When it comes to food, everyone's a critic -- even a gentleman like J.W. "Bill" Marriott, the longtime chairman and CEO of Marriott International, the $12.9-billion-a-year hotel giant.
Next time you order breakfast at a Marriott, you may notice something new about the bacon. Instead of being served in identical six-inch strips, it now comes in an assortment of sizes. That's because senior executives of Marriott, after sampling four or five varieties of bacon in a blind taste test, found that an irregular cut, which costs less, tastes just as good as the rectangular slices traditionally served in the company's hotels.
Inside General Motors' iconic Detroit headquarters, scores of retail tenants are waiting to find out what happens to their own businesses in the wake of their landlord's bankruptcy.
"There's a plane in the Hudson. I'm on the ferry going to pick up the people."
A fire broke out at a major international hotel in Pakistan's capital Islamabad Thursday, five months after it was hit by a deadly suicide bombing.
Firefighters extinguished a massive blaze at a fuel depot in the Indonesian capital Monday morning after a day-long fire burned hundreds of thousands of gallons of gasoline.
A tank in the Indonesian capital's sole fuel depot has caught fire, belching billowing black clouds of smoke into the air as millions of gallons of fuel blazed.
The Republic of Ireland's Minister for European Affairs was briefly held hostage during a robbery at a Marriott hotel south of Dublin, Irish police said.
It took a couple of airline bankruptcies, a summer of staycations, a serious recession and the near-collapse of the world economy, but by golly, travelers are feeling loved right now.
Doctors gave U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey a clean bill of health Friday morning after an apparent fainting spell, according to Gina Talamona, spokeswoman for the Department of Justice.
When it comes to food, everyone's a critic -- even a gentleman like J.W. "Bill" Marriott, the longtime chairman and CEO of Marriott International, the $12.9-billion-a-year hotel giant.
Next time you order breakfast at a Marriott, you may notice something new about the bacon. Instead of being served in identical six-inch strips, it now comes in an assortment of sizes. That's because senior executives of Marriott, after sampling four or five varieties of bacon in a blind taste test, found that an irregular cut, which costs less, tastes just as good as the rectangular slices traditionally served in the company's hotels.
Inside General Motors' iconic Detroit headquarters, scores of retail tenants are waiting to find out what happens to their own businesses in the wake of their landlord's bankruptcy.
"There's a plane in the Hudson. I'm on the ferry going to pick up the people."
A fire broke out at a major international hotel in Pakistan's capital Islamabad Thursday, five months after it was hit by a deadly suicide bombing.
Firefighters extinguished a massive blaze at a fuel depot in the Indonesian capital Monday morning after a day-long fire burned hundreds of thousands of gallons of gasoline.
A tank in the Indonesian capital's sole fuel depot has caught fire, belching billowing black clouds of smoke into the air as millions of gallons of fuel blazed.
The Republic of Ireland's Minister for European Affairs was briefly held hostage during a robbery at a Marriott hotel south of Dublin, Irish police said.
It took a couple of airline bankruptcies, a summer of staycations, a serious recession and the near-collapse of the world economy, but by golly, travelers are feeling loved right now.
Doctors gave U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey a clean bill of health Friday morning after an apparent fainting spell, according to Gina Talamona, spokeswoman for the Department of Justice.
Pakistani authorities have arrested four men in connection with the suicide truck bombing of a Marriott Hotel last month in Islamabad that killed more than 50 people, officials said Friday.
Once allergic to being tied to Washington's war on terror, the country's targeted political class is beginning to see it as their own struggle
Hotel company Marriott International Inc. said Thursday that its third-quarter profit dropped 28 percent, and warned investors about deteriorating conditions for 2009 amid the ongoing financial crisis
An explosion on a rail line killed three people Friday in northwestern Pakistan, rescue workers said.
British Airways is suspending flights to and from Pakistan indefinitely following the deadly bomb attack on the Marriott Hotel, the airline says.
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President Zardari promises to take the fight to the extremists before departing for the U.N. in New York
A suicide truck bombing destroyed the packed Marriott Hotel in the city of Islamabad, Pakistan, on Saturday night.
Wary of allowing U.S. operations on his soil, President Zardari seeks a national consensus on fighting terrorism
A huge explosion ripped through part of the heavily guarded Marriott Hotel in Pakistan's capital Saturday, killing at least 11
Lower-priced hotels have long been the realm of Muzak-filled lobbies outfitted with worse-for-wear furniture and industrial carpeting. But the genre has entered a new era. A wine bar? A sleek lounge area? Free Wi-Fi?
New York, London and Hong Kong are the business hubs of the global economy. All major banks have their headquarters or offices in these cities and it's the same for the hotel industry.
U.S. stock futures pointed toward a flat open Thursday as investors waited to hear what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson would say during their testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, slated to start at 10:00 a.m. ET.
