Our commanding scale
- 661,159 hotel rooms, 4,506 hotels
- 1,098 pipeline hotels
- Operating in nearly 100 countries and territories around the world
- Nine hotel brands – InterContinental, Crowne Plaza, Hotel Indigo, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Staybridge Suites, Candlewood Suites, EVEN™ Hotels and HUALUXE™ Hotels and Resorts
- Over 153m guests annually
- Leadership in 13 of our top 20 markets around the world
- Listed on the London and New York stock exchanges.
- $20.2bn gross revenues in 2011
Our history
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC was formed by the separation of Six Continents PLC (previously Bass PLC) on 15 April 2003. The restaurant and pubs part of Six Continents became Mitchells & Butlers plc.
However, IHG's brands trace their history back much further than 2003. Our Holiday Inn brand, one of the world's most recognised, was created in the 1950s by Kemmons Wilson in the US. InterContinental, another of our brands, was created by Pan Am in the 1940s, when hotels were built in many of Pan Am's destinations.
IHG today
We have moved from investing heavily in hotel properties to return to our roots as a hotel franchise and management company and reducing the capital intensity of the business.
Figures as at 31 March 2012
Last updated 09 May 2012