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CONTENTS Your overnight stay at a B&B hotel 3 B&B HOTELS GmbH (Germany) 4 Budget prices as part of our business model 5 B&B hotel features 5 B&B Club Card 6 B&B hotels in brief 7 Worldwide expansion 9 Fittings, service and prices at a glance 10 Management 12 Facts and figures 13 Impressions 14 PRESS CONTACT w&p Wilde & Partner Public Relations GmbH Nymphenburger Straße 168 D-80634 München Tel.: +49 (0) 89 179190-19 Tel.: +49 (0) 89 179190-99 E-Mail: Ute.Hopfengaertner@wilde.de Web: www.wilde.de CONTACT FOR B&B HOTELS B&B HOTELS GmbH Altkönigstraße 10 D-65239 Hochheim am Main Tel.: +49 (0) 6146 9090-0 Fax: +49 (0) 6146 9090-111 E-Mail: marketing-de@hotelbb.com Web: www.hotelbb.de
YOUR OVERNIGHT STAY AT A B&B HOTEL Great service at best value is our brand philosophy at B&B HOTELS, one of Germany s leading hotel groups in the standard two-star economy hotel segment. Our room rates include wireless internet and Sky TV as well as free parking at many of our locations. As you can tell from the name, our B&B hotels provide bed and breakfast, but no restaurant. Our B&B hotels are ideal for trade fair visitors, businesspeople, holidaymakers and families, and provide popular affordable overnight accommodation whether you re taking a flight next day or a tour of the city. Our many regular guests have come to appreciate our convenient locations, modern amenities and unique design. Online check-in from wherever you happen to be is one of the services that have cemented our innovation leadership in the hotel industry. In June, 2016 we received the Digital Champions Award for the B&B HOTELS online check-in as lighthouse project of digitization. HOTELBB.DE
B&B HOTELS GMBH (GERMANY) B&B HOTELS GmbH, Hochheim am Main, is a subsidiary of the Groupe B&B Hôtels based in Brest, France, and has been operating in Germany since B&B Hotel Ingolstadt opened in 1998. We currently operate more than ninety-two hotels with a total capacity of more than nine thousand rooms; we are one of the largest hotel groups in Germany by hotel numbers, and we aim to expand by at least sixteen more B&B hotels every year. Our B&B hotels are operated by independent hotel management companies. 4
BUDGET PRICES AS PART OF OUR BUSINESS MODEL Our B&B hotel room rates vary by region; rates at B&B Hotel Berlin-Süd Genshagen begin at 43 for one night for a single room with a queen-size bed, 54 for a double room, or 75 for a family room. We at B&B HOTELS take special needs of families into account, offering affordable solutions for guests with children. Every B&B hotel has family rooms with three or four beds; groups, leisure clubs and friends travelling together often book them too. Pets are welcome at a surcharge of 8. B&B HOTEL FEATURES Convenient access to motorways and the city centre Pet-friendly Around 100 rooms per hotel on average Air conditioning Lifts Soundproofing Accessible rooms Printed price lists for price transparency Family rooms HOTELBB.DE
CLUBCARD Max Mustermann 280 4001 5010 0300 1/2017 HOTELBB.DE B&B CLUB CARD Our B&B Club Card programme for 44 a year gives you even more benefits: 10 % 10 % FREE DAYS % 10 % discount on all night stays (standard and trade-fair rates). 10 % discount on breakfast. One free night s stay on weekends or public holidays after ten overnight stays. Four-day advance reservation service reserve a room by phone up to four days by 7 p.m. before you arrive, and we will do our best to get a room ready for you. This service does not apply to trade fairs, events or high-season in the region. Personal online portal with your customer data stored for quick and convenient booking. Discounts at Sixt car hire, restaurants and other partners details at our hotel reception or go to club.hotelbb.de for details. 6
