Whitbread Management

Management criteria checks 3/4

Whitbread's CEO is Dominic Paul, appointed in Jan 2023, has a tenure of 1.83 years. total yearly compensation is £2.47M, comprised of 36.5% salary and 63.5% bonuses, including company stock and options. directly owns 0.014% of the company’s shares, worth £765.63K. The average tenure of the management team and the board of directors is 2.3 years and 3.7 years respectively.

Key information

Dominic Paul

Chief executive officer

UK£2.5m

Total compensation

CEO salary percentage	36.5%
CEO tenure	1.8yrs
CEO ownership	0.01%
Management average tenure	2.3yrs
Board average tenure	3.7yrs

Recent management updates

Recent updates

CEO Compensation Analysis

How has Dominic Paul's remuneration changed compared to Whitbread's earnings?
Date	Total Compensation	Salary	Company Earnings
Aug 29 2024	n/a	n/a	UK£239m
May 29 2024	n/a	n/a	UK£275m
Feb 29 2024	UK£2m	UK£900k	UK£312m
Nov 30 2023	n/a	n/a	UK£325m
Aug 31 2023	n/a	n/a	UK£338m
May 31 2023	n/a	n/a	UK£308m
Mar 02 2023	UK£3m	UK£108k	UK£279m

Compensation vs Market: Dominic's total compensation ($USD3.18M) is about average for companies of similar size in the UK market ($USD3.39M).

Compensation vs Earnings: Insufficient data to compare Dominic's compensation with company performance.

CEO

Dominic Paul (53 yo)

1.8yrs

Tenure

UK£2,465,000

Compensation

Mr. Dominic J. Paul is a Director at Whitbread Group PLC since January 17, 2023. He served as Executive Director at Domino's Pizza Group plc since May 1, 2020 until December 30, 2022 and was its Chief Exec...

Leadership Team

Name	Position	Tenure	Compensation	Ownership
Dominic Paul	CEO & Director	1.8yrs	UK£2.47m	0.014% £ 765.6k
Hemantkumar Patel	CFO & Director	2.7yrs	UK£1.61m	0.0096% £ 522.6k
Peter Reynolds	Director of Investor Relations	no data	no data	no data
Caroline Emma Thomas	General Counsel & Company Secretary	1.4yrs	no data	no data
Rachel Howarth	Chief People Officer	3.3yrs	no data	no data
Simon Ewins	Managing Director of UK Hotels & Restaurants	6.1yrs	no data	no data
Mark Anderson	Managing Director of Property & International	8.2yrs	no data	no data
Joe Garrood	Chief Commercial Officer	less than a year	no data	no data
Iain Strachan	Director of Financial Reporting	no data	no data	no data
Erik Friemuth	Chief Executive officer of Premier Inn Germany	less than a year	no data	no data

2.3yrs

Average Tenure

54yo

Average Age

Experienced Management: WTBL's management team is considered experienced (2.3 years average tenure).

Board Members

Name	Position	Tenure	Compensation	Ownership
Dominic Paul	CEO & Director	1.8yrs	UK£2.47m	0.014% £ 765.6k
Hemantkumar Patel	CFO & Director	2.7yrs	UK£1.61m	0.0096% £ 522.6k
Karen Jones	Independent Non-Executive Director	1.8yrs	UK£72.00k	0.0012% £ 63.2k
Richard Gillingwater	Senior Independent Director	6.4yrs	UK£87.00k	0.0011% £ 61.0k
Priscilla Snowball	Independent Non-Executive Director	1.8yrs	UK£72.00k	0.0013% £ 69.2k
Chris Kennedy	Independent Non–Executive Director	8.7yrs	UK£87.00k	0.0018% £ 99.7k
Adam Crozier	Independent Chairman	7.6yrs	UK£433.00k	0.0078% £ 425.6k
Kalvinder Atwal	Independent Non-Executive Director	3.7yrs	UK£72.00k	0.0012% £ 63.2k
Shelley Roberts	Independent Non-Executive Director	less than a year	UK£24.00k	0.00023% £ 12.5k
Frank Fiskers	Independent Non Executive Director	5.8yrs	UK£93.00k	0.0022% £ 118.3k
Horst Baier	Independent Non-Executive Director	5yrs	UK£72.00k	0.0014% £ 75.2k

3.7yrs

Average Tenure

60yo

Average Age

Experienced Board: WTBL's board of directors are considered experienced (3.7 years average tenure).

