Company Story
1898 - Mitchells & Butlers founded by William Mitchell and William Butler
1899 - First pub, the Griffin Inn, acquired in Birmingham
1918 - Company floated on the London Stock Exchange
1964 - Mitchells & Butlers merges with Bass Charrington
1990 - Company demerges from Bass plc and becomes an independent company again
2003 - Acquires 44 pubs from Whitbread
2005 - Acquires 239 pubs from Allied Domecq
2011 - Sells 333 pubs to Stonegate Pub Company
2015 - Acquires 15 pubs from Novus Leisure