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ClosedFor profitHospitalityNewport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

Welcome Break

Welcome Break is one of the UKs leading independent motorway service operators and has 27 sites across the UK.

Founded
1959
67 years ago
Staff
1001-5000
1,580 on LinkedIn
Followers
14k
on LinkedIn
Funding
$1.6B
as listed, USD

Welcome Break is one of the UK’s leading motorway service area operators, running 53 service areas and 31 hotels across the UK. Welcome Break amenity buildings, fuel forecourts, EV charging and hotels are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and attract 85 million customers annually. We've been around for over 60 years and are in locations across the UK. Our 5,000+ strong team strive to proudly and passionately offer our customers’ world class hospitality and retail brands such as Starbucks, KFC, Burger King,… Read all

Welcome Break is one of the UK’s leading motorway service area operators, running 53 service areas and 31 hotels across the UK. Welcome Break amenity buildings, fuel forecourts, EV charging and hotels are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and attract 85 million customers annually. We've been around for over 60 years and are in locations across the UK. Our 5,000+ strong team strive to proudly and passionately offer our customers’ world class hospitality and retail brands such as Starbucks, KFC, Burger King, Subway, Waitrose and WHSmith, as well as hotels under the Ramada and Days Inn brands. We are majority owned by Applegreen, a global leading roadside convenience retailer, with operations across the UK, Republic of Ireland and the USA. Our business is about people, the 85 million people who visit our sites each year and the teams who make the business the success it is. Every one deserves to get a warm welcome and enjoyable break with the very best service, facilities, food and drinks we can provide. Providing customers with a welcome break is really important to us. Every day here is as challenging as it is enjoyable, as rewarding as it is fun. We believe that the same should be true once our working day is over, so we do everything we can to make sure our teams can get their work/life balance just right! Everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed at Welcome Break. To make sure that those achievements are recognised, we have many recognition schemes, most of which are peer to peer recognition. What’s more, we work hard to build a culture of openness, listening to customers and our own people so we can identify opportunities to improve service, innovation and engagement.

Set against six million companies

Size

1-1011-5051-100101-250251-500501-10001k-5k5k-10k10k+

1001-5000 people: larger than 97% of companies with a size listed. 1,580 people list it on LinkedIn.

Age

195919002026

67 years old.

Reach

Website ranked #342,519 in the world for traffic, about 110k visits a month. 14,208 followers on LinkedIn.

What it does

WaitroseStarbucksDays InnBurger KingKFCWHSmithBP / ShellKrispy KremePret a MangerRamadaSubwayChopstixPizza Express

What it is known for

waitrosestarbucksdays innburger kingkfcwhsmithbp shellkrispy kremepret a mangerramadasubwaychopstixpizza expressb2cretailservices

What its website runs on

Google Search ConsoleApple Business ManagerApple School ManagerMicrosoft 365Facebook PixelspycloudProofpointAmazon AWSCart FunctionalityWordPress.orgGoogle Tag ManagerGravity FormsCAPTCHAGoogle Analytics Ecommerce TrackingRankMath SEOElement UIGoogle MapsNginx

Funding, as listed

$1.6B raised in total

  • Rounds1
  • LatestUndisclosed, May 2017
  • Latest amountUSD 1,075,800,000
  • Investors1, 1 leading

What the source datasets report. We have not watched these rounds ourselves, and do not hold this company in the startups database.

Annual revenue$382M
Part ofApplegreen Fast Charge
Retail locations5
NAICS721110, 457110

Every detail we hold

Everything the source datasets list about Welcome Break, field by field. Contact details are held but never shown.

The company

Name
Welcome Break
Type
For profit
Status
Closed
Founded
1959
Industry
Hospitality
Specialities
Waitrose, Starbucks, Days Inn, Burger King, KFC, WHSmith, BP / Shell, Krispy Kreme, Pret a Manger, Ramada, Subway, Chopstix, Pizza Express

Where

City
Newport Pagnell
Region
Buckinghamshire
Country
United Kingdom
Markets
Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)
Retail locations
5

Size and reach

Staff band
1001-5000
People on LinkedIn
1,580
LinkedIn followers
14,208
Web traffic rank
#342,519
Monthly web visits
110,300
Annual revenue
$382M

Funding, as listed

Total
$1,640,729,000 USD
Rounds
1
Latest round
Undisclosed
Latest round date
May 2017
Latest amount
1,075,800,000 USD
Investors
1
Lead investors
1
Listing status
private

Corporate family

Part of
Applegreen Fast Charge
Parent website
applegreenelectric.com

Classification

NAICS
721110, 457110
SIC
7011, 5541
Keywords
16 listed, shown above
Technologies
18 detected, shown above

About this record

Sources
Crunchbase, LinkedIn, Apollo
Last imported
Sept 2026

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