Peter Martin
Vice President of CGA
Peter Martin is one of the most authoritative and influential commentators on the eating and drinking out sector, with some 35 years experience as columnist, editor, media owner, market analyst and board consultant.
Peter, who is a director of CM&Co, a new boutique sector consultancy, has launched and run a raft of business magazines, newsletters and conferences and is probably best known as both co-founder and publisher of the M&C Report newsletter and more recently co-founder of Peach Factory, the specialist media, consultancy, research and events business for the hospitality sector created with partner Christine Martin, and acquired by CGA, the international data, insight and research consultancy, in July 2013.
He is now strategic adviser to a number of companies, including CGA, with whom he continues to work closely. CGA provides market insight, analysis and brand profiling, working with brand owners, operators, investors and suppliers. Research products include the Coffer Peach Business Tracker and the BrandTrack consumer survey, both of which Peter helped create and develop. CGA continues to run the Peach portfolio of industry conferences and events, including the Peach2020 conference and Hero & Icon Awards, which Peter chairs and curates.
He is an adviser to YFood, organizer of London Food Tech Week, and is currently working with Harri and Orderscape, two US-based tech enterprises in the hospitality space, now breaking into the UK market.Peter is an inveterate networker and ‘allegedly’ has the best contacts book in the business. He speaks and presents regularly at events in the UK, Europe and the US. He is a founder of the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR), the trade organization for the UK pub, bar and casual dining sector, and now sits on the advisory council of UK Hospitality.
In 2016 he won the Special Achievement Award from Eat Out magazine, and in 2018 the Special Award at the Casual Dining Restaurant & Pub Awards.