Britannia Hotels
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| Private | |
| Industry | Hotels & Hospitality |
| Headquarters | Hale, Greater Manchester, England |
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Number of locations
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52 hotels across the UK |
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Key people
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Alex Langsam CEO Robert Ferrari CFO |
| Products | Hotels and property development |
| Services | Conference room hire, banqueting functions, health club membership |
| Revenue |
 £55.448m (2011) |
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£8.752m (2011) |
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£8.138m (2011) |
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| Owner | A.Langsam Hawksford Trust Company Jersey Limited |
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Number of employees
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12,000 |
| Subsidiaries | Britannia Adelphi Hotel Ltd Birmingham International Hotel Ltd Ambassador Hotels (Bournemouth) Ltd Ambassador (East Cliff) Ltd Britannia Hotel Bolton Ltd Britannia Hotel Leeds Ltd Britannia Country House Hotel Ltd Britannia Hotel Edinburgh Ltd Britannia Hotel Wolverhampton Ltd |
| Website | www |
Britannia Hotels is a United Kingdom hotel group with 53 hotels across the country. It includes the Pontins Holiday Park portfolio. Britannia operates at the budget end of the market with hotels varying in price and star ratings.
Britannia Hotels, was founded in 1976 with the purchase of the Britannia Country House Hotel in Didsbury, Manchester. Its Chief Executive, founder, and largest shareholder remains Alex Langsam. Langsam is a non-domiciled taxpayer, registered as living in Austria for tax-purposes since 1999. His net personal worth was valued at £90 million in 2013 by The Sunday Times.
Its head office is based in the old town hall in Hale, Manchester. A large cluster of the company's hotels are located in and around Manchester.
Soon after its foundation Britannia began making a number of further acquisitions.
The second purchase in 1981 was a derelict listed building in central Manchester (the former Watts Warehouse standing on Portland Street, Manchester). After redeveloping the unit it opened in May 1982 as the Britannia Hotel Manchester. At the end of 1982 British Rail sold off its hotel division - British Transport Hotels. From this sale, in 1983 Britannia bought the Britannia Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool.
In 1987 Britannia Hotels converted an unused building in Manchester that had been the city's C&A department store - this became the Sachas Hotel. Later in the same year Bosworth Hall, a country house style hotel in Market Bosworth Leicestershire, was purchased. Bosworth Hall was being converted from a hospital/nursing home into a hotel and Britannia took over the development from the builders who went bankrupt. In 1988 the company purchased and began development of the International Hotel adjacent to Canary Wharf in the London's Docklands. The hotel opened on 9 June 1992. A year later, Britannia took over a 187-bedroom hotel in . After a period of refurbishment the Britannia Stockport Hotel opened in 1993. In the summer of the same year the group also purchased the Europa Hotel situated close to Gatwick Airport.
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