Swallow Hotels

Last updated

Swallow Group plc
Industry Hospitality
Predecessor Vaux Group
Defunct2014 (2014)
Headquarters,
Scotland
Parent
  • Whitbread (2000-2003)
  • London Inn Group (from 2003)

Swallow Hotels was an Edinburgh-based hotel chain with a portfolio of 18 hotels, operating in the three and four star sector.

History

By the 1990s, the Vaux Group had expanded into hotels. The company changed its name to Swallow Group plc, concentrating on the hotels business and incorporating the former Vaux-managed pub estate under the Swallow Inns & Restaurants brand.[ citation needed ]

The Swallow Group was bought by Whitbread in January 2000. Whitbread sold the pubs to Enterprise Inns in May 2000.[ citation needed ]

The Swallow brand was subsequently purchased in 2003 by London Inn Group. [1] The hotels traded under the name London & Edinburgh Inns Ltd and went into administration on 14 September 2006. [2]

On 4 August 2009 the Stockton-on-Tees Swallow Hotel closed, as the administrators 'could not trade the hotel profitably'. [3] Its last remaining hotel, in Glasgow, near Ibrox Stadium, was closed in 2014. [4]

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References

  1. "Whitbread sells Swallow hotels". The Sunday Times. 26 July 2003. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
  2. "Swallow Group a year after its collapse into insolvency". The Caterer. 2007. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
  3. "Stockton On Tees Swallow Hotel Closes". Gazette Live. Retrieved 5 August 2009.
  4. "Ibrox Hotel under threat of closure". 13 August 2014. Retrieved 5 August 2018.