Indian Hotels Is Said to Seek Bigger Stake in Orient-Express | bloomberg.com
Indian Hotels Co. (IH), the country’s biggest hotel operator, has restarted efforts to boost its stake in Orient-Express (OEH) Hotels Ltd., two people with knowledge of the matter said.
The Mumbai-based company has approached Orient-Express about a deal, though discussions are at an early stage and may fail to lead to an agreement, the people said, declining to be identified as deliberations are private. Indian Hotels owns 6.9 percent of Hamilton, Bermuda-based Orient-Express, whose market value has jumped 32 percent this year to $1.2 billion.
