DOCSLIB.ORG

Enlightened Issue 5:Layout 1.Qxd

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Enlightened Issue 5:Layout 1.Qxd enlightened The Northern Lights Magazine Issue 5 In this issue: The Whitbread Brands: Premier Inn Costa Coffee Brewers Fayre Beefeater Grill Table Table Taybarns SEA Design Group Alton Towers Resort Philips OLED LED Driver Guide What’s New? Contents Project Focus: 4 An in-depth look at the Whitbread Brands Designer Profile: 10 Working with SEA Design Group and how they are taking the Whitbread brand forward Production Focus: 12 Celebrating the opening of Alton Towers Resort new steampunk inspired bedrooms Supplier Spotlight: 14 Philips talk about OLEDs and their Lumiblade fitting Factory Feature: 20 We take a step by step trip through our in-house finishing techniques Technical Talking Point: 22 A guide to LED Drivers, what they are and how to use them What’s New?: 24 Our latest designs and product releases In other news: 26 A little more on recent events at Northern Lights 2 enlightened Welcome With a bullish start to the Northern Lights in the Middle East region. This is a new year, summer is almost very exciting appointment for us Although we have upon us and the outlook for been active in the Middle East for some time, the rest of 2013 is looking teaming up with Vann Furniture and Interior Design very positive as well. This is is already making a big difference to our presence good news considering the in the area and we have already seen a big relatively flat 2012 and we increase in enquiries and interest in our products. hope this positive trend continues. The second appointment is Lu Benbin (Jimmy) who takes up the position of Production Manager for Last year we took the our Chinese operations. Although we have worked opportunity to invest in indirectly with Jimmy for a long time he is now some aspects of our business, restructuring the directly employed by Northern Lights and we can workforce and investing in new technology and proudly announce that we now have our own machinery. We decided to bring certain processes Chinese office. Again we have already noticed in-house which had traditionally been done by what a great difference this move has made and external laser cutting and plastics companies. To we only see our dealings with China going from this end we invested in a CNC plasma cutting strength to strength. machine and a CNC routing machine. This has enabled us to streamline a variety of processes in We feel the need to give ourselves a little pat on the factory. Quite how we managed before we the back having recently achieved SSIP acquired this new machinery is a bit of a mystery! accreditation (Safety Schemes in Procurement) As always, being able to do things in-house has which is Altius Approved. Although this took a lot many advantages including keeping costs down of hard work we are really pleased to have finally and improving efficiency and the turnaround of attained this. You will see in the ‘other news’ orders. section more information about the Altius scheme and what its implications are for Northern Lights 2013 has already seen some big developments which we will cover in more detail in the ‘other We hope you enjoy reading the fifth edition of our news’ section at the back of this issue. We have a Enlightened magazine new Northern Area Sales Manager, Paul Harrison, who has joined us from GN Design. Paul replaces Martin Kallend who left us towards the end of 2012. Frances Conlon We also welcome the first of our two new Financial Director international appointments. Espino Soodbakhsh of Northern Lights (Chesterfield) Ltd Vann Furniture and Interior Design will represent enlightened 3 Northern Lights... ‘doing it the Whitbread Way’! We have been suppling lighting to every one of the Whitbread Brands for several years. Here we take a closer look at each brand and its lighting... Northern Lights have now been ‘doing it the Whitbread way’ for nearly 20 years. We started supplying one or two project managers in the early 1990s on small Beefeater refurbishments, being one of several suppliers to the restaurant division. Since then we have become the main supplier to all Whitbread restaurants and Premier Inns. We have been supplying Premier Inn with all of their front of house and bedroom lighting since 2005. 