Clermont Hotel Group , formerly named GLH Hotels Management and branded as glh. , is a British -based global hotel company, headquartered in London , and subsidiary of GL Limited .
26-521: Thistle Hotels , a subsidiary of the Clermont Hotel Group , is a UK-based hotel company with a portfolio of 8 Central London hotels, one at London Heathrow and one in nerby Bedfordshire, operating in the three and four star sector . It was set up by Scottish & Newcastle in 1965, to combine its own traditional legacy hotels with purpose built hotels. Mount Charlotte Investments bought thirty four Thistle hotels from S&N, and acquired
52-474: A colloquial, entirely modern London "area", with no parishes or established institutions bearing its name. This generally equates to parts in view of the arch of Mayfair , Marylebone and often all of St George's Fields, Marylebone (west of Edgware Road) all in the City of Westminster, London, W1H. The area around the arch forms a major road junction connecting Oxford Street to the east, Park Lane ( A4202 ) to
78-514: A global 4-star hotel brand catering to “the discerning business and leisure traveller”. The first four Amba hotels were expected to be located in London with a total of 2,088 rooms available in 2015. The four launch properties announced by GLH are situated in Marble Arch , Tower Bridge , Charing Cross and Buckingham Palace Road in London. The Grosvenor Hotel on Buckingham Palace Road will be
104-644: A primary listing on the Singapore Exchange, with secondary listings on the London and New Zealand Stock Exchanges. The company's primary role is as an active investor with strategic shareholdings and active investment management. In October 2022, GLH announced its rebranding into the Clermont Hotel Group. Marble Arch The Marble Arch is a 19th-century white marble -faced triumphal arch in London , England . The structure
130-410: A roundabout was dismissed due to excessive cost and the need to demolish buildings on Edgware Road. As part of the scheme, gardens were laid out around the arch on the traffic island. The works took place between 1960 and 1964. Still Water , a large bronze sculpture of a horse's head by Nic Fiddian-Green , was unveiled on the same traffic island a short distance from the arch in 2011. In 2005 it
156-890: The Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854, during the Crimean War . Park Lane was widened as part of the Park Lane Improvement Scheme of the London County Council, and the Marble Arch became stranded on a traffic island. The scheme required an act of Parliament – the Park Lane Improvement Act 1958 ( 6 & 7 Eliz. 2 . c. 63) – and during the passage of this act the possibility of providing an underpass instead of
182-676: The Lehman Brothers investment bank) for £62.7m, becoming managed by Peel Hotels . In July 1999, it sold the Charles Dickens Hotel in London to the Ryan Hotel Group for £20m. In June 2002, it initially sold 37 of its hotels to Orb Estates of Jersey for £598m, continuing to manage the properties, but the hotels are eventually sold to Atlantic Hotels for £700m and operated under the Thistle name. In June 2003,
208-477: The Royal Horseguards Hotel . [REDACTED] Media related to Thistle Hotels at Wikimedia Commons GLH Hotels Clermont Hotel Group is the largest owner-operator hotel management company in London with over 5,000 hotel rooms. As of 2024, it operates properties under the following four hotel brands: On 11 June 2013, GLH announced its new global owner-operator strategy focusing on
234-742: The Topland Group under a leaseback deal for £185m. It used to be based in The Calls in Leeds , then moved to Uxbridge . In 2004, budget hotel company Travelodge bought two Thistle Hotels in London , the Thistle London Islington and the Thistle London Ryan. In 2008, Thistle Hotels announced that it was currently undergoing a re-branding of £100 million to maintain consistency across the group. Thistle Cardiff
260-464: The 100 global cities with a 10-year ambition to become "the world’s best managed hospitality company", delivering "the best guest centred experience in the industry". According to their press release, they would launch three new brands within the following 12 months. Prior to the relaunch in June 2013, GLH operated under the name Guoman Hotel Management (UK) Limited. On 23 October 2013, GLH launched Amba,
286-520: The Parc reopened in September 2008 after being closed for 17 months due to fire and has been refurbished throughout. The hotel underwent a £15m transformation. In 2015, the managed part of the estate was sold by its owners CIT Holdings Ltd. glh. was unsuccessful in its bid, meaning the majority of the provincial estate changed management, being run by Accor Hotels. The CEO was Tim Scoble until 2012, he
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#1732790743351312-692: The Thistle brand name for £645m in November 1989. During the subsequent recession, the debt taken on to fund the transaction became unsustainable, resulting in Mount Charlotte being taken over by Brierley Investments of New Zealand for £664m in 1990. The chain was the main shirt sponsor for Leeds United AFC from 1993 to 1996. In 1997, the company floated on the Stock Exchange, to become Thistle Hotels plc, valued at £620m. In September 1998, it sold 30 provincial hotels to Grace Hotels (owned by
338-646: The arch. When building work began in 1847, the arch was dismantled and rebuilt by Thomas Cubitt as a ceremonial entrance to the northeast corner of Hyde Park at Cumberland Gate. The reconstruction was completed in March 1851. A popular story says that the arch was moved because it was too narrow for the Queen's state coach to pass through, but, in fact, the Gold State Coach passed under it during Elizabeth II 's coronation in 1953. Three small rooms inside
