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- BUSINESS, Page 53Business NotesHOTELSHoliday Inn Checks Out
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- The venerable U.S. hotel chain known as "the nation's
- innkeeper," whose green-and-yellow signs are familiar landmarks
- on American highways, will soon take on a British accent. Last
- week Memphis-based Holiday Corp. said that it will sell its
- North American chain of more than 1,400 Holiday Inns for $2.2
- billion to British pub-and-brewery giant Bass PLC. The sale
- completes a global acquisition for the London-based company,
- which last year bought the rights to Holiday Inn franchises
- outside North America.
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- Holiday decided to sell its 37-year-old namesake so that the
- company can focus on its newer ventures, which include three
- hotel chains (Embassy Suites, Hampton Inns, Homewood Suites)
- and Harrah's casinos. The sale will also allow Holiday to
- reduce more than $2 billion of debt, most of it incurred during
- a 1987 battle to fend off a takeover bid by Donald Trump.
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