Treasury Shares Cancellation

Whitbread PLC
09 January 2008



Whitbread PLC: Cancellation of Treasury Shares

9 January 2008

Whitbread PLC ('Whitbread')

Cancellation of Treasury Shares

5,000,000 ordinary shares held as treasury shares by Whitbread were cancelled
today.

Following this cancellation Whitbread now holds 15,133,806 ordinary shares as
treasury shares and has 178,334,786 ordinary shares (excluding the ordinary
shares held as treasury shares) in issue.

For further information:

Daren Lowry
Assistant Company Secretary
Tel: [phone]




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