Quick-service restaurant chain, Domino’s Pizza, envisages “significant” growth opportunities for its Irish operations, after ‘year on year’ sales growth of 8% in the first three months of the year.

Domino’s Pizza UK & Ireland Plc touched a nine-month high in London yesterday after Canaccord said the pizza delivery company will benefit from poor weather and the Euro 2012 soccer championship.

Domino’s Pizza UK & Ireland is to press ahead with expansion plans in 2012 as it benefits from cash-strapped consumers eating its pizzas at home rather than dining out.

Marks & Spencer received a cold blast from the City today after the company’s first sales growth in two years was overshadowed by worries over trading prospects.

The London market’s best run of the year continued today after the FTSE 100 Index added another 1.5% in a strong start to the week.