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...Corporate earnings reports out today include Fujifilm, Wheelock, Coal India, Newcrest Mining, Ansell, WH Group and Cyberdyne....
...IHG, whose brands include Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn, pointed to its underlying results, which exclude one-off factors such as asset disposals....
...Brennan, chief executive of Amaris Hospitality, which owns the Jurys Inn chain and runs hotels under the Hilton Doubletree and Accor Mecure brands....
...In case you missed it, last week’s dispatch was all about the fine art of inn-keeping, and how few properties manage to master the business of offering a pleasant environment, complemented by excellent service...
...Other sales over the past few years include a 45 per cent stake in UAE-based valve manufacturer KEF Holdings to Tyco International in March 2011, and four Holiday Inn Express hotels in Dubai....
...Since it was bought by DIC in 2006, Travelodge has been expanding its portfolio in competition with Whitbread’s Premier Inn for the UK budget hotel market....
...Under DIC, Travelodge has been expanding its portfolio in competition with Whitbread’s Premier Inn for the UK budget hotel market....
...Born in the Austrian town of Braunau am Inn, she is the former Piëch family nanny and mother of three of Ferdinand’s 12 children....
...It was when teaching at a kindergarten in Braunau am Inn, upper Austria, in 1982 that the then Ursula Plasser responded to a newspaper advertisement from a family seeking a nanny....
...Under DIC, the group has been expanding its portfolio in a battle with Whitbread’s Premier Inn for the UK budget hotel market....
...Travelodge, which rivals Whitbread’s Premier Inn in the budget market, last year bought 52 sites from Mitchells & Butlers, the pub group, among 96 exchanges in 2010....
...The budget Holiday Inn Express London City charges £12.95, and the Travelodge chain charges £10, while the five-star Shangri-La in Hong Kong offers wi-fi for nothing, as do several other renowned luxury...
...DIC’s regional budget hotel chain Holiday Inn Express is also being touted to potential buyers....
...Travelodge, which has 390 hotels and 28,000 rooms, is the country’s second largest budget hotel operator after Whitbread’s Premier Inn chain....
...Regent Inns, Orchid, and Food & Drink Group, the owner of Jamies wine bar – are among those that have fallen into administration....
...Premier Inn, a subsidiary of the Whitbread leisure group and Britain’s largest budget hotel operator, said in April that its sales had fallen as weekend leisure travellers decided to stay home....
...Enterprise Inns led the mid-cap risers, up 24 per cent to 143¼p as better than expected numbers from Punch Taverns triggered a short squeeze....
...Halifax fights back They are a hardheaded lot in Halifax, where the eponymous building society was founded at the Old Cock inn in 1853....
...Sue Decker, Yahoo’s president, spent about an hour with the pair on Wednesday night in the bar of the Sun Valley Inn while Jerry Yang, Yahoo’s chief executive met the duo after lunch on Thursday....
...Inside the Sun Valley Inn, where most of the conference sessions are being held, Rupert Murdoch and Sir Howard Stringer of Sony shared a grumble about the downturn gripping global markets....
...Whitbread, the owner of Premier Inn, and Dubai International Capital, which controls Travelodge, have broken off talks about merging the two rival hotel chains....
...The hotel chain, which is the second biggest in the UK behind Premier Inn, is expected to publish its latest accounts today, giving a clearer indication of the likely valuation....
...Regent Inns, which owns the Jongleurs, New Orleans and Walkabout chains, said a consumer slowdown would lead to a shortfall in this year’s profits. Additional reporting by Delphine Strauss...
...Premier Travel Inn has 38.2 per cent of the UK market, compared with 22.6 per cent and 12.9 per cent for Express by Holiday Inn, but there are 25 brands in the UK, down to Sleeperz’s single 27-room hotel...
...Premier Inn....
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