M&A activity [big deals/small deals]
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Whitbread has vowed to continue to search for hotel acquisition opportunities after completing a £44m deal to buy Golden Tulip last week.
Posted: 04 October 2007 | 11:00
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is reportedly putting four hotels worth up to £650m up for sale, including the landmark Waldorf Hilton and Cumberland hotels in London.
Posted: 03 October 2007 | 12:30
Restaurant and café operator Gourmet Holdings has acquired Amato, a café and patisserie in London, as its first step to diversify its business and revive its fortunes.
Posted: 01 October 2007 | 12:30
Capital Pub Company has splashed out £5.75m on two freehold pubs in London owned by Puzzle Pub Company.
Posted: 28 September 2007 | 11:04
Premier Travel Inn owner Whitbread has bought Golden Tulip UK for £44m.
Posted: 26 September 2007 | 13:28
Growth at Malmaison and Hotel Du Vin has not suffered in the first six-months of the year despite the failure of parent company Marylebone Warwick Balfour (MWB) to find a buyer for the boutique hotel chains.
Posted: 25 September 2007 | 11:39
Inventive Leisure, parent company of Revolution vodka bars, has become a 100% leasehold company after selling freeholds on nine of its bars in the North and Midlands.
Posted: 25 September 2007 | 10:55
Oxfordshire’s Four Pillars Hotel group has been bought by US property investment company RREEF, the real estate investment arm of Deutsche Bank.
Posted: 23 September 2007 | 12:00
Well, its one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, now go, cat, go. The panic that has rocked the financial world all the way from the US mortgage crisis to Britain’s Northern Rock building society stepped on the shoes of several leading hospitality firms this week.
Posted: 21 September 2007 | 16:45
TV chef Jamie Oliver has denied that he plans to buy Little Chef after reports earlier today suggested his production company was in talks over making a £20m bid for the troubled roadside restaurant chain.
Posted: 21 September 2007 | 15:44
Orient Express Hotels has declined proposals for a strategic alliance with the Indian Hotels Company (IHCL), reiterating its desire to continue as an “independent company”.
Posted: 21 September 2007 | 11:32
TV chef Jamie Oliver’s production company is understood to be in talks over a bid for troubled roadside restaurant chain Little Chef. Fresh One Productions is reportedly weighing up whether to make a £20m offer for Little Chef and include the group in a new reality TV show.
Posted: 21 September 2007 | 11:23
Marylebone Warwick Balfour (MWB) today revealed it has delayed the sale of Malmaison and Hotel du Vin until financial conditions become more stable.
Posted: 20 September 2007 | 11:42
The poor summer season for Britain's seaside resorts has taken its toll on Blackpool as the town winds down for the winter break with 220 hotels and guesthouses, worth a total of £57m, on the market.
Posted: 20 September 2007 | 10:00
By Christopher Walton Smollensky's, the grill restaurant chain famous for its 21-year flagship on London's Strand, has been sold to a private equity...
Posted: 20 September 2007 | 09:00
Leisure giant Whitbread is reportedly poised to agree a deal worth more than £40 million to acquire hotel group Golden Tulip UK.
Posted: 19 September 2007 | 16:16
Hilton Hotels Corporation shareholders have overwhelmingly approved the proposed £10b takeover by private equity firm The Blackstone Group.
Posted: 19 September 2007 | 12:40
The husband-and-wife team who ran the George hotel in Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight have left the Michelin-starred property and taken over the Neptune Inn in Old Hunstanton, Norfolk, Caterer can reveal.
Posted: 13 September 2007 | 13:00
Las Vegas has always had a dark underbelly due to its historic ties with the mob but news that Caesars Palace has settled a sexual harassment lawsuit involving kitchen workers forced to have sex with supervisors or lose their jobs has to be a new low.
Posted: 31 August 2007 | 18:00
Peel Hotels has sold its freehold property, the Avon Gorge hotel in Bristol, together with the associated staff house at Caledonia Place for £15.5m.
Posted: 30 August 2007 | 11:27
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