Wetherspoon to pour £200m into its pubs estate

By Tom Lowe and Hamish Champ2019-12-11T06:00:00

Work involves opening 60 new pubs

JD Wetherspoon will splash out £200m upgrading its estate over the next four years, the pub chain has announced.

Announcing the spending spree, the stock market-listed group – founded by New Zealand-born businessman Tim Martin in 1979 – will spend most of the cash buying up empty buildings and converting them into its pubs and hotels. It will also revamp around 80 existing Wetherspoon venues.

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