White Lodging
White Lodging Services Corporation is a privately held American hotel management company. As of 2015, it manages more than 160 hotels. It is one of the largest hospitality companies in the United States.[1]
White Lodging was founded in 1985[2] by Bruce W. White, the son of the billionaire Dean White.[3] The company is headquartered in Merrillville, Indiana.[4]
In 2014 and 2015, White Lodging was the subject of data security breaches at numerous locations that it manages.[5][4][6][7][8] In November 2016, former chief financial officer Ken Barrett was named chief executive officer of the company.[9]
In December 2017, White Lodging announced that it would be selling 82 of its suburban hotel management contracts to Interstate Hotels & Resorts, cutting its hotel portfolio in half and resulting in the loss of more than 50 corporate office staff.[10]
References
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- ^ "Hotel Management Company | Hotel Development". White Lodging. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
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- ^ "Hotel Franchise Firm White Lodging Investigates Breach — Krebs on Security". Krebsonsecurity.com. January 31, 2014. Retrieved April 2, 2017.
- ^ "Yet Another Big Hotel Credit Card Breach - Is Your Information Safe?". TheStreet. Retrieved April 2, 2017.
- ^ Perlroth, Nicole (January 31, 2014). "Latest Sites of Breaches in Security Are Hotels". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 4, 2014. Retrieved December 31, 2019.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Ken Barrett Named CEO for White Lodging". Hotelnewsresource.com. November 30, 2016. Retrieved April 2, 2017.
- ^ Pete, Joseph S. (December 6, 2017). "UPDATE: White Lodging selling off 82 hotel contracts as it goes on national building spree". NWI Times. Retrieved December 9, 2017.