Wetherspoon pubs hit by £144m loss as revenues plummet

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According to the consensus forecast from City analysts, Wetherspoon will report a pre-tax loss of £144.5million for the 12 months to July 24, compared to a £105.4million loss for the same period the previous year. Revenues are expected to have tumbled by a third to £796million.

The loss will be the largest in Wetherspoon’s history.

The annual loss it posted last year was its first since it listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1992.

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Like other leisure groups, Wetherspoon’s business has suffered due to the Covid-19 pandemic and, more recently, shortages of supplies.

In August, it was forced to apologise to customers when a number of its pubs ran out of Coors, Carling and four other beer brands, while earlier this month it was hit by a bread shortage which impacted 13 dishes on its breakfast menu.

The pub sector has been struggling with a shortage of workers and the HGV driver crisis which is causing supply chain problems across a number of industries.

On Thursday Wetherspoon cut the price of all its food and drink by 7.5 percent to highlight how the hospitality sector would benefit from a permanent reduction in VAT, which will rise from 5 percent to 12.5 percent next month.

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