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...Blackstone and Starwood Capital came together that year to buy a portfolio of extended stay properties for about $1.5bn....
...Rival funds from Starwood and KKR continued to limit investor withdrawals as of January, according to public filings....
...The first European address for the 1 Hotels brand, which Starwood Capital launched in 2015 in Miami’s South Beach and New York, comes through not just with the (quantifiable) eco creds, but also with what...
...The travel boom is also boosting US long-stay hotels such as Choice, inspiring imitation by the likes of Blackstone and Starwood....
...Bowd and Kevin O’Shea – former executives at André Balazs hotels and the Starwood and Morgans Group respectively – who left the hustle and glamour of their big posts to create hotels where people are, as...
...We made it happen, and it was one of the first iconic W hotels.”...
...Manoukian, Sonesta’s new COO, charged in, hiring a former colleague from Starwood as marketing director and someone below her to focus on branding....
...One of the most high-profile cyber incidents in recent times was the breach of Starwood’s database in 2014, before the group was bought by Marriott, the world’s largest hotel chain....
...“When you meet your unicorn, you don’t question it,” says Kehoe, who was working on design at Starwood Hotels and Resorts. Soon the pair were meeting up at weekends to trawl the Chelsea Flea market....
...He then cruised through the leisure and entertainment sectors as the chief executive of Norwegian cruise line Vail Resorts — which he quickly scaled and took public — and Starwood Hotels, among others, before...
...But Amar Lalvani, chief executive of hotel group The Standard and a former executive at Marriott-owned Starwood, said it would be harder for big hotel companies to adapt to this change in demand: “Decision...
...Days later, the company announced the sale to Blackstone which was partnering with Starwood....
...The private equity group has teamed up with Starwood Capital, sometime creator of Starwood Hotels, to acquire the mid-priced hotel chain....
...Blackstone and Starwood Capital’s recent $6bn deal to buy hotel chain Extended Stay America is another bet on a quick recovery as Covid-19 vaccination programmes are rolled out....
...He held several positions at Marriott before taking the top job, where he oversaw the group’s $13.6bn acquisition of Starwood Hotels & Resorts in 2016, making Marriott the largest hotel group in the world...
...The hotel brands affected included W Hotels, Sheraton Hotels & Resorts and Le Meridien Hotels & Resorts....
...The Hilton-run Palmer House in Chicago, America’s oldest continuously running hotel, is the sole loan backing a 2018 CMBS deal....
...Hotels group Accor of France has been working on a takeover of London-listed InterContinental Hotels to create the biggest company of its kind in the world, Le Figaro reported....
...The stricken hotel sector could be in next in line....
...That same year, Wu was involved in a bitter battle with Marriott to buy Starwood Hotels, at one point offering $14bn for the chain only to abruptly withdraw the bid without explanation days later....
...In 2015, Marriott bought the higher end chain Starwood resorts, while in February this year InterContinental Hotels Group bought the luxury resort spa company Six Senses....
...far better at retaining brand standards and had to invest in many Starwood hotels to complete the necessary transformation)....
...The ICO said it believed the vulnerability began when the systems of the Starwood Hotels group were compromised in 2014....
...Louvre is owned by China’s biggest hotel group, state-owned Jin Jiang International Holdings, which bought it from Starwood of the US in 2015....
...The ICO said that unauthorised access by hackers into the systems of the Starwood Hotels group began in 2014, two years before it was acquired by Marriott, but the exposure of customer information was not...
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