THE WORLD'S GAME, THE NATION'S PUB 

Greene King Pubs

With over 2,600 pubs, restaurants and hotels trading under a single, nationally recognised name, Greene King is the UK’s most visible pub brand on the high street.[1] By contrast, the UK’s largest pub company by site count, Stonegate,[2] operates across a fragmented portfolio of different brand names and even its biggest brand, Craft Union, with around 650 pubs,[3] remains largely unknown to the general public. Other Stonegate brands including Slug & Lettuce, Walkabout and Be At One[4] are recognised individually, but most people have no idea they are all owned by the same company.

Sources:

1 Greene King. ‘Greene King: Pubs, Restaurants, Hotels & Brewery’. Greene King, 2026. https://www.greeneking.co.uk. Accessed 29 April 2026.

2 Stonegate Pub Company Limited. ‘Annual Report and Financial Statements, 53 Weeks Ended 29 September 2024’. Stonegate Group, 2025. (States: ‘Stonegate is the largest pub owning company in the United Kingdom, with 4,370 operating sites’.) https://www.stonegategroup.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Stonegate-Pub-Company-Limited-Stats_53-Weeks-Ended-29-Sep-2024.pdf. Accessed 29 April 2026.

3 Caterer, Licensee and Hotelier News. ‘Stonegate Group Invests £100 Million in 2024 to Elevate its Estate’. CLH News, February 2025. (States: ‘The Craft Union estate has now grown to around 650 pubs across the UK’.) https://catererlicensee.com/stonegate-group-invests-100-million-in-2024-to-elevate-its-estate/. Accessed 29 April 2026.

4 Wikipedia. ‘Stonegate Pub Company’. Wikimedia Foundation, 2025. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonegate_Pub_Company. Accessed 29 April 2026.