Coppa Club owners eye acquisitions and new venues to drive growth

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Restaurant group Varied Eateries has stated it’s contemplating merger and acquisition offers to assist drive additional progress after revealing stronger earnings.

Shares within the group, which runs 20 venues throughout the Coppa Membership and Noci manufacturers, moved larger on Monday morning.

Boss Mark Loughborough stated the group is seeking to proceed its latest “actual momentum” because it reported sturdy Christmas buying and selling.

The corporate stated this might embody snapping up different hospitality companies to drive progress.

Mr Loughborough stated: “Our aim is to construct an even bigger, higher hospitality group by scaling our manufacturers with self-discipline, investing selectively within the property and, alongside natural progress, actively assessing high-quality, complementary M&A alternatives the place the strategic match is evident and the standard and returns stack up.”

Varied Eateries reported that buying and selling in latest months has been “encouraging” regardless of a “difficult” wider hospitality market.

It was boosted by “significantly sturdy” gross sales over the five-week festive interval to January 4, which noticed group like-for-like gross sales rise by 9% on the again of progress at Coppa Membership.

The enterprise is “progressing” with a pipeline of potential new websites, with plans to focus its growth plans on the Coppa Membership model.

It got here because the group reported that revenues jumped by 6% to £52.4 million within the yr to September 2025, with 2% like-for-like group supported by openings.

Mr Loughborough, chief government of the group, stated: “Full-year 2025 was a transparent step ahead for Varied Eateries, the place we turned intent into supply.

“We tightened execution throughout the property, strengthened the crew and embedded a extra disciplined, constant means of working, giving us a stronger platform to construct from.

“The return to like-for-like progress and document adjusted EBITDA is the consequence, and an enormous credit score to our groups given the difficult shopper backdrop and ongoing value pressures throughout the sector.”

Shares lifted by 11.4% on Monday morning.