4 enlightened We are also the major supplier to Costa Coffee. We manufacture fittings for Costa coffee which are shipped all over the UK, Europe and excitingly now, the Far East. Our first recorded involvement in Costa Coffee was way back in 1996. Since then we have supplied lighting to hundreds of Costa Coffee sites both old and new. It has been a privilege to have been involved in the development and growth of such a successful brand which is still going from strength to strength and is one of the best known high street brands currently in the UK. Over the last ten years the face of our high streets has changed considerably. Throughout this period Costa Coffee has always been able to adapt to meet new trends and maintain the presence it has so successfully created. At Northern Lights our ability to evolve alongside this ever- changing market has allowed us to develop our partnership with Whitbread even further. We are sure that at some point most of our readers will have tasted the success that is Costa Coffee. enlightened 5 Everything’s Premier... even the lighting! Premier Inn is the largest hotel brand in the UK and Northern Lights are proud to be the sole supplier since 2005. There are over 600 Premier Inn hotels located all over the UK and Ireland. This means that you’ll find a good night guaranteed and a warm welcome in most cities and towns. You can also find Premier Inns close to many popular tourist attractions, seaside towns, airports and along major roads. Working with Whitbread and their various construction partners we have supplied over 31,000 rooms in the UK and abroad. There is a full program of new build Premier Inns along with extensions to existing hotels. We are also undertaking various refurbishment programs where Whitbread are upgrading their older rooms to their current specification. 6 enlightened What else helps make Premier Inn so premier? King-size Hypnos beds in most hotels Cosy Fogarty duvets and pillows Powerful showers in all rooms and baths in most Freeview TV with 80 TV and radio channels in most hotels WiFi and desk should you need to work in your room Imperial Leather shower gel, tea and coffee making facilities and a hair dryer Blackout curtains for a peaceful night's sleep and of course the fabulous lighting! In addition to the rooms we also supply all the front of house fittings to the Whitbread ‘stand-alone’ restaurants i.e. Thyme and Kitchen – which are within the hotel. Whitbread’s continual drive to expand and improve their estate creates many challenges for us on a daily basis. Our ability to manufacture in Chesterfield and import from our factories in China enables us to meet those challenges and provide continuity of supply. Whitbread has said it wants the number of rooms at Premier Inn to grow by 45% to 75,000 by 2018 and it wants to increase sales at Costa Coffee to £2bn. It also said the plans would create 12,000 jobs over the next five years. enlightened 7 The Restaurant Division... has been through many changes over the years with all the Whitbread core branches having to evolve in order to remain competitive, innovative and current, be it the more fine dining approach of Table Table and Beefeater or the more value community offerings of Brewers Fayre & Taybarns. During all of these changes Northern Lights have been a constant - working with Whitbread designers to deliver lighting solutions for all the brands. In addition to working with the designers on the aesthetic elements the estate, we also work with various Whitbread departments regarding energy efficiency.. To this end in 2010 we undertook the daunting task of converting the whole of Whitbread’s restaurant chains to LED (approximately. 360 restaurants). This took about four months and involved the supply of over 50,000 LED units and associated fittings to five electrical teams countrywide. To accommodate the roll-out we had to set up a designated team of eight people in an additional temporary factory space. They were overseen by our Sales Manager, Donna Bruce. To summarise our involvement with the restaurant division – they ask, we do! 8 enlightened At Beefeater our expert Relaxed and intimate Enjoy more of what you love. A Choose from a huge range chefs chargrill most of our or vibrant and buzzing, Brewers Fayre pub restaurant is of quality food, freshly food, adding to its flavour we’ll find exactly the the perfect place to enjoy classic prepared in front of you and ensuring it’s cooked to right setting for you to pub food with family and friends and all at one fixed price, your liking. We also offer a enjoy great value food. at great value prices. Most of that’s great value for range of healthy salads our restaurants now feature an money. and vegetarian dishes. all you can eat Buffet Place. enlightened 9 Working With... In keeping with the Whitbread around a meaty theme - but rest assured, there’s no 5th quarter butchery on the walls or the plates. theme we talk to one of the design Thanks to Northern Lights we were able to install teams working with Whitbread to some great functional features, tying the ceiling- scape with eye-level references including key pieces keep the brand’s identity moving such as the upholstered box light, mirroring feature plaid furniture fabrics & oversized pendants with forward..
