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The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association represents 1,300 pension funds which together provide pensions for 22 million people and have more than £1000 billion of assets. [2] Members' pension schemes include defined benefit, defined contribution, group personal pensions and statutory schemes such as those in local government.
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.
The company was taken over by Whitbread in 2000, following which most of the hotels were rebranded as Marriott and the larger pubs were brought under other national brands, such as Brewers Fayre. [7] Later, 10 hotels unsuitable for Marriott conversions were sold off, forming the nucleus of a smaller Swallow Hotels chain, [8] which collapsed in ...
A savings division was established by Alliance Trust in 1986, offering pensions and other investment products. [9] A formal merger with The Second Alliance Trust was finally conducted in 2006, [10] as the investment strategies of the two companies had come to closely resemble each other.
The Swallow Group was bought by Whitbread in January 2000. Whitbread sold the pubs to Enterprise Inns in May 2000. [citation needed] The Swallow brand was subsequently purchased in 2003 by London Inn Group. [1] The hotels traded under the name London & Edinburgh Inns Ltd and went into administration on 14 September 2006. [2]
Berni Inn was sold to Whitbread in 1995, who converted the outlets into their own Beefeater restaurants. [3] Aldo Berni died in 1997 at the age of 88 in Bristol. Frank died 10 July 2000, aged 96, in Jersey. [4] [8] Their brother Marco managed Harvey's Restaurant in Bristol in the 1960s. [4]
In November 2015 the chain was one of seven restaurants surveyed that failed to meet a basic level of sustainability in its seafood. [20] After working closely with the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), Café Rouge topped Fish2Fork's analysis of fish sourcing policies across high street restaurants in 2017, and subsequently received MSC's official Blue Fish Ecolabel accreditation in March 2018.
However in 2006, Whitbread sold majority of its standalone sites (Beefeater and Brewers Fayre without a Premier Inn) to Mitchells & Butlers, [3] who closed all the sites and re-branded them to Harvester and Toby Carvery. Whitbread's refurbishment programme was completed in 2008; the last site was the Woolpack outside Ashford in Kent.