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Whitbread is to start expanding its chain of 130 Brewers Fayre pub-restaurants, with the first two new sites in Dumbarton and Scarborough. 26-Jul-2010 Whitbread is to invest £7m in a series of green initiatives at its hotels, pubs and shops, including solar panels and automated lighting systems. 14-Jul-2010 Whitbread has unveiled plans to build a £12m 186-room Premier Inn at Hanover Street in Liverpool, with the creation of 50 jobs. 21-Apr-2010 Whitbread is investing £42m in the development of nine Premier Inn hotels in Scotland over the next two years, with the creation of 420 jobs. 07-Apr-2010 Whitbread is planning to expand its chain of 1,066 UK-based coffee shops to 1,500 over the next four years. 08-Mar-2010 Whitbread is planning to open 60 pub restaurants and a further 13,300 hotel rooms over the next four years. 01-Feb-2010 Whitbread is to acquire the Coffeehaven chain of 90 coffee shops in central and eastern Europe for £36m. 16-Dec-2009 Whitbread has agreed a £125m joint venture with the Arora Family Trust to build four Premier Inn airport hotels by autumn 2011, including sites at Gatwick, Stansted and two at Heathrow. 14-Sep-2009 Whitbread has announced plans to open 12 Premier Inn hotels, four Brewers Fayre restaurants and 100 Costa coffee outlets this year, with the creation of 1,000 jobs. 26-Mar-2009 Whitbread is planning to build a floating budget hotel with 54 bedrooms at Hartlepool Marina by 2010. 24-Dec-2008 Whitbread is to expand its chain of Premier Inn budget hotels with 2,000 new rooms next year, as part of a £200m capital expenditure programme. 09-Dec-2008 Whitbread is planning to open a further 57 Premier Inns and 14 pubs by February 2009. 15-Oct-2008 Whitbread is to invest £4.7m in the refurbishment of 38 of its Brewers Fayre pub-restaurants. 22-Aug-2008 Whitbread is to acquire 21 Express by Holiday Inn hotels from Mitchells & Butlers, in exchange for 44 pub restaurants. 31-Jul-2008 Whitbread is planning to open 43 Premier Inn budget hotels this year, having just acquired three sites in Basingstoke, Bristol and Rochester. 14-Jul-2008 Whitbread is to launch a new chain of Table Table restaurants at Brewers Fayre sites, while the new Taybarn buffet format will be trialled at seven sites across the country. 19-May-2008 Whitbread is planning to expand the number of rooms in its Premier Inn hotel chain from 36,000 to 55,000 and to double its chain of Costa Coffee outlets to 2,000 over the next five years. 29-Apr-2008 Whitbread has won approval to build a £10m Premier Inn hotel in Lisburn by spring 2009, with the creation of 60 jobs. 22-Apr-2008 Whitbread is to invest £100m in the expansion of its Premier Inn hotel chain in London, including new sites in Waterloo, Ealing and Old Street and the purchase of Real Hotel Company properties in Westminster, Kensington and the City. 09-Apr-2008 Whitbread is to outsource its food logistics operation to Kuehne & Nagel, with the transfer of 340 staff and the replacement of depots in Reading and Castle Donington with a new site in Wellingborough. 07-Apr-2008 Whitbread is planning to open about 30 out-of-town Costa Coffee outlets a year, and is seeking sites of up to 17,000 sq ft on retail parks across the country. 18-Mar-2008 Whitbread is planning to expand its chain of Costa Coffee outlets from 825 to 1,000 in the current financial year, including 700 in the UK. 17-Oct-2007 Whitbread is planning to acquire Golden Tulip UK, the chain of seven budget hotels with a further eight under construction, for more than £40m. 19-Sep-2007 Whitbread is to change the name of its chain of Premier Travel Inn budget hotels to Premier Inn, at a cost of £22m for new signs, advertising and depreciation. 20-Jun-2007 Whitbread is to sell its David Lloyd Leisure chain of fitness centres to property group London & Regional for £925m, in order to focus on hotels, coffee shops and restaurants. 04-Jun-2007 Whitbread is considering plans to sell its David Lloyd Leisure chain of 72 tennis and fitness clubs, having received a number of unsolicited approaches. 26-Mar-2007 Whitbread is to sell its chain of 45 TGI Friday's restaurants to Carlson Restaurants, ABN Amro Capital and British Land for £70m, in order to focus on hotels and coffee shops. 