Hotels
London’s first ‘cat café’ sees roaring demand
29 Mar 2014
London's first cat café hopes to relieve stressed-out workers with the promise of a lunch date with a cat.
Tatas’ hotel arm IHC to write down Rs500 cr as business shrinks
13 Mar 2014
India’s largest hotel chain, which controls the Taj, Vivanta, Gateway and Ginger brands, said it expected non-cash provision for impairment in respect of financial exposure in its global and domestic investments
DLF sells Aman Resorts for Rs2,200 crore to pare debt
10 Feb 2014
DLF had bought a 97-per cent stake in Aman Resorts for $400 million in 2007, which it subsequently raised to 100 per cent
Hilton serves up a surprise in market debut
14 Dec 2013
Hilton IPO raises $2.34 bn
12 Dec 2013
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc, the luxury hotels chain bought by private equity firm Blackstone Group LP in 2007, yesterday raised $2.34 billion in its initial public offering, making it the biggest floatation by a hotel company
Hilton Worldwide to raise $2.4 bn in biggest hotels IPO
03 Dec 2013
The luxury chain's public offering is the biggest floatation by a hotel company
Indian Hotels ends $1.86-bn bid for Orient-Express
09 Nov 2013
Indian Hotels Company, the Tata Group's luxury hospitality arm that owns the iconic Taj Hotels and Resorts brand, has ended a five-year pursuit of adding US luxury hotel chain Orient-Express Hotels to its portfolio
Hilton Worldwide close to launching IPO
04 Nov 2013
US private equity firm Blackstone Group-owned Hilton Worldwide Inc is close to launching an IPO, which analysts say could value the world’s second-largest hotel chain at around $30 billion.
Leela, Kempinski end 25-year alliance
07 Oct 2013
IHCL to rejig global business, add 34 new hotels
13 Sep 2013
Taco Bell becomes first US food outlet to stop kids’ meals, toys
23 Jul 2013
Taco Bell said it would stop serving kids' meals and toys, over "marketing concerns rather than unit economics" in the words of its CEO Greg Creed
Centre nulls move to give Tatas priority in Delhi's Taj Mansingh auction
28 Jun 2013
The 33-year lease for the Taj Mansingh ended in October 2011 after which the civic body decided to extend the lease with the existing operator for one more year
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
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HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
