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RNS Number : 1448V
Whitbread PLC
26 January 2017
26 January 2017
WHITBREAD TRADING STATEMENT
Good total sales growth of 8.6% for the third quarter
On track to deliver full year results in line with
expectations
Whitbread PLC today reports its trading performance to 1
December 2016.
Sales update (% change vs. prior year)
Sales for the 13 Sales for the 39
weeks to weeks to
1 December 2016 1 December 2016
-------------- ---------------------------------- ----------------------------------
Like for Total sales(*2) Like for Total sales(*2)
like sales*(1) like sales*(1)
-------------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- ----------------
Premier
Inn 1.8% 9.2% 2.2% 9.0%
-------------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- ----------------
Restaurants -1.5% -0.9% -0.2% 0.5%
-------------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- ----------------
Premier
Inn and
Restaurants 0.8% 6.3% 1.5% 6.4%
-------------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- ----------------
Costa 4.3% 12.5% 3.0% 11.4%
-------------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- ----------------
Total 1.7% 8.6% 1.9% 8.3%
-------------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- ----------------
2016/17 39 weeks to 1 December 2016 compared to 2015/16 39 weeks
to 26 November 2015
Alison Brittain, Chief Executive of Whitbread, comments:
"We continue to make good progress against our three point
strategic plan: to grow and innovate in our core UK businesses; to
focus on our strengths to grow internationally; and to build the
capability and platform to support future growth. We remain on
track to open c.3,700 new UK Premier Inn rooms and our committed
pipeline stands at around 14,000 UK hotel rooms. We have also
recently signed two additional sites in Germany (Freiburg and
Essen) taking our committed German pipeline to five hotels. We
expect to open 230-250 net new Costa coffee shops worldwide and to
install at least 1,500 new Costa Express machines, having already
surpassed our previous guidance of 1,250 in the current financial
year.
In the quarter our brands continued to win market share growing
total sales by 8.6% and like for like sales by 1.7%. Trading since
the end of the quarter is such that we expect to deliver full year
results in line with expectations.
Premier Inn grew total sales in the quarter by 9.2%. We have
opened 15 hotels in the UK since the start of the year, increasing
the number of rooms available by 9.7%, whilst maintaining occupancy
at a high level of 84.5%. Like for like sales grew by 1.8%
benefitting from our hotel extension programme which, as expected,
diluted our like for like revpar, which was down 1.3%.
In the quarter, Costa delivered total sales growth of 12.5% and
good like for like sales growth of 4.3%. This performance was
supported by its new advertising and promotional campaigns and
benefitted from the timing of the quarter end, which included a
strong start to the Christmas period. For the comparable period, to
26 November, excluding this timing benefit, Costa's like for like
sales growth was 2.9%(*3) .
Our property strategy is to carry out a modest number of sale
and lease back transactions in order to recycle capital into strong
returning new growth opportunities and we successfully completed
two such transactions in December. We now expect total sale
proceeds for the year to be in the region of GBP200 million. These
transactions highlight the strong asset backing to our balance
sheet and are evidence of how we optimise our significant property
portfolio."
Trading highlights for the period to 1 December 2016:
% change Premier Inn UK(*) (4) Total UK Midscale
vs. prior only market(*) & economy
year (5) market(*5)
---------- ------------
Total Like for Total Total Total
Sales Like revpar revpar revpar revpar
------------ ------ ------------ -------- ---------- ------------
Q3
------------ ------ ------------ -------- ---------- ------------
Total 8.7% -1.3% -1.0% -0.3% -0.4%
------------ ------ ------------ -------- ---------- ------------
Regional 9.0% -0.4% -0.1% 1.4% 0.6%
------------ ------ ------------ -------- ---------- ------------
London 7.4% -4.2% -6.0% -2.2% -3.5%
------------ ------ ------------ -------- ---------- ------------
39 weeks
------------ ------ ------------ -------- ---------- ------------
Total 8.7% -0.6% -0.7% 0.9% 0.9%
------------ ------ ------------ -------- ---------- ------------
Regional 9.5% 0.6% 0.5% 2.9% 2.2%
------------ ------ ------------ -------- ---------- ------------
London 5.7% -4.4% -6.5% -1.6% -3.9%
------------ ------ ------------ -------- ---------- ------------
-- Premier Inn has grown total sales for the 39 weeks by 9.0%,
by continuing to win UK market share, growing like for like sales
by 2.2% and total room nights sold by 8.5% to 14.7 million. As
anticipated total revpar was down 0.7%, compared to the total
market growth of 0.9%, due to the impact of our hotel extensions
programme. Total occupancy remained high at 83.2%, whilst the
number of rooms available increased by 9.5%. In the quarter, revpar
for the total market was down 0.3%, with the non-budget sector
supported by a weaker sterling and higher inbound tourism to
London.
-- Restaurants delivered total sales growth for the 39 weeks of
0.5% with like for like sales down 0.2%, slightly ahead of a soft
pub restaurant market outside the M25.
-- Costa had another good sales performance, growing total
system sales for the 39 weeks by 13.0% to GBP1,317 million (10.4%
at constant currency). Within this, franchise system sales grew by
13.6% to GBP503 million (9.1% at constant currency). Costa UK
Retail grew system sales by 11.6% to GBP708 million.
-- Costa Enterprises grew system sales for the 39 weeks by 9.3%
to GBP322 million respectively, while International system sales
increased by 21.4% to GBP287 million (9.2% at constant currency).
