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...Guggenheim shocked the baseball world by paying a then-record $2.15bn sum for a Major League franchise....
...In the hotel itself, the suites flowed like high-spec apartments: antique desks, minibars in lacquered oriental cabinets, proper kitchens with tile floors and gallery-hung walls....
...While his name precedes him in the US as the founder of the Las Vegas Sands, prolific Republican party donor and close confidant of Donald Trump (who in 2017 relocated the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv...
...“It’s not really what I wanted to happen; it was a great franchise and I would have much preferred to run it and fix it,” he said....
...“In a boutique you don’t have the balance sheet and product suite to fall back on, so you need people who already have serious, trusted relationships who can bring in business and a network from the start...
...Dubbed an “incredible one-man economic stimulus package”, he developed more than 200 hotels in 40 states, many of them for big-name brands such as Embassy Suites, Radisson and Holiday Inn as well as Marriott...
...“I imagine this being integrated across the Google suite.”...
...There was also a 34 per cent increase in student enrolment in its MyLabs suite of online university courses....
...But al-Qaeda’s success in wounding the CIA could reinvigorate its franchise....
...The deal will transform HHC into a diverse hotel operator with nearly 2,800 hotels in 80 countries, operating under brands including Hilton, Conrad, Doubletree, Embassy Suites, Hampton Inn and Scandic....
...The meeting at the Embassy Suites Hotel, across the road from Nymex’s headquarters in Manhattan, is set to be one of the best-attended in decades, with shareholders flying in from their retirement homes...
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