Whitbread plc operates hotels and restaurants in the United Kingdom, Germany, and internationally. It operates approximately 841 hotels with 82,286 rooms in the United Kingdom; 10 hotels in the Middle East; and 35 hotels with 5,875 rooms in Germany under the Premier Inn, ZIP by Premier Inn, and hub by Premier Inn brands. The company also operates 439 restaurants under the Brewers Fayre, Beefeater, Whitbread Inns, Cookhouse & Pub, Bar+Block Steakhouse, Thyme, and Table Table brands in the United Kingdom. Whitbread plc was founded in 1742 and is based in Dunstable, the United Kingdom.

Whitbread plc

Whitbread PLC operates as a hospitality business, focusing on providing quality accommodation through its hotel brand Premier Inn in the UK and Germany.

Whitbread PLC

Hospitality

Premier Inn

Brewers Fayre

Beefeater

Whitbread | 85,920 followers on LinkedIn. We&#39;re the UK’s largest operator of hotels and restaurants with some of the country’s most successful hospitality brands. | Whitbread PLC is the owner of the UK’s favourite hotel chain, Premier Inn, as well as restaurant brands, Beefeater, Brewers Fayre, Table Table, Bar + Block and Cookhouse and Pub.

Whitbread employs more than 35,000 people in more than 1,200 Premier Inn hotels and restaurants across the UK and Germany, serving over five million customers every month. 

At Whitbread we are committed to being a force for good in the communities in which we operate.

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Earlier this year we launched our second internship in partnership with the 10,000 Black Interns initiative. 🌟 Our internship is designed to connect talented people to life-changing opportunities, and allows us to provide opportunities to members of the Black community to come and experience life at Whitbread 🤝 Over 10 weeks, our talented interns immersed themselves in our Technology and Finance teams, supported our inclusion networks, and had the opportunity to engage with our executive leadership team. 💼✨ We’re incredibly proud of their contributions and the fresh perspectives they brought. Want to hear more? Click play on the video below, to meet our interns 🎥⬇️

"You don't know where you might end up." Meet Molly 👋 From Housekeeper ➡️ Receptionist ➡️ Paralegal ➡️ Trainee Solicitor 🚀 When Molly picked up a part-time job at Premier Inn while studying Law, she didn’t expect it to lead to a legal career. But at Whitbread, there's no limits to your ambition. After five years of hard work and support from her managers, Molly is now on a training contract to become a Qualified Solicitor. As Clare Thomas , General Counsel, said: "We are thrilled to be able to offer Molly the well-deserved opportunity to embark on a legal training contract with Whitbread. Molly's commitment to excellence, perseverance, and friendly nature have made her an invaluable asset to the team. We are incredibly proud of Molly and excited to support her as she embarks on this new phase of her career." We caught up with Molly to find out about her career and what it means to her to be able to complete this qualification at Whitbread. 🎥👇 Well done, Molly! We’re excited to see where your journey takes you next. 🎉 Explore part-time student jobs with us—you never know where they might take you! https://bit.ly/3zmNIMQ

Picking the right graduate scheme to apply for can be a tough decision. 🤯 We know you'll have lots of questions about the company and the impact you will be able to have. 🚀 From day one, our Finance Graduate Scheme is designed to help you make an impact and understand the larger role you'll play as a future leader. To hear it directly from our experts, we asked our 1st and 2nd year grads to tell us how they are contributing to our hotels, restaurants and Support Centre. Check out their answers below 📹👇 📲 If you're interested in hearing more from our graduates, you can view the whole video here https://bit.ly/3A2diHf

It's been Get Set Grow Week at Whitbread! 🪴 What does that mean? Well, across our Support Centre, it's our Learning at Work Week, where we provide opportunities for our team to support their personal and professional development. 📚 As part of this year's sessions, our Learning & Development and Customer Experience functions joined forces to bring a series of customer experience and insight focused sessions to our teams. With the support of our partners VERVE and Ipsos , our Premier Inn & Restaurants Insight Team delivered a range of sessions, providing an in-depth understanding of our guests and their needs. We believe everyone at Whitbread plays a key role in delivering a great experience to our guests and that this week's sessions provided our non-customer facing teams the opportunity to understand the value they add. 🫶🏽 A huge thank you to everyone who organised and delivered all our Learning at Work Week sessions. 💙 #LearningAtWork #PremierInn #GuestInsights #HospitalityIndustry

