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...The five biggest detractors were Estée Lauder, McCormick, Diageo, Mettler-Toledo and Brown Forman....
...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...
...It was reduced by £746,000, in part due to the two deaths at the Toledo refinery....
...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...
...in an 18th-century olive-oil mill, it has just 25 rooms, remade (“under-made”, and beautifully so, might be more accurate) with natural tones and spare furnishings by Marine Delaloy and Paula Alvarez de Toledo...
...The company bought “huge” quantities of Chicago’s soft red winter wheat futures — sizeable enough that it decreased the relative value of cash wheat that merchants were selling near its flour mill in Toledo...
...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....
...Kraft Foods, which later became Mondelez and Kraft Heinz, bought “huge” amounts of Chicago-listed wheat futures, pushing down the relative price of physical wheat that supplied a company flour mill in Toledo...
...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...
...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...
...Today the place to feel the unspoilt magic of the country as Coppola must have found it more than 30 years ago is the southernmost Toledo district....
...Hillary Clinton this month promised to "strengthen anti-trust enforcement and really scrutinise mergers and acquisitions, so the big don’t keep getting bigger and bigger”, she told a crowd in Toledo, Ohio...
...Premier Inn and its conjoined restaurant chain came to the rescue with a 9 percent increase in adjusted profits to £271.5m....
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