Rezidor CEO Says HNA Wants to Grow Brand, Will Study NH Deal | bloomberg.com

HNA Group Co., which in April agreed to buy a 51 percent stake in Rezidor Hotel Group AB, plans to turn the European lodging company into a “hotel chain on a global level,” according to Rezidor Chief Executive Officer Wolfgang Neumann. HNA may eventually try to combine Brussels-based Rezidor and Madrid-based NH Hotel Group SA, in which it owns a 30 percent stake, Neumann, 53, said in an interview in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on May 26.