18-Jan-2007 Whitbread is planning to double its UK chain of Costa coffee shops to 800 by 2010, and its 147 overseas outlets will also expand. 20-Nov-2006 Whitbread is to sell 239 of its freestanding pub restaurants to Mitchells & Butlers for £497m, in order to focus on sites that combine a pub restaurant with a Premier Travel Inn. 07-Aug-2006 Whitbread has sold its 50% stake in the Pizza Hut UK chain of 650 restaurants to joint venture partner Yum Restaurants for £112m. 07-Aug-2006 Whitbread has announced plans to open a £10m 60-bedroom Premier Travel Inn hotel in Lisburn within two years. 10-Jul-2006 Whitbread is planning to open 300 Costa Coffee shops in China over the next five years, in partnership with Yueda Group. 21-Jun-2006 Whitbread is to set up Costa Coffee shops in a number of Tesco supermarkets. 10-May-2006 Whitbread is looking to sell up to 260 pubs for an estimated £500m, and is also considering the future of its Pizza Hut and TGI Friday's restaurants. 26-Apr-2006 Whitbread has submitted plans to build a £4.5m 61-bedroom Premier Travel Inn hotel in St Austell, with the creation of 70 jobs. 24-Apr-2006 Royal Bank of Scotland is to acquire 46 Marriott-branded hotels from Whitbread and Marriott International for £951m. 24-Apr-2006 Whitbread has acquired seven Holiday Inns for £34m, and will convert them to its Premier Travel Inn brand over the next six months. 13-Mar-2006 Whitbread is planning to expand the number of rooms in its Premier Travel Inn budget hotel chain from 30,000 to 45,000 over the next five years. 02-Mar-2006 Whitbread is planning to shed some of the 800 jobs at its head office in Luton, as part of a corporate restructuring programme aimed at eliminating duplication with its recently-acquired Premier Lodge hotel business. 27-Sep-2005 Whitbread is planning to build up to 20 pubs, restaurants and hotels in Northern Ireland over the next ten years, at a cost of £30m. 23-Jun-2005 Whitbread is planning to sell its chain of 60 Maredo restaurants in Germany to a management buy-out backed by German Equity Partners for up to £20m. 18-Apr-2005 Whitbread is to exit from the operation and ownership of its franchised Marriott hotels by forming a joint venture with Marriott to hold the properties, which will involve the transfer of all staff currently employed by Whitbread Hotel Company. 15-Mar-2005 Whitbread is to sell its Courtyard by Marriott hotels for £79m, and Kew Green Hotels Group will operate the sites through a franchise agreement with Marriott International. 12-Nov-2004 Whitbread is to relocate its headquarters from London to Luton, and has also announced plans to create 8,000 new jobs with the opening of 100 pub-restaurants, five David Lloyd Leisure Centres and 50 Costa Coffee outlets over the next four years. 29-Oct-2004 Whitbread is seeking permission to open a 49-bedroom Premier Travel Inn at Carrickfergus Marina in 2006, with the creation of 80 jobs. 10-Aug-2004 Whitbread has acquired the Premier Lodge chain of 141 budget hotels and 19 pub restaurants from Spirit for £536m. 26-Jul-2004 Whitbread has put its 11 Courtyard by Marriott hotels up for sale with an estimated value of £60m, in order to focus on its budget and four-star brands. 13-May-2004 Whitbread has won a contract to operate the refurbished Midland Grand Hotel in London, once it reopens in 2008. 02-Mar-2004 Whitbread is to acquire Cannons Health & Fitness BV, the operator of five fitness clubs in the Netherlands, for £22m, in order to expand its David Lloyd Leisure business. 24-Dec-2003 Whitbread is considering plans to raise about £200m from the sale of some of its Marriott-branded hotel assets, and is seeking sites for its Brewers Fayre, Brewsters, Beefeater, David Lloyd and Costa Coffee chains. 30-Oct-2003 Whitbread is to refurbish the Marriott Hotel in Bristol city centre at a cost of £6.5m. 26-Sep-2003 Whitbread is interested in acquiring the Premier Lodge chain of 132 budget hotels from Scottish & Newcastle, having approached all three bidders in the auction of the S&N estate. 15-Sep-2003 Whitbread is to build a £0.6m Touchbase business meeting centre close to the M6 Toll Road at Burntwood. 