B&B HOTELS IN BRIEF The B&B Hotel Group is France s third-largest economy hotel group with more than 250 hotels in France, more than twenty in Italy, twenty in Spain, five in Poland, one in Morocco and one in the Czech Republic. We also have 96 hotels in Germany. B&B HOTELS IN GERMANY 1997 Founding of Galaxie GmbH as a subsidiary of Galaxie S.A. 1998 Opening of B&B Hotel Ingolstadt (September, 73 rooms) 1999 Opening of B&B Hotel Berlin Süd-Genshagen (June, 73 rooms) 2000 Opening of B&B Hotel Hannover (January, 73 rooms), Köln-Frechen (September, 106 rooms) 2001 Opening of B&B Hotel Braunschweig (October, 78 rooms), Leipzig-Nord (October, 78 rooms), Aachen-Würselen (December, 78 rooms) 2002 Opening of B&B Hotel Bochum-Herne (January, 78 rooms) 2006 Opening of B&B Hotel Frankfurt-Niederrad (April, 148 rooms), München-Messe (June, 127 rooms) 2007 Opening of B&B Hotel Freiburg-Nord (January, 80 rooms), Köln-Airport (January, 104 rooms), Erlangen (February, 100 rooms), Frankfurt-Hahn Airport (April, 107 rooms) 2008 Opening of B&B Hotel München City-Nord (May, 132 rooms), Frankfurt-Nord (August, 100 rooms), Hamburg-Altona (December, 182 rooms) 2009 Opening of B&B Hotel Baden-Airpark (March, 85 rooms), Mainz-Hbf (April, 92 rooms), Saarbrücken (April, 110 rooms), Dortmund-Messe (June, 107 rooms), Rhynern-Nord (June, 41 rooms) in cooperation with Tank & Rast, Oberhausen am Centro (July, 102 rooms), Holledau (July, 92 rooms) in cooperation with Tank & Rast, Fränkische Schweiz-Pegnitz (July, 66 rooms) in cooperation with Tank & Rast, Mannheim (August, 100 rooms), Augsburg (August, 100 rooms), Koblenz (September, 100 rooms), Göttingen (October, 69 rooms) in cooperation with Tank & Rast, Rhynern-Süd (November, 12 rooms) in cooperation with Tank & Rast, Berlin- Potsdamer Platz (December, 92 rooms) HOTELBB.DE
2010 Opening of B&B Hotel Hannover-Garbsen (February, 39 rooms) in cooperation with Tank & Rast, Düsseldorf-Airport (May, 100rooms), Stuttgart-City (June, 88 rooms), Dresden (August, 131 rooms), Nürnberg-City (September, 135 rooms), Darmstadt (November, 102 rooms) 2011 Opening of B&B Hotel Heilbronn (May, 95 rooms), Regensburg (July, 96 rooms), Stuttgart-Vaihingen (July, 108 rooms), Essen (July, 106 rooms), Frankfurt City-Ost (September, 170 rooms), München-Airport (November, 101 rooms) 2012 Opening of B&B Hotel Düsseldorf-Hbf (January, 124 rooms), Würzburg (August, 95 rooms), Frankfurt-West (October, 109 rooms), Mönchengladbach (November, 100 rooms), Kaiserslautern (December, 84 rooms) 2013 Opening of B&B Hotel Berlin-Airport (February, 140 rooms), Bremen-Hbf (March, 100 rooms), Bielefeld (March, 104 rooms), Kiel-City (April, 101 rooms), Kassel (May, 94 rooms), Bonn (July, 100 rooms), Wiesbaden (July, 120 rooms), Ulm (July, 124 rooms), Heidelberg (August, 123 rooms), Böblingen (September, 100 rooms), Freiburg-Süd (October, 102 rooms), Nürnberg-Hbf (November, 135 rooms), Paderborn (December, 85 rooms) 2014 Opening of B&B Hotel Hamburg-Harburg (April, 100 rooms), Oldenburg (May, 94 rooms), München City-West (June, 147 rooms), Schweinfurt (June, 86 rooms), Hamm (July, 92 rooms), Hamburg-Nord (July, 160 rooms), Bad Homburg (August, 84 rooms), Lübeck (October, 96 rooms) Frankfurt-Hbf (October, 91 rooms), Köln-Messe (December, 109 rooms) 2015 Opening of B&B Hotel Mülheim an der Ruhr (May, 101 rooms), Passau (May, 84 rooms), Karlsruhe (June, 99 rooms), Leipzig-City (June, 96 rooms), Erfurt (August, 95 rooms), Osnabrück (September, 100 