Scandic Hotels

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Scandic Hotels Group AB
Company type Publicly traded Aktiebolag
Nasdaq Stockholm:  SHOT
Industry Hospitality
Founded1963 (as Esso Motor Hotel) [1]
Headquarters Stockholm, Sweden
Area served
 Nordic countries
Germany
Poland
Key people
Jens Mathiesen, President and CEO [2]
Per G. Braathen, Chairman of the Board of Directors [3]
ProductsHotels
RevenueIncrease2.svg SEK 18,007 million (2018)
Increase2.svg SEK 1,957 million (2018)
Decrease2.svg SEK 678 million (2018)
Number of employees
10,000  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Website www.scandichotels.com

Scandic Hotels is a Swedish hotel chain headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with its main operations in the Nordic countries. Alongside hotels in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark, the company also has a presence in Germany and Poland. As of 31 December 2018, the company had 11,560 employees and operated 283 hotels with 51,693 guest rooms.[ needs update ]

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History

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Scandic Hotel in Hamburg
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Scandic Hotel in Kiruna

Foundation and early years

The first hotel in what was later to become the Scandic chain was the Esso Motor Hotel in Laxå in the province of Närke, central Sweden. Opened in 1963, it capitalized on the increase in car travel, both for business and pleasure – the motel was a novel concept for Europe at the time. The chain grew to 59 hotels Europewide by 1972, when Esso sold the non-Scandinavian hotels. The remaining 32 hotels, five of them in Norway and Denmark, formed the largest hotel chain in its native Sweden in 1973.

In 1983, the company was sold to a Swedish consortium headed by Ratos and the following year, it was named Scandic Hotels. Ratos became sole owner in 1985, and a year later, the first hotel outside Scandinavia opened in Koblenz, Germany.

The business was negatively impacted by the 1990/91 Gulf Crisis, and company management was replaced in 1992. In 1996, the group acquired Reso Hotels and became a publicly traded company on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. Two years later, the Arctia Hotels group in Finland followed, giving Scandic a presence in all the Nordic countries, and in 1999, the group expanded into Estonia.

Development since 2000

In 2001, Scandic was acquired by the London-based Hilton Group. The hotel chain changed ownership again in 2007, this time bought by Swedish private equity firm EQT for EUR 833 million. [4] In 2014, Scandic acquired the Rica Hotels chain, which added 72 properties in Norway and Sweden to its portfolio. [5]

In December 2015, Scandic once again was listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. [6]

In 2014 Scandic Hotels launched its HTL hotel brand. In June 2016 the company dropped the brand. The brand was applied to four hotels of the group in Stockholm and Oslo, which were turned back into Scandic Hotels after the HTL brand was abandoned. [7] In 2017, Scandic announced its buy-out of all 43 Restel hotels in Finland for 114.5 million euros, including those under the Cumulus and Holiday Inn brands. [8]

In March 2020, more than half of Scandic's permanent employees were notified of layoffs as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic. In April of the same year, Scandic Hotels had a room occupancy of six percent, which was the lowest occupancy the hotel chain had ever had. [9] The low occupancy and reduced revenue during the year led to Scandic reporting a loss of just over six billion SEK for 2020. [10] [11]

Corporate affairs

Business figures

As of 31 December 2018, the company employed 11,560 people and operated 283 hotels with 51,693 guest rooms. Operating result (EBITDA) for 2018 amounted to SEK 1,957 million. [12]

Sustainability

Since 1994, Scandic profiles itself as an "ecologically sustainable" business.[ citation needed ] Scandic has received national and international awards for its environmental efforts. [13] Since 2015, the group got in line with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Scandic Hotels partnered with Too Good To Go and Karma to reduce food waste within its hotels in 2019. [14]

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References

  1. ↑ "Scandic Hotels AB - Company Profile and News". Archived from the original on July 3, 2010.
  2. ↑ "Executive Committee | Scandic Hotels Group AB".
  3. ↑ "Board of Directors | Scandic Hotels Group AB". www.scandichotelsgroup.com.
  4. ↑ Scandic Hotels Corporate Information, http://www.scandichotels.com/settings/Side-foot/About-us-Container/Corporate-information/History/. Accessed 2012-12-06.
  5. ↑ "Scandic acquires Rica Hotels - Strengthens its portfolio with the addition of 72 new hotels in Norway and Sweden". Hospitality Net. 11 February 2014. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
  6. ↑ "Our history | Scandic Hotels Group AB". www.scandichotelsgroup.com.
  7. ↑ "Scandic Hotels Group drops HTL brand - Current HTL Hotels to Change Name to Scandic". Hospitalitynet.org. 3 June 2016. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
  8. ↑ "Scandic ostaa Restelin hotellit". Yle Uutiset (in Finnish). 21 June 2017. Retrieved 2017-06-21.
  9. ↑ "StackPath". www.affarsvarlden.se. 17 July 2020. Retrieved 2022-08-09.
  10. ↑ Hellekant, Johan (2021-02-17). "Scandic blöder 300 miljoner per månad". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). ISSN   1101-2412 . Retrieved 2022-08-09.
  11. ↑ Wande/TT, Joakim Goksör/TT, Helena (2021-02-17). "Scandic redovisar brakförlust". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). ISSN   1101-2412 . Retrieved 2022-08-09.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. ↑ "Scandic Annual Report 2018". www.scandichotelsgroup.com.
  13. ↑ Bohdanowicz, Paulina et al.: "Environmental Training and Measures at Scandic Hotels, Sweden". Research paper presented at B.E.S.T. Sustainable Tourism Think Tank IV, "Sustainability and Mass Destinations: Challenges and Possibilities", 2004-07-01-2004-07-04, Esbjerg, Denmark. http://www.greenthehotels.com/eng/BohdanowiczSimanicMartinacTT4Abstract.pdf. Accessed 2010-03-14.
  14. ↑ "Scandic Climbs In The Sustainable Brand Index – Ranked Higher In All Countries". Hospitalitynet.org. 12 April 2019. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
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