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As Pret loses half a billion, can the lunch king fight back?

The stakes are high and the competition is fiercer than ever — but the sandwich chain is making big moves to bring back its salad days, writes Jonathan Prynn

Evening Standard

Pret a Manger to take on supermarkets by trialling meal deals

Format to be tested in last quarter of year after chain’s value cut by a third amid ‘intense strains’ on hospitality industry

The Guardian - UK

Pret A Manger launches new initiative to rival the supermarket lunch

The sandwich and coffee chain has said it will test the format in the final three months of 2025

The Independent UK

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Pret to test meal deals as chain focuses on value to drive demand

The sandwich and coffee chain has said it will trial the meal deal format in the final three months of this year.

Evening Standard

Target's incoming CEO started as an intern at the $44 billion retail giant 20 years ago—he advises Gen Z who want to copy him to 'embrace feedback'

What started as a summer placement in Target’s finance department two decades ago has turned into the top job for Michael Fiddelke. His advice for Gen Z interns? "Slow down and ask questions. Embrace feedback."

Fortune

TodayTix CEO took over at 31. He tells aspirational Gen Zers to ditch the 'fake it till you make it' act if they actually want to be successful

While Amazon’s Andy Jassy aligns with Gen Z's “delulu” mindset, TodayTix’s CEO says faking it early in his career burned him out—and backfired.

Fortune

Backstabbing is the new office norm: Employees say blame-shifting, snitching, and setting others up to fail are rampant

Gen Z and millennials are backstabbing their peers to get ahead—but who’s to blame them? Even bosses are playing dirty now that they’re back in the office.

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How Pret’s CEO went from a $3 an hour McDonalds worker at 16 years old to earning $5 million last year

Pano Christou worked his way up the corporate ladder, landing the top job after two decades and 10 promotions at the company.

Fortune

Kurt Geiger’s CEO went from cleaning toilets to running a $432 million fashion brand—he says he got promoted by making his boss look brilliant

Neil Clifford would rather step into his bosses’ shoes “than push them over the cliff.”

Fortune

TodayTix CEO took over at 31. Now 38, he has a message for aspirational young leaders

Under Brian Fenty's leadership, the theatre ticketing platform has partnered with Netflix, acquired Secret Cinema and Goldstar, and now reaches over 25 million users on the app.

Fortune

From $3 an hour at 16 years old to a $5 million CEO at 45, Pret boss is a taxi driver's son who says hard work and putting your head down create good luck

Pano Christou worked his way up the corporate ladder, landing the top job after two decades and 10 promotions at the company.

Fortune

Pret A Manger CEO is betting against return-to-office mandates

The coffee chain is redirecting its expansion efforts towards suburban areas and market towns, where people both live and increasingly work.

Fortune

Pret hikes price of five-a-day coffee subscription by 20% in blow for customers

Pret A Manger has hiked the price of its coffee subscription from £25 to £30 a month from today for new subscribers - it comes just over a year after the price jumped from £20

Daily Mirror

Pret’s five-coffees-a-day subscription rises to £30 a month

Chain raises price amid' ‘inflationary challenges’ but adds in 10% off food, as part of Club Pret rebrand

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Wales Online

Pret A Manger workers could be in line for fourth pay rise in little more than a year

CEO Pano Christou says he sympathises with people struggling to pay their bills as he 'started at bottom too'

Manchester Evening News

Pret A Manger boss who started from the 'bottom too' explains third staff pay rise in a year

Pano Christou said he hasn't ruled out another pay rise in the near future for his staff members

Daily Mirror

Pret boss who 'started at bottom too' says why he's given staff third pay rise in year

CEO of sandwich chain Pret A Manger Pano Christou reveals he grew up in a low-paid household, and has not ruled out another pay rise for his staff after three in just one year

The Guardian - UK

The smell of inadequate regulation around England’s water firms

The Environment Agency has tough words for polluting companies – but how has it let things get this bad?

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The Guardian - UK

Pret a Manger CEO handed near-£4m bonus in year staff pay was cut

Pano Christou also given 27% salary rise in 2021 as chain took more than £50m in government support

The Guardian - UK

Pret returns to profitable operations with strongest sales outside London

Sandwich chain bounces back after Covid restrictions as half-year revenues more than triple

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