Consider, if you will, the humble coffee mug - that's right, the one with the wacky slogan on it that you might be drinking from right now. By bringing a mug to work and using it, instead of chugging your caffeine fix from disposable cups, you can help reduce the 2 million tons of paper and plastic cups and plates tossed out in the U.S. each year.
Hundreds of thousands of displaced San Diego County residents are navigating around road closures to find refuge in shelters and hotel rooms a safe distance from the wildfires encroaching on their neighborhoods.
The travel industry is sinking billions of dollars into technology like online booking tools, check-in kiosks and phone systems that recognize your voice, promising it will make you next trip easier than ever.
Buyout firms haven't been the only ones benefiting from the rash of deals taking a host of big companies private - investors have also been cashing in on the takeover party.
One of Southeast Asia's most wanted terrorists is in police custody, an anti-terror police official in Indonesia has told CNN.
In 1927, J. Willard Marriott and new bride, Alice, opened a nine-stool root beer stand in Washington, D.C. It grew into a restaurant chain called Hot Shoppes and much later became a hotel company. Their son Bill Marriott worked in the kitchen as a young man.
Here are the fitness offerings from a sampling of major hotel chains:
A suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a parking area outside Islamabad's airport Tuesday after he was stopped by security as he tried to enter the airport, police sources told CNN.
A suicide bomber killed a security guard and himself in an attack outside the Marriott Hotel in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Friday, Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao said.
DaimlerChrysler The automaker's turnaround plan is likely to include job cuts and the closing of two of 13 North American assembly plants, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.
When you're staying at a hotel, would you like a pet goldfish to keep you company? Or perhaps warm cookies at bedtime to help lull you to sleep?
Marriott Hotels has become the latest hotel group to include more technology in their hotel rooms to accommodate the multi-media savvy traveler.
Marriott International ranks no. 203 on this year's list of the FORTUNE 500, with $11,550 million in revenues, up 14.4% from the previous year. The Bethesda, Md.-based company was ranked no. 224 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $669 million, up 12.2% from a year earlier.
A man arrested in connection with Natalee Holloway's 2005 disappearance has been ordered to remain in custody for another eight days, authorities on the Caribbean island of Aruba announced Monday.
Stocks gained modestly Thursday morning as upbeat earnings from Aetna, Marriott and others enabled investors to extend the previous session's advance.
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Jim and Diane Smith are homeowners on the edge. For the past several months they have been taking mental notes on every new housing statistic in the papers: existing-home sales, housing starts, inventories and so on.
Amid a growing number of cases of bird flu around the world, there is increasing global concern that the virus may mutate to a human-to-human strain and eventually lead to a pandemic.
A regional terrorism expert has called on Indonesia to outlaw Jemaah Islamiyah, the militant Islamic organization widely believed to be behind the weekend terror attacks in Bali.
Hurricane Katrina will cost the nation 400,000 jobs by the end of the year, according to the Congressional Budget Office. To put that in perspective, employment in New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast totaled about 775,000 at the end of 2004.
In a continuing effort to save money, hotel chains are changing sheets for their customers less frequently, sometimes only weekly, according to a published report Tuesday.
The U.S. Consulate in Karachi has been closed because of increased "security concerns," a statement on the consulate's Web site said.
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Wegmans Food Markets employees have reason to smile, as the grocery chain topped Fortune magazine's eighth annual list of "100 Best Companies to Work For."
A Jakarta court has ruled that the terror trial of radical Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir can go ahead, despite earlier doubts on the strength of the charges.
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a lawsuit against San Diego-based health insurance company Universal Life Resources on Friday, alleging the company steered business to insurers in exchange for lucrative payoffs. The suit also alleges URL improperly inflated prices and passed the costs along to unwitting customers.
An explosion that tore through the lobby of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, injuring at least six people, was caused by a short circuit, Islamabad's chief of police told CNN.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard has downplayed an early revival of a defense pact with Indonesia, preferring instead to focus on what he calls the "huge achievement" of a peaceful presidential election in Australia's northern neighbor.
You walk into an upscale restaurant, and the waiter drops a tome as thick as a college biology textbook onto your table. Like that long-forgotten text, it's filled with foreign words and strange co...
An exclusive London restaurant stopped asking customers to sign a legal disclaimer if they order rare or medium-rare burgers after the practice came to the attention of the city's legal community.
Indonesian police have released a security-camera video that captures the moment a suicide bomb exploded outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta on Thursday.
At least one suicide bomber was responsible for carrying out Thursday's attack near the Australian Embassy in central Jakarta that killed nine people and injured more than 180 others, police officials said Friday.
Indonesian police received a text message warning of an attack on a Western embassy less than an hour before a suicide car bomber detonated in front of the Australian Embassy on Thursday, according to Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
If you've noticed a little more hustle and bustle at your fave vacation hot spot this summer, you're not imagining things. Hotels are filling up faster than they have in several years. According to...
If you usually book your hotel room online in hopes of saving some cash, a new Consumer Reports study suggests you pick up the phone instead.
Indonesia has arrested a Malaysian over last year's bombing of the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Jakarta but kept his detention secret, police say.
