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Whitbread Boosted By Budget Hotels: By Matthew Scuffham LONDON (Reuters UK) - Whitbread WTB, Britain's biggest hotel and restaurants operator, is weathering a slowdown in consumer spending as its budget hotel chain Premier Inn benefits from customers becoming more cost conscious. The group reported a 7.1 percent rise in like-for-like ...; Tags: Hotel, Whitbread, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Oukbs; News items 2008-06-17
Whitbread CEO Says Pubs Business Not For Sale: LONDON (Reuters UK) - Whitbread's WTB Chief Executive Alan Parker has ruled out a sale of the group's pub restaurants business, which includes the Beefeater, Brewer's Fayre and Table chains. "I'm not looking to sell any pub restaurants at the moment. Our joint sites with...; Tags: Sale, Whitbread, Real Estate, Investment, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Finance, Oukbs; News items 2008-06-17

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Whitbread not ready to call time on pub business: Whitbread, the pub and hotel group, yesterday ruled out an asset swap with rival Mitchells & Butlers as it posted credit crunch- defying sales for its first quarter. Whitbread's chief executive, Alan Parker, said: "We have absolutely no intention of moving out of the pubs restaurant business."...; Articles 2008-06-18
First lady of the London Stock Exchange made dame: The Queen's Birthday Honours The bespectacled blonde who took the City of London by storm seven years ago when she became the first female head of the London Stock Exchange is the leading business figure to be rewarded. Clara Furse, right, a power-dressing former...; Articles 2008-06-14
ProLogis Signs New Leases Totaling 910,000 Square Feet With Kuehne + Nagel in Europe: AMSTERDAM, June 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ProLogis , the world's largest owner, manager and developer of distribution facilities, announced today that it has signed new lease agreements totaling 910,000 square feet (84,500 square meters) at two major distribution parks in Europe with Kuehne + Nagel, a leading global logistics provider...; Articles 2008-06-02

U.N. to probe sex-abuse charges: UNITED NATIONS -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said Tuesday the United Nations will investigate allegations by a leading children's charity that U.N. peacekeepers are involved in widespread sexual abuse of children. The report by Save the Children UK, based on field research in southern Sudan, Ivory Coast...; Articles 2008-05-28
DEATHS: Robert Rauschenberg, US artist and sometime lover of Jasper Johns, died on Monday aged 82. His cover design for the Talking Heads album 'Speaking in Tongues' won a Grammy. Penny Banner, professional wrestler, died on Monday aged 73 in North Carolina. She was the first woman to...; Articles 2008-05-18
Myanmar children 'could starve within weeks': BANGKOK AFP — A leading aid group warned Sunday that thousands of young children in cyclone-ravaged Myanmar could starve to death within weeks unless emergency food supplies reach them soon. Save the Children said on its website that the youngsters could succumb to hunger "within two to three...; Articles 2008-05-18
JEFF TORRINGTON: Author of 'Swing Hammer Swing!' Jeff Torrington was the author of many ephemeral short stories and two lasting works of fiction, Swing Hammer Swing! and The Devil's Carousel. The former, which had taken him 30 years to write, was published in 1992 to great acclaim and won...; Articles 2008-05-16
Binge for just pounds 5.95: A FOOD chain came under fire yesterday for giving people the chance to binge-eat for just pounds 5.95. Experts claim the new restaurant chain will encourage people to overeat at a buffet featuring roast meat, pizza, Chinese meals, pasta, chips and puddings. ...; Articles 2008-05-11
Whitbread plans to double Premier Inn hotel rooms and Costa Coffee: Whitbread bucked the leisure industry's gloomy mood with analyst- beating full-year results and plans to double its Premier Inn hotel presence to 55,000 rooms and its Costa Coffee chain to 2,000 outlets within the next five years. The leisure group reported full-year operating profits up 26.3 per...; Articles 2008-04-29
IFAs help clients help others at conference.(Conference news): Byline: Joy Dunbar Institute of Financial Planning is holding a philanthropy day in Scotland next month. More clients of IFAs are keen to use their wealth to help others according to the Institute of Financial Planning which is holding a...; Articles 2008-04-24
Horse Racing: Falcon can strike Gold for Peter: PETER Maddison plans to demolish some lofty reputations with Lothian Falcon, star of his two-horse stable, in the last big race of the jumps season at Sandown next Saturday. Permit holder Maddison, a former jockey turned builder, operates at the other end of the scale from...; Articles 2008-04-20
Three first-time writers on shortlist for Orange Prize: When Mark Haddon wrote The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, narrated by a boy suffering from Asperger's syndrome, it became an overnight literary sensation, scooping the country's top book prizes and epitomising the best in "outsider" fiction. Yesterday, as the shortlist for the Orange...; Articles 2008-04-16
London: WORLD MARKETS The FTSE 100 fell more than 1 per cent as economic concerns pulled down banking and mining shares, but bid talk buoyed hotel and coffee-shop chain Whitbread. The blue-chip index slipped 63.9, or 1.1 per cent, to 5,831.6 for its fifth successive decline. Among miners,...; Articles 2008-04-15
Whitbread takes top spot on Premier merger talk: MARKET REPORT Rumours that Premier Inn may yet merge with rival Travelodge helped take Whitbread to first place on the FTSE 100 leader board yesterday. Market speculation in March had suggested Whitbread, the hospitality group which owns the Premier Inn budget hotel chain, was...; Articles 2008-04-15
Whitbread to consolidate lead in London with Pounds 100m expansion: Whitbread, the hotels and leisure group, is to invest 100m in an expansion of its Premier Inn brand in London, adding 1,200 rooms across six hotels to its operations in the capital. Whitbread said yesterday it was spending 18.5m buying three hotels in Westminster, Kensington and the...; Articles 2008-04-09
THWAITES (DANIEL) PLC - Directorate Change.: DANIEL THWAITES P.L.C. NEW MANAGING DIRECTOR AT THWAITES THWAITES Brewery has appointed Peter Morris as its new Managing Director with effect from the 19th May 2008. Mr Morris joins the leading northern brewer after a highly-successful career in the British brewing industry where he worked, most recently,...; Articles 2008-04-03
Budget hotel merger talks end: Business News IN BRIEF *Tie-up talks between the leisure group Whitbread and the budget hotel chainTravelodge have ended.A merger of Whitbread'sPremier Inn and Travelodge would have created a budget hotel giant with 65 per cent of the UK market and 850 hotels. "This probably reflects afailure to...; Articles 2008-03-20
British Energy sparks into life.: BID WATCH: Nuclear generator in bid talks - plus latest on Whitbread and HR Owen. Jonas Crosland It's a rule of thumb that insurance becomes really expensive just when you need it most. And it's another that just as finance dries up and...; Articles 2008-03-20

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