geoffrey Hartridge

15-Jan-2004

Geoffrey Hartridge, licensed trade campaigner and managing director of Hartridge's Soft Drinks between 1955 and 1982, has died at the age of 85. He...

Wetherspoon festive sales disappoint City

10-Jan-2002

Shares in JD Wetherspoon plummeted yesterday after it revealed sales figures for the Christmas and the new year period. The group reported a rise in...