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Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. - Financial and Strategic Analysis Review

Summary

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. - Financial and Strategic Analysis Review is an in-depth business, strategic and financial analysis of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.. The report provides a comprehensive insight into the company, including business structure and operations, executive biographies and key competitors. The hallmark of the report is the detailed strategic analysis of the company. This highlights its strengths and weaknesses and the opportunities and threats it faces going forward.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (Starwood Hotels) is one of the largest hotel and leisure companies in the world. Starwood Hotels, along with its subsidiaries, owns, operates and franchises hotels and resorts. Currently, the company

 

 

operates 942 hotels of which it owns or leases 62 hotels, holds major stake in 436 hotels while franchises 437 hotels. It operates its network of hotels and resorts under the various leading brands including The Luxury Collection, St. Regis, Sheraton, Four Points, Westin, W, by Sheratn, Le Meridien, Aloft and Element. The company principally operates in the US and Italy. Starwood Hotels is headquartered at White Plains, New York in the US.

Recent Developments

Sep 22, 2009: Starwood Opens New LEED Certified Hotel, Element Dallas Fort Worth Airport North
Sep 21, 2009: Starwood Opens New Hotel, Element Denver Park Meadows
Jul 22, 2009: Starwood Partners With Carbon Day Automotive To Install Coulomb Technologies´ ChargePoint Networked Charging Station

Scope

- Provides key company information for business intelligence needs
- The company’s strengths and weaknesses and areas of development or decline are analyzed. Financial, strategic and operational factors are considered.
- The opportunities open to the company are considered and its growth potential assessed. Competitive or technological threats are highlighted.
- The report contains critical company information – business structure and operations, the company history, major products and services, key competitors, key employees and executive biographies, different locations and important subsidiaries.
- The report provides detailed financial ratios for the past five years as well as interim ratios for the last four quarters.
- Financial ratios include profitability, margins and returns, liquidity and leverage, financial position and efficiency ratios.

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