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Premier Inn £35-a-night advert banned by ASA

01 May 2024 by

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a Premier Inn hotel in Edinburgh from using an advert offering rooms for £35 per night.

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Premier Inn owner Whitbread to cut 1,500 jobs amid growth plans

30 April 2024 by

Whitbread, the owner of Premier Inn hotels, is to cut 1,500 jobs, equivalent to roughly 4% of its total UK workforce.

Mitchells & Butlers rows back on Whitbread sale speculation News

Mitchells & Butlers rows back on Whitbread sale speculation

19 June 2023 by

Bar group Mitchells & Butlers has rowed back on speculation it is in line to acquire[...]

Whitbread 'looking to sell 250 pubs' for £600m News

Whitbread 'looking to sell 250 pubs' for £600m

16 June 2023 by

Whitbread is reportedly looking to sell off more than half of its 440 pub-restaurants for an[...]

Over 800 Premier Inn hotels to remove mains gas in net zero drive News

Over 800 Premier Inn hotels to remove mains gas in net zero drive

01 June 2023 by

Whitbread plans to stop using mains gas across more than 800 of its Premier Inn hotels[...]

Premier Inn owner 'considering sale of part of its F&B business' News

Premier Inn owner 'considering sale of part of its F&B business'

30 May 2023 by

Premier Inn owner Whitbread is reported to be considering the sale of a small part of[...]

Whitbread extends IT services with Fujitsu in £57.9m deal Restaurant News

Whitbread extends IT services with Fujitsu in £57.9m deal

30 March 2023

Whitbread has extended its technology partnership with IT services firm Fujitsu with a new £57.9m, five-year contract underpinned by net-zero commitments.

Premier Inn accommodation sales ‘significantly’ ahead of last year and pre-pandemic News

Premier Inn accommodation sales ‘significantly’ ahead of last year and pre-pandemic

12 January 2023

Whitbread, owner of Premier Inn, has reported that the hotel brand’s UK accommodation sales were “significantly” ahead of both last year and pre-pandemic in a trading update for the third quarter of the year.

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Tributes paid to former Restaurant Group executive chairman Alan Jackson

30 December 2022 by

Tributes have been paid to former executive chairman of the Restaurant Group Alan Jackson, who has[...]

Premier Inn owner Whitbread returns to profit News

Premier Inn owner Whitbread returns to profit

25 October 2022 by

Premier Inn owner Whitbread has reported a pre-tax profit of £307.4m on revenues of £1.35b for[...]

Whitbread to invest £15m in raising staff pay amid cost of living crisis News

Whitbread to invest £15m in raising staff pay amid cost of living crisis

07 October 2022 by

Premier Inn owner Whitbread is to invest £15m in raising the pay of over 30,000 staff[...]

Livingstone brothers snap up £165m Whitbread stake News

Livingstone brothers snap up £165m Whitbread stake

06 October 2022 by

L&R’s Richard and Ian Livingstone have snapped up a £165m stake in Premier Inn owner Whitbread,[...]

Britannia buys Glasgow Premier Inn for £8.5m News

Britannia buys Glasgow Premier Inn for £8.5m

17 August 2022

Britannia Hotels has acquired the 278-bedroom Premier Inn Glasgow City Centre (Charing Cross) off a guide price of £8.5m.

Alison Brittain to step down as chief executive of Whitbread News

Alison Brittain to step down as chief executive of Whitbread

29 June 2022

Whitbread has announced that Domino’s Pizza boss Dominic Paul is to take over as its next chief executive, with Alison Brittain set to step down after seven years.

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