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The Marriott Starwood Merger Is Complete-What Does That Mean For Us?

  It’s official!  Marriott International and Starwood Hotels and Resorts merged into one company.  Now members of SPG, Marriott Rewards and The Ritz Carlton Rewards are able to link their accounts at members.marriott.com. Despite the union, Marriott doesn’t expect to have a fully combined loyalty program until 2018, so the

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April 9th Email From Marriott About The Merger

Shareholder approval for the merger happened yesterday.  Today, Marriott sent the below email about the upcoming merger… “We’re excited to announce that we’ve secured shareholder approval for Marriott International to join together with Starwood Hotels & Resorts—a significant milestone towards creating the world’s largest lodging company and strongest loyalty program

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Marriott And Starwood Shareholders Approve The Merger

Yesterday, shareholders of Marriott International and Starwood Hotels and Resorts voted to approve the merger between the two companies that will create the largest hotel chain in the world.  Recall Marriott recently won the bidding war to acquire Starwood and this approval was the next step in the merger process.

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Anbang Is Abandoning It’s $14 Billion Bid

The saga continues and it looks like its over.  Anbang is abandoning its $14 billion bid for Starwood “due to various market conditions.”   It looks like Marriott will once again come in, and this time at the higher $13.6 billion offer that it had to come up with when Anbang

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Marriott Wins Bidding War For Starwood

Recall last November, Marriott and Starwood announced a merger.  The deal was set to close at the end of this month, but earlier this week there was another offer for Starwood. A group led by China’s Anbang Insurance Group Co. offered a superior competing bid to acquire Starwood.  Marriott had

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