Private company

Candlewood Suites

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All-suite extended-stay hotel chain run by IHG

Candlewood Suites by IHG is a hotel chain brand owned by IHG Hotels & Resorts.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1995Founded1

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Candlewood Suites by IHG is a hotel chain brand owned by IHG Hotels & Resorts.2

Corporate structure

Candlewood Suites is part of a group headed by IHG Hotels & Resorts. 33 entities, 7 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • IHG Hotels & Resorts Windsor, United Kingdom
    • Candlewood Suites
    • Regent Hotels & Resorts Subsidiary · 51% · United States
      • Regent Taipei Subsidiary · Zhongshan District, Taiwan
    • Avid Hotels Subsidiary
    • Crowne Plaza Subsidiary · Windsor
    • Even Hotels Subsidiary
    • Holiday Inn Subsidiary · Denham
    • Holiday Inn Club Vacations Subsidiary · Orlando, Florida, United States
    • Holiday Inn Express Subsidiary
    • Hotel Indigo Subsidiary
    • InterContinental Subsidiary · Denham
    • Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants Subsidiary · San Francisco
    • Room Key Subsidiary
    • Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas Subsidiary · Park Ventures Ecoplex, Thailand
    • Staybridge Suites Subsidiary
    • Voco Subsidiary
    • ASIA PACIFIC HOLDINGS LIMITED Subsidiary · Windsor, United Kingdom
    • Garner Hotels Subsidiary
    • Holiday Inn Express & Suites Seattle-Sea-Tac Airport Subsidiary · King County, United States
    • Holiday Inn Resort Subsidiary
    • INTERCONTINENTAL HOTELS GROUP (INDIA) PRIVATE LIMITED Subsidiary · Gurgaon, India
    • INTERCONTINENTAL HOTELS GROUP (SHANGHAI) LTD (六洲酒店管理（上海）有限公司) Subsidiary · Shanghai, China
    • INTERCONTINENTAL HOTELS LIMITED Subsidiary · Windsor, United Kingdom
    • InterContinental New York Barclay, an IHG Hotel Subsidiary
    • Phoenicia InterContinental Hotel Subsidiary · Beirut, Lebanon
    • SC RESERVATIONS (PHILIPPINES), INC. Subsidiary · Atlanta, Georgia, United States
    • and 6 more

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

The Candlewood Suites chain was started in 1995 by Jack Deboer, founder of the Residence Inn and co-founder of the Summerfield Suites chain. The first hotel was built on North Webb Road in Wichita, Kansas, United States, and opened in 1996.

From 1995 to 2003, Candlewood Hotel Company franchised and managed hotels throughout the US. In January 2004, Candlewood Suites was acquired by IHG. As of September 30, 2007, there were 151 Candlewood Suites hotels currently open, with 187 hotels in the pipeline, with an estimated 50 of these hotels opening during 2007. There are now [when?] 342 locations worldwide. Candlewood competes with other value-priced, extended-stay hotels, such as TownePlace Suites and Mainstay Suites.

In 2024, IHG announced the entry of the Candlewood Suites brand into the German market as part of a vast franchise and cooperation agreement with German hotel operator Novum Hospitality, which, in turn, will rebrand its current acora living the city apartment hotels to Candlewood Suites.

From Wikipedia’s article on Candlewood Suites, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 1995Founded Founded1

Sources

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