We remain committed to the long-term growth opportunities for Costa
in China, despite a tougher near-term trading environment.
-- Year to date we opened 186 net new stores worldwide and
installed 1,266 Costa Express machines. This exceeds our target for
1,250 installations this year and takes the total number of Costa
Express machines to 6,482, of which 696 are in international
markets. We now expect to install at least 1,500 new Costa Express
machines this financial year.
Notes:
Site detail 3 March Opened Closed 1 December
2016 2017
----------------------------------------- -------- ------- ------- -----------
Premier Inn UK(*6) 64,599 2,056 -322 66,333
----------------------------------------- -------- ------- ------- -----------
Premier Inn Germany 201 201
----------------------------------------- -------- ------- ------- -----------
Premier Inn International 2,164 947 3,111
----------------------------------------- -------- ------- ------- -----------
Total Premier Inn
(rooms) 66,964 3,003 -322 69,645
----------------------------------------- -------- ------- ------- -----------
Restaurants (sites) 409 5 -1 413
----------------------------------------- -------- ------- ------- -----------
Costa Retail Equity 1,196 86 -32 1,250
----------------------------------------- -------- ------- ------- -----------
Franchise 539 71 -1 609
----------------------------------------- -------- ------- ------- -----------
Costa Enterprises 299 13 -3 309
----------------------------------------- -------- ------- ------- -----------
Total Costa UK
Stores
(Retail + Enterprises) 2,034 170 -36 2,168
----------------------------------------- -------- ------- ------- -----------
Costa EMEI 838 83 -50 871
----------------------------------------- -------- ------- ------- -----------
Costa Asia 405 51 -32 424
----------------------------------------- -------- ------- ------- -----------
Total Costa (stores) 3,277 304 -118 3,463
----------------------------------------- -------- ------- ------- -----------
Costa Express Machines*(7) 5,216 1,266 6,482
----------------------------------------- -------- ------- ------- -----------
Total Equity 1,342 107 -39 1,410
----------------------------------------- -------- ------- ------- -----------
Total JV 383 45 -29 399
----------------------------------------- -------- ------- ------- -----------
Total Franchise 1,552 152 -50 1,654
----------------------------------------- -------- ------- ------- -----------
(*) (1) Like for like sales which are stated Pre IFRIC 13
adjustment are for Premier Inn - UK and Ireland and for Costa UK
equity stores and Restaurants - UK. Post IFRIC 13 for the 39 weeks
to 1 December 2016 Premier Inn like for like and total sales would
be 0.1% pt higher; Restaurants like for like sales would be 0.4%
pts higher and growth in total sales 0.4% pts higher; Costa like
for like sales would be 0.3% pts lower, growth in total sales would
be 0.1% pt lower and growth in total system sales 0.1% pt
lower.
(*2) Premier Inn total sales include UK and International, all
other Premier Inn numbers included in this statement relate to UK
and Ireland only.
(*3) 2016/17 13 weeks to 1 December 2016 compared to 2015/16 13
weeks to 3 December 2015.
(*4) Premier Inn UK includes one hotel in Ireland with 155
rooms.
(*5) Hotel market performance data collected by STR Global.
(*6) Includes hub by Premier Inn.
(*7) Costa Express machines installed means net machine
installations.
Conference call for analysts and investors
Alison Brittain and Nicholas Cadbury will be available for a
conference call at 08.00 am today. To participate, dial 0800
6945707 and enter Conference ID: 51525826 or international
participants dial +44 (0)1452 541003.
A recording of the conference call will be available until the
9th February 2017. To listen, dial 0871 7000145 and enter the
passcode 51525826. International +44 (0) 1452 550000.
This service will be active approximately two hours after the
conference call has finished.
Please dial into the call 10 minutes before to ensure you don't
miss the start.
For more information please contact:
Investor Relations
Nicholas Cadbury, Whitbread PLC +44 (0) 20 7806 5491
Joanne Russell, Whitbread PLC +44 (0) 1582 888633
Press Contacts
Anna Glover, Whitbread PLC +44 (0) 7768 917 651
David Allchurch, Tulchan +44 (0) 20 7353 4200
For photographs and video please visit our media library on
www.whitbreadimages.co.uk
Notes to Editors
Whitbread PLC is the owner of the UK's favourite hotel chain,
Premier Inn and the UK's favourite coffee shop, Costa, as well as
restaurant brands, Beefeater, Brewers Fayre and Table Table.
Whitbread PLC employs 50,000 people in over 2,300* outlets
across the UK, with its well-loved brands making every day
experiences special for over 27 million UK customers every
month.
Whitbread has outlined growth milestones for 2018 and 2020. The
2020 milestones are to increase the number of Premier Inn UK rooms
to around 85,000 and to achieve global system sales of around
GBP2.5bn for Costa.
At Whitbread we are committed to being a force for good in the
communities in which we operate. Our CR programme, 'Good Together'
is focused on three pillars of Team & Communities, Customer
Wellbeing and Energy & Environment.
In the year ended 3 March 2016, Whitbread PLC reported a 12.0%
increase in Group Revenue to GBP2,921.8 million and Underlying
Profit before tax of GBP546.3 million up 11.9%.
Whitbread PLC is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a
constituent of the FTSE 100. It is also a member of the FTSE4Good
Index.
*excludes Costa Franchise stores and Costa Express
This information is provided by RNS
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