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It came as the pub company reported higher sales over recent months. It said like-for-like sales rose by 5.1% over the 25 weeks to January 19 compared with a year earlier.
In 2000, under Martin's leadership, Wetherspoons opened its 400th location and by 2008 the number had increased to 800 Wetherspoons locations. [citation needed] In 2005, Martin was voted the fifth most influential person in the UK pub industry. [11] He is an admirer of Sam Walton's business philosophy. [12]
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J D Wetherspoon (branded variously as Wetherspoon or Wetherspoons, and colloquially known as Spoons) is a pub company operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The company was founded in 1979 by Tim Martin and is based in Watford. It operates the sub-brand of Lloyds No.1 bars, and 56 Wetherspoon hotels. [3]
The largest pub chain in the UK, J D Wetherspoon, stopped selling Carling in September 2009, entering into a seven-year exclusive deal with the Danish brewery Carlsberg. From Q1 2011 Amstel, Carling, Heineken and Staropramen were again sold by Wetherspoons, at higher prices than Carlsberg. [citation needed]
Loathed and loved in equal measures, Wetherspoon pubs have become an essential part of the British cultural landscape, but the unorthodox experiences offered in these cut-price watering holes can ...
The pub is 8,800 square feet (820 m 2) and can hold 1,700 customers. [2] It is owned by the pub chain JD Wetherspoon who opened it on 15 August 1995, and named it after George Orwell's 1946 essay, "The Moon Under Water", describing his ideal pub. [3] It is one of 15 Wetherspoon pubs with the same name. [2] [4]