29-Aug-2003 Whitbread has raised £52m from the sale of the 13 remaining Swallow hotels to a property investor, and the sites will be leased to London Inn Group. 28-Jul-2003 Whitbread is planning to spend £300m opening 35 new pub restaurants a year in the next five years, and is seeking suitable sites on the edge of towns and in business and leisure parks. 04-Jul-2003 Whitbread is planning to open a further 200 tennis courts at its chain of David Lloyd fitness centres by 2010. 30-Jun-2003 Whitbread is planning to set up a health spa chain and is seeking about six pilot sites in the London area. 09-Jun-2003 Whitbread has announced plans to build a £8m David Lloyd Leisure tennis and fitness club in Worthing, with the creation of 130 jobs. 04-Jun-2003 Whitbread has agreed a deal with BT to install internet cafes in all 54 of its David Lloyd fitness clubs. 27-May-2003 Whitbread is in talks with the John Lewis Partnership about the possibility of opening Costa coffee shops in Waitrose supermarkets. 16-May-2003 Whitbread is considering plans to expand its David Lloyd Leisure chain into Spain, and talks are taking place with a potential partner. 01-May-2003 Whitbread is to invest £10m in the development of 15 additional Touchbase meeting centres at Travel Inn sites. 24-Mar-2003 Whitbread is considering plans to overhaul its chain of Beefeater restaurants, which could lead to the closure or sale of some outlets. 30-Oct-2002 Whitbread is planning to employ up to 1,500 personal trainers in its David Lloyd Leisure fitness centres over the next three years. 21-Oct-2002 Whitbread has acquired the Chris Lane Leisure Club in Woking for about £8m, and will convert it to the David Lloyd Leisure format. 22-Aug-2002 Whitbread has announced a deal to open Costa coffee shops at the UK visitor attractions operated by Tussauds Group. 01-Aug-2002 Whitbread has sold Pelican and BrightReasons, which together comprise 153 restaurants, to a management buy-in backed by private equity firm ECI for £25m. 03-Jun-2002 Fitness First has bought the Curzons chain of 12 London health clubs from Whitbread for £6m. 08-May-2002 Whitbread has announced plans for a new £8m David Lloyd Leisure tennis and fitness club at the Oxford Business Park in Cowley, with the creation of 130 jobs. 03-May-2002 Whitbread is seeking permission to build a £10m David Lloyd Leisure club near Lisburn, including tennis centre and swimming pool. 17-Apr-2002 Whitbread is to revive plans to invest £60m in the development of new hotels, and £16m be spent on converting London's Swallow International Hotels into a Marriott and a Travel Inn. 02-Apr-2002 Whitbread is planning to open at least 55 Costa coffee shops in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar and Oman, having agreed a franchise deal with the Jawad Business Group. 09-Jan-2002 Whitbread is seeking partnerships with schools and colleges to expand its David Lloyd chain of fitness clubs, and has already agreed a deal with the Nonsuch High School at Cheam in Surrey. 24-Dec-2001 Whitbread is planning to sell 44 pub-restaurants to Noble House Leisure for £31m, including eight Dragon Inns and 36 Beefeater and Brewers Fayre sites. 22-Oct-2001 Whitbread is looking to sell its Pelican group of 200 high street restaurants, including the Cafe Rouge and Bella Pasta chains. 15-Oct-2001 Whitbread has announced plans to invest £100m in the expansion of its chain of David Lloyd Leisure fitness clubs to 100 over the next five years, with the creation of 4,000 jobs. 10-Aug-2001 Whitbread is looking to recruit 90 staff for a new £4m Brewers Fayre and Travel Inn at the Crowood roundabout in Glasgow. 30-Jul-2001 Luminar has acquired three leisure sites from Whitbread for £1.5m, including two Life cafes in Liverpool and Manchester and a development site in Leeds. 20-Jul-2001 Whitbread has outlined plans to create more than 4,000 jobs in the UK over the next three years, and the expansion will include the opening of 80 Brewers Fayre and Brewsters pub restaurants and 10 David Lloyd Leisure clubs. 03-May-2001 Whitbread has awarded a contract to Gerald Eve to manage its £1.5bn portfolio of leisure properties, and a dedicated office is being opened in Milton Keynes. 09-Apr-2001 Whitbread is seeking planning permission for a £5m 158-bedroom hotel near Vernon Street in Liverpool city centre. 