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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
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Whitbread PLC is a company that was established in 1742. It is legally recognized as WHITBREAD PLC and operates under the jurisdiction of Great Britain. The entity is currently active and is based in Dunstable, GB.
The organization is included in the Ftse 100 collection. Its official home page is titled "Home - Whitbread PLC."
Synthesized by Vinony from 11 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, GLEIF, Vinony collections. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
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)
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Home - Whitbread PLC
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
- Instance of
- public limited company
- Part of
- FTSE 100 Index
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Founded by
- Samuel Whitbread
- Headquarters
- Dunstable
- Industry
- hospitality industry
- Stock exchange
- London Stock Exchange
- Official website
- www.whitbread.co.uk
- Motto
- Eat, Sleep and Drink
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- Commons category
- Whitbread
- inception
- 1742-00-00
- social media followers
- 10518
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