Sunday, October 24, 2010

When Alan Parker moved Whitbread from beer to hotels no-one got it, they do now

After defying his critics and reshaping former brewer Whitbread into a focused budget hotels and coffee shops group, is Alan Parker planning a quieter life after he retires on his 64th birthday next month? It doesn't look like it.
"The day after I retire, I fly to Dubai for two days of meetings," says the departing chief executive.

"I then fly back, fly to Paris for another board meeting, come back and drive to Devon, where I'm chairman of the board of governors at my old school. I hope it's not always going to be like that."

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