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Director dealings: Crozier ups Whitbread stake as Premier Inn prepares German expansion

By Iain Gilbert

Date: Wednesday 14 Nov 2018

Director dealings: Crozier ups Whitbread stake as Premier Inn prepares German expansion

(Sharecast News) - Whitbread chairman Adam Crozier purchased 2,000 ordinary shares in the FTSE 100-listed Premier Inn operator.
Crozier, who joined Whitbread from ITV back in 2017, acquired the shares at an average price of 4,561.00p, for a total value of £91,220.

Last month, Whitbread announced a major push into the German hotels market following the sale of its Costa Coffee business to Coca-Cola.

Whitbread chief executive Alison Brittain said the company would pour much of the proceeds of its £3.9bn sale of Costa into expanding its hotels business. She also revealed a "significant proportion" of the cash would be returned to shareholders.

The company intends to increase Premier Inn's presence in Germany, where it currently has just one hotel in Frankfurt, with more hotels to open in Munich and Hamburg in the coming months. It intends to have a total of 33 hotels with 6,000 rooms in Germany by 2021 - making it one of the biggest budget hotel operators in the country.

As of 1630 GMT, Whitbread shares had picked up 2.17% to 4,671p.

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