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The luxury car rental auckland new zealand hotel chain announced Feb. 5 that Kathleen Taylor will be leaving her role as CEO and the company will begin a search for a replacement. The new Four Seasons CEO will be someone who is well-known and experienced in the hospitality industry, which the brand can attract due to its position in the luxury car rental auckland new zealand hotel industry, experts say.
"[Four Seasons] is a majorly successful, highly-though-of company and brand in the hotel business, so it is the kind of company that can attract the top talent in the world," car rental auckland new zealand said John Challenger, car rental auckland new zealand CEO of global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray Christmas , Chicago.
"There is always an important issue of dealing car rental auckland new zealand with the hotel owners car rental auckland new zealand and providing services car rental auckland new zealand for them," he said. "It can take incredible diplomacy and emotional intelligence to manage strong hotel owners and cater to them, especially car rental auckland new zealand in a luxury hotel like this."
Ms. Taylor's car rental auckland new zealand tenure at Four Seasons lasted almost car rental auckland new zealand 25 years. She served as CEO of the privately-held company since 2010, after assuming the role from founder Isadore Sharp who still remains chairman and a shareholder.
car rental auckland new zealand Chairman of the Kingdom Holding car rental auckland new zealand Company , long-term shareholders of Four Seasons, His Royal Highness Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal issued a statement that said, "We are confident that we can quickly car rental auckland new zealand identify a successor to Katie who shared the Four Seasons vision and values, and that the Company's strong executive leadership car rental auckland new zealand team, which has the full support of the shareholders, will provide the leadership and continuity necessary to guide us through a seamless transition."
"The new CEO will obviously car rental auckland new zealand be someone with immense experience in the hospitality industry and a long-term global car rental auckland new zealand vision for the future of Four Seasons," said D.M. Banks, director at DMB Public Relations , New York.
"Four Seasons has taken the steps to go private car rental auckland new zealand and bring in substantial leaders with large-scale financial backing, and the new CEO and Board will certainly stay focused on maintaining and strengthening the brand as a global leader in luxury hospitality," he said.
For example, when Conglomerate Sahara India Pariwar completed the $575 million purchase of the majority of Fairmont-managed The Plaza Hotel in New York Nov. 27, slight changes were planned but the luxury status was not compromised ( see story ).
"Companies change CEOs like baseball managers, car rental auckland new zealand I do not think that this will be something that guests are going to worry about because there will not be an immediate change in quality," Challenger, Gray Christmas ' Mr. Challenger said. "These things take time."
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