Industry | Hotels |
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Founder | John Bairstow |
Defunct | August 2, 2004 |
Fate | Acquired by Goldman Sachs |
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Queens Moat Houses PLC was a British public limited company engaged primarily in the hotel business.
Queens Moat House Hotels was founded in the early 1970s by John Bairstow. [1] By 1991, the company was the third largest hotelier in the United Kingdom, after Forte Group and Mount Charlotte. [1] On 31 March 1993, trading in its shares was suspended after an accounting scandal. [2] [3] The company was subsequently investigated under Section 432(2) of the Companies Act 1985. In 1997, the company sold 25 hotels. [4] The company was bought by Goldman Sachs in August 2005 and renamed QMH Limited. [3] [5] In October 2005, 9 hotels were sold for approximately £100m. [6] In February 2013, 20 German hotels were sold to Fattal Hotels, an Israeli company. [3] In 2014, 11 hotels were sold to Marathon Asset Management. [3]