Is there any room left in hotel stocks? Gains of 30 percent to 50 percent by big three hoteliers Starwood, Hilton and Marriott have helped power the group.
Is there any room left in hotel stocks? Gains of 30% to 50% by big three hoteliers Starwood, Hilton and Marriott have helped power Standard & Poor's Hotel-Resort-Cruise index up 37% so far this yea...
What would it take for your business fantasy to come true? Some entrepreneurs want to take their company public before they retire. Others hope to sell their firm to a moneyed competitor. And then ...
For most growth investors, weathering this bear market has been a new and unfamiliar experience. Not so for Spiros "Sig" Segalas. The 68-year-old Segalas launched Jennison Associates back in 1969, ...
Corporate cost cutting is never palatable, but it's often understandable. (Did anyone really think company concierge services and free-pizza Fridays would last forever?) These days, though, bosses ...
Just before 9:00 A.M. on Sept. 11, Marriott International CEO Bill Marriott was holding a meeting in his Bethesda, Md., office. Hearing that a jet had crashed into one of the World Trade Center tow...
It's Monday, 11 A.M., and I'm in the boss's office thinking I'm finally going to get that long-awaited promotion. "I want to tell you that we think you have great potential," she says with a stern ...
A favorite these days of several prominent bargain hunters is Marriott International (MAR). Longleaf Partners, for example, recently disclosed a $320 million stake--10% of the fund's assets. Marrio...
Auto-company-sponsored credit cards, which let you build points toward the purchase of a new car, have always been among the most lucrative credit-card loyalty programs around. But our favorite, th...
FINANCIAL INDUSTRY Merging with Travelers doesn't hurt Citicorp, which as Citigroup is No. 1 in money center banks. Newly public Goldman Sachs lands at second in securities.
Now that 80 million people are carrying debit cards, banks are starting to make them even more like the credit cards they resemble. In February, Chase became the first major bank to offer debit rew...
On the sixth birthday of what was long considered a feeble and jobless economic expansion, the U.S. job market is finally in an unmistakable boom. Employers have put record numbers of Americans to ...
Pull up to the Marriott Hotel in Schaumburg, Illinois, and you'll find the red-blazered Tony Prsyszlak ready to help you with your luggage. But please don't call this gregarious 23-year-old a doorm...
How would you like to get a jump on big institutional investors? Here's one area of the market where you can. Spinoffs, or divisions of large companies that have been turned into separate public co...
In the first three weeks of October, junk fund investors, who have enjoyed 59% returns during the past 22 months, suffered a sobering flashback to the bad old days of 1990. As downgrades in Marriot...
Price competition in the overcrowded fund industry -- the same benign force that dropped the average sales load of broker-sold funds from 8.5% a decade ago to around 5% today -- has recently shower...
Found at last: a worker who doesn't mind cleaning bathrooms. Well, sort of a worker. Actually it's a robot named ScrubMate, under development at Transitions Research Corp. (TRC) of Danbury, Connect...
As bean counters peer through their green eyeshades and see -- egads! -- a recession, corporations are squeezing their travel costs. One result: More business people are checking into ''limited-ser...
These are good times for shortsellers, the bad boys of Wall Street who make money when stocks go down. Through August, Ursus Partners of New York City has earned a return of 40%, vs. a negative 6.7...
THE SERVICE 500/Cover Story 58 WHAT CUSTOMERS REALLY WANT It's service, service, service. How do you give it to them when labor is in short supply? The work force challenge will be the key issue fo...
Frederic Malek, 52, the former Marriott Hotels president, has set up shop as a merchant banker -- and how. In April he brought together a disparate group of investors, which includes Sumitomo Bank,...
A crew that knows a lot about providing in-flight meals and renting hotel rooms now will try its hand at running an airline. After a three-month bidding war, NWA, parent of Northwest Airlines, acce...
BARRY A. MAYO, 36 BROADCASTING PARTNERS INC. In 13 years of programming radio broadcasts at five stations around the country, Mayo became known as a turnaround artist. Last September he struck out ...
As a good-will gesture, Irv Klein and Jonah Kaufman hired several mentally handicapped adults to work in their 13 McDonald's restaurants on Long Island, New York, last year. The experience was so s...
THE ACTRESS on the video screen looks 60-ish, well nourished, and confident. She is portraying a consumer, and she talks like no traditional grandma. ''At 65, my mother had become an old woman . . ...
After five years under foreign ownership, the company that made the orange roof a roadside tradition for American travelers is back in U.S. hands. Howard Johnson Co., which has been battered as com...
Many real estate developers scoffed when J. W. Marriott Jr. announced plans to build a $200-a-room luxury hotel in New York's sleazy Times Square (FORTUNE, October 31, 1983). But the Marquis is set...
As Congress hashes out the details of tax reform, a lot of executives who hadn't expected to visit Washington, D.C., this summer are apt to find their plans changing. Fortunately, Washington will b...
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