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Whitbread
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Whitbread, previously trading as Whitbread, Martineau & Co., 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. Samuel Whitbread bought out his partners, expanding into porter production with the purchase of a brewery in Chiswell Street, and the company had become the largest brewery in the world by the 1
Key facts
- Company.name
- Whitbread plc
- Company.logo
- Whitbread newer logo.svg
- Company.former_name
- Whitbread Holdings (20002001)
- Company.type
- Public limited company
- Company.traded_as
- FTSE 100 Component
- Company.foundation
- in London, England
- Company.founder
- Samuel Whitbread
- Company.revenue
- £2,921.9 million (2025)
- Company.operating_income
- £629.6 million (2025)
- Company.net_income
- £253.7 million (2025)
- Company.num_employees
- 34,000 (2026)
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Welcome to Whitbread PLC. Whitbread is a leading hospitality business and the owner of Premier Inn, the UK’s biggest hotel brand.
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.whitbread.co.uk
- Motto
- Eat, Sleep and Drink
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- Whitbread
- inception
- 1742-00-00
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- 10518
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15 sectionsContents
- History
- Origins
- Expansion and social welfare
- Guinness Brewery
- 20th century
- 21st century
- Current operations
- Premier Inn
- Table Table
- Beefeater
- Brewers Fayre
- Whitbread Inns
- Former operations
- References
- External links
Whitbread, previously trading as Whitbread, Martineau & Co., 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. Samuel Whitbread bought out his partners, expanding into porter production with the purchase of a brewery in Chiswell Street, and the company had become the largest brewery in the world by the 1780s.
Its largest division is currently Premier Inn, which is the largest hotel brand in the UK with over 785 hotels and 72,000 rooms. Until January 2019 it owned Costa Coffee but sold it to The Coca-Cola Company. Whitbread's brands include the restaurant chains Beefeater, Brewers Fayre and Table Table.