Dr Lo Ka Shui, Deputy Chairman and Managing Director of Great Eagle Holdings Limited and Chairman of Langham Hotels International, stated, “These key appointments reflect Langham Group’s commitment to own and operate high quality hotels, and to further the expansion of Langham Hotels International.” Lo added, “With the successful launch of the Langham brand in January 2003, we will continue to focus our worldwide development of deluxe hotels in gateway cities.”

Kevin Murphy, Senior Vice President – Development, will spearhead the Langham Group’s development of management contracts worldwide and hotel investment in gateway cities around the globe.

Brett Butcher, Senior Vice President – Sales & Marketing, will head the LHI’s worldwide sales and marketing functions, particularly in brand building, corporate communications, e-business development, the hotel chain’s sales and marketing strategies, customer relationship management and partnership marketing. Butcher will retain his role of being the Managing Director of Langham Place Hotel, Mongkok, Hong Kong and Eaton Hotel Hong Kong.

Nigel Roberts, Senior Vice President – Operations, will be responsible for ensuring the highest standard of fine hospitality service and qualifying LHI’s emergence as a truly global deluxe portfolio. His responsibility will cover LHI hotels in London, Boston, Melbourne, Auckland and Hong Kong. Roberts will continue to be the Managing Director of Langham Hotel, Hong Kong.

Its parent company is the publicly listed Great Eagle Holdings Limited (HKSE: 41), which was founded in 1963 and was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1972.

The Great Eagle Group is one of Hong Kong’s leading property and hotel companies. Headquartered in Hong Kong, the Group develops, invests in and manages high quality office, retail, residential and hotel properties in Hong Kong, North America and Europe. Its core commercial properties comprise 1.6 million square feet of Grade-A office space in the prime commercial districts of Hong Kong. It is also developing a 1.8 million square feet office, retail and hotel complex in the prime shopping district of Mongkok, Kowloon. The Group’s extensive international hotel portfolio currently comprises seven gateway city luxury properties with over 4,000 rooms.

Properties managed and operated by Langham Hotels International in Hong Kong include the luxury Langham Hotel, Hong Kong, the Langham Place Hotel, Mongkok, Kong, Hong Kong (a five-star property in Mongkok opening Summer 2004), the Langham Hotel, Melbourne and the Langham Hotel, Auckland, both of which will be rebranded under the Langham flag in January 2005, and the Four Diamond rated Delta Chelsea Hotel, Toronto, Canada, the superior Eaton Hotel, three Eaton House serviced apartment buildings and the Yat Tung Heen Chinese Restaurants.

With the recent addition of the London flagship, Langham Hotels International has now three properties in the prestigious ”Leading Hotels of the World” family, namely, the Langham Hotel, London, the Langham Hotel, Boston and the Langham Hotel, Hong Kong.

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