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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.
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The company was established by Whitbread as Travel Inn in 1987, to compete with Travelodge. Whitbread bought Premier Lodge in July 2004 and merged it with Travel Inn to form the current business under the name Premier Travel Inn, which was then shortened to the current name in October 2007. Premier Inn accounts for 70% of Whitbread's earnings.
Brittain joined Barclays as a graduate trainee, and worked there for 19 years. [2] She joined Santander UK in 2007, then Lloyds Banking Group in 2011. [2]In May 2015, it was announced that from January 2016, Brittain would take over from Andy Harrison, who would be retiring, as CEO of Whitbread, the parent company of Premier Inn, Whitbread restaurants and Costa Coffee. [3]
Whitbread ran more than 50 David Lloyd Leisure (DLL) clubs in the UK with a further number in Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium. However, by the mid-2000s, the business was giving Whitbread a poor financial return, [5] and on 2 August 2007 they sold it to London & Regional Properties and Bank of Scotland for £925 million. Whitbread used the ...
Peter Whitbread (1928–2004), English actor and screenwriter; Samuel Whitbread (1720–1796), English brewer and Member of Parliament; Samuel Whitbread (1764–1815), English politician; Samuel Whitbread (1830–1915), English brewer and Liberal politician; Thomas Whitbread (1618–1679), English Jesuit missionary.