{"id":14252,"date":"2026-01-21T07:53:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=14252"},"modified":"2026-01-21T07:53:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:53:39","slug":"wetherspoon-warns-on-profits-as-costs-rise-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=14252","title":{"rendered":"Wetherspoon warns on profits as costs rise \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Wetherspoon-iphone.png\" alt=\"Wetherspoon\" class=\"wp-image-174918 lazyload\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"516\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Wetherspoon-iphone.png\" alt=\"Wetherspoon\" class=\"wp-image-174918 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Wetherspoon-iphone.png 794w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Wetherspoon-iphone-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Wetherspoon-iphone-768x499.png 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Wetherspoon-iphone-600x390.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Wetherspoon is facing higher costs (pic: Terry Murden)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Pubs group J D Wetherspoon has posted a warning that profits for the first half will be lower than the previous year because of rising costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The chain reported a 4.7% increase in like-for-like sales for the 25 weeks ended 18 January 2026, with bar sales up 6.9% and food sales up 1.3%, though hotel room sales saw a slight decrease of 0.7%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Despite sales growth, increased costs for energy, wages, repairs, and business rates, totalling \u00a345 million in the first 25 weeks, are expected to result in profits for the first half being lower than the previous year, and the full-year trading outcome is anticipated to be slightly below FY25 levels if current sales momentum continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The company has opened six pubs year-to-date and plans for 15 openings in the current financial year, alongside eight franchised pubs opened and an expectation of 10-15 more.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.3) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#Wetherspoon #warns #profits #costs #rise #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wetherspoon is facing higher c&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[266,1372,265,6379,70,613,9779],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}