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The UK’s leading food and beverage companies could learn a lot from the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs when it comes to innovation and sustainability, a roundtable discussion has concluded.
Hyatt Hotels Corporation has announced an affiliate of the Chicago-based firm has bought the Hyatt Regency Birmingham hotel out of administration for around £27m and is planning a significant investment in the property.
Rezidor’s president and chief executive Kurt Ritter picked up the Lifetime Achievement accolade at the 2012 European Hospitality Awards held at the Landmark hotel in London last week.
Scottish brewer BrewDog is now selling its 28% ABV beer Ghost Deer in 60ml bottles in a bid to 'kill beer stereotypes' and teach drinkers that beer can be more than a 'pint of fizzy, apathetic, yellow lager’.
Cotswolds-based hospitality group The Lucky Onion has this week opened The Chequers, a recently acquired food-led pub in Oxfordshire, ahead of further planned expansion for the company next year.
Sales of food in the nation's pubs grew by 4.5 per cent in the last year with the income from meals now totalling £7.5bn, dwarfing food sales in restaurants.
Places at the UK’s so-called ‘Curry Colleges’ are filling up fast after a slow start, but work still needs to be done to make the sector more attractive to a future workforce according to The Hospitality Guild.