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Accor S.A. is a French multinational hospitality company that owns, manages and franchises hotels, resorts and vacation properties. [5] It is the largest hospitality company in Europe, and the sixth largest hospitality company worldwide. [6] Accor operates 5,584 locations in over 110 countries.
Emirates appeared on the shirts until the 2018–19 season, after which French hospitality company Accor took over as shirt sponsor. [77] [79] Its lifestyle loyalty platform, Accor Live Limitless (ALL), was on the front of the shirts between 2019 and 2022. [46] [77] Accor reportedly paid the club around €65m each year. [34]
In 2006, Accor and Motel 6 invested more than $6 million in properties to help rebuild New Orleans and Gulfport following Hurricane Katrina. One of the Motel 6 co-founders, William Becker, died of a heart attack at the age of 85 the next year. [9] The company was sold by Accor to The Blackstone Group in 2012 for $1.9 billion. [10]
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In 2015, AccorHotels, with the approval and support of the external party, announced the acquisition of FRHI, thus adding Raffles Hotels and Resorts, Fairmont and Swissôtel to its Luxury Hotel Brands portfolio. [23] Acquiring Fairmont Hotels & Resorts enabled the French hotel group to gain greater access to the lucrative North American market ...
In 2014, the AccorHotels group announced its intent to double its Asia-Pacific portfolio with the opening of 47 new Pullman hotels in the region, 38 of those in China. [13] That same year, the 338-room Pullman Shanghai South opened, making it the 15th Pullman property in China, and the 45th in Asia-Pacific. [ 14 ]
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In the 1970s, Sofitel became an international chain of hotels. The first Sofitel in the United States opened in 1975 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Sofitel entered the US market with a French approach to hospitality, making French baguettes on site, offering a wide selection of wines, providing bidets in 1/3 of the rooms, and hiring French chefs to manage the kitchens.