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  • GBK: Gourmet Burger Kitchen creates 600 jobs amid profit return

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    Gourmet Burger Kitchen has created almost 600 jobs as it returned to profit during its latest financial year. The restaurant chain increased its headcount from 1,652 to 2,235 in 2024, according to new accounts filed with Companies House. The results have also revealed that Gourmet Burger Kitchen achieved a pre-tax profit of £4.8m for the [...]

    Sales at Gourmet Burger Kitchen jumped during 2024.
  • ‘Disaster Budget will kill UK farming’, warns chicken king Boparan

    Business

    Entrepreneur Ranjit Singh Boparan, whose empire ranges from Bernard Matthews to Carluccio’s, has warned the autumn Budget is a “disaster for business” and will “deliver a final fatal blow to the thousands of small family-owned farms”. Boparan added that the “inheritance tax raid” on farms announced in the Budget on 30 October “risks supply being [...]

    Boparan owns a food empire containing household names. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
  • Bumper pay day for ‘Chicken King’ Boparan

    Business

    Ranjit Singh Boparan, the so-called ‘Chicken King’, received a bumper pay day after profit at his private office jumped to almost £125m. Boparan’s private office includes high street restaurant brands like Carluccio’s and Gourmet Burger Kitchen as well as Bernard Matthews, Banham Poultry and Elkes Biscuits. Newly-filed accounts with Companies House have revealed that the [...]

    Ranjit Singh Boparan's private office is to buy the European poultry arm of his 2 Sisters Food Group.
  • ‘Chicken King’ Ranjit Singh Boparan to sell poultry arm to himself

    September 2, 2024

    The poultry arm of 2 Sisters Food Group, which is owned by the so-called ‘Chicken King’ Ranjit Singh Boparan, is to be sold to his private office for more than €200m (£168m). Boparan, who also owns high street restaurant brands like Carluccio’s and Gourmet Burger Kitchen, is to sell the European poultry operation to his [...]

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