At Glorious Goodwood this year, the racecourse has teamed up with The Hummingbird Bakery, the American Style bakery that is bringing the authentic taste of American home baking to Goodwood, and for the first time has created the ultimate Glorious Goodwood Cupcake with its distinguished yellow frosting. Served alongside a full afternoon tea including a selection of hand cut … [Read more...]
Applications open for Exclusive Hotels and Venues Chefs’ Academy
Luxury British country house hotel group, Exclusive Hotels and Venues, is actively recruiting rising-star junior chefs to join its Exclusive Chefs’ Academy as part of a two-year programme that commences in July 2014. In securing their place in the academy, nine successful chefs will be given a life-changing opportunity to work alongside Exclusive Hotels and Venues’ brigade of … [Read more...]
BT Sport signs up 19,000 commercial premises
BT Sport has announced that more than 19,000 pubs, clubs, betting shops, hotels and other commercial premises have now signed up to its sports service. In just nine months since the channels went on air for the first time last August, BT Sport has captured 24 per cent of all pubs – nearly 1 in 4 - including groups and independents, putting BT Sport neck and neck with Sky at 25 … [Read more...]
Hotel performance improves across the UK
Zolfo Cooper, HVS and AM:PM have released the Hotel Bulletin for Q1 2014, including demand commentary using data points from HotStats™ and this quarter providing analysis of quarterly transaction values and potential investment indicators in the UK hotel market. Key themes continued widespread RevPAR and profitability growth in London and the regions – though greater in … [Read more...]
Domino’s to serve 20,000 pizzas at IoW Festival 2014
Domino’s Pizza UK is gearing up to feed thousands of hungry festival attendees and rock legends next month, as it becomes an official brand sponsor of the world famous Isle Wight Festival 2014. Taking place at Seaclose Park, Newport between 13 and 14 June, this year’s event will entertain over 50,000 festival-goers and includes headline performances from the likes of Biffy … [Read more...]