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...Mitchells & Butlers, the UK’s largest listed pub group, said on Thursday that cost pressures presented a “major challenge” to the business and the wider hospitality sector....
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...Urban said M&B would normally expect an uplift in sales of at least 3 per cent at the end of January compared to a normal Friday and Saturday....
...Mitchells & Butlers, the UK’s largest listed pub group, fell to a £200m loss in the six months to April 10, as closures and restricted trading weighed on sales....
...M&B is an outlier stuck near a record low valuation....
...Phil Urban, chief executive of Mitchells & Butlers, which operates 1,700 pubs across the UK, said that despite “two good days” on the back of the “euphoria” of restrictions being eased on May 17, he was...
...The rich friends who own a majority of pubs group Mitchells & Butlers are tightening their grip on the business without having to launch a takeover offer....
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...Mitchells & Butlers also announced on Monday that it would defer pension contributions of £4.2m a month between January and March, which will be made up in April....
...Mitchells & Butlers, the UK’s largest listed pub company, has said it plans to raise £350m through a share placing in a move that in effect puts its largest shareholders in control of the company....
...“Clearly all of this will put M&B on a very sound financial footing, although, in our view, it is to the detriment of minority shareholders.”...
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