rooms), Düsseldorf-City (October, 99 rooms)basel/weil am Rhein (October, 90 rooms), Duisburg (December, 101 rooms), Aschaffenburg (December, 85 rooms) 2016 Opening of B&B Hotel Konstanz (May, 100 rooms), Göttingen-City (June, 102 rooms), Münster-Hafen (August, 80 rooms), Ludwigshafen (September, 100 rooms), Hamburg City-Ost (September, 155 rooms), Potsdam (November, 100 rooms), Berlin-Tiergarten (December, 186 rooms), Mainz-Hbf (December, 119 rooms), Krefeld (December, 100 rooms) 2017 Opening of B&B Hotel Offenburg (February, 92 rooms), B&B Hotel Lüneburg (April, 103 rooms), B&B Hotel Halle/Saale (May, 102 rooms), B&B Hotel Braunschweig-City (July, 104 rooms), B&B Hotel Rosenheim (August, 98 rooms), B&B Hotel Wuppertal (August, 100 rooms) PLANNED OPENINGS IN 2017: B&B Hotel Neu-Ulm (123 rooms) B&B Hotel München City-Ost (121 rooms) B&B Hotel Magdeburg (113 rooms) B&B Hotel Dortmund-City (118 rooms) B&B Hotel Berlin-Alexanderplatz (163 rooms) B&B Hotel Weimar (84 rooms) 8
WORLDWIDE EXPANSION The coming years will see the B&B Hotel Group expand its hotel network in Germany and other European countries. We will still be focusing on medium and large cities as well as metropolitan regions with attractive locations close to city centres as well as convenient transport links. We also place high priority on easy accessibility to restaurants, airports, and major tourist attractions. We opened our first hotels in Italy in 2009, followed by the openings of B&B hotels in Poland in 2010, Morocco and Czech Republic in 2013. In 2015 and 2016 we opened twenty hotels in Spain. We intend to reinforce our market presence there and in other countries. We plan to open B&B hotels in Central Europe while expanding on our franchise operations in Austria, Spain, Switzerland and Brazil. HOTELBB.DE
FITTINGS, SERVICE AND PRICES AT A GLANCE ROOM DESCRIPTION Room category: Single room: one room with a queen-size bed Double room: twin-bed room or queen-size bed Family room, gallery split-level room: rooms with three or more beds Accessible rooms for people with reduced mobility: these rooms are located on the lower floors, and are equipped with wheelchair-accessible basins and showers suitable for shower wheelchairs or shower chairs hooked onto the handrail. Room size: Standard room: 15.5 m² Family rooms (some on two levels): around 25 m² Room fittings Desk, wardrobe, TV, tiled bathroom with shower and toilet, air conditioning, modern soundproofing, wireless internet and USB charging station. CONFERENCE ROOMS Conference rooms for smaller presentations and business meetings are available in the following hotels: B&B Hotel Frankfurt-Hahn Airport: one conference room for up to eight persons B&B Hotel Saarbrücken: two conference rooms for up to ten persons B&B Hotel Holledau (on the A9 motorway): two conference rooms for up to forty persons B&B Hotel Hannover-Garbsen (on the A2 motorway): one conference room for up to thirty persons B&B Hotel Fränkische Schweiz-Pegnitz (on the A9 motorway): one conference room for up to thirty persons 10
SERVICE Free services: parking at the hotel at almost all locations, wireless internet, Sky TV Optional full buffet breakfast for 8.50 per person ( 3 per child up to 12 years) from around 6:30 to 10:00 on weekdays (some hotels serve breakfast earlier) and 7:30 to 10:30 on weekends and public holidays Snacks, sweets, hot and cold drinks are available around the clock from the vending machine in the lobby; restaurant facilities 365 days a year at B&B hotels partnering with the Tank & Rast motorway services company Payphones and internet access points at reception Pets welcome for