Archives for January 27, 2014

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UK team wins European Pastry Cup 2014

By Emma Eversham

The UK team has won the European Pastry Cup, earning itself a cash prize and securing a place in next year's Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie. 

Idle Rocks owners buy St Mawes Hotel

By Emma Eversham

The owners of the Idle Rocks hotel in St Mawes, Cornwall have acquired the St Mawes Hotel in the same town to help 'add scale' to their business. 

Leon starts regional expansion drive

By Mark Wingett

Leon, the healthy fast food chain led by Henry Dimbleby and John Vincent, has embarked on its expansion drive outside London, with an opening of a site at the Eurotunnel terminal in Folkestone and restated that it could grow to over 100 units across the UK.

New hotel booking website 'gives OTAs the boot'

By Luke Nicholls

The co-founder of a new booking website that allows hotels to bid for guests believes the current Online Travel Agency (OTA) model is an ‘unsustainable, tangled web that only serves the intermediates’.