30-Mar-2001 Whitbread has completed the sale of its 3,000 pubs to Morgan Grenfell Private Equity for £1.63bn, and £300m of the proceeds will be used to expand and refurbish its other hotel and leisure operations. 21-Mar-2001 Whitbread is considering plans to set up a nationwide network of 100 Touchbase meeting venues alongside Travel Inn lodges, in order to provide office facilities to field-based workers. 12-Jan-2001 Whitbread is expected to sell its chain of 3,000 pubs over the next few months, as part of a strategy to focus on hotels and sports clubs. 08-Jan-2001 Whitbread has announced plans to build a £10m 250-bedroom Travel Inn Metro hotel in the centre of Belfast by December 2002. 02-Jan-2001 Whitbread is planning to build a £39m 614-room Travel Inn budget hotel at Heathrow, with the creation of 200 jobs. 20-Dec-2000 Whitbread is planning to sell 10% of its 1,400 restaurants, as part of a restructuring that will reduce the number of Café Rouge and Beefeater outlets but increase the number of Brewsters and Costa Coffee outlets. 01-Nov-2000 Whitbread has put its chain of 3,000 pubs up for sale, as part of a strategy to focus on leisure operations such as hotels, restaurants and sports clubs. 20-Oct-2000 Whitbread has confirmed plans to build a £7m Travel Inn in the centre of Southampton, which will create up to 100 jobs. 19-Oct-2000 Whitbread has won the go-ahead for a £30m scheme to redevelop Cheltenham's Flowers Brewery site, including leisure and retail facilities. 14-Sep-2000 Nomura is to buy the First Quench off-licence chain from Whitbread and Punch for £225m, and plans to invest in training and technology at the 2,500 branches. 11-Sep-2000 Whitbread is forming a £80m joint venture with Punch Taverns to build 50 Travel Inn budget hotels on Punch pub sites. 07-Jul-2000 Whitbread is to add 1,000 rooms to its budget Travel Inn hotel brand under a management agreement with RoadChef, and about 13 RoadChef lodges will become Travel Inns by July. 07-Jun-2000 Whitbread is selling its beer division to Interbrew of Belgium for £400m, in order to focus on hotels and leisure. 26-May-2000 Enterprise Inns has bought 185 pubs from Whitbread for £115m, including 145 managed pubs and 38 tenancies mainly in Yorkshire and Lancashire. 17-May-2000 Whitbread is to invest £22m in Scotland with the creation of 500 jobs, and plans include a David Lloyd tennis centre, two new Pizza Huts and a Brewer's Fayre pub. 05-May-2000 Whitbread is considering plans to sell its brewing business for about £400m, having asked Dresdner Kleinwort Benson to examine its strategic options. 17-Apr-2000 Whitbread is to build a £7m hotel for students attending short courses at Nottingham Trent University. 15-Mar-2000 Whitbread has bought ten Exchange Bar and Diners outlets from Greene King for £10m, and will convert them to its TGI Friday's, Hogshead and Casa brands. 09-Mar-2000 Whitbread is to build a £2.7m 41-bed hotel and pub at Newport Quay on the Isle of Wight, with the creation of 80 jobs. 23-Feb-2000 Whitbread is looking to sell a package of 187 pubs and restaurants, which represents most of the recently-acquired Swallow estate, and could raise more than £100m. 09-Feb-2000 Whitbread is reviving plans to build a £18m hotel at Enderby in Leicester, and is said to be discussing a partnering agreement with Laing. 03-Feb-2000 Whitbread is to close its regional headquarters in Cheltenham, which will affect up to 150 jobs. 20-Jan-2000 Whitbread is considering plans to leave its headquarters in the City of London, as the site is too big for the 100 staff. 06-Dec-1999 Whitbread is to acquire Swallow, the Sunderland-based hotels and pubs group, for £730m, in order to double the size of its four-star Marriott chain to almost 11,000 rooms. 22-Nov-1999 Whitbread is to test its Costa coffee shop concept in continental Europe, starting with three outlets in Germany. 05-Nov-1999 Whitbread is to cut 150 administrative jobs, mostly at its Luton office, as part of a reorganisation of its pubs and restaurants business designed to save more than £10m a year. 16-Oct-1999 Whitbread has acquired Racquets & Healthtrack group for £78m, and will rebrand the six fitness clubs under the David Lloyd Leisure name. 28-Sep-1999 Whitbread is opening a £12m beer bottling line at Samlesbury, said to be the fastest in northern Europe. 