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In the first of BigHospitality's week of product launch news stories to coincide with the International Food & Drink Event (IFE) 2013, Bridor announces it is to launch three new bakery collections including torsades and choux pastries.
The Forestry Commision, which manages the Westonbirt tree collection in Gloucestershire, has appointed Calcot Hotels’ outside catering arm Calcot Kitchens to run its public restaurant and café facilities.
KSL Capital Partners, the US company which bought The Belfry last year, has acquired Malmaison and Hotel du Vin owner the Malmaison Group for an estimated £180m.
Restaurant Associates, the restaurant management arm of Compass Group, has begun the process of finding a new chef to headline its restaurant at Tower 42 in London following the news that its relationship with Gary Rhodes is to come to an end.
With English Tourism Week having kicked off on Saturday (16 March), Travelodge’s chief executive Grant Hearn has written to 106 MPs from the country’s key tourism constituencies to ask them to stand up in the House of Commons and ‘fight for the industry’.
Former Welsh rugby league star Richard Wallace has dropped the price of his Usk Valley hotel, Llanwenarth Hotel, by £125k in order to force a quick sale because his ill health means he is no longer fit enough to run it.