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4 Greene King
Key personnel: Rooney Anand, chief executive; Simon Longbottom, Pub Partners MD
The brewery and pub operator unveiled its Project 2020 five-year growth plan, which will focus on growing its c1,000-strong managed estate, developing new ‘all-day’ concepts and improving its operational standards. The company also sold a package of 275 tenanted and leased (T&L) pubs to new pubco Hawthorn Leisure for £75.6m, as part of its strategy to reduce its T&L estate to about 750 sites. After eyeing the Orchid Group, the firm’s enigmatic chief executive Rooney Anand decided to withdraw from the sale process. Longbottom is on gardening leave until October, when he takes over as chief executive of Stonegate Pub Company.