Operation of hotels, restaurants and coffee shops,Whitbread Group Plc is a UK based hospitality company, managing several popular brands, including Premier Inn, Table Table, Brewers Fayre, Taybarns, Beefeater and Costa Coffee. The company�s headquarters are based in Dunstable, Bedfordshire. The company was founded as a brewery by Samuel Whitbread and Thomas Shewell in 1799 but, after a long history of brewing, the company decided in 2001 to sell all its breweries and brewing interests to Interbrew. Today the group employs over 40,000 people and serves 10 million customers every month in over 2,000 outlets across the UK.

,Final Ex-Dividend Date MAY-2011

Whitbread PLC is the UK's largest hotel and restaurant group operating market-leading businesses in budget hotels, restaurants and coffee shops. Its well-loved brands are Premier Inn, Beefeater, Brewers Fayre, Table Table, Taybarns and Costa.


Whitbread PLC employs over 40,000 people globally and serves over 11 million customers every month in over 2,000 outlets across the UK.


Whitbread has outlined five-year growth milestones (to 2015/16) to increase the number of Premier Inn UK rooms by nearly 50% to at least 65,000, add 80-100 new Restaurants and to nearly double the size of Costa with global system sales of £1.3bn and 3,500 stores worldwide.

Interims:

Whitbread profit up 20%

Whitbread booked a 20% rise in first-half profits after its opening of new hotel rooms helped boost revenue.

Pre-tax profit rose to £316m, up from £264m, after revenue jumped 7.4%.

Much of the growth in revenue came from the Premier Inn hotels business, for which the company opened more than 2,000 new rooms.

Like-for-like revenue growth at the Costa coffee chain, however, slowed to 0.6%.

Whitbread declared an interim dividend of 31.4p, up 5% on the previous year.

"Despite the well known short-term economic uncertainty, our performance in the first half was good and we expect to meet expectations for the full year," the company said.

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possibly worth getting in for a quick trade
fall of 3% looks ridiculous against these very good results

Liberum Capital Hold 3,804.00 4,150.00 4,150.00 Reiterates

First half results from Whitbread showed evidence of a bit of a summer slowdown, with revenues at its Premier Inn hotels and Costa Coffee arms both softening.

This could be the reason for the drop Alf.

£34 coming soon !!!

CD - how often are your forecasts of gloom and doom for stocks X and Y ever proved accurate and within even a couple of months?

Ouch.

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Citigroup Sell 3,704.50 - 3,200.00 Retains

cynic Send an email to cynic View cynic's profile - 24 Oct 2017 10:59 - 63 of 67

CD - how often are your forecasts of gloom and doom for stocks X and Y ever proved accurate and within even a couple of months?


You will have to excuse Alf these days CD as he spends most of his time on holiday...he also seems to have gone blind.

3700 remains a long way north of 3400 and nof course my question to CD was ignored

Stan - talking of being blind, have you noticed the relative performance of BATS and IMB of late?

No why should I?

Holding(s) in Company

sp has got excited once more, but no obvious reason and volume not exciting either

has there been a chunky bear position in this stock?
if so, it may be that the squeeze is being applied, as sp is now at its highest since 23/10 when it was already heading sharply downward

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banked a very nice profit at 3959 from nowhere on my trading position
still hold in my sipp

cynic - see the rns above - coincides with the start of the rise.





Sachem Head are known to be 'active' shareholders.

but they only hold 3.4%

Its a start.....