Whitbread

Whitbread PLC is a British hospitality company and the owner of Premier Inn, the UK's largest hotel brand. Founded in 1742, the group has evolved from its origins in brewing into a vertically integrated hotel operator, and now employs approximately 31,500 people across the United Kingdom and Germany. It is a public company.

The Premier Inn estate comprises approximately 850 hotels and over 86,000 rooms in the UK, serving millions of guests each month. In Germany, the brand operates 65 hotels with more than 11,000 rooms. Alongside Premier Inn, the group runs hub by Premier Inn, which offers smart, compact rooms in London and Edinburgh, and Zip, a budget-focused hotel brand.

Whitbread describes itself as a vertically integrated operating model focused on consistently superior customer experiences and disciplined returns on capital, and states that it has grown at a significantly faster pace than competitors. Its Force for Good sustainability programme is organised around three themes - Responsibility, Opportunity, and Community - with a stated commitment to enabling people to live and work well while having a positive impact on the world.