Type Subsidiary Genre Leisure Key people Neil Gallagher (CEO) Number of employees 1,917 Parent organization GuocoLeisure Limited | Industry Hospitality industry Area served United Kingdom Headquarters London, United Kingdom Founded 1932 | |
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Services Upscale and Luxury Hotels CEO Neil Gallagher (Jul 2016–) Subsidiaries Thistle Hotels, Hyde Park Hotel (London) Limited Profiles | ||
Glh london s largest hotel owner operator
glh. refers to GLH Hotels Management (UK) Limited, a British-based global hotel company, headquartered in London, and subsidiary of the Malaysian Hong Leong Group.
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glh. is the largest owner-operator hotel management company in London with over 5,000 hotel rooms.
glh Hotels operates 4 hotel brands: Amba Hotels, Thistle, Guoman and every hotels . The Thistle brand operates 8 hotels with 7 in London and 1 in Poole, Dorset. Guoman has 4 hotels under its collective branding: the 5-star Royal Horseguards Hotel, the Grosvenor Hotel, the Tower Hotel and The Cumberland all located in London. every hotels operates every hotel Piccadilly and Amba Hotels comprises of Amba Hotel Charing Cross and Amba Hotel Marble Arch.
History
On 11 June 2013, glh. announced its new global owner-operator strategy focusing on the 100 global cities with a 10-year ambition to become "the world’s best managed hospitality company", delivering "the best guest centred experience in the industry". According to their press release, they would launch three new brands within the following 12 months. Prior to the relaunch in June 2013, glh. operated under the name Guoman Hotel Management (UK) Limited.
On 23 October 2013, glh. launched Amba, a global 4-star hotel brand catering to “the discerning business and leisure traveller”. The first four Amba hotels are expected to be located in London with a total of 2,088 rooms available in 2015. The four launch properties announced by glh. are situated in Marble Arch, Tower Bridge, Charing Cross and Buckingham Palace Road in London. The Grosvenor Hotel on Buckingham Palace Road will be the first to open in June 2014. glh. also announced its plans to open the Amba brand across 30 UK cities and expand internationally in China, the USA and Europe.
The company is owned by Hong Leong Group subsidiary Guocoleisure, an international investment company headquartered in Singapore renamed from BIL International Limited, and has a primary listing on the Singapore Exchange, with secondary listings on the London and New Zealand Stock Exchanges. The company's primary role is as an active investor with strategic shareholdings and active investment management.