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Metro Bank UK Ramping Up Promotions

Metro Bank UK looks like its finally coming to fruition. A number of unoccupied retail locations in London are now sporting advertising promoting “Love Your Bank”.

Nov. 14, 2009 | Andrew Calvo | 1 comment | Continued
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MetroBank Gets Served First Lawsuit For Its Branding

Metro Bank was recently served its first lawsuit based on its branding. Surprisingly its not because of the name Metro Bank – of which there are 4 other banks throughout America with the same name – but its because of its big red M.

Jul. 8, 2009 | Andrew Calvo | 0 comments | Continued
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W Hotels Gets Its Own Fashion Director and Music Curator

W Hotels is about to announce two new positions: Fashion Director and Music Curator. Two positions that you’d never think to find in a international boutique hotel brand.

Jun. 30, 2009 | Andrew Calvo | 0 comments | Continued
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Arrogance Forced Abercrombie and Fitch To Close Ruehl

Abercrombie and Fitch is closing their Ruehl concept stores – one of the best concepts I’ve seen in branding a shopping experience ever.

Jun. 18, 2009 | Andrew Calvo | 22 comments | Continued
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Metro Bank’s New Website Launched

Metro Bank launched their new website this weekend at www.mymetrobank.com. Nothing major to focus on – but the Vernon Hill marketing machine will be starting up in a big way very soon.

Jun. 15, 2009 | Andrew Calvo | 9 comments | Continued
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Starwood Capital Purchases Golden Tulip Hotels

I think we’ll be seeing more of this in the near future – but on Friday Starwood Capital announced their intentions to purchase Golden Tulip Hotels. This seems like it’s going to be a complete purchase of the company – management contracts, company owned hotels, and any future deals that Golden Tulip may be involved [...]

Jun. 14, 2009 | Andrew Calvo | 2 comments | Continued
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Starwood Capital Puts It’s Crillon Hotel On The Market

Starwood Capital placed the Crillon hotel in Paris on the market earlier this week, an extremely surprising move since Starwood has spoken so highly of the asset, and even intended to create a hotel brand based on the initial, historic location in Paris.

Jun. 10, 2009 | Andrew Calvo | 6 comments | Continued
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Starwood Capital’s 1 Hotels and Baccarat Brands Expanding First Into China

A story from the South China Morning Post states that Starwood Capital is investing $2 billion over the next 5 years in its 1 Hotel & Baccarat Hotel brands – in China. The story has so many conflicting statements, both within the story and based on news that’s occurred over the past few months.. I’m almost not sure to believe anything in the article!

Jun. 10, 2009 | Andrew Calvo | 0 comments | Continued
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Commerce Bank/Harrisburg Conversion into Metro Bank is Underway

The eagerly awaited conversion of the Commerce Bank/Harrisburg brand into the new Metro Bank brand is finally beginning to become apparent to the regular folk who don’t exactly track Commerce/Metro like I do.
Last week, Commerce Bank/Harrisburg put out a press release stating that over the next two weeks the Commerce Bank logo and brand would [...]

Jun. 8, 2009 | Andrew Calvo | 6 comments | Continued
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Cosmopolitan Las Vegas Just Can Never Catch A Break

The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas gets caught up in another delay – this time the lawsuit between Starwood & Hilton.

Apr. 24, 2009 | Andrew Calvo | 0 comments | Continued
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Work Is Suspended on Hilton’s Denizen Brand

Things have gone from bad to worse for Hilton. They were recently served a subpoena for their actions involving Starwood, which has forced them to suspend all activity on the Denizen brand development as well as placing most of the employees involved in Hilton’s Prestige Portfolio on paid administrative leave – including Ross Klein and Amar Lalvani.

Apr. 21, 2009 | Andrew Calvo | 4 comments | Continued
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