Oberoi Hotels & Resorts
Hotels | |
Industry | Hospitality |
Founded | 1934 |
Founder | Mohan Singh Oberoi (1898–2002) |
Headquarters | Delhi, India |
Number of locations | 30 (2016) |
Area served | Africa, Asia, Middle East |
Key people |
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Products | Hotels |
Parent | East India Hotels |
Website |
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The Oberoi Group is a global hotel company with its head office in Delhi.[1] The Oberoi, founded in 1934, owns and/or operates 30+ luxury hotels and two river cruise ships in six countries.
Hotels
The foundations of the Oberoi Group dates back to 1934 when Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh Oberoi, the founder Chairman of the group bought from an Englishman; two properties - The Clarke's in Delhi and The Clarke's in Shimla. In the following years Mr. Oberoi, assisted by his two sons, Tilak Raj Singh Oberoi and Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi continued the expansion of their group with properties both in India and abroad.[2]
Today, P.R.S.Oberoi is the Chairman of The Oberoi Group and his son, Vikram Oberoi and his nephew, Arjun Oberoi serve in the capacities of Joint Managing Directors at EIH Ltd and EIH Associated Hotels, the two major holding companies of The Oberoi Group.
The group also manages hotels under the Trident brand, and operates properties in India and Saudi Arabia.
The Group also operates the The Clarke's in Shimla and the Maidens Hotel, Delhi. These two properties however are not held under the Trident or under the Oberoi brand. The Clarke's, after remaining temporarily shut following its lawns caving in because of construction in the eco-sensitive vicinity, reopened on September 16, 2012.
List of hotels
Oberoi Hotels & Resorts
In India:
- The Oberoi Amarvilas, Agra
- The Oberoi, Bangalore
- The Oberoi, Gurgaon
- The Oberoi Rajvilas, Jaipur
- The Oberoi Motor Vessel Vrinda, Kerala
- The Oberoi Grand, Kolkata
- The Oberoi, Mumbai
- The Oberoi, New Delhi
- The Oberoi Sukhvilas, Chandigarh
- The Oberoi Vanyavilas, Ranthambore
- The Oberoi Cecil, Shimla
- Wildflower Hall, Shimla in the Himalayas
- The Oberoi Udaivilas, Udaipur (No. 1, World's Best Hotels, 2015.[3] No. 4, World Best Hotels, 2012[4])
In Indonesia:
In Mauritius:
- The Oberoi, Mauritius
In Egypt:
- The Oberoi, Sahl Hasheesh, Red Sea
- The Oberoi Philae, Nile Cruiser
- The Oberoi Zahra, Nile Cruiser
In Saudi Arabia:
- The Oberoi, Madina
In U.A.E.:
- The Oberoi, Dubai
In India:
- Trident, Agra
- Trident, Bhubaneswar
- Trident, Chennai
- Trident, Cochin
- Trident, Gurgaon
- Trident, Hyderabad
- Trident, Jaipur
- Trident, Bandra Kurla, Mumbai
- Trident, Nariman Point, Mumbai
- Trident, Udaipur
Other Group Hotels In India
- Clarkes Hotel, Shimla
- Maidens Hotel, Delhi
Ownership
The Oberoi Family headed by its patriarch, Oberoi is the majority shareholder in EIH Ltd with 32.11% stake. Cigarettes to Hotels conglomerate, ITC Limited owns approximately 14.98% stake in EIH Ltd. To ward off pressures from ITC Ltd. whose ownership stands precariously close to the automatic open offer trigger at 15%, the Oberoi family divested 14.12% stake inThe stake sale happened on August 30, 2010 for Rs. 1,021 crores valuing EIH Ltd. at an enterprise value of Rs. 7,200 crores. Recently, the stake of reliance further raised from itc and it stood at 20% overall for Reliance industries.
Gallery
- Oberoi Mumbai at Nariman Point
- The Oberoi, Mumbai
- Oberoi Rajvilas, Jaipur
- The Oberoi Udaivilas, Udaipur.
- The Oberoi Grand, Kolkata
- The Oberoi - Zahra, Nile Cruiser, Egypt
Notes
- ↑ "Contact Us." Oberoi Group. Retrieved on 14 November 2012. "Oberoi Hotels & Resorts 7, Sham Nath Marg, Delhi-110 054, India "
- ↑ "About Our Founder". Oberoi Group. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
- ↑ World's Best Hotels
- ↑ World's Best Hotels 2012
References
- "Travel + Leisure World's Best Awards"
- "Travel Awards 2008 winners"
- "Condé Nast Traveler:Readers' Choice Awards"
- "Luxury Travel in Jaipur"
- "Padma Vibhushan for Tata, Mittal, Oberoi, Murthy"
- "Oberoi hotels among top three in Asia, six in world"
- "Three Oberoi Hotels Ranked Among Six Best in World"
- "Readers' Travel Awards 2008"
- "Three Indian hotels figure on TripAdvisor's best hotels list"
- "Taj and Oberoi Hotels - Unpolished Indian hospitality brand jewels"
- "Oberoi Hotels - No reservations
- "Oberoi Hotels ranked as Asia's leading brand"
- http://www.oberoihotels.com/announcement.asp
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