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Differences in Energy and Nutritional Content of Menu Items Served By
    RESEARCH ARTICLE Differences in energy and nutritional content of menu items served by popular UK chain restaurants with versus without voluntary menu labelling: A cross-sectional study ☯ ☯ Dolly R. Z. TheisID *, Jean AdamsID Centre for Diet and Activity Research, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United a1111111111 Kingdom a1111111111 ☯ These authors contributed equally to this work. a1111111111 * [email protected] a1111111111 a1111111111 Abstract Background OPEN ACCESS Poor diet is a leading driver of obesity and morbidity. One possible contributor is increased Citation: Theis DRZ, Adams J (2019) Differences consumption of foods from out of home establishments, which tend to be high in energy den- in energy and nutritional content of menu items sity and portion size. A number of out of home establishments voluntarily provide consumers served by popular UK chain restaurants with with nutritional information through menu labelling. The aim of this study was to determine versus without voluntary menu labelling: A cross- whether there are differences in the energy and nutritional content of menu items served by sectional study. PLoS ONE 14(10): e0222773. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222773 popular UK restaurants with versus without voluntary menu labelling. Editor: Zhifeng Gao, University of Florida, UNITED STATES Methods and findings Received: February 8, 2019 We identified the 100 most popular UK restaurant chains by sales and searched their web- sites for energy and nutritional information on items served in March-April 2018. We estab- Accepted: September 6, 2019 lished whether or not restaurants provided voluntary menu labelling by telephoning head Published: October 16, 2019 offices, visiting outlets and sourcing up-to-date copies of menus.
    [Show full text]
  • Gourmet Society Offer Code
    Gourmet Society Offer Code Cecil is screeching and repudiating pitiably while maledictive Kareem heal and neoterizing. Whitney overbuild andante. Somerset deconsecrate his voodooists cools regrettably, but following Waldo never fame so bearably. Do you want to dine out more, for less? Only a specific number of the available rooms in the participating hotels are designated for this promotion. It will definately become a regular! The most beloved restaurants Australia has to offer. BA Executive Club questions answered! For those going broke from dating. In some cases, companies may use your data without asking for your consent, based on their legitimate interests. Free Gap Insurance for the term of the agreement when leasing any vehicle, for University of Southampton Alumni. Greet service for that special VIP touch. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc. We are new to the town and picked this restaurant pretty much randomly! Deals at Gourmet Society UK today! She has years of experience working in retail and tourism and as an avid budget traveller, she loves helping people find the best deals on everything from plane tickets to sunglasses. The University of Southampton accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever in relation to such services. Not valid in conjunction with any other offer or set menu, including the lunch, specials, breakfast and kids menus. Press J to jump to the feed. Monday to Wednesday throughout August at many of our pubs! Proof of similar to grand country pub with modern, save money whenever possible to your vouchers and opportunities to offer code. As well as you may be shown on your postal services.
    [Show full text]
  • Interactive PDF
    Annual Report and Accounts 2017/18 Interactive PDF User guide This PDF allows you to find information and navigate around this document more easily. Links in this PDF The table of contents, key page references and URLs (e.g. www.whitbread.co.uk) are linked in this PDF. Clicking on them will take you to the corresponding page in the document or web page online by opening a new window in your default web browser. You can also navigate the document using the buttons described below. Guide to buttons Back to user guide Sear ch this PDF Print options Pr eceding page Ne xt page Las t visited page WorldReginfo - 2bee309d-1aec-49bd-b06a-6de4a08a90dc Delivering on our strategy... Annual Report & Accounts 2017/18 WorldReginfo - 2bee309d-1aec-49bd-b06a-6de4a08a90dc ...to bring customers brands they love Our vision We will grow brands that customers love by building a strong Customer Heartbeat and innovating to stay ahead. Our Winning Teams delight customers so they come back time and again which, along with our focus on Everyday Efficiency, drives Profitable Growth. We are passionate about being a Force for Good in our communities, helping everyone to live and work well. In this document Overview Consolidated accounts 2017/18 01 Financial highlights 92 Directors’ responsibility statement 02 Business overview 93 Independent auditor’s report 101 Consolidated financial statements Strategic report 107 Notes to the consolidated 04 Chairman’s statement financial statements 06 Chief Executive’s review 08 Business Model Company accounts 2017/18 10 Key performance
    [Show full text]
  • Whitbread PLC – CRC Participant Case Study
    Whitbread PLC – CRC Participant Case Study Whitbread is the UK’s largest hotel and restaurant group, operating market-leading businesses in the budget hotel and restaurant sectors. Our brands are Premier Inn, Beefeater, Table Table, Brewers Fayre, Taybarns and Costa Coffee. Whitbread employs over 40,000 people and serves nine million customers every month in over 2000 outlets across the UK. Whitbread’s vision is to be the most customer-focused hospitality company in the world guided by the genuine, committed and confident values held by its employees. Since the beginning of the CRC we have worked hard to ensure that as a growing company we performed well in the CRC Public League Table, both to ensure a good reputation but also to limit our exposure to unnecessary costs. Having secured a high proportion of the Early Action Metric in the first couple of years our next plan was to ensure that as we grew the portfolio we decoupled the growth in business from a growth in CO2 emissions. High class performance new buildings Our strategy is to make sure that we refurbish our existing hotels to enhance their energy efficiency and to build new hotels to the highest sustainable standards that we realistically can. This year our hotel and restaurant development in Barry, South Wales, became the latest Whitbread hotel and restaurant to be awarded BREEAM excellent, making it one of the greenest and energy efficient in South Wales, and has been adopted enthusiastically by Barry residents. Premier Inn Barry is an 80-bedroom hotel and Brewers Fayre restaurant at the Innovation Quarter regeneration scheme on Barry Waterfront, South Wales.