a fee of 8 per pet per night B&B Club Card: loyalty programme with 10 % discount on room and breakfast rates alongside many other benefits RESERVATIONS AND CHECK-IN Reserve a room online at hotelbb.de or at the hotel itself Check-in outside reception opening hours at the entrance using your credit card or access numerical code sent on booking Online check-in: all guests making reservations via hotelbb.de or the app receive an invitation to check in online 48 hours prior to arrival. On the date of arrival, the guest receives the access code by SMS or e-mail. ROOM RATES Single rooms from 43 per night, double rooms from 54 per night, family rooms from 75 per night HOTELBB.DE
MANAGEMENT MAX C. LUSCHER CEO B&B HOTELS GmbH, Germany Max C. Luscher has been the CEO of B&B HOTELS GmbH in Germany since 1 January 2017. His career is closely associated with the hotel industry. After graduating from high school he completed his training and qualified in hotel management before taking up positions in the international hotel industry (including the UK, Ireland, USA, Cayman Islands). The native of Stuttgart then studied business administration and hospitality management at the University of Munich. He followed this by establishing a hotel real estate and hotel management consultancy at KPMG, which he directed as a company officer and senior manager. In addition, he completed the vocational course in real estate investment management at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel. In January 2016, Max C. Luscher joined B&B HOTELS as the Director of Development and Asset Management. He is married and has three children. FABRICE COLLET COO Groupe B&B Hôtels CEO B&B HOTELS GmbH, Germany Born 1970 in France, Fabrice Collet earned his diploma at the Engineering College Ecole Centrale de Paris. After working in financial management within the service sector of various enterprises (Elis, Polyconcept, Neopost and Wendel Group SE), he joined B&B Hotels as Chief Financial Officer in 2012. Since 2016, Fabrice Collet has been the Chief Operating Officer for B&B Hotels Group and on January 1, 2017 he assumed the position of Managing Director for B&B HOTELS Germany. GEORGES SAMPEUR CEO Groupe B&B Hôtels Georges Sampeur, CEO of Groupe B&B Hôtels France, leads the Groupe B&B Hôtels since 2003. Sampeur was born in France. After apprenticeship at car rental agency AVIS, he managed the AVIS marketing and sales team Europe. 1996 he assumed the management for AVIS Great Britain. Six years later Sampeur changed his position and operated the French market of the company Carlson Wagonlit and later on he was assistant CEO of Europe. 12
FACTS AND FIGURES Headquarters in Germany Parent company Turnover Hotel category CEO, Group CEO, Germany Investors B&B HOTELS GmbH Altkönigstraße 10 D-65239 Hochheim am Main Tel.: +49 (0) 6146 9090-0 Fax: +49 (0) 6146 9090-111 E-Mail: kontakt@hotelbb.com Web: www.hotelbb.de Groupe B&B Hôtels, third largest economy hotel chain in France Groupe B&B Hôtels, 2016: 423,6 million (14,5 % increase from 2015) Economy hotel chain in two-star segment, hotels in individual designs equipped with modern fittings Georges Sampeur Fabrice Collet, Max C. Luscher PAI Partners as the majority shareholder since 14 March 2016 B&B Management Number of hotels in Europe Over 400 Number of hotels in Germany 96 (as of October 2017) new hotels opened in 2013: 13 B&B hotels new hotels opened in 2014: 10 B&B hotels new hotels opened in 2015: 10 B&B hotels new hotels opened in 2016: 9 B&B hotels new hotels opened in 2017: 15 B&B hotels (planned) HOTELBB.DE
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