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Hong Kong, September 28, 2010: Jumeirah Group, the Dubai-based luxury hospitality company and a member of Dubai Holding, has acquired the rights to roll out an array of award-winning restaurant brands from the Caprice Holdings portfolio, including the highly acclaimed Rivington Grill in Souk Al Bahar.
Caprice Holdings operates some of London’s best known restaurant brands such as The Ivy, Le Caprice and Scott’s, as well as private members’ clubs such as Annabel’s. The partnership with Caprice Holdings will allow Jumeirah Restaurants to develop restaurant brands throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Jumeirah Restaurants is currently reviewing the best potential locations for these brands in the region.
Meanwhile Jumeirah Restaurants will continue the global expansion of in-house brands such as the noodle house, Bytes, Rice + Spice, The Agency and The Flaming Revolution. To date, the noodle house, Jumeirah’s first restaurant brand, entered Australia in November 2009 and continues its overseas expansion with a new outlet opened in Cyprus in March 2010. It also made good progress on development plans for master license agreements already in place in Abu Dhabi, Australia, Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Overall Jumeirah Restaurants has secured 11 licence agreements for its brands around the world leading to 74 potential restaurant openings.
The rights to the Caprice Holdings brands in the Middle East formerly rested with the F&B Company LLC, part of Tatweer. The management and assets of the F&B Company have been integrated into Jumeirah Restaurants, including the management of Urbano in Souk Al Bahar.
About Jumeirah Group
Jumeirah Group, the Dubai-based luxury hospitality company and a member of Dubai Holding, operates a world-class portfolio of hotels and resorts. Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts includes Burj Al Arab, Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Jumeirah Emirates Towers, Madinat Jumeirah, Jumeirah The Meydan and Jumeirah Bab Al Shams in Dubai; Jumeirah Carlton Tower and Jumeirah Lowndes Hotel in London; and Jumeirah Essex House in New York. Jumeirah Group also runs the luxury serviced residences brand Jumeirah Living; the spa brand Talise; Jumeirah Restaurants; Wild Wadi Waterpark; The Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management; and Sirius, its global loyalty programme. Jumeirah Group has recently unveiled VENU Hotels, a contemporary lifestyle hotel brand.
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