Malmaison and Hotel du Vin are recognised as the UK's leading lifestyle hotel group with nearly 1,700 bedrooms across the UK. The gross value of these hotel property assets in the Group's Half-Yearly Financial Report at 30 June 2008 was £510 million.
Malmaison is named after the Chateau of similar name on the outskirts of Paris. Bought by Josephine for Napoleon to rest after battle, the Chateau influenced the style that our Malmaison exudes today. From it's inception in 1994, Malmaison has been the industry trailblazer in the UK lifestyle hotel market.
The Malmaison hotels are primarily located in city centres and are mid-sized operating in the “boutique/lifestyle” market. Typically the hotels have a bar, brasserie, private dining room and meeting rooms of various sizes. Some of the hotels have additional facilities such as a champagne bar and a spa and most have gyms.
Hotel du Vin, also formed in 1994, was created as a hotel brand founded on the principle of serving great bistro food complemented by outstanding wine lists and first class accommodation.
The Hotel du Vin hotels are primarily based in cathedral or university towns and are generally smaller than Malmaison, but which also target the ‘boutique/lifestyle’ market. Generally, the hotels have a French provincial bistro with extensive wines, spa and gym, together with separate function/private dining rooms.
At 30 June 2008, the group comprised 22 operating hotels together with our property in St Andrews, which will shortly undergo a refurbishment programme before re-opening in the first quarter of 2010 as a 41 bed Hotel du Vin. A further four hotels will open during the second half 2008, three of which, Poole (September), Newcastle (October) and Edinburgh (November), will be Hotel du Vin properties providing a total of 126 rooms while the fourth property will be an 80 bed Malmaison in Aberdeen also opening in November. This will take the total to 26 hotels, of which 14 will be Hotel du Vin and 12 Malmaison.
It is not only in our properties where we continue to invest. Our employees are as important as the hotels themselves as they are the people who deliver the brand values of which we are rightly proud. Their efforts have been recognised in the awards we continued to win during 2008. Both Malmaison and Hotel du Vin received the “Best Place to Work” award from the UK Hospitality industry during 2008 while Malmaison was awarded the Sunday Times readers “Hotel Brand of the Year” and our Hotel du Vin at One Devonshire Gardens in Glasgow won “Scotland’s Hotel of the Year” award.
Malmaison is named after the Chateau of similar name on the outskirts of Paris. Bought by Josephine for Napoleon to rest after battle, the Chateau influenced the style that our Malmaison exudes today. From it's inception in 1994, Malmaison has been the industry trailblazer in the UK lifestyle hotel market.
The Malmaison hotels are primarily located in city centres and are mid-sized operating in the “boutique/lifestyle” market. Typically the hotels have a bar, brasserie, private dining room and meeting rooms of various sizes. Some of the hotels have additional facilities such as a champagne bar and a spa and most have gyms.
Hotel du Vin, also formed in 1994, was created as a hotel brand founded on the principle of serving great bistro food complemented by outstanding wine lists and first class accommodation.
The Hotel du Vin hotels are primarily based in cathedral or university towns and are generally smaller than Malmaison, but which also target the ‘boutique/lifestyle’ market. Generally, the hotels have a French provincial bistro with extensive wines, spa and gym, together with separate function/private dining rooms.
At 30 June 2008, the group comprised 22 operating hotels together with our property in St Andrews, which will shortly undergo a refurbishment programme before re-opening in the first quarter of 2010 as a 41 bed Hotel du Vin. A further four hotels will open during the second half 2008, three of which, Poole (September), Newcastle (October) and Edinburgh (November), will be Hotel du Vin properties providing a total of 126 rooms while the fourth property will be an 80 bed Malmaison in Aberdeen also opening in November. This will take the total to 26 hotels, of which 14 will be Hotel du Vin and 12 Malmaison.
It is not only in our properties where we continue to invest. Our employees are as important as the hotels themselves as they are the people who deliver the brand values of which we are rightly proud. Their efforts have been recognised in the awards we continued to win during 2008. Both Malmaison and Hotel du Vin received the “Best Place to Work” award from the UK Hospitality industry during 2008 while Malmaison was awarded the Sunday Times readers “Hotel Brand of the Year” and our Hotel du Vin at One Devonshire Gardens in Glasgow won “Scotland’s Hotel of the Year” award.
