MWB-owned Malmaison Holdings has completed its £9m purchase of Glasgow’s One Devonshire Gardens from Citrus Hotels.
It will relaunch the hotel as a Hotel du Vin in October.
Robert Cook, chief executive of Hotel du Vin and Malmaison, said the purchase was the first stage of an ambitious expansion programme in the North and Scotland for Malmaison Holdings.
It has already bought a property in Edinburgh, which will see the introduction of the Hotel du Vin brand in the city and negotiations are in progress for properties in Newcastle and St Andrews.
The firm is also looking for a hotel in Aberdeen.
One Devonshire Gardens in Glasgow occupies a series of Victorian townhouses in the heart of the city’s fashionable West End.
Cook said: “One Devonshire Gardens is the perfect launch pad for Hotel du Vin in Scotland. We intend to maintain the very best of the One Devonshire brand, which is deservedly recognised as the definitive Scottish boutique hotel, while introducing the exceptional qualities that make Hotel du Vin the stylish destination of choice in cities throughout the UK.”
In addition to the planned expansion in the North, next year Hotel du Vin will open in York and Cambridge.
It already has hotels in Brighton, Bristol, Birmingham, Henley on Thames, Harrogate, Winchester and Tunbridge Wells.
References: EGi News 13/07/06
