We’re the UKs leading hospitality company. Over four centuries, we’ve always been proud to be one of Britain’s most enduring business success stories. Since 1742 we’ve been giving our customers just what they want: great value for money. It’s now more than a decade since we said goodbye to our brewing and pubs heritage. In that time we’ve grown to become the UK’s largest hotel and restaurant group.
Today our well loved brands – Premier Inn, Beefeater Grill, Brewers Fayre, Table Table, Taybarns and Costa Coffee – can be found in 25 countries around the world. We employ over 40,000 people worldwide and serve more than 11 million customers every month in the UK alone.
We’ve set our sights on ambitious and fast paced growth. In 2011/12 we plan to grow our Premier Inn estate by approximately 9%, by adding 4000 rooms and 14 new restaurants. At Costa we will look to add around 300 new stores.
We have also set out new five year growth milestones; Premier Inn to accelerate growth and increase it’s UK capacity by 50% to at last 65,000 rooms; Costa to double to 3,500 stores worldwide and Costa Express to be expanded to 3,000 units.
Website: http://www.whitbread.co.uk
