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Jarvis Hotels Jarvis Hotels, the chain of 60 hotels, is expected to be put up for sale by Lioncourt Capital for about £200m. 11-Jul-2005 Jarvis Hotels has sold the Bear hotel in Hungerford to Considered Hotels for about £3m. 14-Apr-2005 Jarvis Hotels is looking to sell the Regents Park Hotel in London for more than £60m, in order to help fund a £229m management buy-out. 15-Dec-2003 Jarvis Hotels, the chain of 67 hotels, is planning to undergo a £153m management buy-out backed by Lioncourt Capital. 30-Oct-2003 Jarvis Hotels has raised £150m from the sale and leaseback of nine properties, as part of a strategy to focus on hotel management. 05-Nov-2002 Jarvis Hotels is planning to double the size of the 91-bed Ramada Jarvis hotel in Glasgow, at a cost of £7m. 10-Jun-2002 Jarvis Hotels is to operate two new hotels at Glasgow Airport on behalf of Tonstate Glasgow Airport, the first contracts to be won by its new hospitality management services division. 07-Dec-2001 Jarvis Hotels is planning to expand its hotel chain from 65 to more than 120 over the next three years, and will start to include serviced offices and other business facilities. 15-Oct-2001 Jarvis Hotels is planning to change its name to Ramada as part of a strategy to become a hotel management business and reduce its ownership of hotel assets. 13-Jun-2001 Jarvis Hotels has bought the 120-bedroom Lakeside Hotel at Swansea Enterprise Park from the Hilton Group for £3.7m, and the property will be refurbished and rebranded as the Jarvis International Swansea. 22-Sep-2000 Jarvis Hotels is looking to sell ten of its smaller hotels in order to raise £17m. 08-Jun-2000 Jarvis Hotels has bought the Hilton hotel at London's Regent's Park from the Hilton Group for £70m. 02-Aug-1999 Norwich Union has bought nine hotels from Hilton for £69m, and Jarvis Hotels has been awarded the operating leases. 31-Jul-1999 Jarvis Hotels is in discussions with Accor which could result in Jarvis gaining a master franchise for some of the French company's UK hotels. 09-Jun-1999 Jarvis Hotels is looking to expand in continental Europe, but would mainly be interested in managing hotels rather than owning them. 10-Jun-1998 Jarvis Hotels is looking to spend up to £100m expanding its chain of 63 hotels, but is prepared to wait until suitable acquisitions become available. 26-Nov-1997 Jarvis Hotels is looking to spend up to £30m on buying hotels this year, and also plans to sell peripheral properties having just announced the sale of two hotels in Swansea and London for a total £1.8m. 20-Jun-1997 Jarvis Hotels has bought Holiday Inn Gatwick East for £8.6m from the Scandic Hotels Group. 22-Aug-1996 Jarvis Hotels expects to raise about £133m from this month's flotation, and the company will be valued at about £282m. 06-Jun-1996 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007