Table of Contents
Issues in the Market
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- Definitions
- Abbreviations
Insights and Opportunities
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- It’s all about the fundamentals
- Jumping on the healthy bandwagon
- Busta queue
Market in Brief
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- End of term report: Good but could do better
- Market value breaks through £2 billion barrier
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- Figure 1: Trends in the UK leisure venue catering market size, 2001-06
- Poor performance of major sectors slows market growth
- Conditions ripe for further growth
- Leading contract caterers maintain grip on market
- Innovations focus on evolution rather than revolution
- The challenge: raising the bar while keeping the lid on costs
Fast Forward Trends
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- Trend 1: Crowdsourcing
- Definition
- What it is – general observations
- Ideas bank
- Trend 2: Hire Hire
- Definition
- What it is – general observations
- Ideas bank
- Trend 3: Food Goes Slow
- Definition
- What it is – general observations
- Ideas bank
- What is Fast Forward Trends?
Internal Market Environment
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- Key points:
- Minimum Wage piles further pressure on costs
- Overseas tourism recovers…
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- Figure 2: Trends in overseas tourist visits to the UK, 2001-06
- … as domestic tourism wobbles
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- Figure 3: Trends in domestic tourism in the UK, 2002-07
- Smoking ban likely to hit some sectors hard…
Broader Market Environment
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- Key points:
- Trends in PDI and CONEXP
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- Figure 4: Trends in personal disposable income and consumer expenditure, 2001-11
- The age structure of the population
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- Figure 5: Trends in the UK population by age, 2001, 2006 and 2011
- The affluence of the population
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- Figure 6: Trends in the adult population* by socio-economic group, 2001, 2006 and 2011
- The weather
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- Figure 7: Trends in the amount of sunshine and rainfall in the UK, 2001-06
Competitive Context
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- Key points:
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- Figure 8: Average weekly household expenditure on meals, snacks and non-alcoholic drinks, by category, 2002/03-2005/06
Strengths and weaknesses in the market
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- Strengths
- Captive audience
- Long dwell times
- Tailoring the offer
- Smoking ban may boost food sales
- Weaknesses
- Free admission opens up competition from high street
- Packed lunches a constant challenge
- Poor quality/value for money perceptions
- Smoking ban to hit sales of alcohol
Who’s Innovating?
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- Food to play a more important role for clubs
- Independent cinemas are the innovators
- Organic and fairtrade gain in popularity
- Queue-busting and quality-lifting priorities for bingo operators
- Technology to impact on ordering process?
- Environment the focus for zoos and wildlife parks
- Little room for manoeuvre for theatres
Market Size and Forecast
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- Key points:
- Market value
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- Figure 9: UK leisure venue catering market size trends, 2001-11
- Future market performance
Segment Performance
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- Key points:
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- Figure 10: UK leisure venue catering market by sector, 2002-06
- Nightclubs and discotheques
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- Figure 11: Catering within the nightclubs and discotheques market, 2001-06
- Luminar plc
- Cinema
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- Figure 12: Catering within the cinema market, 2001-06
- The main circuits – Odeon, Cineworld and Vue
- The independents
- Museums and art galleries
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- Figure 13: Catering within the museums and art galleries market, 2001-06
- Tate
- National Gallery
- Natural History Museum
- Victoria & Albert Museum
- Science Museum
- Bingo
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- Figure 14: Catering within the bingo market, 2001-06
- Gala Bingo
- Mecca Bingo
- Historic buildings
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- Figure 15: Catering within the historic buildings market, 2001-06
- The National Trust
- Historic Royal Palaces
- English Heritage
- Tenpin bowling
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- Figure 16: Catering within the tenpin market, 2001-06
- Tenpin/Megabowl
- AMF Bowling
- Theme parks
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- Figure 17: Catering within the theme parks market, 2001-06
- Alton Towers
- Chessington World of Adventures
- Thorpe Park
- Legoland
- Drayton Manor Park
- Zoos and wildlife parks
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- Figure 18: Catering within the zoos and wildlife parks market, 2001-06
- Chester Zoo
- London Zoo
- Theatre
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- Figure 19: Catering within the theatre market, 2001-06
- Really Useful Theatre
- Delfont Mackintosh Theatres
Companies and Products
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- Key points:
- Industry structure
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- Figure 20: Leading contract operators in the leisure venue catering market, February 2007
- Compass Group plc
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- Figure 21: Compass Group Plc, financial performance, 2005-06
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- Figure 22: Compass Group Plc, leading leisure venue catering contracts, February 2007
- Elior SCA
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- Figure 23: Digby Trout Restaurants Ltd, financial performance, 2004-05
- Figure 24: Digby Trout Restaurants, leading leisure venue catering contracts, February 2007
- Sodexho Alliance
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- Figure 25: Sodexho Alliance, financial performance, 2005-06
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- Figure 26: Sodexho Prestige, leading leisure venue catering contracts, February 2007
- Searcy
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- Figure 27: Searcy, Tansley & Co, selected leisure venue catering contracts, February 2007
- Other players
- BaxterStorey Ltd
- Caterleisure Ltd
- Heritage Portfolio
- Benugo Ltd
Who Uses Leisure Venue Catering?
