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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.
Parker was CEO of Whitbread from June 2004 until he retired on his 64th birthday, in November 2010. [2] [1] He has been non-executive chairman of Mothercare since August 2011. [1] Parker is a visiting professor at the University of Surrey. [1]
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.
Jasmine Mary Whitbread (born 1 September 1963) is a British businesswoman, and the chair of Travis Perkins since 2021. [ 1 ] From 2016 to 2021, [ 2 ] she was the chief executive of London First , an independent non-profit organisation whose mission is to make London the best city in the world to do business. [ 3 ]
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Sir Samuel Charles Whitbread KCVO DL JP (22 February 1937 – 17 January 2023) was a British businessman and public servant. Born in London on 22 February 1937 to Major Simon Whitbread, [1] he joined the board of Whitbread Plc in 1972 and became its chairman in 1984. [2] He stepped down from the chair eight years later and from the board in 2001.
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Race participants in Baltimore Inner Harbor, 2006. The Ocean Race is a yacht race around the world, held every three or four years since 1973. Originally named the Whitbread Round the World Race after its initiating sponsor, British brewing company Whitbread, [1] in 2001 it became the Volvo Ocean Race after Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo took up the sponsorship, [1] and in 2019 it was ...