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• Fallon-Saatchi Exit Holiday Inn Pitch

  BNET - 2009-11-06

  The short list of agencies in Intercontinental Hotel Group's review of global creative duties for its Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express brands has gotten shorter.The Publicis Groupe team of Fallon in Minneapolis and Saatchi & Saatchi in New York has exited, leaving three finalists that sources previously identified as...

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• Holiday Inn Puts Global Advertising Account Into Review

  BNET - 2009-11-05

  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Holiday Inn is conducting a review of its global creative advertising account, and four networks will make final presentations in a bid for the hotel chain's business next month, executives familiar with the matter said. They are: Omnicom Group's DDB, WPP's JWT, Publicis Groupe's Saatchi-Fallon Group...

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• InterContinental Hotels to pool ad tasks

  BNET - 2009-10-20

  The pitch, which will be overseen by IHG chief marketing officer Tom Seddon, will be contested between the group's global roster agencies. McCann Erickson handles  IHG's business in EMEA, while Fallon works on its accounts in the US. Leagas Delaney, which will not pitch for the Crowne Plaza and Holiday...

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• Holiday Inn's "Swinger Convention" Scrutinized

  BNET - 2009-10-17

  The Holiday Inn Grand Island Resort and Convention Center in Grand Island, N.Y. booked a three-day swinger convention called, "Entice the Falls," which would have included a late-night Club Erotica with body painting, sensual massage and other events. (Swingers are typically couples who exchange partners.)However, the body painting and late-night...

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• Need to know: Greggs profits rise ... Citigroup to be sued ... Thorntons credit facility ...

  BNET - 2009-08-11

  View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics Trade gap: The trade in goods deficit widened in June to £6.45 billion, after a surge in imports of oil. The gap was bigger than the £6.174 billion reported in May. Imports rose by 2.2 per cent, the biggest increase since...

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• InterContinental Warns on Recovery

  BNET - 2009-08-11

  By David Jones LONDON (Reuters UK) - InterContinental Hotels IHG, the world's biggest hotelier, said a recovery for the industry might be two years away after reporting first-half profit that fell but beat forecasts. The group, which operates the InterContinental, Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn brands, declined to call the...

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• $12.5M buys Plainview hotel

  - 2009-08-07

  The 127-room Holiday Inn on Sunnyside Blvd. in Plainview has been sold for about $12.5 million. Visible from the Long Island Expressway, the Holiday Inn sits on about 3.95 acres and includes five meeting rooms, a catering hall, bar/nightclub, restaurant, and an outdoor swimming pool....

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• N.O. Hospitality Briefs: August 5, 2009

  - 2009-08-05

  The Holiday Inn Downtown Superdome has named Ashley Farrell catering sales manager. The La Quinta Inn and Suites in downtown New Orleans has named Greg Smith general manager. The New Orleans Hornets have acquired center Emeka Okafor from the Charlotte Bobcats and have...

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• New Energy Boosts Testing of Device for Generating Electricity from Motion of Cars with Addition of Holiday Inn Express®

  - 2009-07-28

  New Energy adds Holiday Inn Express® in Baltimore, MD to durability tests of its MotionPower� prototype, previously announced at prominent Burger King® franchise in New York metropolitan ...

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• Holiday Inn Relaunches 1000th Hotel

  - 2009-07-24

  New Holiday Inn ExpressR in Times Square, New York, opens as part of the biggest relaunch in hospitality history NEW YORK, July 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IHG InterContinental Hotels Group [LON: IHG, NYSE: IHG ADRs], the world's largest hotel company, today announced the opening of its 1000th...

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