"Well a big reason for me to come back to Whitbread was the sheer size of the investment in their Tech stack… We’re talking about several multi million pound projects to deliver - and I want to be part of that transformation here." As a hospitality industry leader, we won't be offended if you haven't heard of #WhitbreadTech . But now's the time to get in the know. 🧐 Having just completed our multi-year upgrade to our new reservation system across over 900 hotels, we're driving further improvements to our digital networks and systems. 💻 The current tech investment is just one of the reasons Service Delivery Manager, Michael decided coming back to Whitbread was the right move for him. And it's not just the tech we're investing in. It's our teams too. Hear about it from Michael 📲 https://bit.ly/3TYro3g Explore Whitbread Tech Roles 🧑🏾💻 https://bit.ly/3BAvJ6u

Why should you sign up to the 2025 Finance Graduate Scheme at Whitbread? Well, there's a few things that make our scheme stand head and shoulders above the rest. 🙌 Not only will you play a key role in supporting over 1,200 hotels and restaurants at the UK's leading hospitality business, but you'll have access to: 🔄 Variety: Rotational placements throughout our Finance Function will allow you to see more and do more 🎓 Choice: You can pick which qualification you would like to do from ACA, ACCA and CIMA 💷 Progressional Pay: Earn more as you move through each key milestone within the graduate scheme We know selecting the right grad scheme is a vital next step in your career so we spoke to the experts - some of our 1st and 2nd year graduates - and put your questions to them 💬 Interested in finding out their answers, or ready to hit apply? Find everything you are looking for on our Finance Graduate Scheme webpage 📲 https://bit.ly/3A2diHf

Who doesn't enjoy a coffee and a great conversation? ☕️ We’re thrilled to announce that our HR Apprentice, Fabian , has been nominated for a Multi-Cultural Apprenticeship Award! 🎉 Recently, we caught up with him over a coffee to talk about his apprenticeship journey at Whitbread. Over halfway through his two-year apprenticeship, Fabian shared insights into his role, what he’s enjoyed the most, and what led him to choose an apprenticeship with us. 💬 Grab your favourite brew, get comfy, and check out our chat with Fabian! 🎥👇

We're a different type of hospitality business - we own, develop and operate. 🏗️🏨 With over 800 hotels across the UK, we know the nation loves our Premier Inn brand. And we want to replicate the same success in Ireland. 💚 Our 6 hotels in prime locations across Dublin and Cork are just the beginning of our 5,000-bedroom target across the Emerald Isle. 🚀 "What we've got here, is a truly remarkable opportunity to create something special for our customers... we have the confidence and the means to be successful here." Matt Gent , Whitbread Property Development Manager, shares why he's excited about the opportunities we can bring to the hospitality landscape in Ireland. 🎥👇 To follow our property plans, head to our Whitbread Property page.

"I’ll tell you what the big difference between Premier Inn and the others was… the interview." When we caught up with Roisin, Head Housekeeper at Premier Inn, to find out what made her choose the UK's most loved hotel brand as an employer, the answer was clear. 👆 Interviews can be daunting, there's no doubt about that, but especially when you've decided to step into a new industry. 👩💼Business dress, four-person panels and question after question to prove why you're the right fit for a company, were some of the additional stresses she experienced when interviewing for housekeeping roles at other hotel brands. ❌ However, when she turned up at Premier Inn, she got the warm welcome we’re known for - had an informal chat and a preview of the role. She was asked if she thought the role was right for her and knew immediately where she wanted to start her new career. 🫶🏽 🚀Two years on and she's now carrying out interviews for her own team and making sure everyone has the same welcoming experience as her. 💜 Read Roisin's full story here: https://bit.ly/3TRi69c #ChangeYourStory

🙏🏻 Thank you Manchester and the Annual Hospitality Conference (AHC) As the UK’s largest hotel operator it feels right that we're part of conference events that focus on our part of the hospitality market - the branded mid-scale and economy sector. AHC is one of them and we were active across the two day event in the conference hall, on the speaker programme and in fringe events across the city. We enjoyed seeing many faces we know and making connections with new people who who wanted to hear more on our expansion plans for Premier Inn the UK and Germany. Our thanks go out to the attendees in the Whitbread Property team and to Simon Ewins at Whitbread and Victoria Hills at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer for the insightful keynote interview. See you next year...with better brollies 🌧☔ 🌆 . #hotels #hospitality #growthbrand