    [Show full text]
  • Interactive PDF Whitbread PLC Annual Report and Accounts 2013/14
    Whitbread PLC Annual report and accounts 2013/14 Interactive PDF User guide This PDF allows you to find information and navigate around this document more easily. Links in this PDF Words and numbers that are underlined are links – clicking on them will take you to further information within the document or to a web page (which opens in a new window) if they are a url (e.g www.whitbread.co.uk). Guide to buttons Back to user guide Search this PDF Print options Preceding page Next page Last visited page Annual Report and Accounts 2013/14 “ Making everyday experiences special” Overview Financial highlights Whitbread has delivered another year of strong double–digit growth in sales, profit and dividend. p1/5 More on our financial performance p4 Chairman’s statement p6 Chief Executive’s review p38 Finance Director’s review Total revenue Underlying basic EPS2 report Strategic £2,294.3m +13.0% 179.02p +20.1% m p m p p6/43 m p m p Underlying profit 2 before tax Full–year dividend £411.8m +16.5% 68.80p +19.9% m p m p Governance m p m p 3 4 Group return on capital Cash flow from operations p44/81 13.9%1 to 15.3% £526.0m to £601.3m Net debt Group like for like sales £471.1m to £391.6m Up 4.2% 1 Restated for the impact of IAS 19 (revised 2011). 3 Return on capital is the return on invested capital 2013/14 accounts Consolidated See Note 2 of the consolidated financial statements which is calculated by dividing the underlying profit for 2012/13.
    [Show full text]
  • Macroevolutionary Systematics of Streptotrichaceae of the Bryophyta and Application to Ecosystem Thermodynamic Stability
    Macroevolutionary Systematics of Streptotrichaceae of the Bryophyta and Application to Ecosystem Thermodynamic Stability — Richard H. Zander 2017 Zetetic Publications, St. Louis Richard H. Zander Missouri Botanical Garden P.O. Box 299 St. Louis, MO 63166 U.S.A. [email protected] Zetetic Publications in St. Louis produces but does not sell this book. Amazon.com is a ready source, and any book dealer can obtain a copy for you through the usual channels. Resellers please contact CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform of Amazon. ISBN-13: 978-1974188680 ISBN-10: 197418868X © Copyright 2017, all rights reserved. Portions of this book may be freely copied by other scientists and reused in publications without permission as long as proper attribution is made. The image on the cover of this book is of the “clocks” or seed heads of the common dandelion. These represent the radiation of descendant species in dissilient genera. As hubs of scale-free and small-world networks, dissilient genera help sustain survival, through evolutionary and ecologic redundancy, of both the family Streptotrichaceae and the ecosystems of which that family is a significant floristic element. The illustration on the title page shows the theoretical evolution of a dissilient genus through time, from a core progenitor on the left, through radiation of more specialized descendant species or lineages, to gradual extinction of most species, only leaving, in this case, a specialized descendant. TABLE OF CONTENTS PART 1: METHODS Chapter 1. Introduction ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    [Show full text]
  • Investigating Value Propositions in Social Media: Studies of Brand and Customer Exchanges on Twitter
    Investigating Value Propositions in Social Media: Studies of brand and customer exchanges on Twitter Mostafa Alwash A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy At the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand June 2019 Abstract Social media presents one of the richest forums to investigate publicly explicit brand value propositions and its corresponding customer engagement. Seldom have researchers investigated the nature of value propositions available on social media and the insights that can be unearthed from available data. This work bridges this gap by studying the value propositions available on the Twitter platform. This thesis presents six different studies conducted to examine the nature of value propositions. The first study presents a value taxonomy comprising 15 value propositions that are identified in brand tweets. This taxonomy is tested for construct validity using a Delphi panel of 10 experts – 5 from information science and 5 from marketing. The second study demonstrates the utility of the taxonomy developed by identifying the 15 value propositions from brand tweets (nb=658) of the top-10 coffee brands using content analysis. The third study investigates the feedback provided by customers (nc=12077) for values propositioned by the top-10 coffee brands (for the 658 brand tweets). Also, it investigates which value propositions embedded in brand tweets attract ‗shallow‘ vs. ‗deep‘ engagement from customers. The fourth study is a replication of studies 2 and 3 for a different time-period. The data considered for studies 2 and 3 was for a 3-month period in 2015. In the fourth study, Twitter data for the same brands was analysed for a different (nb=290, nc= 8811) 3-month period in 2018.
