Whitbread scheme deficit tops £500m

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The deficit for the closed Whitbread defined benefit pension scheme has climbed above £0.5bn despite contributions of £61m from the firm.

The leisure group - which owns Costa Coffee and Premier Inn - revealed in its interim results today that the shortfall had climbed from £488m to £517m on an IAS19 basis in the first half of the yea...

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