When Marriott International announced a $12.2 billion bid for Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, consumers weren’t the only ones shocked by the news. Analysts, investors and businesses alike found ...

(Reuters) - Marriott International Inc will buy Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc for $12.2 billion (8.02 billion pounds) to create the world's largest hotel chain with top brands including ...

The Marriott International brand has become the largest hotel chain in the world, after its $13 billion acquisition of Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide closed on Friday morning. The new deal ...

Shareholders of Marriott International and Starwood Hotels and Resorts are on track to vote today on a merger deal between the two companies that will create the largest hotel chain in the world. The ...

Two of the world’s expansion-minded hotel chains are joining forces, as Marriott International has agreed to acquire Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide in a deal valued at $12.2 billion. Marriott ...

As we saw in the first part of this series, Marriott International (MAR) is buying Starwood Hotels & Resorts (HOT) in a big deal in the lodging and hotel space. The equity value of the transaction is ...

After hotel giant Marriott International acquired Starwood Hotels and Resorts in 2016, it was clear that the two loyalty programs would eventually evolve into one. And for a long time, Starwood ...

Most mergers are bad ideas: just ask Carly Fiorina, whose disastrous decision to buy Compaq, when she was the CEO of Hewlett-Packard, more or less ensured that she would be remembered, in Jeffrey ...