    [Show full text]
  • 2016 Food Service
    THIS REPORT CONTAINS ASSESSMENTS OF COMMODITY AND TRADE ISSUES MADE BY USDA STAFF AND NOT NECESSARILY STATEMENTS OF OFFICIAL U.S. GOVERNMENT POLICY Required Report - public distribution Date: 12/13/2016 GAIN Report Number: United Kingdom Food Service - Hotel Restaurant Institutional 2016 Approved By: Stan Phillips – Agricultural Counselor Prepared By: Julie Vasquez-Nicholson Report Highlights: This report provides an overview of the UK foodservice industry and its various sub-sectors. It describes how the various sectors work and provides contact information for all the main groups within the industry. Healthy food options are the hottest trend in the HRI sector which remains receptive to new American products. Post: London Author Defined: SECTION I – MARKET SUMMARY The hotel, restaurant and institutional (HRI) market is the UK’s fourth largest consumer market following food retail, motoring, and clothing and footwear. The HRI market provides prepared meals and refreshments for consumption, primarily outside the home. State of the market: In 2015 the UK foodservice sector (food and beverage sales to consumers) was estimated to be worth £47.9 billion ($62.2 billion). This was an increase of 2.8 percent on 2014. The food service sector is clearly an enormous market and is one that can provide many opportunities for prepared U.S. exporters. Although eating out is a way of life for many UK consumers, the number of times people eat out and the type of place where they eat are dictated by how much they want to spend. In the past year we have seen consumers wanting to eat out more and spend more.
    [Show full text]
  • 2 Study the Information Provided About Whitbread Plc and Answer
    2 Study the information provided about Whitbread plc and answer the questions that follow. Whitbread Yesterday and Today Samuel Whitbread, the original founder of the business, was born in 1720. He began his apprenticeship in 1736 and, for the next few years, learned all about how to brew beer. Samuel founded his first brewery six years later. In 1750 he created the first purpose-built mass- 5 production brewery in the UK, located in London. Over the following years, Whitbread became a household name throughout the country as brewers of fine beer. In 2001 Whitbread plc changed direction completely. It sold its breweries and left the pub and bar business to refocus on the growth areas of hotels and restaurants. Today the company owns some of the UK’s most successful hospitality brands, including Premier Inn, Costa Coffee 10 and four restaurant chains: Beefeater Grill, Table Table, Brewers Fayre and Taybarns. Number of Premier Inn hotels, restaurants and Costa outlets in the UK and overseas Premier Inn Restaurants Costa UK and Ireland 640 UK 392 UK 1392 Overseas 12 Overseas 811 Geographical location of operations Europe Russia Latvia Ireland United Kingdom Poland Czech Republic Ukraine Hungary l Serbia Bulgaria Portuga Montenegro Greece Cyprus © WJEC CBAC Ltd. (1083-01) 3 Asia and the Middle East a China Lebanon Syri Jordan Kuwait Bahrain Egypt Saudi Qatar Arabia U.A.E. India Oman The countries in grey on the maps represent the countries in which Whitbread plc has 1083 010003 either Costa outlets or Premier Inns. Whitbread plc’s ‘Success to Legend’ Strategy According to the company, its strategy is to create substantial sustainable value for its shareholders by building strong brands based on consistently delivering a great customer experience.
