Graeme Smith
Partner & Managing Director, London
Our Foodservice Growth Report 2017 reveals that operators in the UK independent foodservice sector achieved yet another year of double-digit revenue growth. But fast-approaching cost headwinds will likely slow growth in 2018 unless businesses can use M&A effectively to offset the impact of tightening corporate and public sector budgets, the national living wage, apprenticeship levy, and food price inflation.
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