Sir Rocco Forte enjoys record pay day after hotels empire deal hospitality The hotels group founded by Sir Rocco Forte has issued a record dividend for the first full year after Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) became a major shareholder. Rocco Forte Hotels has paid out dividends totalling £8.9m for the year to 30 April, 2025, to its shareholders. The international hotels group, which is headquartered in [...]
Rocco Forte Hotels counts cost of £1.4bn deal with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund Business Profit at the British hotel group co-founded by Sir Rocco Forte was cut by more than half during its latest financial year as it sold a significant stake to Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. The deal, which was first announced in December 2023, saw the PIF take a 49 per cent holding in London-headquartered Rocco Forte Hotels [...]
The poshest picnic in the UK: why it’s worth booking Glyndebourne 2024 GLYNDEBOURNE A picnic at the historic house of Glyndebourne is a highlight of the better weathered seasons, and one of the poshest pursuits in Britain, says Sophie Ibbotson f there is a recipe for the perfect summer evening, warm weather, extensive gardens, and al fresco dining are surely indispensable ingredients. At Glyndebourne in East Sussex, your [...]
Saudis take 49 per cent stake in Rocco Forte’s luxury hotel chain December 4, 2023 Hotel chief Sir Rocco Forte has sold 49 per cent of his eponymous hotel chain to the Saudi Public Investment Fund
Olga Polizzi on creating a suite in Brown’s Hotel inspired by the novels of Rudyard Kipling August 3, 2016 In this summer of botanical wallcoverings and all things tropical, lush and green, one jungle-inspired interior design project in Mayfair is king of the swingers. The sumptuous Kipling Suite at Browns Hotel in Mayfair is where favoured guest Rudyard Kipling stayed and penned, they claim, much of The Jungle Book. And if the best hotel [...]
Best British staycations May 23, 2014 In the space of just over twenty years, a remarkable resurgence in the quality and quantity of luxury British hotels has transformed the fortunes of our seaside resorts and rural destinations. Pioneers like millionaire industrialist Jim Ratcliffe, Robin Hutson (of Hotel du Vin and The Pig fame) and Olga Polizzi have given the industry a [...]
Travel Notes March 13, 2011 YORKSHIRE FITNESS RETREATS IF you’re looking for something to kick-start a spring fitness regime but don’t fancy crowded exercise classes and stuffy lunch-hour gym visits, you can find something a bit more relaxing and soulful with a break in the Yorkshire Dales. Natural Retreats, which runs a handful of swish, remote eco-cottages secreted into the [...]