Wetherspoon Competitors

Established in 1898, we're one of the largest operators of restaurants, pubs and bars in the UK, providing a wide choice of eating and drinking-out experiences through our well-known brands and delivering great service, quality and value for money to our guests.

Greene King is the country’s leading pub company and brewer with c.2,600 pubs, restaurants and hotels across England, Wales and Scotland. At Greene King we are passionate about delivering our purpose to ‘pour happiness into lives’. That’s for our customers, our team, our pub partners, our suppliers and the communities in which we live, operate and serve. Founded in 1799 with offices in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk and Burton on Trent in Staffordshire we employ around 40,000 people across the group with three divisions: Greene King pubs, Destination Brands & Ventures, and Brewing & Brands. • Greene King pubs: Greene King pubs is our mainstream pub brand located where people and communities come together; pubs enjoyed in cities, towns and villages throughout the country with clear ambition to be “The Nation’s Most Loved Pub Brand”. Pub Partners runs our tenanted and leased pubs business and Hive Franchise pubs. • Destination Brands & Ventures: Destination Brands is a portfolio of distinct brands which includes Hungry Horse, Chef & Brewer, Farmhouse Inns and Flaming Grill that bring friends and family together, delivering great service, quality and value for money for a range of eating out and drinking occasions. Venture includes Hickory’s, Premium (Crafted Pubs & Metropolitan Pub Company) and Hotels which operate autonomously of Greene King’s managed pub brands. • Brewing & Brands covers the brewing sides of the business. Quality ales are brewed at the Westgate brewery in Bury St Edmunds and the Belhaven Brewery in Dunbar. Our industry-leading portfolio includes Greene King IPA, Old Speckled Hen, Abbot Ale, Ice Breaker and Belhaven Best and our premium beers, Level Head and Flint Eye, brewed for the modern-day drinker.

Oakman Inns & Restaurants Ltd was founded in 2007, embodied by its first venture, The Akeman in Tring, Hertfordshire. Led by Chief Executive Peter Borg-Neal, Oakman Inns established the unique concept of the ‘modern public house’, and the company’s success has been founded on this market niche. Offering an imaginative Mediterranean and modern British food menu, Oakman Inns are characterised by cooking methods including the Josper Oven and the Wood-Fired Oven, with emphasis on freshness, quality and taste. As new venues have been added to the portfolio there was also the addition of several sites with hotel rooms, beginning with The Kings Arms, Berkhamsted in 2010. The opening of The Beech House Beaconsfield established a landmark move for the company into a more modern High Street vision by converting a former retail outlet which has since been repeated with the opening of four other Beech House venues. Over the past decade a successful expansion plan has been undertaken building a portfolio of over twenty venues adding further sites in Hertfordshire as well as venues in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Warwickshire and Berkshire. As Oakman Inns has grown the company have become aware of it’s effect on the world around them and have made changes to the way the business operates to lessen its impact on the environment, most recently announcing their intention to eradicate the consumption of single use plastics within the group. From the early days, Oakman Inns have been recognised for their work. Within the industry the company have won multiple Publican Awards over the years including Best Employer and Best Community Pub Operator. For the past five years the company have been listed in The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For, receiving a three star accreditation for the past four years, and in November 2017 they were one of 40 UK companies recognised by The Princess Royal Training Award for training excellence.