364-802: The area surrounding it, particularly the southern portion of Edgware Road and also to the underground station . The arch is not part of the Royal Parks and is maintained by Westminster City Council . Nash's three-arch design is based on that of the Arch of Constantine in Rome and the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel in Paris. The triumphal arch is faced with Carrara marble with embellishments of marble extracted from quarries near Seravezza in Tuscany . John Flaxman
390-722: The company was bought for £627m by BIL International, a private equity company based in Singapore (but registered in Bermuda ) owned by the Hong Leong Group and the majority shareholder since 1990. Thistle Hotels was delisted from the London Stock Exchange . In 2004, it opened its Cumberland Hotel in London after a £95 million renovation, which operated under the Guoman brand. In May 2005, it sold six hotels to
416-786: The first to open in June 2014. GLH also announced its plans to open the Amba brand across 30 UK cities and expand internationally in China, the US and Europe. Halfway through 2021 the Amba-hotels were rebranded to "The Clermont". As a result, former Amba Hotel Charing Cross and Grosvenor would continue as The Clermont Charing Cross and The Clermont Victoria. The company is owned by GL Limited , an international investment company headquartered in Singapore renamed from BIL International Limited, and has
442-401: The polluted London atmosphere. In 1847, Sharpe's London Magazine described it as "discoloured by smoke and damp, and in appearance resembling a huge sugar erection in a confectioner's shop window." The arch is 45 feet (14 m) high, and measures 60 by 30 feet (18.3 by 9.1 m) east-west by north–south. Buckingham Palace remained unoccupied, and for the most part unfinished, until it
468-611: The rebuilt arch were used as a police station from 1851 until at least 1968 ( John Betjeman made a television programme inside it in 1968 and referred to it as a fully functional police station). It firstly housed officers of the Royal Parks Constabulary and later the Metropolitan Police . One policeman stationed there during the early 1860s was Samuel Parkes , who won the Victoria Cross in
494-414: The south, Bayswater Road ( A402 ) to the west, and Edgware Road ( A5 ) to the north-west. The short road directly to the north of the arch is also known as Marble Arch. The former cinema Odeon Marble Arch was located directly adjacent to the junction. Before 1997 this had the largest cinema screen in London. The screen was originally over 75 feet (23 m) wide. The Odeon showcased 70 mm films in
520-430: The spendthrift King George IV – the rising costs were unacceptable to the new king, William IV , who later tried to offload the uncompleted palace onto Parliament as a substitute for the recently destroyed Palace of Westminster . Work restarted in 1832, this time under the supervision of Edward Blore , who greatly reduced Nash's planned attic stage and omitted its sculpture, including the statue of George IV. The arch
546-408: Was chosen to make the commemorative sculpture. After his death in 1826, the commission was divided between Sir Richard Westmacott , Edward Hodges Baily and J. C. F. Rossi . In 1829, a bronze equestrian statue of George IV was commissioned from Sir Francis Chantrey , with the intention of placing it on top of the arch. Construction began in 1827, but was cut short in 1830, following the death of
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#1732790743351572-598: Was completed in 1833. Some of the unused sculpture, including parts of Westmacott's frieze of Waterloo and the Nelson panels, were used at Buckingham Palace. His victory statues and Rossi's relief of Europe and Asia were used at the National Gallery . In 1843 the equestrian statue of George IV was installed on one of the pedestals in Trafalgar Square . The white marble soon lost its light colouring in
598-508: Was designed by John Nash in 1827 as the state entrance to the cour d'honneur of Buckingham Palace ; it stood near the site of what is today the three-bayed, central projection of the palace containing the well-known balcony. In 1851, on the initiative of architect and urban planner Decimus Burton , a one-time pupil of John Nash, the arch was relocated to its current site, near the northeast corner of Hyde Park , so that expansion of Buckingham Palace could proceed. The arch gives its name to
624-462: Was hurriedly completed upon the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837. Within a few years, it was deemed that the palace was too small to accommodate the large court and the Queen's expanding family. The solution was to enlarge the palace by enclosing the cour d'honneur with a new east range. This façade is today the principal front and public face of the palace and shields the inner façades containing friezes and marbles matching and complementing those of
650-596: Was speculated that the arch might be moved across the street to Hyde Park, or to a more accessible location than its position on what was then a large traffic island. In 1900, the Central London Railway opened Marble Arch tube station across the road from the arch. The station is now on the Central line of the London Underground. Having a tube station means that the arch gives rise to
676-502: Was the CEO of Little Chef for two years from 2004 to 2006. He was succeeded by Mike De Noma who was CEO from 2012 - 2016, followed by Neil Gallagher from 2016 to 2018 and Alan Morgan from 2018 to 2020. The current CEO of the Clermont Hotel Group is Gavin Taylor. Clermont Hotel Group , parent company of Thistle, also operates two hotels in London under the Guoman brand, The Cumberland and
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