These objectives include: · completing the complex and critical IT and business system upgrades and improvement programmes, which are delivered by Whitbread shared resources; · delivering the recently upgraded efficiency programme, which will offset a significant proportion of the current high level of industry inflation and minimising disruption to trading and product innovation activities, particularly in the UK; · further develop the international strategies in both Premier Inn and Costa, to strengthen the foundations for long-term profitable growth; and · appropriately managing the Whitbread pension fund deficit and funding facilities and ensuring both Whitbread and Costa have appropriate governance structures in place to thrive as separate entities. Regular updates on progress will be given as part of Whitbread's standard financial reporting cycle. The Board will also begin to consult shareholders in order to align executive incentive structures to this plan.