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In 1967, the Outrigger Waikiki On The Beach hotel opened, the first to carry the Outrigger name. During the 1970s, Outrigger grew into a chain of Hawaiian hotels. In 1982, the company purchased the Prince Kuhio Hotel, its first luxury property. By 1986, Outrigger became the largest hotel chain in Hawaii when its room count reached over 7,000.
Sep. 1—Outrigger Hospitality Group has finalized the purchase of Kaua 'i Beach Resort & Spa—the hotel company's eighth global beach resort acquisition in the past three years and one of ...
In 1925 the company headquarters was moved to Auckland, and in 1940 Fletcher Construction became a subsidiary of the Fletcher Holdings group, which listed on the share market that year. [3] In 1942, following the resignation of his father to help New Zealand's war effort, James Fletcher junior became managing director of the company. Fletcher ...
Aston Hotels and Resorts served as predecessor to Aqua-Aston Hospitality. Aston was founded in 1967, [2] as the Hotel Corporation of the Pacific (HCP) as a hotel and condominium management firm; the Hotel Corporation of the Pacific is itself traced to 1948 with the opening of the Royal Grove Hotel in Waikiki.
Sir James Muir Cameron Fletcher ONZ (25 December 1914 – 29 August 2007), [1] often known as Jim or JC [2] Junior, was a New Zealand industrialist known for heading Fletcher Construction, one of the country's largest firms. His father, also Sir James Fletcher, founded the company in 1908.
Fletcher Challenge was a multinational corporation from New Zealand. It was formed in 1981 by the merger of Fletcher Holdings , Challenge Corporation and Tasman Pulp and Paper . It had holdings in construction, forestry, building, and energy, initially just within New Zealand and then internationally as well, and at one time was the largest ...
Originally a small bar named The Outrigger, it was expanded into a full restaurant in 1954 and renamed Trader Vic's in 1960. [4] Due to the restaurant's success, Bergeron worked with Western Hotels to open Trader Vic's locations in a number of its hotels. In 1955, Western Hotels assumed management of the landmark Olympic Hotel in Seattle.
Sir James Fletcher (29 March 1886 – 12 August 1974) was a New Zealand industrialist who founded Fletcher Construction, one of the country's largest firms. His son, Sir James Fletcher Junior, continued to build the corporation. He walked with a limp having broken his knee cap during his youth in Scotland.