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Elliott Adds Voice To Calls For Whitbread Break-Up

Hedge fund Elliott Advisors has become the second activist investor to call for Whitbread to split its hotel and coffee shop businesses after emerging as t...

Whitbread's CEO Spent too Long Lingering Over Her Coffee: Gadfly

An activist investor has finally woken up and smelt the coffee at Whitbread. Sachem Head Capital Management, run by Bill Ackman protege Scott Ferguson, has...

Premier Inn To Expand In Dublin With 1,500 New Rooms

Premier Inn is planning to expand its operations in Dublin with up to 1,500 new bedrooms. The Whitbread-owned British hotel chain, which runs over 750 v...

Whitbread Soars as Costa Coffee Owner Defies Consumer Gloom

Whitbread defied the gloom hanging over Britain's consumer economy as its Premier Inn hotels, Costa Coffee shops and Beefeater restaurants all posted gains...

Costa's Woes Send Whitbread Shares Down Most Since Brexit Vote

Whitbread shares dropped the most since Britain’s Brexit vote after the budget hotel and restaurant group reported a slowdown at its Costa Coffee cha...

Whitbread Sees Sales Progress as Costa Coffee, Hotels Gain

Whitbread maintained its sales growth in the first quarter as Costa Coffee shops and Premier Inns budget hotels exceeded analyst estimates. Sales rose 1...

Whitbread CEO May Regret Ruling Out a Break-Up so Soon: Gadfly

Good Together is the name Whitbread gives its corporate social responsibility program - but it also applies to CEO Alison Brittain's strategy for the spraw...

Brittain Needs to Shrink the Whitbread Empire, and Soon: Gadfly

Alison Brittain faces a storm in a coffee cup. The new CEO of Whitbread is grappling with a 25 per cent decline in the bars-to-hotels conglomerate's sha...

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