Author Archives: Tilburstow Media Partners

The UK’s foodservice sector will experience long-term growth now the worst of the recession is over, although it will take at least until 2016 to return to food sales levels of 2007. This was the conclusion of Horizons’ managing director Peter Backman, speaking at his company’s annual briefing – Success in Challenging Times – held […]

The names of the sommeliers through to the semi-finals of this year’s Moët UK Sommelier of the Year 2013 have been announced today by the Academy of Food & Wine Service (AFWS). This follows yesterday’s [25 March] regional finals held simultaneously in Bristol, London, Manchester, Tunbridge Wells and Edinburgh. This year there were a record […]

The UK’s hotels market saw the most transaction activity during 2012 with a total volume of €1.4 billion, accounting for 38% of hotel volume in Europe. European hotel transaction volume reached a total of approximately €5.6 billion in 2012, a decrease of 21% on the €7.1 billion recorded in 2011 highlighting the fact that investors […]

Coffee shops, healthy quick service outlets, artisan bakeries and Mexican burrito outlets are showing the most growth of the UK’s small and emerging high street eating out chains, showing that while consumers may have cut back on their dining out, they are still keen to treat themselves inexpensively to something of good quality, served quickly […]

Investors in Europe’s hotel market are still being cautious over purchases keeping the value of hotels across the sector virtually unchanged on 2011 levels. The 2013 European Hotel Valuation Index (HVI), published this week by hotel consultancy HVS London, shows that hotels in Paris still top the valuation chart with an average price of €660,000 […]

Eric Zwiebel MS, 39, Cellar Master at Summer Lodge in Dorset, has been chosen to represent the UK in 14th Best Sommelier of the World competition, being held in Tokyo next month. Eric was born in Alsace, France, but is eligible to represent the UK having lived and worked here for over three years and […]

The Slovakian city of Košice, the country’s second-largest city, is set to become a must-visit weekend break destination for European travellers as new flight links from London and Düsseldorf look likely to come on stream this year. A report on the city by hotel consultancy HVS London predicts that the hitherto unknown destination will experience […]

Consumers cut back on their spending this Christmas with fewer people enjoying meals out over the festive period, according to the results of a new online YouGov survey for foodservice analysts Horizons. The QuickBite survey shows that in the two week Christmas period 68% of respondents dined out, a sharp fall on last year’s figure […]

Hotel valuation and management consultancy HVS London has announced that associate directors Arlett Oehmichen and Sophie Perret are to be appointed directors of the company.