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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.
Whitbread ran more than 50 David Lloyd Leisure (DLL) clubs in the UK with a further number in Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium. However, by the mid-2000s, the business was giving Whitbread a poor financial return, [ 5 ] and on 2 August 2007 they sold it to London & Regional Properties and Bank of Scotland for £925 million.
A number of stand-alone Brewers Fayre locations were kept as they featured enough land to build a Premier Inn, like The Three Bells near Lymington and The Craigside Inn in Llandudno. In 2008, Whitbread sold 44 more Brewers Fayre & Beefeater sites to Mitchells and Butlers as they could not obtain planning permission for a Premier Inn (like The ...
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.
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In July 2006, Mitchells & Butlers purchased 239 pub restaurants (Beefeater and Brewers Fayre without a Premier Inn) from Whitbread for £497 million to strengthen its food business ahead of the introduction of a smoking ban in enclosed public spaces in England in 2007. [18] It had first announced its interest in April 2006. [19]
The Keg's financial and physical operations have been managed by David Aisenstat for a number of years. [4] The restaurants operated as Keg Restaurants Ltd. (KRL), with Aisenstat involved in selling to the British firm Whitbread PLC in 1987. [4] In 1997, Aisenstat arranged financing a purchased 100% of KRL back from Whitbread. [4]
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.