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- Key points:
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- Figure 28: Leisure venue catering use, 2007
- Buyers of food and drink in cinemas
- Buyers of food and drink in tenpin centres
- Buyers of food and drink at nightclubs
- Buyers of food and drink at music and other performing arts venues
- Buyers of food and drink at historic buildings
- Buyers of food and drink at theme parks
- Buyers of food and drink at zoos and wildlife parks
- Buyers of food and drink at theatres
- Who uses leisure venue catering? – Detailed demographics
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- Figure 29: Demographic characteristics of users of catering at most popular leisure venues, by type of venue, 2007
- Figure 30: Demographic characteristics of users of catering at other leisure venues, by type of venue, 2007
Types of Food and Drink Bought at Leisure Venues
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- Key points:
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- Figure 31: Types of food bought at leisure venues, 2007
- Cold snack buyers
- Hot takeaway food buyers
- Cold takeaway food buyers
- Hot snack buyers
- Hot sit-down meal buyers
- Cold sit-down meal buyers
- Healthy snack buyers
- Non-buyers
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- Figure 32: Types of drink purchased in leisure venues, 2007
- Soft drinks buyers
- Hot drinks buyers
- Water buyers
- Beer buyers
- Sports drink buyers
- Other drinks buyers
- Type of food and drink bought at leisure venues – Detailed demographics
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- Figure 33: Demographic characteristics of most popular type of food bought at leisure venues, 2007
- Figure 34: Demographic characteristics of other types of food bought at leisure venues, 2007
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- Figure 35: Demographic characteristics of types of drinks bought from leisure venues, 2007
Views on Leisure Venue Catering
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- Key points:
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- Figure 36: Agreement with statements about food and drink at leisure venues, 2007
- Cost is the major bugbear
- Other issues less emotive but queues remain a problem
- Eating on-site or off – it’s an age thing
- Unappetising/unappealing food puts off older people
- Affluent people are more discerning customers
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- Figure 37: Demographic characteristics of consumers agreeing with statements about food and drink at leisure venues, 2007
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- Figure 38: Demographic characteristics of consumers agreeing with statements about food and drink at leisure venues, 2007
Leisure Venue Catering – Targeting Opportunities
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- Key points:
- Venuerators (11% of any leisure venue visitors)
- Alternatives (21% of any leisure venue visitors)
- Negat-eats (22% of any leisure venue visitors)
- Uninvolved (46% of any leisure venue visitors)
- Venuerators the most likely to visit leisure venues
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- Figure 39: Leisure venue catering target groups, by leisure venue visited, 2007
- Two items of food the norm…
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- Figure 40: Repertoire of food eaten at leisure/sports venues, 2007
- … together with two items of drink
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- Figure 41: Repertoire of drink consumed at leisure/sports venues, 2007
- Detailed demographics
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- Figure 42: Leisure venue catering target groups, by detailed demographics, 2007
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