• Wetherspoons was founded in 1979
• The company’s revenue in 2023 was £1.925bn
• Wetherspoons employs 42,208 people
• The name Wetherspoons was taken from one of founder Tim Martin’s former teachers
• The first Wetherspoon pub was on Colney Hatch Lane in Muswell Hill – it was originally called Martin’s Free House
• The company’s head office is in Watford, also home to The Moon Under Water, its 100th pub
• 1998 saw the launch of the Wetherspoons Curry Club
• There are almost 900 Wetherspoons pubs in the UK and Ireland
• There are also over 50 Wetherspoons hotels in the UK