The Oberoi Group is a luxury hotel group with its head office in

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. Founded in 1934, the company owns and operates 32

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s and two

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ships in 7 countries, primarily under its Oberoi Hotels & Resorts and Trident brands. The group also operates The Oberoi Centre of Learning and Development, which is regarded as one of

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's top institutions for hospitality education.

History

The foundations of The Oberoi Group date back to 1934 when

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Mohan Singh Oberoi Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh Oberoi (15 August 1898 – 3 May 2002)Mohan Singh Oberoi ...

, the founder of the group, bought two properties: the Maidens in

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and the Clarkes in

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. In the following years Oberoi, assisted by his two sons, Tilak Raj Singh Oberoi and Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi, continued the expansion of their group with properties both in

and abroad.

November 2008 terrorist attack

On 26 November 2008, Trident Mumbai was attacked by 2 terrorists, Fahadullah and Abdul Rehman of

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organization as a part of the

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. 32 staff and guests were killed during the three-day siege.

Ownership

The two major holding companies of The Oberoi Group are EIH Ltd and EIH Associated Hotels (formerly East India Hotels). Arjun Singh Oberoi is the current chairman of The Oberoi Group, his brother, Vikramjit Singh Oberoi at the holding companies. The Oberoi family is the majority shareholder in EIH Ltd with a 32.11% stake. Conglomerate

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owns approximately a 14.98% stake in EIH Ltd. To ward off pressures from ITC Ltd. whose ownership stands precariously close to the automatic open offer trigger at 15%, the Oberoi family divested a 14.12% stake in EIH Ltd. to

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-led Reliance Industries Investment and Holding Pvt Ltd. The stake sale happened on 30 August 2010 for valuing EIH Ltd. at an enterprise value of . Recently the stake of Reliance further raised from ITC and it stood at 20% overall for Reliance Industries.

Properties

The company currently manages 32 hotels under the luxury brand ''Oberoi Hotels & Resorts'', with a further 10 five-star properties under the ''Trident Hotels'' brand. The group also operates the Clarkes Hotel in Shimla and the

Maidens Hotel, Delhi Maidens Hotel, Delhi, an Oberoi Hotels & Resorts, Oberoi Group hotel, originally known as Maiden's Metropolitan Hotel, is a Cultural heritage, heritage hotel in the Civil Lines area of Delhi, India. It was opened in 1903 in its present location ...

. However, these two properties are not held under the Trident or under the Oberoi brand. The Clarkes Hotel, after remaining temporarily shut following its lawns caving in because of construction in the eco-sensitive vicinity, reopened on 16 September 2012.

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