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...Choice, whose brands include Quality Inn, Econo Lodge, Clarion and Comfort, has made its $9.8bn buyout offer, including debt, for Wyndham public after the latter walked away following six months of merger...
...The model, which aims to equilibrate price with demand has worked for Uber in ride-hailing and Premier Inn for UK budget hotel stays. Indianapolis Zoo adopted dynamic pricing in 2014....
...sharing jokes with Hancock about mandatory quarantines for arrivals from abroad in early 2021: “I just want to see some of the faces of people coming out of first class [on aircraft] and into a premier inn...
...Pernod Ricard said its whisky brands Jameson and The Glenlivet had shown “solid growth” despite the closure of stores in airports and train stations, which have traditionally been a major sales outlet for...
...A mining company and a double-murder in Missouri Five years ago, two middle-aged South African bikers rolled up in Springfield, Missouri, and checked in to La Quinta Inn....
...(FT) Repurposed ethanol Pernod Ricard is best known for its Jameson whisky and Absolute Vodka brands....
...Then there was The Inn at Little Washington in nearby Virginia, which was co-founded in 1978 by Patrick O’Connell. It was already showered with awards....
...The woman in charge of dressing The Crown this season is Amy Roberts, a 70-year-old costume director whose previous television credits include Prime Suspect, Call the Midwife and Jamaica Inn....
...“Here” is the dining room of the Dundas Arms, a picture-postcard expression of an English country inn, all neat gardens and mature trees, perched between a canal and the River Kennet....
...In February 2014, White Lodging Services Corporation, a hotel management company, reported a breach that began the previous year and affected Renaissance and Holiday Inn hotels....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on March 20, 2019. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...This lengthening – alongside measures to extract more value from Premier Inn’s hotels – is worth asking for, they suggest....
...Last week, Alison Brittain, chief executive of Whitbread, owner of the Costa Coffee and Premier Inn hotel chains, sought to fend off a demand from Scott Ferguson, founder of the New York hedge fund Sachem...
...The activity has continued in recent months, with New York-based Sachem Head taking a small stake in UK-based Whitbread, which runs the Costa Coffee chain and Premier Inn hotels....
...FastFT reports Whitbread, the owner of Costa Coffee stores and the Premier Inn hotel chain, saw sales growth stall at both of its major businesses, and blamed falling consumer confidence across the UK....
...Yet Premier Inn could come to regret its decision to dump this technology, which still plays a bit-part in the hotel trade....
...Wyndham Worldwide, one of the world’s largest hotel groups and owner of the Travelodge, Ramada and Days Inn brands, is spinning off its hotel business and combining its timeshare businesses to create two...
...ODG’s eyewear features “see-through” 3D displays that Pete Jameson, its chief operating officer, says can “replace all the screens in your life”....
...“Our goal when we started working in this space was to basically give you the visual experience that replaces all the screens in your life, in a fully-integrated head worn computer,” said Pete Jameson, ODG...
...“Our goal is to develop a very powerful augmented reality headworn computer — smartglasses that can do pretty much everything your phone and tablet can do, and more,” said Peter Jameson, ODG’s chief operating...
...premium or boutique end of the market, and then the mid-market being significantly squeezed by that growth,” he said, before likening the gym industry to the hotel business: “You’d rather be the Premier Inn...
...Premier Inn and its conjoined restaurant chain came to the rescue with a 9 percent increase in adjusted profits to £271.5m....
...Yet some accuse the chief executive of InterContinental Hotel Group (IHG), operator of brands such as Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza, of failing to spot the disruption coming up from behind in the hotel industry...
...Intercontinental Hotels, which controls the Holiday Inn brand, has raised full year operating profits 4 per cent to $680m, equivalent to 11 per cent underlying....
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