Private company

NH Hotel Group

Logo: NH Hotel Group, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons4

Multinational hotel chain

NH Hotel Group, currently known as Minor Hotels Europe & Americas, was a Spanish multinational hotel company founded in 1978 with headquarters in Madrid. NH Hotels ("Navarra Hotels") was born in Pamplona and its hotels were located mainly in Europe and Latin America. The group marketed the NH, NH Collection and nhow brands.2 It employed about 18,000 people.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1978Founded1
  • Industrytourism1
  • HeadquartersMadrid1
  • Founded inPamplona1
  • Websitewww.nh-hotels.com/en
  • Legal formsociedad anónima1
  • LEI959800LM1RW3PKJ4A2963
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusIssued and current3
  • Registered addressSANTA ENGRACIA 120 7, 28003 Madrid, Spain3
  • Registered withRegistrars of Spain, 10002397041533

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Hotel NH Doelen en Ámsterdam
Photo: Anne Hornyak, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons6

NH Hotel Group, currently known as Minor Hotels Europe & Americas, was a Spanish multinational hotel company founded in 1978 with headquarters in Madrid. NH Hotels ("Navarra Hotels") was born in Pamplona and its hotels were located mainly in Europe and Latin America. The group marketed the NH, NH Collection and nhow brands.2

Corporate structure

NH Hotel Group is part of a group headed by บริษัท ไมเนอร์ อินเตอร์เนชั่นแนล จำกัด (มหาชน). 4 entities, 2 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

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

The story

History

NH ("Navarra Hoteles", named after the region in Spain) was founded in 1978 by Antonio Catalán. Throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, it made a series of acquisitions (Jolly Hotels in Italy, Krasnapolsky in the Netherlands, Astron Hotels in Germany).

In 2018, NH Hotel Group became part of Minor Hotels, a global leader in the hospitality industry, with more than 640 hotels, resorts, and branded residences in operation and under development across over 65 countries, and it also began operating the Anantara, Avani, and Tivoli brands in Europe and the Americas.

Corporate information

Since 2018, NH Hotel Group is part of Minor Hotels, an international hotel owner, operator, and investor headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand, with more than 550 hotels in over 55 countries across Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, the Indian Ocean, Europe, and the Americas.

NH Hotel Group is listed on the Madrid Stock Exchange, where the shares of NH Hotel Group is a constituent of the Madrid Stock Exchange General Index. The shares are also traded on the OTC Market.

From Wikipedia’s article on NH Hotel Group, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Products and brands

  • hotel

Listed on Wikidata.1

Minor Hotels operates a portfolio of hotel brands, which today total 12 and include: Anantara, Elewana Collection, The Wolseley Hotels, Tivoli, Minor Reserve Collection, NH Collection, nhow, Avani, Colbert Collection, NH Hotels, Oaks, and iStay by NH.

From Wikipedia’s article on NH Hotel Group, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company (GLEIF)

Ownership links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); each one cites its LEI record.

Timeline

  1. Dec 5, 2018Parent Directly consolidated by บริษัท ไมเนอร์ อินเตอร์เนชั่นแนล จำกัด (มหาชน)3
  2. 1978Founded Founded in Pamplona1

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