Four Seasons Hotels Inc.
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Strategic Hotels & Resorts Closes Sale of the Four Seasons Mexico City
Hotel News Resource | 22 days 20 hours 45 minutes ago
Strategic Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (NYSE:BEE) , today announced that the company closed on its disposition of the Four Seasons Mexico City hotel to an affiliate of Meridia Capital for a purchase price of $54.0 million.
Cornell Hospitality Quarterly Article Reports on Differential Management Methods for Full-time and Part-time Workers
Hotel News Resource | 1 day 20 hours 20 minutes ago
High Performance in Hotels Calls for Different Tactics for Different Employee Types
Cornell Study of Hotel Internet Marketing Tactics Quantifies 'Billboard Effect' of Online Travel Agents
Hotel News Resource | 23 days 1 hour 1 minute ago
Travel Research Says Hotels Gain Reservations Over and Above the Online Agent Volume
Cornell Experts Say Hospitality Expertise Is Needed for Senior Living Communities
Hotel News Resource | 13 days 5 hours 40 minutes ago
Managers and employees must build relationships with residents
Cornell Study of Hotel Internet Marketing Tactics Quantifies "Billboard Effect" of Online Travel Agents
Hospitality Net | 26 days 5 hours 10 minutes ago
When a hotel is listed on Expedia.com or Travelocity.com, it receives reservations not only through that channel, but it also gains reservations through other channels, such as its own website or telephone reservations. According to a hotel internet marketing study by Cornell assistant professor Chris K. Anderson, this "billboard effect" increases both reservation levels and average daily rate. He calculates the value of the billboard effect in a new report from Cornell's Center for Hospital...
Normal International Operations Reduce Need For Forex Hedging
Hospitality Net | 41 days 2 hours 57 minutes ago
Ithaca, NY -- Businesses operating in international destinations often face the problem of how currency fluctuations affect their profits. While most international businesses use foreign-exchange hedging to limit currency risk, hotel companies might not need fancy currency hedges. Instead, a new study from Cornell's Center for Hospitality Research (CHR) explains that normal business practices for international hotel operations have a currency-hedging effect.
Cornell Study Finds that Normal International Hotel Operations Reduce the Need for Foreign Exchange Hedging
Hotel News Resource | 41 days 18 hours ago
Standard Revenue-Management Rate Adjustments Show Same Effect as Hotel Foreign Exchange Hedging, according to New Report
Cornell Sustainability Roundtable: In Search of the 'Green Bullet' to Aid in Green Hotel Efforts
Hotel News Resource | 6 days 9 hours 14 minutes ago
Conflicting demands and fear of 'greenwashing' inhibit hotels' efforts toward sustainable operations
Cornell Case Studies Profile Innovative Hospitality Firms
Hotel News Resource | 7 days 12 hours 18 minutes ago
Hospitality and hotel case studies show how innovators exploit technology and fill market gaps
Saudi Kingdom Holding third-quarter profit slumps
Oregonian (Portland), The | 35 days 20 hours 56 minutes ago
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Strategic Hotels & Resorts Signs Purchase and Sale Agreement for Disposition of the Four Seasons Mexico City [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 50 days 16 hours 2 minutes ago
Strategic Hotels & Resorts Signs Purchase...for Disposition of the Four Seasons Mexico City PRNewswire...FirstCall/ -- Strategic Hotels & Resorts, Inc. today announced that...agreement for the sale of the Four Seasons Mexico City to Meridia...
Superclick Networks' High Speed Internet Solutions Assist Strategic Brand-Level Corporate Clients: Continue to Rate #1 in Hotel Guest Satisfaction [Press Release]
MarketWire | 15 hours 48 minutes ago
MONTREAL -- (Marketwire) -- 11/24/09 -- Superclick, Inc. (OTCBB: SPCK), a technology leader in IP infrastructure management solutions to the hospitality industry, announced that according to the recently released J.D. Power and Associates 2009 North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Index Study, four of Superclick Networks' major brand-level corporate clients ranked in the top tier of brands delivering overall guest satisfaction within their respective industry segment.
Strategic Hotels & Resorts Reports Second Quarter 2009 Results [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 111 days 13 hours 34 minutes ago
CHICAGO, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Haft Group says Bullish Commodity Market Triggers Small and Micro-cap Upsurge [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 15 days 14 hours 5 minutes ago
...states Herbert Haft, President of The Haft Group, Inc, Manhattan based investor relations firm with a focus...digit growth in 2010. Mr. Haft may be reached at The Four Seasons Hotels in Vancouver (604)-689-9333 and in Toronto (416...
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Company Overview
| Company: | Four Seasons Hotels Inc. |
|---|---|
| Industry: | Upscale & Luxury Hotels |
| Website: | http://www.fourseasons.com |
Four Seasons Hotels provides its customers with year-round opulence. The company manages some 80 luxury hotels and resorts in more than 30 countries. Most properties are operated under the Four Seasons name, but some are Regent hotels. It has ownership interests in only about half of its properties, having shifted from a hotel owner to a hotel operator in the 1990s. In 2007 Four Seasons Hotels board members took the company private in a deal worth nearly $4 billion. Microsoft founder Bill Gates (through his private holding company Cascade Investment) and Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal's Kingdom Hotels together own 95% of the company, in equal shares. Company founder and CEO Isadore Sharp owns the rest.
Key Numbers
| Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 21 (2008) |
|---|---|
| One-year % Growth in Sales | 0.0 (2008) |
| Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 0 () |
| One-year % Growth in Net Income | 0.0 () |
| Number of Employees | 300 (2008) |
| One-year % Growth in Number of Employees | 0.0 (2008) |
| Fiscal Year-End | December |