Bouncing Back: Hospitality and Leisure in the UK, USA and Europe

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the vital importance of the hospitality and leisure industry to the global economy. When the pandemic rapidly spread across the globe, nations had to take drastic steps to protect their citizens. Lockdowns and travel restrictions ground the hospitality and leisure industries to a halt, leading to millions of job losses worldwide. […]
Revisiting the Casual Dining Sector

Earlier this year, we investigated how the casual dining industry was dealing with the coronavirus crisis. We found that many casual dining outlets were struggling even before the pandemic told hold earlier this year. A range of problems contributed to casual dining’s slow decline, including customers wanting to save money, excessive discounting, and even Brexit […]
Recovery Rates of Sector Verticals Through the Lens of Digital Data: Casual Dining

Over the last twenty years, the USA and the UK have endured several economic crises that affected almost all industries in varying severity. One sector that is hit particularly hard by periods of economic downturn is casual dining. As consumers have less income available for non-essential spending, casual dining suffers. Pre-coronavirus, the industry was already […]
Recovery Rates of Sector Verticals Through the Lens of Digital Data: Travel

Crises have a profound effect on a wide range of sectors. Over the last two decades, sectors have had to contend with several crises, including but not limited to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the 2008 financial crisis, terrorist attacks on tourist destinations, and more. How these sectors recover varies significantly on the severity of the […]
Unexpected Winners in a COVID Economy

The last six months have been incredibly tough for the global economy. COVID-19 has infected over 7 million people in 185 countries and has sadly killed over 400,000. The virus has also caused the loss of millions of jobs worldwide. As a result, the global economy has run into extreme difficulty. The International Labour Organization […]
Pizza Express: discounted to death?

As news circulates about the once much-loved pizza restaurant struggling with debt, how did such a stalwart of the casual dining scene get into this position? onefourzero investigated how consumers saw the brand and discovered a worrying correlation between demand for the brand and discounting promotions, leading us to question if Pizza Express has been […]
Online Travel Agencies: Putting A Price on Trust

Investment in the travel industry at large is on the rise, and not without good reason. The travel sector is growing 50% faster than the global economy, with one fifth of all jobs created in the last decade being within the industry. Furthermore, investment is forecast to rise by 4.3% per annum in the coming […]
The effects of climate change in retail and hospitality

It’s official: February 2019 was the hottest month on record in Britain, the Met Office has confirmed. With temperatures reaching 21.2°C, it was hard to believe that, a year earlier, the country was facing the “Beast from the East”, with heavy snow and sub-zero temperatures. To put in context, the average temperature in February is […]
Cheers to the beer industry!

It may be dry January for many, but here at onefourzero, a number of exciting product developments in the beer industry is making us thirsty. Beer is cool once again, thanks to new trends and innovative products reaching the market in the past couple of years. For a while it seemed like the traditional pint […]
How Digital Data can change the Pharma industry

Download a PDF version of this article here. The pharma industry is undergoing its most difficult shift in a long time, as the inevitability of embracing digital data and engagement draws closer, and yet compliance and considerations of legislation remain as complex as ever. But, as onefourzero’s data shows, digital data is showing that there […]