Expo 2015 Italy
Expo 2015 ITALY – milan 1 May – 31 OCTOBER 2015 We invented the Expo, by dint of the Great Exhibition of 1851. This year it is Milan’s turn. Twenty million visitors are expected at Expo Milan before the event closes at the end of October. Design approach 2015 Expo 2015 Italy is a curious phenomenon. […]
Killer Stats – Restaurants versus Supermarkets
Restaurants versus supermarkets – WHO IS WInning THE BATTLE? Two killer stats caught our eye recently, helping us understand the dynamics of the Meal Market and its future directions……. Stat #1: May 2015, monthly sales at USA restaurants exceed grocery store sales for the first time. And, the divergence is accelerating. Stat #2: Small […]
Salon Partner helps to shape tourism policy
strategic TOURISM POLICY discussions with bis On behalf of the Tourism Consultants Network, Chris Evans and Salon Partner, Oliver Bennett met with Vince Cable MP, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills , on 31 October. This was to raise a number of issues concerning procurement in the public sector. The subject has been […]
How’s your appetite for growth? Launching a restaurant in the New Normal….
We live in interesting times! How the commercial world has changed in the last seven years.We do things differently now, and the hospitality sector has reinvented itself. We’ve fallen in love with coffee and out of love with tank beer: well, the pub trade wrote the longest suicide note in history following the Beer Orders: […]