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Jongleurs approach obviously a matter of good timing

The list of those who made their names at Jongleurs reads like a Who's Who of modern British comedy

Luminar makes approach for Jongleurs owner

Regent Inns, owner of Walkabout and Jongleurs, received an informal bid approach from Britain's biggest nightclub company

Major industrial research meets luxury goods

Will Whitehorn is the head of the Virgin group's most adventurous and ambitious project to date: space travel

Jamies Bars operator to enter administration

BDO Stoy Hayward on standby as Food & Drink Group calls time on ordinary shareholders

Gourmet group adds Bombay Bicycle to its chain

Jamal Hirani, a former buyer at Marks & Spencer, paid £4.4m for the Bombay Bicycle Club brand from Clapham House Group

Clapham House sells Bombay Bicycle Club Indian take-away

Tiffinbites acquires Bombay Bicycle Club for £4.4 million as platform for consolidation of the curry market

JD Wetherspoon celebrates economy's downturn

Pub operator specialising in cheap food and drink is benefiting from the 'Aldi effect' as struggling consumers trade down

Luminar clubs demand drink price crackdown

The UK's biggest nightclub operator says the failure to act on cheap drink means it will have to cut its own prices

Bargain-hunting drinkers seek out Wetherspoon

The discount pub chain is benefitting from 'Aldi effect' as hard-pressed consumers trade down to cheaper alternatives

EMI may lose out on Albarn's Monkey business

Damon Albarn, the talent behind one of EMI's top selling acts Gorillaz, may hand over his latest album to XL Recordings

Size matters in modern world of brewing

InBev's bid for Anheuser-Busch follows hot on the heels of Scottish & Newcastle's takeover of Carlsberg and Heineken

Metalloinvest seeks back door to listing

Alisher Usmanov has entered merger talks with Kazakhmys in a deal that could create a $50bn London-listed mining giant

Cipriani restaurant sale on the menu

The Cipriani family is understood to have hired Goldman Sachs, the investment bank, to advise on a possible sale

Banks put BDO into Regent Inns pubs chain

The company’s market value was just shy of £4m on Friday and it has debt of £80m, according to the latest set of results

Playboy bunnies hop back to UK

Swinging Sixties icon could return to London as Hugh Hefner’s Playboy entertainment empire considers two sites for casinos