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The first hotel purchased by the newly formed company in 1997 was a former Forte Group hotel, The Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh, which had been put up for sale by new owners Granada plc. In 2001, following the de-merger of Compass Group from Granada's media interests, the use of the Forte trademark was returned to Sir Rocco Forte in a gesture ...
As of April 2013, The Rocco Forte Collection operates eleven hotels in Europe, Russia, northern Africa and the Middle East. [3] Forte's family wealth in 2013 was listed as £250,000,000. [4] He is a member of the Garrick Club and has previously voted against admittance of women, 'because the Garrick was built as a gentlemen’s club'. [5]
The Balmoral Hotel is now part of the Rocco Forte Hotel Group. Forte Group plc was a British hotel and restaurant company. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index until it was acquired by Granada in 1996. Its head office was in the London Borough of Camden. [1]
Brown's Hotel is a 5-star hotel in Mayfair, London, established in 1832 [1] and owned by Rocco Forte Hotels since July 2003. It is London's oldest luxury hotel, never having been renamed, rebuilt or relocated. [2] Famous visitors include US President Franklin Roosevelt, Mahatma Gandhi and Diana, Princess of Wales.
The Charles Hotel is a grand hotel located at Sophienstrasse 28 in Maxvorstadt, Munich, Bavaria, Germany. [2] It was built in 2007 at the old botanical garden near the main train station. The hotel is operated by Rocco Forte & Family (Munich) GmbH, which belongs to the British group Rocco Forte Hotels. The hotel is part of the Lenbachgärten.
Rocco Forte Hotels acquired the hotel [7] in December 1997 [8] and spent $20 million on further renovations. [3] The hotel was renovated again in 2012, for its centennial. [ 2 ] Rocco Forte Hotels also owns and operates the adjacent Angleterre Hotel , and the upper guest room floors of the two hotels are connected.
The voco St David's Cardiff Hotel is a five-star [1] hotel situated in Cardiff, Wales, just off the A4232 road, and close to Cardiff Bay railway station.Opened originally in 1999 by Rocco Forte Hotels, since 2018 it has been operating under the Voco name.
The hotel was owned by The Rocco Forte Collection, the company of Sir Rocco Forte, son of the late hotel magnate Baron Charles Forte. In November 2016, the hotel was put up for sale, two years after being acquired by Westmont Hospitality Group and Mount Kellett Capital Management in a deal estimated to be worth £40m. [4] [5] [6]