Rezidor CEO Says HNA Wants to Grow Brand, Will Study NH Deal | bloomberg.com
HNA Group Co., which in April agreed to buy a 51 percent stake in Rezidor Hotel Group AB, plans to turn the European lodging company into a “hotel chain on a global level,” according to Rezidor Chief Executive Officer Wolfgang Neumann. HNA may eventually try to combine Brussels-based Rezidor and Madrid-based NH Hotel Group SA, in which it owns a 30 percent stake, Neumann, 53, said in an interview in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on May 26. “The priority is to consolidate Carlson Rezidor and then we will study the possibility of integrating with NH,” he said. A representative at HNA didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. A spokesman for NH declined to comment.
