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Bass confirms its position as Asia Pacific’s leading hotel company with acquisition of Southern Pacific Hotels Corporation in Australia.
It buys US-based hotel management company, Bristol Hotels & Resorts Inc.
It further refocuses the business from domestic brewing operation to global hospitality company by selling Bass Brewers to Interbrew (now AB-InBev) for £2.3 billion.
The group becomes Six Continents Plc.