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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Simon Hunt

Premier Inn expansion ‘helped by fast decline of smaller hotels’

Dreaming big: Premier Inn owner Whitbread is taking on rivals

The rapid expansion of budget hospitality chain Premier Inn is being helped by the “accelerating decline” of the UK’s smaller independent hotels, its owner Whitbread said today.

The company said the independents’ struggle for survival created a “favourable market backdrop” that provided  “increased opportunity for Premier Inn to grow market share”.

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