A recent study found that coffee shops and cafés are two of the fastest growing occupiers of high street property. Independent coffee shop Six Eight Kafé is looking to capitalise on this consumer demand by opening a new outlet at Birmingham’s Millennium... Read More
Tesco continues to struggle against the tide of waning consumer interest, with offers from discounters such as Aldi and Lidl and upmarket brand Waitrose at present proving far more popular than their pledges to cut prices. Unfortunately, it seems that the... Read More
Whitbread has slowly transformed itself into one of the leisure sector’s strongest competitors. In part, this is due to its commitment to investing in its subsidiary chains, with consumer demand for both Costa Coffee and Premier Inn pushing up the group’s... Read More
The pub industry was one of the hardest hit areas of the economy during the recession, as consumers chose the supermarket over their local. And, it seems, this trend is one that is firmly embedded even following the recovery, with coffee shops now said... Read More
Towards the beginning of the supermarket price war, when the Big Four were still consistently increasing market share and were less threatened by discounters, Tesco chose to invest in a minority stake in coffee shop chain Harris + Hoole. While this... Read More
Campaigners in a Cornish town appear to have failed in their bid to prevent the opening of a Costa Coffee branch in a vacant shop. Independent traders in Launceston hoped to emulate the success of Totnes, which won its fight to keep out Costa two years... Read More
300 new coffee shops and 43 hotels coming soon As the economic recovery intensifies going in to summer, many within the retail, leisure and hospitality sectors are experiencing the benefits of an upturn in consumer confidence first hand. One of the... Read More
Consumer confidence is expected to rise sharply this summer, with the steady improvement in both price inflation of goods and wage growth putting more money in household budget pots. Yet these factors have already begun to play an instrumental role in the... Read More
UK corporations were shaken last year when a series of reports detailed the lengths some businesses operating within the country were going to in order to avoid paying tax. One of the most highly criticized was coffee chain Starbucks which, despite a... Read More
Pets are suddenly making their presence felt on the on the high street in unexpected ways. Last week it was reported that Pets at Home had opened a premium shop for dogs in Cheshire. However, one area in which one would not traditionally expect to find our... Read More
