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Italian Chain, Azzurri, Set To Expand Across Northern Ireland
Azzurri, which owns 250-plus Ask Italian, Zizzi and Coco di Mama restaurants, says it has invested a record amount in opening and refurbishing restaurants over the past year. The company spent a record £18.6 milllion (US$26.8 million) to open seven restaurants—four under the Ask brand, and three as Zizzi—and carry out 35 refurbishments. Now the…
Leon Goes Dutch
Leon Restaurants, the London-based “healthy” quick-service chain, plans to launch in Holland this year. The move onto the continent comes soon after Leon ramped up its domestic expansion. The concept, which serves Mediterranean-inspired dishes such as roasted vegetable salads and sweet potato falafels, opened its first outlet in 2004 on London’s Carnaby Street and turned…
Pancake House Plans UAE Debut
Casual-dining brand Pancake House is expanding to the United Arab Emirates as part of the global expansion plan of its parent, Max’s Group Inc. The deal was signed with Abu Dhabi-based Lulu Group to build at least eight of the concept’s units in the UAE in the next five years. The Pancake House, like parent…
Pizza Express Puts Asian Expansion On The Menu
Pizza Express is a major presence in the U.K. and Ireland—where it has more than 450 restaurants, including 19 opened last year. Now it has stepped up its footprint in Asia after being sold to Chinese investment group Hony Capital in 2014 for around £900 million (US$1.3 billion). The fast-casual chain has opened eight units…
FHA2016 To Examine Trends Driving Growth In Asia Pacific
The international food and hospitality scene never cools down, and the Asia Pacific region is hot. This is show season, and things are really heating up, with one of Asia’s premier biennial events drawing near. Food&HotelAsia2016, or FHA2016, April 12-15 at the Singapore Expo, will bring more than 300 first-time exhibitors to the region’s most…
INTERNORGA 2016 To Mark 90th Year, Show Shifts To Five Days In 2017
Equipment design and technology has to innovate to stay current, and so do the trade shows where equipment is exhibited. After 90 years, INTERNORGA is a proven winner, but the show is keeping up with the times. Next year, the international trade show for the whole of the HORECA market will shorten its duration by…
The Past And Current Year In Mergers & Sales
As we often do at the beginning of a new year, we’ve pulled together a reminder of all the sales, acquisitions and mergers from the previous year for our opening FER Dealer Report. And we noticed a curious fact: Lots of deals in the equipment and supplies manufacturing and service and parts segments, but very…
New Reps For Carpigiani
Carpigiani has tapped Central Marketing Associates as its new rep group for Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. CMA, based in Shawnee Mission, Kans., represents 14 other major equipment brands, including Beverage-Air and Edlund, Carpigiani’s sister companies in Ali Group. Carpigiani is based in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Unified Brands Taps Cooking Specialist
Unified Brands has added Walter Trapp as Product Line Specialist for its cooking line. He will manage those products, primarily the Groen brand, while supporting the company’s distribution network. Trapp, who brings a background in foodservice management to the post, also will lead efforts in strategic pricing initiatives, and manage training and tradeshow involvement for…
Personnel Changes At Vulcan
Vulcan has promoted Joe Maresca to Director of Sales-East. Maresca, a 28-year industry veteran (more than half of them at Vulcan), will oversee East Coast dealer sales, familiar territory from his tenure as a Vulcan eastern regional sales manager; he also has been v.p.-national accounts and business manager for the Range unit. David Sealfon has…
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