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Does Forte Posthouse Still Exist
Hi,
I was starting to research hotels in England and I couldn't find a web site for the Forte Posthouse chain; I stayed at a couple of their locations back in the '90s. Does the chain still exist? |
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"Michael Gallagher" wrote in message ... Hi, I was starting to research hotels in England and I couldn't find a web site for the Forte Posthouse chain; I stayed at a couple of their locations back in the '90s. Does the chain still exist? Not for years They were taken over in a peculiarly nasty hostile takeover about ten years ago and the group was asset stripped. -- William Black I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach Time for tea. |
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On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:56:38 +0100, "William Black"
wrote: Not for years They were taken over in a peculiarly nasty hostile takeover about ten years ago and the group was asset stripped. Who made the takeover bid? The Posthouse near Gatwick Airport looks like it's become a Holiday Inn. Did all the poshouses become Holiday Inns or were they absorbed by different chains? |
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Gallagher wrote: On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:56:38 +0100, "William Black" wrote: Not for years In the late 70s I use to stay at THF's Penta in london.... great craving station at the restaurant. jay Mon Oct 15, 2007 They were taken over in a peculiarly nasty hostile takeover about ten years ago and the group was asset stripped. Who made the takeover bid? The Posthouse near Gatwick Airport looks like it's become a Holiday Inn. Did all the poshouses become Holiday Inns or were they absorbed by different chains? |
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"Michael Gallagher" wrote in message ... On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:56:38 +0100, "William Black" wrote: Not for years They were taken over in a peculiarly nasty hostile takeover about ten years ago and the group was asset stripped. Who made the takeover bid? The Posthouse near Gatwick Airport looks like it's become a Holiday Inn. Did all the poshouses become Holiday Inns or were they absorbed by different chains? The 'Granada Group', an outfit that ran a particularly nasty selection of motorway service stations did the dirty deed. They owned a very profitable TV station that was used as equity to finance the deal. Rocco Forte is still in the hotel business. Brown's Hotel in London is the only UK hotel he owns these days.Granada sold the buildings to a selection of hotel chains, most of which have been sold on a couple of times since. None are as good as they were, but they are all much more expensive. It is arguable that the destruction of Forte Hotels was the start of the fall in standards of medium quality hotels in the UK. Before they were run by people who wanted to run hotels, now they're run by accountants. -- William Black I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach Time for tea. |
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Does Forte Posthouse Still Exist
Michael Gallagher wrote:
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:56:38 +0100, "William Black" wrote: Not for years They were taken over in a peculiarly nasty hostile takeover about ten years ago and the group was asset stripped. Who made the takeover bid? The Posthouse near Gatwick Airport looks like it's become a Holiday Inn. Did all the poshouses become Holiday Inns or were they absorbed by different chains? The Forte group, including the Posthouse hotels, was taken over by Granada (headed by Gerry Robinson) in 1996. By that time, Forte had taken the Posthouse brand down-market, and standards had fallen considerably in my experience. Since then, the history has been complicated. Granada merged with the Compass Group in 2000, then demerged all of its hospitality businesses as Compass in February 2001. Meanwhile the brewing group Bass had acquired Holiday Inn in 1988-90. With the sale of the Bass brewing business, the company was renamed as Six Continents in 2000. In 2001 Compass sold off all 79 Posthouse hotels to Six Continents, and most were upgraded to Holiday Inns. The hotels side of Six Continents became InterContinental Hotels Group in 2003. -- Richard J. (to e-mail me, change 'ten' to 'net' in address) www.stayparis.net |
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"William Black" wrote in message
... Rocco Forte is still in the hotel business. Brown's Hotel in London is the only UK hotel he owns these days. He also has the Lowry in Manchester. Ian |
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They were taken over in a peculiarly nasty hostile takeover
about ten years ago and the group was asset stripped. Who made the takeover bid? The 'Granada Group', an outfit that ran a particularly nasty selection of motorway service stations did the dirty deed. They owned a very profitable TV station that was used as equity to finance the deal. Forte was an evil piece of ****. One of the largest corporate donors to the Tory Party in the Thatcher era. He wanted to cut his workers' wages and rights as near to the point of slavery as he could, so he bought himself a government to do it. Holiday Inn cannot possibly be any worse. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 |
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"Jack Campin - bogus address" wrote in message news:bogus- Forte was an evil piece of ****. One of the largest corporate donors to the Tory Party in the Thatcher era. He wanted to cut his workers' wages and rights as near to the point of slavery as he could, so he bought himself a government to do it. A slightly biased view. |
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