4.7 • 17 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to At Bairns. I'm Andy Surwer and welcome to our guest, Mark Hoplamasian, CEO of Hyatt Hotels. Mark, great to see you. |
0:12.6 | It's wonderful to see you too, Andy. |
0:14.2 | So you had earnings recently. Maybe we'll talk about that a little bit, but first, give us a snapshot of Hyatt today. |
0:19.8 | Hyatt's evolved tremendously. So we're about to celebrate our 15th anniversary as a public |
0:25.5 | company. Congratulations. Thank you. And I think about the evolution of Hyatt over that period |
0:30.4 | of time. So back at that time, I think we had about 400 hotels in 45 countries, and today |
0:35.8 | we have 1,350 hotels in 79 countries. |
0:39.3 | So things have changed a bit. |
0:41.3 | We've grown a lot. |
0:43.3 | The other major evolution of the company has been, we've gone from a very asset-intensive, |
0:49.3 | asset-heavy structure where we owned a large number of our hotels and derived over two-thirds |
0:56.5 | of our earnings from owned hotels to now being in a place where we earn 85% of our earnings |
1:04.3 | from fee-based revenue and fee-based earnings, which is a huge transition. |
1:10.3 | So much higher cash flow, free cash flow, much lower |
1:13.8 | capital expenditure requirements. But we didn't forget about the fact that we actually |
1:19.4 | wanted to continue to grow the company in very deliberate ways. So we took a lot of those proceeds |
1:24.5 | and bought new brands and management platforms, specifically in luxury, |
1:31.8 | lifestyle, and resorts. And so in those three areas, we've doubled, tripled, and quintupled |
1:37.4 | the number of hotels that we've got in those areas. So it's been tremendous evolution over that period of time. |
1:46.4 | A lot of points to jump off of. But first, just two quick things. You've been CEOs since. |
1:51.0 | 2006. 2006. The lightning round. Coming up on my 18th, another anniversary in December. And the Pritzker |
1:57.9 | family from Chicago owns about what percent of the company? It's about 55 percent, maybe slightly higher than that. Right. Okay. And so what are your |
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