Swallow Hotels
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Swallow Hotels are a hotel chain managed by Crerar Management Ltd.
The company is an Edinburgh
-based hotel company with a portfolio of 18 hotels, operating in the three and four star sector
.
There are eight hotels in Scotland
(including Dundee
, Edinburgh
and Glasgow
) and eleven hotels in England
(including Northumberland
, Cumbria
, Newcastle upon Tyne
, County Durham
, Preston, Oldham
, Telford
, Birmingham
, Kent
, Yorkshire
).
was renamed Vaux Group in the 1990s as the company diversified into hotels and care homes. The hotels traded as Swallow Hotels and the company was finally named The Swallow Group.
In the late 1990s, the brewery side of the business was in trouble and the Swallow Group tried to sell it off. Due to internal wranglings (profitability issues), the breweries failed to sell and the pub estate was placed on the market.
Whitbread plc stepped in and acquired the Swallow Group in January 2000.
The Swallow brand was subsequently purchased in 2003 by London Inn Group (founded in 1996) from Whitbread. The hotels traded under the name London & Edinburgh Inns Ltd and went into Administration on 14 September 2006.
The Flodrive Group bought 160 tenanted pubs, 45 managed pubs and 45 hotels. Crerar Hotels
acquired the Swallow brand name and 26 of the hotel leases, of which the hotels were owned by RIET Asset manangement (under the name Brentwood Hotels limited) (13 hotels) Prupim asset management (5 hotels) and Matrix asset management (6 hotels). Other buyers included Brook Hotels (6), Legacy Hotels (3), Folio Hotels (3) and Q Hotels (1).
On 4th August 2009 the Stockton-on-Tees Swallow Hotel closed, as the administrators 'could not trade the hotel profitably'.
The company is an Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...
-based hotel company with a portfolio of 18 hotels, operating in the three and four star sector
Star (classification)
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.
There are eight hotels in Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
(including Dundee
Dundee
Dundee is the fourth-largest city in Scotland and the 39th most populous settlement in the United Kingdom. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea...
, Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...
and Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
) and eleven hotels in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
(including Northumberland
Northumberland
Northumberland is the northernmost ceremonial county and a unitary district in North East England. For Eurostat purposes Northumberland is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "Northumberland and Tyne and Wear" NUTS 2 region...
, Cumbria
Cumbria
Cumbria , is a non-metropolitan county in North West England. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local authority, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumbria's largest settlement and county town is Carlisle. It consists of six districts, and in...
, Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne is a city and metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England. Historically a part of Northumberland, it is situated on the north bank of the River Tyne...
, County Durham
County Durham
County Durham is a ceremonial county and unitary district in north east England. The county town is Durham. The largest settlement in the ceremonial county is the town of Darlington...
, Preston, Oldham
Oldham
Oldham is a large town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amid the Pennines on elevated ground between the rivers Irk and Medlock, south-southeast of Rochdale, and northeast of the city of Manchester...
, Telford
Telford
Telford is a large new town in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and ceremonial county of Shropshire, England, approximately east of Shrewsbury, and west of Birmingham...
, Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
, Kent
Kent
Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...
, Yorkshire
Yorkshire
Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...
).
History
Vaux BreweriesVaux Breweries
Vaux Breweries was a major brewer based in Sunderland. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange.-History:The Company was founded by Cuthbert Vaux in Sunderland in 1837 and for nearly 170 years was a major employer in the town....
was renamed Vaux Group in the 1990s as the company diversified into hotels and care homes. The hotels traded as Swallow Hotels and the company was finally named The Swallow Group.
In the late 1990s, the brewery side of the business was in trouble and the Swallow Group tried to sell it off. Due to internal wranglings (profitability issues), the breweries failed to sell and the pub estate was placed on the market.
Whitbread plc stepped in and acquired the Swallow Group in January 2000.
The Swallow brand was subsequently purchased in 2003 by London Inn Group (founded in 1996) from Whitbread. The hotels traded under the name London & Edinburgh Inns Ltd and went into Administration on 14 September 2006.
The Flodrive Group bought 160 tenanted pubs, 45 managed pubs and 45 hotels. Crerar Hotels
Crerar Hotels
- History :The Cheshire Public House Trust Company was founded in 1902 by the fourth Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey. His mission statement was: "to improve on standards offered by the average British inn, to offer value for money and to distribute a percentage of profits to charity".The first trust to...
acquired the Swallow brand name and 26 of the hotel leases, of which the hotels were owned by RIET Asset manangement (under the name Brentwood Hotels limited) (13 hotels) Prupim asset management (5 hotels) and Matrix asset management (6 hotels). Other buyers included Brook Hotels (6), Legacy Hotels (3), Folio Hotels (3) and Q Hotels (1).
On 4th August 2009 the Stockton-on-Tees Swallow Hotel closed, as the administrators 'could not trade the hotel profitably'.