WHITBREAD GROUP PLC
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Next accounts due
2026-09-01 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2025-02-27
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-13 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-07-30
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£909M
+30.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£3B
+8.6% vs 2024
Employees
34,700
-12.4% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£349M
-18.5% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- WHITBREAD GROUP PLC 2001-05-10 → present
- WHITBREAD PLC 1991-03-01 → 2001-05-10
- WHITBREAD AND COMPANY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 1889-07-25 → 1991-03-01
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-02-27
| Metric | Trend | 2024-02-29 | 2025-02-27 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £2,959,900,000 | £2,921,900,000 | |
| Operating profit | £553,800,000 | £515,900,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £428,500,000 | £349,400,000 | |
| Net profit | £294,600,000 | £239,900,000 | |
| Cash | £696,700,000 | £909,000,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £7,728,200,000 | £8,071,700,000 | |
| Net assets | £2,596,100,000 | £2,820,400,000 | |
| Equity | £2,596,100,000 | £2,820,400,000 | |
| Average employees | 39,611 | 34,700 | |
| Wages | £756,900,000 | £786,000,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-02-29 | 2025-02-27 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 18.7% | 17.7% | |
| Net margin | 10.0% | 8.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 7.2% | 6.4% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 72.7% | 71.5% | |
| Current ratio | 0.47x | 0.59x | |
| Interest cover | 4.00x | 2.52x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Deloitte LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“A combination of the strong cash flows generated by the business and the sufficient available headroom on its credit facilities supports the directors' view that the Group has sufficient funds available to meet its foreseeable working capital requirements.”
Group structure
- WHITBREAD GROUP PLC · parent
- Premier Inn UK Limited
- Premier Inn Ochre Limited
- Whitbread Hotel Company Limited
- Premier Inn Glasgow Limited
- Premier Inn Manchester Airport Limited
- Premier Inn Westminster Limited
- Elm Hotel Holdings Limited
Significant events
- “Premier Inn continues to operate 850+ hotels in the UK (86,000 rooms) and is looking to continue its expansion into Germany through profit and double-digit returns on organic growth.”
- “Premier Inn UK's statutory revenue of £2,019.9m (2023/24: £2,277.0m) was 3% behind the comparative year, and summary profit of £65.2m (2023/24: £383.7m) was 7% behind.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 35 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOWRY, Daren Clive | Secretary | 2023-06-22 | — | — |
| ANDERSON, Mark | Director | 2018-02-02 | Mar 1971 | British |
| HOWARTH, Rachel Margaret | Director | 2021-07-23 | Jul 1970 | British |
| PATEL, Hemantkumar Kiritbhai | Director | 2022-03-22 | Nov 1969 | British |
| PAUL, Dominic James | Director | 2023-01-17 | May 1971 | British |
| THOMAS HATHAWAY, Alexandra Clare | Director | 2023-06-22 | Nov 1974 | British |
Show 35 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARRATT, Simon Charles | Secretary | 1997-03-26 | 2015-10-13 |
| HAMPSON, Michael David | Secretary | — | 1997-03-26 |
| VAUGHAN, Christopher David | Secretary | 2015-10-13 | 2023-06-22 |
| ANGUS, Michael Richardson, Sir | Director | — | 2000-06-20 |
| BAKER, Richard | Director | 2014-09-01 | 2016-04-12 |
| BANHAM, John Michael Middlecott | Director | 1999-11-17 | 2005-08-01 |
| BRITTAIN, Alison Jane | Director | 2015-10-13 | 2023-01-17 |
| BROUGHTON, Martin Faulkner | Director | 1993-08-01 | 2000-06-20 |
| CADBURY, Nicholas Theodore | Director | 2012-11-14 | 2022-03-22 |
| COCKBURN, William | Director | 1995-09-14 | 1995-11-21 |
| FINDLAY, Martin Charles | Director | — | 1993-06-30 |
| FRANKLIN, Michael David Milroy, Sir | Director | — | 1998-06-16 |
| GURASSA, Charles Mark | Director | 2000-07-26 | 2001-05-01 |
| HABGOOD, Anthony John | Director | 2005-10-01 | 2014-09-01 |
| HARRISON, Andrew | Director | 2010-09-01 | 2015-12-07 |
| JARVIS, Peter Jack | Director | — | 1997-06-17 |
| LEITH, Prudence Margaret | Director | 1995-09-14 | 2001-05-01 |
| MACLAURIN, Ian Charter, Lord | Director | 1997-11-18 | 2001-03-20 |
| MILLER, Stewart | Director | 2000-05-05 | 2005-09-30 |
| PADOVAN, John Mario Faskally | Director | — | 2001-05-14 |
| PARKER, Alan Charles | Director | 2000-05-05 | 2010-11-30 |
| PERELMAN, Alan Steven | Director | — | 2001-03-20 |
| RICHARDSON, David Hedley | Director | 1996-05-07 | 2005-04-30 |
| RISLEY, Angela Susan | Director | 2004-09-10 | 2007-05-22 |
| ROGERS, Christopher Charles Bevan | Director | 2005-05-01 | 2014-09-01 |
| SCHAIK, Gerard Van | Director | — | 1993-03-16 |
| SHANNON, William Mervyn Frew Carey | Director | 1994-12-21 | 2004-06-30 |
| SMALLEY, Louise Helen | Director | 2014-09-01 | 2021-07-23 |
| TEMPLEMAN, Miles Howard | Director | — | 2000-12-18 |
| THOMAS, David Malcolm | Director | — | 2004-06-15 |
| TURNER, David John | Director | 2001-01-01 | 2001-05-14 |
| VAN RIEMSDIJK, Wessel Willem | Director | — | 1996-06-18 |
| VUURSTEEN, Karel | Director | 1993-03-16 | 2000-09-19 |
| WHITBREAD, Samuel Charles | Director | — | 2001-05-01 |
| WILLIAMSON, David Francis, Lord Williamson Of Horton | Director | 1998-05-05 | 2001-05-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitbread Plc | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 1004 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-21 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-09-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-07-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-08-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-06-27 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-06-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-06-27 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-01-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-01-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-09-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-08-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-06-21 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-04-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-04-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-10-19 | AGREEMENT2 | other | Legacy | |
| 2021-08-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-08-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-02-27 vs 2024-02-29
-
Turnover
-1.3%
£2,959,900,000 £2,921,900,000
-
Cash
+30.5%
£696,700,000 £909,000,000
-
Net assets
+8.6%
£2,596,100,000 £2,820,400,000
-
Employees
-12.4%
39,611 34,700
-
Operating profit
-6.8%
£553,800,000 £515,900,000
-
Profit before tax
-18.5%
£428,500,000 £349,400,000
-
Wages
+3.8%
£756,900,000 £786,000,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers