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| Formerly | Whitbread Holdings (2000–2001)[1] |
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| Company type | Public limited company |
| LSE: WTB FTSE 100 Component | |
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| Founded | 1742 in London, England |
| Founder | Samuel Whitbread |
| Headquarters | Houghton Regis, England, UK |
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| Revenue |  £2,625.2 million (2023)[2] |
| £543.5 million (2023)[2] | |
| £278.8 million (2023)[2] | |
Number of employees | 40,000 (2024)[3] |
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| Website | www |
Whitbread is a British multinational hotel and restaurant company headquartered in Houghton Regis, England. The business was founded as a brewery in 1742 by Samuel Whitbread in partnership with Godfrey and Thomas Shewell, with premises in London at the junction of Old Street and Upper Whitecross Street, along with a brewery in Brick Lane, Spitalfields. Samuel Whitbread bought out his partners, expanding into porter production with the purchase of a brewery in Chiswell Street, and the company had become the largest brewery in the world by the 1780s.[4]
Its largest division is currently Premier Inn, which is the largest hotel brand in the UK with over 785 hotels and 72,000 rooms. Until January 2019 it owned Costa Coffee but sold it to The Coca-Cola Company. Whitbread's brands include the restaurant chains Beefeater, Brewers Fayre and Table Table.[5]
Whitbread is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
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- ^ a b c "Annual Results 2022/23" (PDF). Whitbread PLC. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
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