WTBDY - Whitbread plc (WTBCF) Q4 2024 Earnings Call Transcript
2024-05-04 10:34:07 ET
Whitbread plc (WTBCF)
Q4 2024 Earnings Conference Call
April 30, 2024 3:00 AM ET
Company Participants
Dominic Paul - Chief Executive Officer
Hemant Patel - Chief Financial Officer
Presentation
Dominic Paul
Good morning, everyone. I'm Dominic Paul, and I'd like to welcome you to Whitbread's Full Year 2024 Results Presentation. We’re beginning with a remote webcast of our results presentation, followed by a live Q&A session with myself and Hemant Patel, our Group CFO, who you'll be hearing from shortly. Details of how to join the call can be found on our website, and we look forward to answering your questions.
Today, we are going to take you through a review of our performance over the past year, our strategic and commercial plans for full year 2025 and how they are going to drive our business forward in the future and an update on our guidance and outlook, including current trading as well as our latest thoughts on capital allocation.
I want to begin with a summary of our results, followed by an overview of our future growth plans, which underpin our confidence in delivering a step change in our performance over the next few years. In the UK, Premier Inn is the Number One hotel brand, providing high-quality rooms at highly competitive rates. With 92,000 rooms open and committed, we see a significant opportunity for further growth towards our long-term rooms potential of 125,000 rooms....
Whitbread plc (WTBCF) Q4 2024 Earnings Call Transcript