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Reliance Industries Ltd, India's largest corporate by revenues, profits and market value, has announced the acquisition of Mandarin Oriental Hotel's flagship New York City property in Columbus Circle.
This is the latest addition to the company's acquisitions worth $5.6 billion across eight verticals (Morgan Stanley aggregation a day before the Mandarin Oriental deal). Located at 80, Columbus Circle, Mandarin Oriental's New York property is on the corner of Central Park, New York City's largest green space. Its rooms overlook the Hudson River and are steps away from the Broadway Theater District, Lincoln Center, Central Park and about 20 minutes by foot from Times Square. Mandarin Oriental operates 35 hotels and seven residences in 24 countries, including six in the US. The Mandarin Oriental brand counts Irish born actor of 'Schindler's List' and 'Taken' fame Liam Neeson among its fans. "Certain hotels get it; they get my industry. A lot of hotels don't. The Mandarin Oriental gets it," Neeson says in one of 47 short videos from the hotel's 'I'm a Fan' series on its social channels. The latest New York deal is RIL's second in the luxury hospitality sector in two consecutive years. In 2021, RIL bought Stoke Park Ltd -- a 300-acre setting for two James Bond films -- for $79 million. Stoke Park, the first country club in the UK, is a private sporting and leisure estate in Buckinghamshire, a county in South East England. Reliance Industrial Investments and Holdings Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries, also holds 18.53 per cent stake in Oberoi group's EIH Ltd. A Morgan Stanley research note on 'What is RIL Buying' released January 7 shows RIL's deal values across eight verticals totalling $5.69 billion. Telco leads ($2,508 mn), followed by new energy ($1,327 mn), retail ($ 629 mn), media and education ($ 688 mn), chemicals ($ 187 mn), digital ($ 111 mn), and hospitality ($ 79 mn). The note was prepared before the Mandarin Hotel acquisition was announced. Last week, RIL's retail arm invested $200 million for a 25.8 per cent stake in Indian online delivery platform Dunzo, which operates across multiple industry verticals and provides hyperlocal delivery of products within 15-20 minutes. --IANS nikhila/arm ( 371 Words) 2022-01-08-23:16:03 (IANS)
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