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P&G Professional has launched a free-membership online Academy (www.pgpro.co.uk/academy) designed to help independent operators run more profitable businesses.  The website aims to become a community for professionals to share best practice and includes bespoke sections for hoteliers, restaurateurs and publicans. It includes advice and tips from industry experts, including The Art of the Restaurateur author Nicholas Lander and staffing expert professor Conrad Lashley from the Oxford School of Hospitality Management. All of …

RSM Tenon has conducted their fourth quarterly survey which provides a regular snapshot of business confidence across the Hospitality and Leisure (H&L) sector. In this issue we take a look at the outlook for 2013. For the UK’s H&L sector, the start of 2013 has been chillier than hoped in several respects. Not only has snow disrupted trading across the UK, but key economic forecasters now expect GDP growth to be smaller …