Whitbread businesses

Beefeater restaurants Pizza Hut TGI Friday's Costa Coffee David Lloyd Leisure Marriott Hotels Travel Inns

The company put the pubs and bars division up for sale in a radical restructuring in October.

Restructuring

It said it wanted to focus on its core hotels and leisure divisions - including Marriott hotels, Pizza Hut restaurants and its David Lloyd Leisure business.

"Whitbread will be a highly focused business concentrating on lodging, eating out and active leisure," the group's chief executive David Thomas said in a statement.

Last year Whitbread sold its brewing interests to Belgium's Interbrew in a �400m deal.

However, the pub sale could be held up because several bidders are understood to be concerned about the details of the contract.

The UK's brewing industry is going through an unprecedented period of consolidation in the face of a declining market for cask ales.

Whitbread shares were trading slightly up at 602p at 0930 GMT Tuesday.