Oberoi Hotels & Resorts

Oberoi Hotels & Resorts

Type	Hotels
Industry	Hospitality
Founded	1934
Founder	Late Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh Oberoi
Headquarters	Delhi, India
Key people	Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi,Vikram Oberoi,Arjun Oberoi
Products	Hotels
Parent	East India Hotels
Website	Oberoi Hotels & Resorts

The Oberoi Group is a global hotel company with its head office in Delhi.^[1] The Oberoi, founded in 1934, owns and/or operates 30+ luxury hotels and two river cruise ships in five countries.

Hotels

The foundations of the Oberoi Group dates back to 1934 when Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh Oberoi, the founder Chairman of the group bought from an Englishman; two properties - The Clarke's in Delhi and The Clarke's in Shimla. In the following years Mr. Oberoi, assisted by his two sons, Tilak Raj Singh Oberoi and Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi continued the expansion of their group with properties both in India and abroad.^[2]

Today, P.R.S.Oberoi is the Chairman of The Oberoi Group and his son, Vikram Oberoi and his nephew, Arjun Oberoi serve in the capacities of Joint Managing Directors at EIH Ltd and EIH Associated Hotels, the two major holding companies of The Oberoi Group.

The group also manages hotels under the Trident brand, and operates properties in India and Saudi Arabia.

The Group also operates the The Clarke's in Shimla and the Maidens Hotel, Delhi. These two properties however are not held under the Trident or under the Oberoi brand. The Clarke's, after remaining temporarily shut following its lawns caving in because of construction in the eco-sensitive vicinity, reopened on September 16, 2012.

List Of Hotels

Oberoi Hotels & Resorts

In India:

• The Oberoi, New Delhi
• The Oberoi, Bangalore
• The Oberoi Grand, Kolkata
• The Oberoi, Mumbai
• The Oberoi, Gurgaon
• The Oberoi Amarvilas, Agra
• The Oberoi Rajvilas, Jaipur
• The Oberoi Udaivilas, Udaipur (No. 1, World's Best Hotels, 2015.^[3] No. 4, World Best Hotels, 2012^[4])
• Wildflower Hall, Shimla in the Himalayas
• The Oberoi Cecil, Shimla
• The Oberoi, Motor Vessel Vrinda, Backwater Cruiser, Kerala
• The Oberoi Vanyavilas, Ranthambore in Sawai Madhopur

In Indonesia:

• The Oberoi, Bali
• The Oberoi, Lombok

In Mauritius:

• The Oberoi, Mauritius

In Egypt:

• The Oberoi, Sahl Hasheesh, Red Sea
• The Oberoi Zahra, Luxury Nile Cruiser
• The Oberoi Philae, Nile Cruiser

In Saudi Arabia:

• The Oberoi, Madina

In U.A.E.:

• The Oberoi, Dubai

Trident Hotels

In India:

• Trident, Chennai
• Trident, Agra
• Trident, Gurgaon
• Trident, Jaipur
  

  Oberoi Maidens Hotel, Delhi.
• Trident, Bhubaneswar
• Trident, Cochin
• Trident, Bandra Kurla, Mumbai
• Trident, Nariman Point, Mumbai
• Trident, Udaipur
• Trident, Hyderabad

Other Group Hotels In India

• Clarkes Hotel, Shimla
• Maidens Hotel, Delhi

Ownership

The Oberoi Family headed by its patriarch, Oberoi is the majority shareholder in EIH Ltd with 32.11% stake. Cigarettes to Hotels conglomerate, ITC Limited owns approximately 14.98% stake in EIH Ltd. To ward off pressures from ITC Ltd. whose ownership stands precariously close to the automatic open offer trigger at 15%, the Oberoi family divested 14.12% stake in EIH Ltd. to Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Industries Investment and Holding Pvt Ltd. The stake sale happened on August 30, 2010 for Rs. 1,021 crores valuing EIH Ltd. at an enterprise value of Rs. 7,200 crores. Recently, the stake of reliance further raised from itc and it stood at 20% overall for Reliance industries.

Gallery

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  Oberoi Mumbai at Nariman Point

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  The Oberoi, Mumbai

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  Oberoi Rajvilas, Jaipur

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  The Oberoi Udaivilas, Udaipur.

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  The Oberoi Grand, Kolkata

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  The Oberoi - Zahra, Nile Cruiser, Egypt

Notes

References

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