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Best Western Hotels
• US company with 4000 hotels
globally
• Has 280 hotels in UK
WHS Ltd
• Holding company for leading food
service and hospitality brands,
11,000 staff, £535 million
• Baxter Storey, contract caterer,
• Caterlink, specialist caterers
for education
• Holyroydhow, caterers for
independent schools
• Searcys, refined catering company
• Benugo restuarants and café’s
in London
Bourne Leisure
Holdings Ltd
• Owns 13 hotels under Warner
Leisure brand
• Owns 3 Butlins Holiday Parks,
Haven leisure of 35 caravan parks
• 6,000 full time staff, rises to
14,000 during peak season,
revenues of £810 million
Compass Group
• Multinational food service, £17
billion revenue
• Range of operating companies including
Quadrant, Chartwells, ESS, WhiteOaks
• Operates in 50 countries, 500,000
staff, 60,000 in UK
• 4 billion meals per year to schools,
hospitals, factories and more
• Chef academy, apprenticeships,
internships, school work experience
• Graduate opportunities in operations,
finance and central functions
Wagamama
• Japanese restaurant and Noodle bar
• HQ London with 140 restaurants.
• £141 million revenue
Enterprise Inns
• UK tenant pub company, owns
5,000 pubs
• £632 million revenue from pub
rents and beverage sales
• 500 staff, HQ Solihull Marstons
• Pub Chain operator with 1,600 pubs
• 13,000 staff with revenues of
£780 million
• Jobs in management, team and
Head Office
• Franchise, retail and tenancy
opportunities
Hospitality
Whitbread
• Multinational Company with £2.2
billion revenue, 40,000 staff
• Owns Premier Inn with 700 hotels, Costa
Coffee with 3,000 outlets worldwide,
• Owns Brewers Fayre with 130 pubs,
Beafeeter Grill with 130 pubs
• 800 staff based at HQ in Bedfordshire Marriott International
• US global company with 199,000
staff, $12 billion revenue,
• 3700 hotels in 70 countries,
HQ Maryland USA
• Owns 63 hotels in UK
Wetherspoon’s
• 920 Pub Chain in UK and Ireland,
• HQ in Watford, £1.4 billion revenue
• Jobs in staff, management and
Head Office
• 26,000 staff, promoted 800 to
management in 2013/14
• 3,000 new staff employed 2013/14
Pret a Manger
• Over 370 outlet chain with £500
million revenue
• Runs school leavers programme
and academy, HQ London
• Pret Foundation offers 60
apprenticeships to homeless
and ex-offenders