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Whitbread PLC
21 June 2017
21 June 2017
WHITBREAD TRADING STATEMENT
Whitbread has had a good start to the year with sales growth of
7.6%
Whitbread PLC today reports its trading performance for the 13
weeks to 1 June 2017
Sales update (% change vs. prior year)
Sales for the 13 weeks to 1 June 2017
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Like for like sales*(1) Total sales(*2)
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Premier Inn 4.7% 9.2%
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Restaurants 0.7% 2.1%
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Premier Inn & Restaurants 3.5% 7.0%
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Costa 1.1% 8.7%
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Total 2.9% 7.6%
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Whitbread's Chief Executive Alison Brittain said:
"We have had a good start to the year, with first quarter sales
growth of 7.6%, in line with our expectations. Our continued drive
to grow and innovate in our core UK businesses, focus on our
strengths internationally and build capabilities to support
long-term growth, combined with our ongoing cost efficiency
programme, gives us confidence that we will make further good
progress this year.
Premier Inn continued to win overall market share with strong
sales growth of 9.2% as we benefitted from a resilient hotel market
and the contribution from the c.9,000 rooms we opened over the last
two years, which are maturing well. Our digital development team
continued to innovate for our customers and we launched our
personalised business to business booking platform that helped to
maintain our direct bookings at 94% of sales. We were pleased that
total UK occupancy was up compared to the first quarter last year
at 79.2%, at the same time as we increased our capacity.
Costa sales grew 8.7% with UK equity like for like growth of
1.1% and a good performance in our expanding travel and drive thru
channels. We are focused on executing on our initiatives, rolling
out 'Cold Brew' in over 200 of our stores and our latest summer
Frostino and cooler drinks have just gone on sale this month. We
also successfully introduced our new breakfast range towards the
end of the quarter, with further new food ranges launching
throughout the year. Costa Express continued its expansion with 300
net installations during the quarter. In May we officially opened
our new Roastery giving us capacity to grow over the next 20 years
and provide us with an industry-leading centre for coffee
innovation and training.
Internationally, in Germany our Premier Inn hotel in Frankfurt
is performing well and we continue to develop our current committed
pipeline of five hotels. Meanwhile, in Costa, we are seeing good
progress in China with positive like for like sales growth. We aim
to accelerate the development of our international businesses in
these attractive markets and continue to look for opportunities to
grow more quickly.
In line with our property strategy we completed the sale and
leaseback of our 247 room hotel in Shoreditch, with proceeds of
GBP51 million representing a good yield of just under 4%,
reflecting the strength of Whitbread's covenant. We expect proceeds
of around GBP100-150 million from sale and leaseback transactions
this year.
We have a clear plan to deliver growth in our existing estate
and remain on track to open c.4,200 hotel rooms, 230-250 Costa
coffee shops and install c.1,250 Costa Express machines this
year."
Trading highlights for the 13 weeks (unaudited) to 1 June
2017
Premier Inn
% change vs. prior year Premier Inn UK only Midscale & economy market(3)
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Total sales Like for Like revpar Total revpar Total
revpar
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Q1
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Total 8.9% 2.9% 3.1% 4.1%
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Regional 8.5% 2.9% 2.9% 3.4%
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London 10.2% 3.8% 2.8% 6.8%
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Costa
% change vs. prior year System Sales
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Total Costa 10.2%
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Total Franchise* 11.6%*
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UK Retail 7.9%
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Enterprises 9.5%
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International 17.1%
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At constant Fx, systems sales grew *8.1% Total Franchise, 7.4%
International
Site detail 2 March 2017 Opened Closed 1 June 2017
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Premier Inn UK(4) 68,081 1,011 -4 69,088
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Premier Inn Germany 201 8 - 209
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Premier Inn International 2,943 219 300- 2,862
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Total Premier Inn (rooms) 71,225 1,238 -304 72,159
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Restaurants (sites) 417 - 417
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Costa UK Retail Equity 1,280 15 -2 1,293
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Franchise 624 17 -1 640
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Costa Enterprises 314 28 -5 337
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Total Costa UK Stores (Retail + Enterprises) 2,218 60 -8 2,270
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Costa EMEI 881 16 -17 880
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Costa Asia 433 16 -9 440
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Total Costa (stores) 3,532 92 -34 3,590
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Total Equity 1,439 20 -3 1,456
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Total JV 406 15 -8 413
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Total Franchise 1,687 57 -23 1,721
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Costa Express Machines(5) 6,801 300 7,101
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(*) (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 13 weeks
to 1 June 2017 Premier Inn like for like and total sales would be
the same; Restaurants like for like sales would be 0.3% pts lower
and growth in total sales 0.2% pts lower; Costa like for like sales
would be 0.4% pts lower, growth in total sales would be the 0.2%
pts lower and growth in total system sales would be 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) Hotel market performance data collected by STR Global.
(*4) Includes hub by Premier Inn.
(*5) 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 07.45 am today. To participate, dial 0800
6945707 and enter Conference ID: 30850492 or international
participants dial +44 (0)1452 541003
A recording of the conference call will be available until the
5th July 2017. To listen, dial 0871 7000145 and enter the passcode
30850492. 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
Ann Hyams, 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 is ranked no. 8 in the Sunday Times Best Big Companies
to Work For list and employs around 50,000 people in over 2,400*
outlets across the UK, serving over 28 million customers every
month.
Whitbread has ambitious growth plans 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 by 2020.
At Whitbread we are committed to being a force for good in the
communities in which we operate. Our Sustainability programme,
'Force for Good' is focused on enabling people to live and work
well and is built around three pillars of Opportunity, Community
and Responsibility.
In the year ended 2 March 2017, Whitbread PLC reported an 8.2%
increase in Group Revenue to GBP3.1 billion and Underlying Profit
before tax of GBP565 million up 6.2% .
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
2015/16 comparative period is 52 weeks to 25 February 2016
This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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