Jan 2, 2023
‘Whitbread Stout Gives Strength‘
Whitbread Stout poster for the Belgian market, featuring an elephant pouring a glass of stout (1936).
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‘Whitbread Stout Gives Strength‘
Whitbread Stout poster for the Belgian market, featuring an elephant pouring a glass of stout (1936).
It's been 10 years since one of the largest characters in the history of The Ocean Race left us....
I would hope that everyone at some point gets to have a Magnus in their life. That one person who thinks you're the best thing in the world and who lives life to the absolute fullest.
I worked with him for just a few weeks, but TO THIS DAY when I'm feeling down I say to myself "Magnus thinks you can do it." Because he would tell me that, if he was here.
1949 Mackeson's Stout
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Maiden (2018)
Director: Alex Holmes
Stars: Frank Bough, John Chittenden, Bruno Du Bois
The crew (not all for the whole race) were Tracy Edwards (skipper), Mandi Swan (Amanda Swan Neal), Mikaela Von Koskull, Claire Warren, Michele Paret, Tanja Visser, Sally Creaser, Dawn Riley, Nancy Hill, Jeni Mundy, Jo Gooding (from Leg 2), Sarah Davies (reserve), Kristin Harris (Leg 1) and Angela Farrell.
Seriously how can you not love ketches?
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Hedge funds pressure Whitbread to spin off Costa Coffee
Elliott Advisors, the FTSE 100 firm’s largest investor, believes breaking it up could create £3bn of valueWhitbread is under mounting pressure from hedge funds to break up its business by spinning off the Costa Coffee chain, after activist investor Elliott Advisors built up a stake of more than 6%.The US hedge fund said in a statement on Saturday that it has become the largest investor in Whitbread, which started out as a brewing business but now owns Costa, Britain’s biggest coffee outlet, and Premier Inn, the country’s biggest budget hotel company. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/apr/15/hedge-funds-pressure-whitbread-to-spin-off-costa-coffee
#February 'in the Weald of Kent' by S R Badmin, from the Whitbread Calendar for 1971. #Whitbread
1953 Whitbread Light Ale
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