Visits to Pubs and Restaurants Increase
Pubs and restaurants seem to again be bucking the economic crisis with the news that visits to the local boozer have increased for the first time in 2 years. Zolfo Cooper has reported that after surveying circa 3000 people, the average person will visit the pub around 4.6 times a...
Encouraging Christmas Sales for the High Street
As expected consumers hit the high street on the run up to Christmas, encouraged by the generous discounts on offer, resulting in a rise in spending compared with the previous December according to the Office for National Statistics . In December 2011 an estimated £42.1 billion was spent in...
Top Companies Want to Breathe New Life into Management
Big brand names like Spar and Argos have been on the hiring path. Seeking out high level management for retail head office jobs has allowed these companies to shake things up a bit for 2012. Spar wants to focus on recruitment standards across the U.K. Argos ended a recruitment search of...
Recruiting the right people - The Recipe for Post-Recession Success
According to the British Hospitality Association, around 236,000 hospitality jobs could be generated over the next three years. Around one in every thirteen UK jobs is in the hospitality sector, netting an estimated £49 billion for the U.K economy annually. Post-recession, the hospitality...
Are You Management Material?
It's a sentence that reeks of retail recruitment 80's nostalgia. Can you really judge yourself as "management material”? Are there set criteria that apply to each and every management role? Retail management jobs in particular can be incredibly challenging and diverse, but...
