Pub chain JD Wetherspoon creates 10,000 jobs with 250 new pubs

1st December 2009, 9:41am

Pub operator JD Wetherspoon today announces (Tuesday December 1) that it is to create 10,000 jobs over the next five years with the opening of 250 new pubs.

It is to invest £250 million on the new outlets over the five year period. The company currently operates 743 pubs across the UK.

Management positions together with jobs for bar and kitchen staff will be available.

The new pubs will be located across the UK, including Sheffield, Livingston, Leominster, Otley, New Malden, Liverpool, Haverfordwest and Newcastle.

Wetherspoon Chairman Tim Martin said: "Our pubs are extremely popular and we wish to build on their success by opening more. I am confident that the new pubs will be an asset to their respective towns and cities."

Wetherspoon has pubs in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and the company opened its first pub in December 1979.

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