Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou’s easyGroup has lost a legal battle with Premier Inn after the High Court dismissed ...

Premier Inn's headline performance number wasn't great. Revenue per available room was down 2.5% year-over-year in the third quarter. But in hotels, like in life, context is everything. Whitbread, ...

The UK's largest hotel brand has had to change its marketing after a complaint to the advertising regulator - removing claims which said buying early means getting the best price. The complaint ...

Premier Inn is a popular budget hotel brand in the UK and can be recognised by its signature purple and white colour scheme. Most of the hotels have similar features, like the room layouts, but one ...

The company also announced plans to sell and then rent back £1.5bn of the properties it owns across the UK and Ireland.

The owner of Premier Inn is to cut 3,800 jobs in the UK and Ireland as part of a five-year plan to save £250m and overhaul its restaurants. Whitbread, based in Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire, also said ...