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Fears for Threshers and Wine Rack jobs

30.10.09
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Confused? Fear not, the analysts are too

15.10.09
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Whitbread chief executive warns on slump

13.10.09
We aren’t out of recession yet and anyone who thinks we are should take a cheap weekend away to reconsider ... more

Miners are in a hole as price of gold loses its lustre with fall below $1000

21.09.09
Mining shares were in disarray after the price of gold dipped back below the $1000-an-ounce level for the first time in almost a week after the International Monetary Fund threatened to sell 10% of its reserves. ... more

Premier feels the pinch

07.09.09
Whitbread dismissed talk that the economy is recovering as it unveiled a slump in sales at its budget hotel chain Premier Inn ... more

Whitbread pension axe

04.09.09
The dwindling number of final-salary pensions in the private sector shrank further today when hotel and restaurant group Whitbread axed its retirement scheme ... more

Station master: Harry Handelsman

04.09.09
Harry Handelsman has taken the Victorian Gothic ruin of St Pancras and transformed it into a grand hotel and luxury flats for the post-loft generation ... more

Travelodge snaps up £84m hotels to gear up for Games

30.07.09
Budget hotels group Travelodge exploited the crash in commercial land values to splash out £84 million on six London properties, putting it in pole position to be the biggest hotels chain at the 2012 Olympics ... more

Whitbread rocked by rude awakening at Premier Inn

16.06.09
Sales have slumped at Premier Inn in the midst of the worst trading conditions in the hotel sector for 30 years... more

Zak Whitbread wants leading role as pool party memories fade

08.05.09
Football: Zak Whitbread talks about the Champions League final, bumping into Steven Gerrard and the upcoming play-off encounter with Leeds... more

Whitbread takes on quality hotel market

28.04.09
Premier Inn owner Whitbread is poised to ramp up its advertising aggressively to take on hotel chains of supposedly higher quality ... more

Put faith in Church Island to leave rivals without a prayer

24.04.09
Horse racing: Sandown's Celebration Meeting is a gleaming tailpiece to the jumps season, bringing the toffs and tweeds together for a cracking mixed card... more

Habgood to face flak over decision to lead two FTSE firms

21.04.09
Questions over the lucrative part-time jobs of Britain’s top company chairmen were revived after Anthony Habgood — already at the centre of one corporate governance minefield — insisted on continuing to lead two separate FTSE 100 companies... more

Hard work's paying off for Zak Whitbread's hungry Lions

31.03.09
Football: Zak Whitbread believes Millwall are reaping the rewards of their brutal pre-season under boss Kenny Jackett... more

Downturn hurts but Whitbread is upbeat

02.03.09
Leisure: The recession must be serious - even Whitbread is feeling the pinch... more

Women worst hit as job losses soar

11.02.09
The number of people out of work neared the two million barrier for the first time in 12 years today... more

Whitbread's Britain may be good value but lacks sparkle

10.02.09
Last November I pondered whether Whitbread was the most depressing business in Britain - a sprawling collection of ubiquitous coffee shops, pub food halls from the 1980s and so-so hotels... more

Banks boosted by upbeat view from Credit Suisse

06.02.09
High Street banks were the destination of choice today, with Barclays ahead by 9p to 109p as an upgrade from Credit Suisse raised hopes the sector is finally climbing back from rock bottom... more

Whitbread's a warm order in the crunch

08.12.08
Leisure: Whitbread continues to be a credit-crunch winner as its Premier Inn budget hotels arm keeps luring tourists, and Costa Coffee stays frothy... more

Comment: Obama offers us a fresh shot to get mad about Larry

25.11.08
While Alistair Darling was fleshing out his plans to save the UK economy yesterday, Barack Obama was unveiling the team he wants to help him save the American one... more

Lucky 13 Londoners compete for Costa prize

19.11.08
Thirteen London writers from first-time authors to publishing veteran Diana Athill, now 90, are in the running for the Costa Book Awards this year... more

Crunch values lift Whitbread

14.10.08
Whitbread, the business priced for the credit crunch before the term was invented, showed that its cut-price offerings are still luring punters... more

Whitbread cheers market with strong first-half results

04.09.08
Leisure: Whitbread cheered the market with a robust set of first half revenues showing that its value-for-money sales pitch is working strongly through the consumer downturn... more

Market report: Consumer firms hit by spending cutbacks

27.08.08
Ill-effects of the credit squeeze are starting be felt by consumer-related companies as investors fret about the shrinking amounts of cash in our pockets and purses.... more

Sighs of relief as the Footsie gets a fightback under way

20.08.08
London shares staged a tentative rally as nervous City professionals took heart that a financial Armageddon seems to have been delayed, at least for a while... more

Bank’s gloom taking a toll on the big retailers

13.08.08
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Whitbread could do an asset swap with M&B

17.06.08
Deal could be the first in the next wave of consolidation likely to hit the pubs and hotels sector... more

'No slowdown' as Whitbread rises to £210m

28.04.08
Cheap hotel rooms-to-Costa Coffee group Whitbread could be the business best-placed to cope with the downturn. ... more

UK's biggest host plays safe and still delivers - even at T5

09.04.08
INTERVIEW Alan Parker's restaurants, hotels and Costa Coffee make £200m-plus... more

Whitbread hotel boost in London

08.04.08
Whitbread reveals a huge expansion of its Premier Inn hotels chain in central London... more

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