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-based
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with a portfolio of 18 hotels, operating in the three and four star sector.


History

By the 1990s, the Vaux Group had expanded into hotels. The company changed its name to Swallow Group plc, concentrating on the hotels business and incorporating the former Vaux-managed pub estate under the ''Swallow Inns & Restaurants'' brand. The Swallow Group was bought by
Whitbread Whitbread plc is a multinational British hotel and restaurant company headquartered in Houghton Regis, England. The business was founded as a brewery in 1742, and had become the largest brewery in the world by the 1780s. Its largest division ...
in January 2000. Whitbread sold the pubs to
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in May 2000. The Swallow brand was subsequently purchased in 2003 by London Inn Group. The hotels traded under the name London & Edinburgh Inns Ltd and went into administration on 14 September 2006. On 4 August 2009 the Stockton-on-Tees Swallow Hotel closed, as the administrators 'could not trade the hotel profitably'. Its last remaining hotel, in
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, near
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, was closed in 2014.


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