Whitbread Management

Management criteria checks 3/4

Key information

Recent management updates

Whitbread plc Appoints Shelley Roberts as an Independent Non-Executive Director and Will Also Join the Audit Committee

Whitbread plc, Annual General Meeting, Jun 22, 2023

Whitbread PLC Appoints Dame Cilla Snowball as a Non-Executive Director

Whitbread plc Appoints Dame Karen as Non-Executive Director

Whitbread plc Appoints Dominic Paul to Board Formally on 17 January 2023

Whitbread plc Appoints Jill Anderson as Director of Its Property Acquisition Team

Recent updates

An undisclosed buyer acquired Premier Inn St James's Park and Premier Inn Oxford Westgate from Whitbread plc (LSE:WTB) for £56 million.

Whitbread plc to Report Q3, 2025 Results on Jan 16, 2025

Whitbread PLC completed sale of 51 branded restaurants to an undisclosed buyer.

Whitbread plc Declares Interim Dividend for the First Half to 29 August 2024, Payable on 6 December 2024

Whitbread plc Approves Final Dividend

Whitbread plc to Report First Half, 2025 Results on Oct 16, 2024

Upcoming dividend of UK£0.63 per share

Final dividend increased to UK£0.63

Whitbread plc (LSE:WTB) announces an Equity Buyback for £150 million worth of its shares.

Whitbread plc (LSE:WTB) announces an Equity Buyback for £150 million worth of its shares.

Full year 2024 earnings released: EPS: UK£1.61 (vs UK£1.38 in FY 2023)

Whitbread plc to Report Fiscal Year 2024 Results on Apr 30, 2024

An undisclosed buyer acquired an unknown majority stake in Healthy Retail Limited from Whitbread plc (LSE:WTB).

Whitbread plc Appoints Shelley Roberts as an Independent Non-Executive Director and Will Also Join the Audit Committee

Upcoming dividend of UK£0.34 per share at 2.3% yield

First half 2024 earnings released: EPS: UK£1.48 (vs UK£1.16 in 1H 2023)

New minor risk - Shareholder dilution

Whitbread plc Approves Final Dividend

Whitbread plc to Report First Half, 2024 Results on Oct 18, 2023

Whitbread plc, Annual General Meeting, Jun 22, 2023

Upcoming dividend of UK£0.50 per share at 2.2% yield

Full year 2023 earnings released: EPS: UK£1.38 (vs UK£0.21 in FY 2022)

Whitbread PLC Appoints Dame Cilla Snowball as a Non-Executive Director

Whitbread plc Appoints Dame Karen as Non-Executive Director

Whitbread plc Appoints Dominic Paul to Board Formally on 17 January 2023

Upcoming dividend of UK£0.24 per share

First half 2023 earnings released: EPS: UK£1.16 (vs UK£0.19 loss in 1H 2022)

Whitbread plc Appoints Jill Anderson as Director of Its Property Acquisition Team

Whitbread plc Declares an Interim Dividend, Payable on 16 December 2022

Whitbread plc (LSE:WTB) acquired freehold property on the Strand in central London.

Whitbread plc to Report Fiscal Year 2023 Results on Apr 25, 2023

Whitbread PLC Announces Chief Executive Officer Changes

Whitbread plc Approves Final Dividend

Upcoming dividend of UK£0.35 per share

Full year 2022 earnings released: EPS: UK£0.21 (vs UK£4.82 loss in FY 2021)

Whitbread plc to Report Fiscal Year 2022 Results on Apr 28, 2022

Whitbread plc Announces Directorate Change

First half 2022 earnings released: UK£0.19 loss per share (vs UK£3.77 loss in 1H 2021)

Group Human Resource Director & Executive Director Louise Smalley has left the company

Independent Chairman recently bought UK£200k worth of stock

High number of new directors

Key Executive recently sold UK£649k worth of stock

Full year 2021 earnings released: UK£4.82 loss per share (vs UK£1.46 profit in FY 2020)

Whitbread plc Announces Resignation of Louise Smalley as HR Director

Whitbread PLC Appoints Kal Atwal as Non-Executive Director and Member of the Remuneration Committee

Independent Chairman recently bought UK£100k worth of stock

New 90-day high: UK£34.24

Whitbread plc Announces Appointment of Two New Non-Executive Directors, Effective 1 March 2021

New 90-day high: UK£33.15

Whitbread PLC (LSE:WTB) signed an agreement to acquire Portfolio of 15 hotels in Germany from Centro Hotel Management GmbH for €50 million.

Whitbread PLC to Report First Half, 2021 Results on Oct 27, 2020

Deanna Oppenheimer Non-Executive Director Steps Down from the Board of Whitbread PLC, Effective December 31, 2020

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