16-Jul-1999 Whitbread has won approval to build a £30m leisure complex in Cheltenham, including bowling alley, cinema, shops and restaurants. 25-Jun-1999 Whitbread has announced a £2.36bn agreed offer for Allied Domecq's pubs and off-licence business, and the deal will be presented to Allied shareholders on July 2. 26-May-1999 Whitbread is preparing a £2.3bn bid for Allied Domecq's pubs and off-licences. 22-May-1999 Whitbread is seeking 75 staff for its new £2.3m Travel Inn at Hayle in Cornwall, which is due to open in June. 13-May-1999 Whitbread is to invest £60m in the north-west this year with the creation of 1,000 jobs, including a new David Lloyd Leisure centre at the former Bolton Royal Infirmary site and others in Warrington, Speke and Kirkby. 05-May-1999 Whitbread is in discussions to acquire 3,600 pubs from Allied Domecq for about £2.3bn, and Whitbread may have to sell its brewing division in order to win regulatory approval for the deal. 03-May-1999 Whitbread is to build a 260-room Travel Inn in Belfast's Victoria Street, creating 100 jobs. 29-Apr-1999 Whitbread is resubmitting plans for a £30m leisure development on Cheltenham's old Flowers Brewery site, including multiplex cinema, bowling alley, restaurant and shops. 20-Apr-1999 Whitbread is to expand its nationwide chain of Costa coffee shops with 50 new outlets over the next 12 months. 07-Apr-1999 Whitbread is planning a £100m expansion programme for its Pizza Hut chain that will create 100 new stores and 3,500 jobs by 2001. 05-Apr-1999 Whitbread's Thresher off-licence chain is to close its finance office at Huyton on Merseyside and transfer the operations to group headquarters in Surrey, putting up to 100 jobs at risk. 18-Mar-1999 Whitbread Inns' Hogshead Pub division is investing £0.6m in a new pub in Plymouth city centre, with the creation of 30 jobs. 18-Mar-1999 Whitbread is planning to build a £2.2m Brewers Fayre and Travel Inn in Barnstaple, with the creation of 65 jobs. 28-Jan-1999 Whitbread has sold 75 managed pubs to the Alehouse Company for £24m, and most will be converted to tenancies. 28-Jan-1999 Whitbread is planning to build a David Lloyd Leisure sports and fitness centre in Plymouth, which will create about 100 jobs. 14-Jan-1999 Whitbread Inns has won permission from Penwith District Council to build a £2.5m budget hotel and pub-restaurant in West Cornwall, which will create 60 jobs. 27-Nov-1998 Whitbread has announced plans to set up 14 more David Lloyd health clubs, and to invest £300m in the Travel Inn chain of budget hotels. 29-Oct-1998 Whitbread has sold its Castle Eden brewery to a consortium of local businesses called the Castle Eden Brewery Company for an undisclosed sum. 23-Oct-1998 A consortium of North-east businessmen are said to be close to agreeing the acquisition of the Castle Eden brewery near Hartlepool, which Whitbread has scheduled for closure. 15-Sep-1998 Allied Domecq and Whitbread have agreed terms for the merger of their drinks retailing chains, which will improve their ability to compete with the major supermarkets by reducing central costs and improving purchasing power. 13-Aug-1998 Avebury Taverns has bought 253 pubs Whitbread for £42m, taking its estate to more than 720 outlets. 06-Aug-1998 Whitbread and Allied Domecq are in discussions to merge their off-licence chains - Thresher and Victoria Wine - into a 50:50 joint venture in response to the growing power of supermarkets. 03-Aug-1998 Whitbread has sold 40 Beefeater restaurants to a management buy-in for £36m, and the new company will be called Crowded House Pub Company. 20-May-1998 Whitbread is planning to open 80 pubs, 80 restaurants, three Marriott hotels, 25 Travel Inn budget hotels, and eight David Lloyd sports centres, creating 5,000 jobs. 07-May-1998 Whitbread is looking to sell its breweries at Cheltenham and Castle Eden and transfer production to other sites, but will close them if no buyer is found before October. 04-Apr-1998 Whitbread is looking to sell 40 of its chain of Beefeater pubs, as they are deemed to be unsuitable for the brand. 28-Jan-1998 Whitbread is to reorganise its managed pubs division by creating four regional groups and a separate division to manage the Hogshead chain, resulting in 55 job losses. 