JURYS Hotel are no more as the group is embarking on a €200 million rebranding and refurbishment programme which will see it move further into the five-star market.

QUINLAN PRIVATE, the Dublin-based international private investment firm, has sold a 50% stake in its Jurys Inns business to the Middle-Eastern Oman Investment Fund (OIF) for about €200 million.

JURYS Inn says its hotel in Liverpool is due to open in April and will be the 17th Inn in Britain, bringing the total number of Jurys Inns to 23.

Jurys Inns Group, the Dublin-based budget hotel group, today announced that its flagship hotel in Liverpool will be opened for business in April.

IRISH investment group, Quinlan Private has been tipped as possible bidders for the Orient-Express Hotels, which owns dozens of the world’s most prestigious hotels and restaurants as well as the famous luxury tourist train.

QUINLAN Private, the investment group led by former Revenue tax inspector, Derek Quinlan, was the slight favourite to buy the chain of Jurys Inns, as the auction approached a close yesterday.

THE possibility of a management buy-out (MBO) of Jurys Inns has been raised as a distinct possibility down the line.

THE number of bidders circling the Jurys Doyle Hotel Group increased yesterday with builder Sean Dunne and the Reubens brothers indicating separate bids for the company.

Jurys Doyle is set to sell off the five-star Berkeley Court Hotel in Ballsbridge, Dublin, the company confirmed today.

The Jurys Doyle Hotel chain has sold its landmark site of almost five acres in Dublin city for €260m, it was confirmed today.

THE beleaguered Jurys Doyle Hotel board will take comfort from the Deloitte Hotel Benchmark survey, showing an improvement in bookings for hotel rooms in Dublin.

The ISEQ index of shares continued to edge towards the 6000 mark today as the financials, and especially AIB, surged ahead.

Jurys today opened an Inn at Heathrow airport, at a cost to the group of £24m (€34.3m).

A STRONG performance in Britain and America offset a "subdued" environment for four-star hotels in Ireland in the first half of the year, hotel operator Jurys Doyle said yesterday.

Irish hotel group Jury's landmark five-star Towers hotel in Ballsbridge, Co Dublin has been re-opened after refurbishment.

TRADING has failed to pick up at Jurys Doyle's four and five-star hotels in Ireland so far this year, causing overall performance to suffer, the group warned yesterday.

Jurys chairman Richard Hooper has told the hotel group's AGM today that the company was seeing a recovery in a number of its market segments.

HOTEL group Jurys Doyle delivered results slightly below market expectations yesterday as pre-tax profits fell 10.65% to €45.8 million. The market responded by shedding 12% off its share price.

Jurys Doyle Hotel Group have posted 0.3% hike in interim profits, with sales falling 6.5% but the company said it anticipates a satisfactory result in the second half.

WITH fears over Iraq having dissipated and the SARS virus widely contained, one would have thought that shares in Jurys Doyle Hotel group would have performed a little better of late.

SHARES in Jurys Doyle are undervalued, according to Dolmen Securities who believe there is a 23% upside in the shares over the next 12 months.

DUBLIN is to benefit from the construction of another Jurys Inn by the Jurys Doyle Hotel Group.

Hotels group Jurys Doyle returned to profits growth today as it said it remained on track to add 1,000 rooms to its UK portfolio by next year.

TRADING in the Jurys Doyle Hotel chain has matched expectations for the months of September and October.

Jurys Doyle Hotel Group PLC said it expects its trading profits for the first half of the current year to be ahead of last year providing performance in the key months of September and October is in line with the company's expectations.

Hotels group Jurys Doyle today emerged from one of the sector’s toughest years with an 8% profits fall after ‘‘faring better’’ than its rivals.

Jurys Doyle Hotel Group is planning three new Jurys Inn developments in the UK costing about €89m.