Hospitality group Coppa Collective reported on 27 October that turnover rose 8% to £56.4 million in the year to 27 September 2026, and that like-for-like sales returned to growth in the final quarter. Adjusted EBITDA reached £2.8 million, which the group links to cost discipline and its purchase of the Linwood Collection of pubs.
Coppa Collective, previously known as Various Eateries, operates 15 Coppa Club venues, four Noci Italian restaurants and the Linwood Collection of pubs and inns, according to The Caterer. The group reported “significant earnings growth” in its results for the year to 27 September 2026. Restaurant Online described a sharp improvement in profitability and a return to like-for-like growth in the last quarter of the financial year.
The figures in the update
On The Caterer’s counts, the three brands add up to 23 venues: 15 Coppa Club sites, four Noci restaurants and the four Linwood pubs with rooms. Coppa Club is the largest of the three by venue count. The Linwood pubs were bought in March, so they contributed to only part of the financial year. The fourth-quarter like-for-like figures and the full-year turnover growth therefore measure different things.
Turnover grew 8% to £56.4 million, and adjusted EBITDA reached £2.8 million. In the fourth quarter, group like-for-like sales rose 2.2%, with Coppa Club venues up 2.6%. The Caterer reported that the group said improvements in underlying earnings came from a focus on operational performance, labour productivity, purchasing and cost management.
Mark Loughborough, chief executive of Coppa Collective, said the group expects to report “a doubling of adjusted EBITDA”, higher turnover and significant earnings growth from its existing business. He added that the changes made to venue performance and operational discipline had left the group “better positioned for growth”.
The Linwood Collection deal
In March 2026 the group acquired four pubs with rooms from Grosvenor Pubs and Inns for £11.25 million, forming the Linwood Collection and giving it a third operating brand. Loughborough described the purchase as “a predominantly freehold collection of premium pubs at an attractive multiple”. He said pubs are a format the group knows well and that it sees opportunities to build on the existing earnings base.
Like-for-like sales explained
Like-for-like sales compare turnover from venues open in both periods, so they strip out the effect of openings and acquisitions. Coppa Collective reported the 2.2% group figure for the fourth quarter only, not for the full year, and the Linwood pubs joined the group part-way through the year.
What the update does not cover
The two trade reports summarise the announcement and do not give a full-year like-for-like figure, a statutory profit or loss, or net debt. Adjusted EBITDA is a non-statutory measure, and the reports do not set out which items were adjusted. Both describe the fourth-quarter figure as a return to like-for-like growth, which means earlier periods did not show the same trend. Full results had not been seen at the time of writing.
The primary RNS text was not retrieved for this article, so the figures here rest on two trade reports of the same announcement and carry that limit. The sources reviewed do not describe a franchise model at the group, which reports on the performance of its own venues and pubs.
