ROSEWOOD HOTELS AND RESORTS CASE Strategic issues and problems: The following report will describe and analyze the case of a private hotel management company called “Rosewood Hotels and Resorts”. Rosewood hotels have 12 distinctive hotels worldwide with a strong brand image that makes each property unique. The dilemma found in this case is whether to keep the current individual branding strategy or create a corporate branding strategy‚ without undercutting the distinctiveness of each hotel. To
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Rosewood Hotels & Resorts 1 Running Head: ROSEWOOD HOTELS & RESORTS Rosewood Hotels & Resorts Rosewood Hotels & Resorts 2 Rosewood Hotels & Resorts is a collection of unique‚ one-of-a-kind luxury properties that are individually branded with the purpose of capturing what is unique about a given location. This strategy has been successful but now management believes that branding the hotels as a collective will increase customer visits between properties. Question #1- Why is Rosewood considering
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• Assignment 1: Case Study – Rosewood Hotels Due Week 2 and worth 90 points Preparation: o Review the Rosewood Hotels & Resorts case study. o Visit the online Customer Lifetime Value Calculator and go through each tab in the tool and spend time studying how some of the variables and assumptions affect the results in the Sample Problem. Write a 2-3 page paper in which you: o Discuss the pros and cons of the Rosewood Hotels moving from individual brands
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Rosewood Hotels and Resorts is a business that has 12 establishments worldwide. Until 2004‚ the company has run an individual branding strategy; but recent events‚ such as the adoption of a new President and CEO‚ have the company considering a corporate branding strategy. Rosewood seems to have hit a roadblock with their current strategy; they are concerned that their guests do not fully understand the Rosewood brand. Rosewood believes if they are able to adopt a corporate brand‚ that their guests
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Rosewood Hotels and Resorts Rosewood Hotels and Resorts L.L.C. is faced with a marketing dilemma; they want to increase multi-property guest stays with out diminishing the current brand images of their existing properties. In order to increase awareness of the other properties to those who are currently loyal to particular estates‚ Rosewood has considered adding a corporate brand title to all of its properties. The problem lies in whether or not this will “cheapen” the experience for those who
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Rosewood Hotels & Resorts: Branding to Increase Customer Profitability and Lifetime Value Background: Rosewood Hotels & Resorts are a private hotel management company for 25 years‚ headquartered in Dallas - Texas which have a global reputation of having unique luxurious hotels and properties. As of 2003‚ Rosewood had 12 hotels worldwide. 115‚000 unique guests stayed at Rosewood hotels. Major competitors are Ritz Carlton‚ Four Seasons‚ St. Regis‚ One & Only and Mandarin Oriental hotels under corporate
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1. Why is Rosewood considering a new brand strategy? (12 points) The reason Rosewood is rebranding is so that they can get the same competitive advantage that their competitors are getting from repeat business. According to Exhibits 4 and 5 of the case study‚ their competitors are currently enjoying higher occupancy and growth rates—even competitors like OrientExpress‚ who were operating within a similar business model. Rosewood’s brand awareness was low‚ known mainly to those within the hospitality
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Case Study of Rosewood Hotels & Resorts Background: Established in 1979‚ Rosewood Hotels & Resorts‚ a privately held company‚ became known for its ability to enhance a property’s value by creating unique‚ one-of-a-kind properties that differentiated from other chain-like luxury competitors. In early 2004‚ to boost the company’s growth‚ Rosewood considered to implement a new branding strategy to establish Rosewood as a true brand with a global reputation for iconic luxury hotels. Problem
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Case Notes- Rosewood Hotels and Resorts Article Summary The marketing and management teams for Rosewood hotels have been faced with a branding issue. The leaders with Rosewood have realized that their brand‚ “Rosewood” has failed to make a true name for itself in the luxury hotel industry. They feel that in order to boost customer awareness they should attach the Rosewood name to each hotel. Rosewood felt that there was a major disconnect between the 12 hotels they have all over the world. Customers
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foster customer retention and loyalty increasing cross-property usage. The number of multi-property guest stays should be increased to 10% from the 5% rate experienced during the last year. MARKETING SITUATION Problem situation: Rosewood brand was muted‚ not very well known but it was not clear what is the best corporate branding strategy without destroying the value of each individually branded hotel and loosing a customer. A new branding strategy proposing an increased customer profitability and
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