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Marriott to buy IHG??
Found this over on the Marriott forum:
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/m...=feeds-newsxml http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d32029da-a...#axzz1wWrNbqTi RA benefits at Marriotts?? ;) |
Originally Posted by Goonerfish
(Post 18680305)
Oh wait. It's the Daily Mail group using up their ancient stock photos without bothering about accuracy. |
Marriott just acquired the Gaylord hotels here in the US. Doubt that they go after IHG.
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It is not going to happen with Marriott. There are too much market overlapping in the two. The rumour spreaders always indicated Starwood and IHG. But I doubt that too.
Personally I think for IHG the merger would be more viable with the following candidates: 1) Fairmont 2) Hyatt 3) Jumeirah I think under the current trends of middle east companies buying out British firms, I will not be surprised to see Jumeirah bid for IHG. If it is IHG making a bid for other firms, I would think Fairmont would be the perfect target. If it is mutual merger between two companies, I think Hyatt would be more interesting marriage than Marriott or Starwood. |
It would be a complete mess with a Marriott considering the number of brands etc. I am sure we would all love Marriott's "promos" of 50K points after 30 nights. :D
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Originally Posted by chongcao
(Post 18682697)
It is not going to happen with Marriott. There are too much market overlapping in the two. The rumour spreaders always indicated Starwood and IHG. But I doubt that too.
Personally I think for IHG the merger would be more viable with the following candidates: 1) Fairmont 2) Hyatt 3) Jumeirah I think under the current trends of middle east companies buying out British firms, I will not be surprised to see Jumeirah bid for IHG. If it is IHG making a bid for other firms, I would think Fairmont would be the perfect target. If it is mutual merger between two companies, I think Hyatt would be more interesting marriage than Marriott or Starwood. Can't imagine Fairmont. They're already partnered with Swissotel and Raffles Resorts; I can see Swissotel aquiring Fairmont though. |
rumors, not going to happen...if do, they would have like 10k hotels world wide
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I hope not
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