    [Show full text]
  • Measuring Performance in the Licensed House Industry
    University of Huddersfield Repository James, Aidan M Measuring Performance in the Hospitality Industry: An evaluation of the Balanced Scorecard approach in the UK’s Licensed Retail Sector Original Citation James, Aidan M (2009) Measuring Performance in the Hospitality Industry: An evaluation of the Balanced Scorecard approach in the UK’s Licensed Retail Sector. Masters thesis, University of Huddersfield. This version is available at http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/9058/ The University Repository is a digital collection of the research output of the University, available on Open Access. Copyright and Moral Rights for the items on this site are retained by the individual author and/or other copyright owners. Users may access full items free of charge; copies of full text items generally can be reproduced, displayed or performed and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided: • The authors, title and full bibliographic details is credited in any copy; • A hyperlink and/or URL is included for the original metadata page; and • The content is not changed in any way. For more information, including our policy and submission procedure, please contact the Repository Team at: [email protected]. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/ Measuring Performance in the Hospitality Industry: An evaluation of the Balanced Scorecard approach in the UK’s Licensed Retail Sector Aidan Michael James BA (Hons) A thesis submitted to the University of Huddersfield in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy.
    [Show full text]
  • Statistics 480
    Statistics 480 Statistical Computing Applications Project 2 – Server survey April 2007 Introduction During summer 2006, Professor William Michael Lynn of the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, collected tipping information from more than 2,400 waiters and waitresses from all over the world. Through an online survey, he collected data not only on waiters/waitresses habits and characteristics, but also on restaurants where they work and their clientele. With seventy-seven variables and more than 2,400 observations, this dataset is a marvelous source of information to study the complex relationships between the waiters’/waitresses’ behaviors and the tip they receive, to observe the tipping trends from a geographical perspective, to evaluate the influence of ethnical parameters on tipping habits … In this study, we will focus our analysis on the servers. We will develop a guide that will provide servers information on how they should behave to increase their tip. We are conscious that an extensive study of these elements would require the use of all available variables (especially those in relation with customers) but this would make the report more complex whose primary goal is to provide useful and accessible information. Thus, we will first provide a description of the global dataset. This could be useful to future investigators that may choose to focus their analysis on a different topic. We will then conduct the analysis of three main elements. Primarily, we will investigate relationships between the percentage of tip from a world perspective by comparing tips received in the USA and Canada where tipping is a cultural element with the tips received in other countries.
    [Show full text]
  • Whitbread PLC 16 June 2009
    RNS Number : 9401T Whitbread PLC 16 June 2009 Tuesday 16 June 2009 WHITBREAD AGM AND INTERIM MANAGEMENT STATEMENT TOTAL GROUP SALES INCREASE BY 2.5% Whitbread PLC, the UK's largest hotel and restaurant group, today reports its trading performance for the 13 weeks to 28 May 2009 at its Annual General Meeting. Sales for the 13 weeks to 28th May 2009 % change vs. prior year Like for like sales Total sales Premier Inn (7.9) (0.2) Pub Restaurants 2.0 (2.3) Whitbread Hotels and (3.7) (1.1) Restaurants Costa 2.6 18.5 Total (2.7) 2.5 Alan Parker, Chief Executive Officer of Whitbread PLC comments: Whitbread has started the new financial year in line with our expectations with total sales up 2.5%, despite the harsh economic conditions. Against tough comparatives, Premier Inn has seen flat total sales for the first quarter and like for like sales move backwards by (7.9%) with revenue per available room down (9.6%). In the declining market, we have maintained sales through our Business Account card, with total accounts increasing 14% year on year. We plan to build on our position by continuing to offer value for money and a strong focus on sales, which includes widening our reservation network and implementing the next phase of our new revenue management system. As announced at the annual results in April, we also intend to expand our share of the leisure market. This month we launched Premier Offers*, with hotel rooms from just £29 per room per night. In the period we opened six new hotels and 838 new rooms and are on course to deliver some 2,000 new rooms in the UK and overseas this year.
    [Show full text]