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Premier Inn Limited is a British limited service hotel chain and the UK's largest hotel brand, with more than 800 hotels, with over 72,000 rooms. It operates hotels in a variety of locations including city centres, suburbs and airports, competing with the likes of Travelodge and Ibis hotels.
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.
Before it sold Costa Coffee in January 2019, Whitbread, in Houghton Regis in Bedfordshire, was the UK's largest hotel and restaurant group, owning Premier Inn, Brewers Fayre and Beefeater. Premier Inn was developed and expanded in the 2000s largely during the leadership of Alan C. Parker, the chief executive of Whitbread.
In 1988, after the British government limited the number of pubs that brewers could directly own, Bass further invested in the expansion of its hotel business with the purchase of Holiday Inn International from shareholders. [6] Bass sold off the bulk of Crest Hotels in 1990, and the few remaining properties were absorbed into the Holiday Inn ...
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.
Choice Hotels International, Inc. is an American multinational hospitality company based in North Bethesda, Maryland.The company, which is one of the largest hotel chains in the world, [3] [4] owns various hotel brands ranging from upscale to economy.
Travelodge Hotels Ltd. Formerly: Aeroclean (1963–1978) Fernley Aeroclean Company (1963–1978) Trusthouse Forte Airport Services (1978–1984) Trusthouse Forte (U.K.) (1984–1991)
Extended Stay America was founded on January 9, 1995 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida by George D. Johnson, Jr. and Wayne Huizenga, both former executives from Viacom and its subsidiary Blockbuster LLC. [2]