ROB ROSE: Spur’s taste for recovery
The 52-year-old restaurant chain is emerging from a boycott organised by a fringe right-wing group. The ordeal provides plenty of lessons
01 August 2019 - 05:00
Mercifully for millions of parents, the right-wing backlash against steakhouse company Spur has fizzled out. This seems pretty evident from Spur’s trading update last week, which showed that sales from Spur restaurants rose 5.4% in the year to June.
For CEO Pierre van Tonder, things are finally looking up after a horrific two years, in which a campaign to boycott the chain, driven by the room-temperature-IQ right-wing, causing the profits of its franchises to dive...
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