Trust Houses Ltd

Sectors:

  • Business services Contract catering
  • Hotel, lodgings & catering services Hotel, lodgings, etc, services

Notes:

Traced origins to 1903 when established as Hertfordshire Public House Trust, a quasi social initiative to revive English rural coaching inns by promoting them as hotels and upgrading them for middle class visitors By 1919 had evolved as Trust Houses Ltd with a chain of 100 hotels; had over 200 by 1939. Mostly based in English country towns. Post war diversified into contract catering with acquisition, inter alia, of John Gardner Catering, subsequently known as Gardner Merchant. 1970 merged with Forte's Holdings Ltd to form Trusthouses Forte Ltd

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