JD Wetherspoon's expansion will create 15,000 new jobs over five years
Pubs chain JD Wetherspoon plans to open 200 new outlets over the next five years, boosting its estate to more than 1,000.
The company, one of the few pub groups to escape the downturn relatively unscathed, is to invest more than £400 million developing new sites across the UK and Ireland, creating 15,000 new jobs.
Its Irish business has been at the centre of rows with suppliers and Wetherspoon does not stock products from brewer Heineken and only stocks some products from spirits giant Diageo.
Expansion: JD Wetherspoon plans to open 200 new pubs in the next five years creating 15,000 new jobs
In early December Wetherspoon said Heineken had refused to supply Heineken lager – Ireland’s biggest selling draught beer – and Murphy’s stout.
Wetherspoon said it would no longer trade with Heineken at its 931 pubs in the UK and Ireland – trade worth about £60 million a year.
Despite this the new jobs will be spread across the 200 new pubs, together with extra staff recruited for the company’s existing pubs and head office.
It already employs more than 34,000 staff.
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