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Before it sold Costa Coffee in January 2019, Whitbread, in Houghton Regis in Bedfordshire, was the UK's largest hotel and restaurant group, owning Premier Inn, Brewers Fayre and Beefeater. Premier Inn was developed and expanded in the 2000s largely during the leadership of Alan C. Parker, the chief executive of Whitbread.
The "Great Sign" was a familiar sight on U.S. highways in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. A Holiday Inn in New Orleans, pictured on a postcard c. 1975. The "Great Sign" was the roadside sign used by Holiday Inn during its original era of expansion from the 1950s to 1970s.
Holiday Inn Express was founded in 1990 under the ownership of Bass. [7] Plans at the time called for 250 locations to be open by 1995. [8] The first three hotels under the Holiday Inn Express name all opened in 1990. These were located in Nashville, Tennessee; Abilene, Texas; and Poughkeepsie, New York. All three were converted from existing ...
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Since launching in 2018, voco has opened hotels in the UK, Australia, Singapore, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. The name voco is derived from the Latin word meaning ‘to invite’ or ‘to come together’.
Through the company's hotel division, JRK Hotel Group, the company operates a number of notable hotels, including Oceana Beach Club Hotel in Santa Monica, California, the Holiday Inn Express and the Sheraton Nashville Downtown Hotel, both in Nashville, Tennessee. [citation needed]
A predecessor company was founded in 1984. In 1992, when the chain had 18 properties, it went bankrupt during a recession. [3] Two years later, in 1994, a former operations director of the chain, Tony Troy, led a management buyout for £68 million by Bridgepoint Capital. [4]