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Whitbread Plans Huge UK expansion

LONDON-Leisure operator Whitbread plans to spend 300-million-pounds ($500 million) over the next five years expanding its restaurant chains in the UK

By Charlie Jacoby | Updated on July 03, 2003

LONDON- Leisure operator Whitbread is to target the whole of the UK with a restaurant expansion programme worth around £300 million ($500 million) over the next five years.

‘Whitbread are bucking the trend with regard to new site acquisitions of family pub and hotel sites, across the country,’ says Simon Johnson, head of Whitbread Restaurants’ site finding team. ‘Many competitors have either suspended further expansion or substantially reduced their acquisition pipeline.’

The site-finding drive is being spearheaded by the group’s Brewers Fayre and Brewsters pub restaurant brands, which will collectively add around 35 new outlets per year. Johnson is being supported by a five strong acquisition team and nine retained firms of chartered surveyors, covering the UK.

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