16-Jan-1998 Whitbread is to close two breweries in Cheltenham and Castle Eden, leaving it with just the three larger sites in Manchester, Gwent and Preston. 08-Jan-1998 Avebury Taverns is to buy 62 pubs in the north of England from Whitbread Pub Partnerships for undisclosed terms. 17-Dec-1997 Whitbread Inns is to invest over £1m a week on the expansion of its Hogshead alehouse chain next year, adding another 40 outlets to the current 123. 01-Dec-1997 Whitbread is considering plans to move into Germany and the Netherlands with its Travel Inns budget hotel chain and its David Lloyd sports clubs, although high property prices and wage costs may cause a problem. 06-Nov-1997 Whitbread has been told by the European Commission that it will get approval for the system in which its pub tenants are tied to its beer supplies, as it said the tenants benefit from low rents and bulk-purchasing rebates. 30-Sep-1997 Whitbread is acquiring Elite Childcare, the chain of three children's nurseries in south-east England which will now be operated by Gatehouse Nursery Services, the David Lloyd Leisure subsidiary. 12-Sep-1997 Enterprise Inns has bought 94 pubs in the south of England from Whitbread for £9.4m. 06-Sep-1997 JD Wetherspoon and Whitbread have both announced bans on the sale of alcopop alcoholic fruit drinks in their pubs, due to concerns over under-age drinking. 05-Aug-1997 Whitbread is taking steps to prevent the sale of alcopops to under-age drinkers at its off-licences, including placing them behind the counter, in an attempt to prevent a possible ban on the drinks by the government. 30-Jun-1997 Whitbread is planning to set up a further 250 pubs, restaurants, and hotels, in a major expansion for its main chains, creating 5,000 jobs. 08-May-1997 Whitbread is planning to sell off about 400 underperforming pubs and 80 off-licences in order to improve its return on capital. 06-May-1997 Regal Hotel Group is acquiring 13 Country Club hotels from Whitbread for £64m, giving it a total of 95 hotels. 26-Apr-1997 Whitbread is to sell its Keg chain of restaurants in North America to Raleigh of Canada for £23m. 08-Mar-1997 Whitbread has acquired BrightReasons, the restaurant chain that owns Pizzaland, for £46m, and aims to expand the Bella Pasta chain by converting 35 of the acquired Pizzaland sites. 28-Nov-1996 Whitbread is to place its Keg chain of 81 North American restaurants on the market. 25-Oct-1996 Whitbread is said to be interested in acquiring BrightReasons, the owner of the Pizzaland and Bella Pasta restaurant chains which was recently put up for sale. 16-Oct-1996 Whitbread is buying Pelican, the chain of Cafe Rouge and Dome restaurants, for £133m. 31-Jul-1996 Whitbread Hotel Company is planning a £34m 390-room hotel at Heathrow airport. 06-Jun-1996 Whitbread Inns is planning to open 70 family pubs this year at a cost of £105m, creating over 2,700 jobs. 29-May-1996 Whitbread has bought the UK licence for Labatt's, the Canadian lager, from Interbrew of Belgium. 15-May-1996 Whitbread is planning a 20% increase in capital spending (to over £400m) on its hotels, pubs and restaurants, this year. 09-May-1996 CM Group of Yorkshire is acquiring the freehold of 34 pubs from Whitbread and will spend £4.5m on the purchase and upgrade of the pubs. 02-Apr-1996 Whitbread is taking over the marketing of 6X, one of the best-selling real ales, from Wadworth for a 20 year period in order to develop it into a national brand and allow Wadworth to concentrate on production and its pub estate. 01-Mar-1996 Forte is to sell its Little Chef and Happy Eater restaurants, Welcome Break service areas and Travelodge hotels to Whitbread for £1.05bn, on condition that the takeover bid by Granada fails. 28-Dec-1995 Whitbread is planning two more Travel Inns, 220 rooms at Euston and 150 rooms at Putney Bridge. 06-Dec-1995 United Breweries has acquired 70 freehold properties from Whitbread for £6.9. 04-Oct-1995 Whitbread has sold 137 pubs to Pubmaster for £12.3m. 02-Oct-1995 Whitbread has acquired CB Costa Bros Coffee, and plans to open 30 new coffee shops over the next few years. 19-Sep-1995
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