	Feb '14	Feb '15	Feb '16	Feb '17	Feb '18	Feb '19	Feb '20	Feb '21	Feb '22	Feb '23	Feb '24
revenue	2.29B -	2.61B 13.68%	2.92B 12.03%	3.11B 6.30%	2.01B 35.37%	2.05B 2.08%	2.06B 0.63%	588.90M 71.44%	1.70B 189.25%	2.63B 54.12%	2.96B 12.75%
cost of revenue	304.50M -	1.85B 508.41%	2.05B 10.81%	2.16B 5.15%	1.34B 37.78%	1.37B 1.81%	1.09B 20.30%	953.90M 12.47%	825.50M 13.46%	1.01B 22.75%	998.20M 1.49%
gross profit	1.99B -	755.50M 62.03%	869M 15.02%	947.40M 9.02%	664.30M 29.88%	681.70M 2.62%	972.30M 42.63%	-365M 137.54%	877.90M 340.52%	1.61B 83.61%	1.96B 21.70%
selling and marketing expenses							460.70M -
general and administrative expenses							-2.30M -
selling general and administrative expenses			1.07B -	1.13B 5.88%	645.80M 43.03%	2.50M 99.61%	458.40M 18,236%	274.30M 40.16%			3.50M -
research and development expenses
other expenses	-189.10M -	-214.50M 13.43%	-16.90M 92.12%	-4.90M 71.01%		-14.30M -	-15.60M 9.09%	16.70M 207.05%	843.20M 4,949.10%	2.09B 147.92%	4.20M 99.80%
cost and expenses	1.91B -	2.13B 11.75%	2.41B 13.27%	2.56B 6.29%	1.54B 39.84%	1.69B 9.73%	1.56B 7.59%	1.21B 22.53%	1.67B 37.74%	2.09B 25.28%	2.30B 10.12%
operating expenses	1.91B -	276.50M 85.49%	358.80M 29.76%	404.80M 12.82%	199.00M 50.84%	324.80M 63.22%	474M 45.94%	257.60M 45.65%	843.20M 227.33%	2.09B 147.92%	1.30B 37.63%
interest expense	45.20M -	39.40M 12.83%	33.30M 15.48%	36.30M 9.01%	35.30M 2.75%	148.90M 321.81%	146.30M 1.75%	152.60M 4.31%	171.10M 12.12%	165.80M 3.10%	178.20M 7.48%
ebitda	564.90M -	634.10M 12.25%	719M 13.39%	796.20M 10.74%	602.20M 24.37%	595.80M 1.06%	767.10M 28.75%	-322.40M 142.03%	381.40M 218.30%	921.50M 141.61%	1.12B 22.01%
operating income	391.50M -	477M 21.84%	543.40M 13.92%	576.10M 6.02%	451.80M 21.58%	426.70M 5.56%	498.30M 16.78%	-622.60M 224.94%	54.50M 108.75%	505M 826.61%	564.80M 11.84%
depreciation and amortization	152.50M -	157.10M 3.02%	175.60M 11.78%	220.10M 25.34%	150.40M 31.67%	169.10M 12.43%	268.80M 58.96%	300.20M 11.68%	326.90M 8.89%	416.50M 27.41%	167.90K 99.96%
total other income expenses net	-44.50M -	-13.20M 70.34%	-55.70M 321.97%	-60.70M 8.98%	-25.30M 58.32%	-208.60M 724.51%	-215.80M 3.45%	-377.10M 74.75%	3.70M 100.98%	-130.10M 3,616.22%	-214.60M 64.95%
income before tax	347M -	463.80M 33.66%	487.70M 5.15%	515.40M 5.68%	426.50M 17.25%	218.10M 48.86%	282.50M 29.53%	-999.70M 453.88%	58.20M 105.82%	374.90M 544.16%	451.70M 20.49%
income tax expense	23.60M -	97.70M 313.98%	100.40M 2.76%	99.50M 0.90%	83M 16.58%	41.30M 50.24%	62.10M 50.36%	-100.90M 262.48%	15.70M 115.56%	96.10M 512.10%	139.60M 45.27%
net income	327.90M -	370.10M 12.87%	391.20M 5.70%	421.60M 7.77%	345.10M 18.15%	176.80M 48.77%	217.90M 23.25%	-906.50M 516.02%	42.50M 104.69%	278.80M 556%	312.10M 11.94%
weighted average shs out	208.58M -	182.50M 12.51%	182.80M 0.16%	182.60M 0.11%	183.18M 0.32%	183.70M 0.28%	173.90M 5.34%	188.10M 8.17%	201.90M 7.34%	201.50M 0.20%	193.90M 3.77%
weighted average shs out dil	210.80M -	182.50M 13.42%	182.80M 0.16%	182.60M 0.11%	183.20M 0.33%	183.70M 0.27%	174.95M 4.77%	188.10M 7.52%	202.90M 7.87%	202.80M 0.05%	195.20M 3.75%
eps	1.57 -	2.05 30.57%	2.16 5.37%	2.31 6.94%	1.88 18.61%	0.96 48.94%	1.25 30.21%	-4.82 485.60%	0.21 104.36%	1.38 557.14%	1.61 16.67%
epsdiluted	1.56 -	2.03 30.13%	2.14 5.42%	2.31 7.94%	1.88 18.61%	0.96 48.94%	1.25 30.21%	-4.82 485.60%	0.21 104.36%	1.38 557.14%	1.60 15.94%

UK:CO:WHITBREAD

Whitbread PLC

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